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Ask HN: How much do you make in London?
There's recently been a lot of discussion about how much people are making in different areas of the US, but the threads about London are either outdated or not too comprehensive.
Please include your company (be it BigCo, startup, finance) / contractor status, level / years of experience and compensation breakdown in GBP.
I'll start: Investment bank front-office, 3 years experience: £59k, ~10% annual bonus, no stock.
Links to previous somehow related discussions on HN:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7672167
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11317897
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5804134
- TamDenholm 10y agoContractor, PHP/Full stack, 11 years exp, £350 - £400 a day in London. Not risen much in 5-6 years which is why i started doing other things like business consultancy.
- 1_player 10y agoHow's business consultancy doing for you? Seems it's better paid, but I prefer the technical side personally. You surely have more experience than me, but what I personally do is increase my rate by X% every 6 months or so, non-negotiable for new clients, with fair warning for existing ones. I often start a contract on tech X, and after some time I'm touching other parts of the business, so the rate increase makes sense.
- TamDenholm 10y agoI actually prefer the business consultancy now. I got bored of writing code all the time, i still do it for fun, but only about 1/3rd of my time for my business is coding now.
- dan_b 10y agoMay I suggest something more anonymous like a google spreadsheet? Or a HN poll?
- ldneng 10y agoI think keeping it in comments here is better since spreadsheets tend to to have a lot of messed up data (looking at previous surveys). What people share is definitely free-form, so I'd prefer to leave the data rather unstructured. Creating a throwaway is also really easy and bogus comments are easier to deal with than someone messing with the spreadsheet. However, I've created a spreadsheet (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MAIX9UEnpq0pAsMWr1NWzkmQxfVXJj2CeeZGaEAHHfQ/edit#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MAIX9UEnpq0pAsMWr1NW...) if anyone prefers that.
- jbms 10y agoI recommend making a web form using Google spreadsheets - which takes 3 minutes, and making the spreadsheet read-only. When I last posted an open spreadsheet to hacker news it grew, then got defaced with all the data deleted. Someone restored it but it was work to ensure no data was lost.
- acta_non_verba 10y agoStartup, full time employee, called Senior but I only have one year of commercial experience, £47,500. ~10% annual bonus & Stock Options.
- 1_player 10y agoContractor 100% remote, full stack, 10y experience, currently £40/h, will increase to £50 before the end of the year.
- ThrowAwayLondon 10y ago(throwaway account for obvious reasons) Web Developer in London for a dating company - £75000 pa (with bonuses it's around £110000 pa)
- throawaylondon3 10y agoAre you a team lead or architect or similar? This seems high for just a web developer
- dan_b 10y agoMore importantly, are they hiring?
- ThrowAwayLondon 10y agoActually no :( we just finished hiring some new candidates to fill our team. Like I mentioned in the earlier comment I am an outlier because I do end up working a lot with architectural tasks so maybe my job title doesn't justify my work.
- ThrowAwayLondon 10y agoNope, but I am one of the seniors in the team and been here for a while. To be honest my title doesn't really reflect my work because I do end up dabbling a lot with other infrastructural work so could say it's an architect position.
- datthrowawaytho 10y agoOh hello, I think we work together
- Graham24 10y agoexcellent income; you can almost afford to buy a flat in London for that.
- thecupisblue 10y ago75k, bonuses, dating - I smell badoo. Am I right and if I am, how is it working there? Glassdoor is conflicted.
- wastedhours 10y agoAre we only talking programmer side? Digital marketing, education sector, 4 years experience: £39k + healthcare
- ldneng 10y agoAlthough I initially thought it out for tech, I think any area is relevant. Thanks for sharing.
- throwawaygrover 10y agoIn that case: Digital Marketing Manager. Property/3rd sector. 9 years experience. £50,000.
- wastedhours 10y agoAm also looking if you're after a digital marketer who can also hack about in Rails to build dashboards, tools and insight analysis pieces.
- ThroAwayLondon2 10y agoEstablished privately held (profitable) company, full-time tech-lead, Telecoms + Web + Backend, 10 years experience - £50k.
- strongai 10y agoSenior technical author. I freelanced from 2004-2013. My very first London contract in 2004 was at £350 a day. Nowadays, it's crazy bad - anything from £200 to £400, maybe £450 if your domain knowledge is spot on. And Google - I'm looking at you - contract rates of £20-£25 an hour have been bandied around in conversations with recruiters. So, no real market uplift in more than 10 years, which is why I'm now a permie (not in London) on £55K basic plus 20% bonus, no stock.
- ijuhoor33 10y agoSenior iOS, contract, last year: £575 per day in a medium sized company Switched to a smaller company as Team Lead for £500 per day
- ShinyCyril 10y agoWhile we're on the subject of tech jobs in London... does anyone work with FPGAs?
- gadders 10y agoSome investment banks do.
- Throwaway33333 10y ago£650 / day, almost all remote doing Hadoop and Redshift Consulting and POVs. Coding for 15 years, in Big Data for the past 5.
- ionwake 10y agoHow is the contracting market health these days? Are you finding it easier or harder to find contracts? What is your average downtime between contracts?
- Throwaway33333 10y agoI had 15 unpaid weeks this year wrapped around the referendum. Last year I had 7 unpaid weeks.
- ionwake 10y agoDo you rely on random calls from agents throughout the day to setup your next role or do you have a couple you rely on? How many calls / emails do you get a day?
- Throwaway33333 10y agoHalf my contracts are through agents, I spend a lot longer than I'd like to admit on my LinkedIn profile. One agent has admitted they have a 30% margin which explains the ~1,000 phone calls and emails I got last year. I run a blog, I'm active on Twitter and I've worked with a lot of different businesses and coworkers since I started my career so this is where the other half of my contracts come from. I've heard from someone at (Big Hadoop Consultancy) that they send consultants out to train and do POVs paying the consulant £1,200 / day so there should be some growth in my day rate to come. It's probably worth mentioning I only sell my time in one week blocks. I had two contracts this year where a client was having some troubles with Kafka on AWS. The first problem was taken care of in an hour in a half but they were still billed for a week. Same thing a few weeks later when Zookeeper was feeling upset.
- jalev 10y ago45k pa working as a DevOps for one of the console companies for 2 years.
- throwawaythrowa 10y agoSenior developer in the Civil Service, 8 years experience, £60k/year
- mrsomeone7 10y agoDeveloper contractor, nearly 20 yr exp., now mainly .NET, works out at just over £1 a minute :-)
- jakub_g 10y agoSemi-related question: How do you calculate taxes in UK? Is the base of the tax the salary offered by companies in job offers? I mean, with say £60k job offer, do I pay tax from £60k? (with the last £17k being taxed at 40%)?
- pmuk 10y agoYes salaries are advertised gross, and you deduct tax from the gross figure. Try this site: https://listentotaxman.com/ https://listentotaxman.com/
- jakub_g 10y agoI mean, for example in France, the salaries might be advertised as "€35k", but from this you deduct social charges etc., and you pay tax from the "taxable income" which would be for example "€27k". Does this work the same in UK, or do I pay tax exactly from what the job offer says?
- andyjohnson0 10y agoIn the UK you pay National Insurance (NI) on your gross earnings. NI pays for things like the National Health Service. The amount you pay depends on your employment status and how much you earn [2]. I assume this is similar to "social charges" in France. After deducting NI and the tax-free allowance [3], you pay income tax on whats left. And whats left after that is yours to keep. Most regular employees have tax and NI automatically deducted from their monthly/weekly pay by their empoyer. This is called Pay as You Earn (PAYE) and keeps things simple. Company owners, contractors, etc. often pay tax yearly or half-yearly and often employ an accountant to arrange this. [1] This is the amount that the job pays, before all taxes and deductions. [2] https://www.gov.uk/national-insurance/how-much-you-pay https://www.gov.uk/national-insurance/how-much-you-pay [3] https://www.gov.uk/income-tax-rates/current-rates-and-allowances https://www.gov.uk/income-tax-rates/current-rates-and-allowa...
- jakub_g 10y ago
- asldfkweiorz 10y agoThrowaway. Data Scientist, Insurance, FT, 39k a year, approx 3 years experience.
- asldfkweiorz 10y agoOh, yeah, also got a PhD in Maths. And am looking for a new position.
- strongai 10y agoShoot me an email (see profile). Medium sized company - analytics, financial services, other interesting data science stuff. Offices in London and elsewhere :-) I'll help steer you to our HR people and if you're successful, will receive a modest introduction bonus. We pay well, but not investment bank salaries. We have lots of PhDs - they're coming out of our ears, so you'll feel quite at home. It also seems that the planets are in alignment for our tech and its place in the market, so things are very upbeat right now.
- asldfkweiorz 10y agotried, I seem unable to find any email.
- strongai 10y agoSorry old.lag@gmail.com
- eecks 10y agoSlightly unrelated to your offer but I am curious that you have lots of PhDs. Is this a requirement for the position or is it just by chance?
- throawaylondon3 10y agoSenior front end developer. 4 years experience. Now a contractor on my first project at £350/day in a big company. Expecting this to rise to 400/450 for the next gig. A few months ago I was full time at a startup on £52K.
- wannabecontract 10y ago48k, London startup, frontend, 2.5 yrs exp. Took a paycut from 52.5k (@ 1.5 yrs exp) for this role. Off topic - As someone in your exact previous position and looking to make the same move to contracting do you have any advice, did you find it easy to land that first contract?
- throawaylondon3 10y agoI did find it quite easy. I just followed up with a recruiter, went to interview and got the job. You usually have to start fairly quickly so have some holiday banked up so you can leave permanent work sooner. The work, culture, etc is similar to any other permanent job I've had. As long as you keep up to date and are good you'll be fine. Other companies may differ wildly I'm sure
- le_ticket 10y agoworking for an engineering consultancy at a very senior technical level, overseeing big data projects, and doing some business development. £80k p/a plus benefits
- middleman90 10y ago6 years experience. software developer 450£ per day
- jakub_g 10y agowhat is your stack? frontend, java, c++ (and, do you work in finance?)
- middleman90 10y agonodejs right now, but I'm full stack I don't work in finance
- santiagobasulto 10y agoThis is kind of offtopic, but "There's recently been a lot of discussion about how much people are making in different areas of the US". Where can I find that post? Thanks
- resurge 10y agoMost likely this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12588202 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12588202
- throwawayPayLdn 10y agoJust switched roles so can give two: Small Investment Bank - 61k + ~30% Bonus (3-5years experience) Java / Angular - Back Office Developer - Permanent Small Hedge Fund - 65k + 50%+ Bonus (expected/promised) - .Net / WPF (5years experience although not in .Net) - Permanent
- throwaway64928 10y agoWhat are the hours?
- throwawayPayLdn 10y agoNot bad to be honest, 8-7 but I do get out for an hour or so at lunch.
- jbms 10y agoThose look pretty bad to someone outside London. How much travel on top of that?
- m_t 10y agoWorking 10hr per day looks bad even inside London!
- throwawayPayLdn 10y agoI'm young, so if I'm not coding at work, I would be doing it at home most of the week. Travel is < 30 minutes each way.
- bbcbasic 10y agoBut the coding at home would be your IP and you'd have no boss to tell you what tech to use.
- nicolasMLV 10y agoIn 2013 I declined an offer (first job, graduate): software dev in bigco (IT Provider travel industry), £38K
- londondev998 10y agoSenior developer with a front-end focus at a startup with some corporate backing, 7 years of experience, ~80k plus benefits.
- throw9383 10y agoFor comparison, in Devon. Full stack senior developer, 20 years experience, full time - £42K.
- wissam124 10y agoQuant risk analyst for a commodities trading house Base £67k Bonus anywhere between 15 to 50%
- wissam124 10y ago5 years xp
- thrwwyldn777 10y ago"Lead Developer" with a startup, £55k (I refused options in preference of salary). I have a PhD (4 years programming), and ~4 years professional experience as well. Previous roles: Fresh Graduate: "Developer" £28k + £3k bonus. Fresh PhD Graduate: "Senior Developer" £40k.
- Peroni 10y agoMind if I ask what the tech stack is? I wonder if there's significant disparity in relation to the tech stack.
- thrwwyldn777 10y agoOldest job was SQL/.NET and ActionScript, Post-PhD was mainly Python/C on Linux (I did a lot of that during the PhD too) and latest one is C++, PHP, SQL and little bits of others.
- eecks 10y agoDo you feel like you are using your PhD being a lead developer?
- frowaway_lon 10y agoThis is a bit depressing. In 2010 I retired from full-time post as Investment Bank, front office senior dev on £100K with 30-50% bonus, 20 years experience. C++, Java, Sybase, finance tech and domain knowledge, and colleagues in hot areas were getting way more than that. My impression that rates are dropping seems to be confirmed.
- matthewmacleod 10y agoThose developers I know who work in similar industries to the one you describe are taking broadly similar salaries; I suspect the bias here is away from those kind of position.
- thrwaynow 10y agotoday you can still get £100k+ as a senior developer in a bank for doing c++, java, with or without domain knowledge, but bonus is likely to be a lot less, more like 15-30%, of course exceptions apply
- strongai 10y agoPure curiosity - is this for an 8 hour day? or 10? or more? Just wondering what the downsides are to working for a bank.
- atemerev 10y agoIf you have chaotic alignment, you'll like it. 12-hour workdays mixed with occasional periods of having nothing to do at all, no specs, no working process (or, alternatively, multiple failing attempts to go full SCRUM), hacks upon hacks upon hacks in systems processing billions per day, on-site urgent calls at 2AM, having to double as devops, internal tech support and psychotherapist... On the upside: money and lots of interesting technologies and shiny things in the zoo.
- thrwaynow 10y agoeveryone's experience is different, but usually the pain is not from long hours, but from bureaucracy, old technology and some hostile colleagues.
- throwaway723895 10y agoFull stack (mostly PHP) contractor, 15 years experience, 100% remote, £400/day
- idfsifdsjio 10y agothrowaway account Front office large investment bank. Java. Perm. 15 years in banking, 20 years in programming 110k - no significant bonus.
- throwaway_27Sep 10y agoCurrently Senior Dev at a startup: £50k + 3.5% equity. Previous Hedge Fund: £95k + 25-50% bonus. Investment Bank: £80k + 25% bonus Experience: 20 years as a dev. Skills: full stack dev .net, angular, iOS etc.
- thrwaynow 10y agoContractor, £700/day, investment bank, back office role 10 years C++, specialised in low latency
- barpet 10y agoThose people @ 55 - 60k (EUROS) should really ask themselves if it's worth working in London.
- brianwawok 10y agoCan they do better elsewhere in the UK? Seems like many options except move to the US
- barpet 10y agoI do not have the statistics but you can earn that much elsewhere and pay less rent & other costs of living. Well so unless you are a briton or you love the country / city too much I do not see a reason not to move elsewhere.
- ukthrowaway123 10y agoLead a team of 6 in one devision of a medium sized org. Web services + api. ~10 years exp. £85k plus 30% bonus (expected), no stock.
- throwaway782 10y agoSnr Cloud / Infra. £650 day remote working (desk in London but physically in the office 1-2 days a month), 1 yr contract - but renewable. Annualised, £156K
- londonite 10y agoDo you mind describing what are your daily tasks in broad terms? Asking for a... uh, for a friend. Yeah.
- datthrowawaytho 10y agoMid senior Android Developer in social network £55k +12% bonus no stock
- gringofyx 10y agoReading some of the amounts listed is a bit depressing, I thought that the increased cost of living in London would justify salaries and rates much higher than the average. By contrast I know from personal experience you can earn the same or better than what's listed here outside of London and enjoy the lower cost of living.
- gokhan 10y agoAny recommended locations to look at?
- throwawayberlin 10y agoBerlin.
- gringofyx 10y agoManchester, Leeds, Newcastle, Bristol, Liverpool... probably in that order. I've heard good things about Glasgow, Birmingham and Cardiff too. The North West has been good to me and I've never really had to leave the area because there's pretty good transportation links over a wide area with a large population. And I've lived and worked in Berlin too, it's nice, but by no means the perfect solution. And y'know... it means I can live close to family by being in the UK.
- londonite 10y ago"Close" is a relative term. Is it closer to London a little Scottish town, far from any airport or major communications hub, than Paris or Barcelona? http://jorgepratscher.com/commuting-from-barcelona-to-bracknell-challenge-accepted/ http://jorgepratscher.com/commuting-from-barcelona-to-brackn... http://www.totaljobs.com/insidejob/extreme-commutes-to-london-stories/ http://www.totaljobs.com/insidejob/extreme-commutes-to-londo...
- pjc50 10y agoI think you're missing a word .. but yes, parts of the highlands and islands are definitely further away in time from London than Paris is. I think even Manchester may take longer, at least until HS2 is operational. (The first link isn't very encouraging! "As a consequence I had to visit my dear friend the physiotherapist to check my displaced vertebrae and super swollen trapezius muscles that didn’t let me get off my bed after travelling nonstop for 6 months"!)
- throwawayberlin 10y agoDegree in Graphic Design, 8 years industry experience, started with Flash / ActionScript and moved to JavaScript about 5 years ago. Freelance Flash animation / dev for big digital agencies and ad companies (5 years ago) - £250 p/h, with 3 years experience. Tech Lead - Digital Agency in Shoreditch (1.5 years ago) doing Node / Ember / Angular / DevOps - £45k, however I chose a lower salary for more leave and flexible working hours. Freelancing JavaScript dev (Node, Angular etc), digital agencies - aprox £300-350 p/h Now I work in Berlin in a dev role doing Node / React / Redux. €57k. My living expenses are 1/2 what they were in London, and I live in a central Berlin 1 bedroom apartment rather than shared housing.
- Peroni 10y ago>Freelancing JavaScript dev (Node, Angular etc), digital agencies - aprox £300-350 p/h I assume you mean per day and not per hour right?
- throw31337 10y agoFull time senior Java/Scala/JS @ £48K :/
- londonite 10y agoThrowaway for obvious reasons. No degree. Around 10 years experience in Network Security. - BigCo - Permanent position - Cloud stuff - £66k plus bonus et al which pumps it up to around £88k
- londonite 10y agoAdding some important things: - Stock - Up to 10% pension match - I work from home most of the time (got a little kid, so I can enjoy more time around him)
- throwawaylon3 10y agoSenior Software Engineer (and manager) at Google, ~15 years experience. 100k GBP salary, plus 20% bonus and stock vesting. Gross 200k+ GBP.
- thrwaynow 10y agohow's this compare with your colleagues on the state side?
- throooaway 10y agoLondon Googlers get paid significantly less than their CA counterparts for the same roles.
- spoonie 10y agoIt's not like there are zero benefits to working in the UK vs the US though. University tuition is cheaper being one example.
- Nicholas_C 10y agoWay more vacation as well I would presume.
- throooaway 10y agoNope - 25 days for the US (assuming >5 years employment) versus 25 days in UK.
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- eecks 10y agoDo you have the option to move to Google in the states? Would you take it if offered?
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- lozette 10y agoDeveloper (currently at a startup) £62k, no stock but I do have a pension/healthcare. 17 years experience, initially as a general web developer, then front end, now more back end. Currently Ruby on Rails but I can turn my hand to almost anything. Not a manager, not a senior developer, not a tech lead. No desire to be. I work quite short hours (9.30-5) and that's what's most important to me.
- throwmeaway9 10y agoContract Senior Developer, stack is usually SPA (Angular/React) with "modern" .NET. Current gig £475pd, to be honest I had better leads but the client offered the same day of interview and I started the following day. I have 6 years experience and no degree. Guy next to me does the same job for 53k. Edit: media type of industry. Work normal hours, usually 9-5:30.
- spoonie 10y ago"Intermediate" dev using Ruby-On-Rails mostly with a bit of Python, JS, and Go: £41k for the first year and £45k for the second. EDIT: no stock, and only benefit was WFH 1 day/week, and 1% matched retirement savings plan.
- p0la 10y agoFront-Office Quant Research in French bank, 4 years experience, £70k fix + £35k bonus. Definitely lower that what you would get in a US or UK bank.
- surprised_dev 10y ago7 years of experience, mostly PHP and Python. Started at 44 after 2 years 51k. Now got offer for 80k~ as devops.
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- bowchickabowwow 10y agoI have a computer science degree and around 9 years experience doing full-stack web development(Ruby, PHP, Python, JavaScript). A year ago I was making £55k + around £5k worth of perks as permanent employee. Now I'm doing freelance roles for £350-£400 pd.
- thawlondon 10y ago£52k, some stock, healthcare. Senior dev in a video game company. ~8 year experience
- omurphyevans 10y agoSenior Infrastructure specialist, big bank, 14 years, £450 a day, annualises to about £110k
- throwmesalary 10y agoAt a major retail company, here are our published ranges: Engineer £40-65K Senior Engineer £60-80K Principal £75-95k
- uuidlondon 10y agoThrowaway. £79k + stock option + benefits
- uuidlondon 10y agoforgot to add - startup, 16 years of experience. lead role
- noelwelsh 10y agoI don't work in London but I know many people who do. The experience Scala developers I know who work contracts get £500-£700pd outside of banks, and £600-£900pd in the banks.
- LondonTA77 10y agoASIC design, 7 years here now. £45k + bonus + pension + healthcare. Without the bonus it isn't anywhere near what you'd get in a bank, explains why so many of my university mates took their EE degrees into finance. Probably partly due to the lack of hardware jobs in the capital. I've always found the name 'Silicon Roundabout' very ironic.
- ShinyCyril 10y agoWhere do you work? There seems to be a significant lack of hardware jobs in London.
- LondonTA77 10y agoNokia (and it's only just about in London). Other than Cambridge, Langley and Bristol there's very little in the UK at all.
- ShinyCyril 10y agoAh interesting, I didn't realise they had an office in London. Are there any engineering vacancies at the moment?
- LondonTA77 10y agoGraduate positions - yes. Otherwise I'm not sure.
- zump 10y agoTime to switch to ImgTec and get some of that Apple $
- J-dawg 10y agoFront end developer, large IT consultancy, £35k, no bonus. Feeling underpaid.
- bugahdug 10y agoPHP Developer in the Southwest of UK (Devon, Cornwall, Somerset etc) 25k, no bonus - and that's about average. Living here isn't the cheapest either, £600pcm for a 2 bed flat, over £1,000 a year for water. Really need to move towards the midlands (Bristol, Birmingham, Leicester, Staffordshire - cheaper rent, cheaper water, higher pay) I've been a Dev for 7+ years.
- J-dawg 10y agoThat does seem awfully low given your experience. I hope you could double that by moving to one of the places you mentioned.
- ldnthrowaway 10y agoStartup, Software Engineer (JavaScript), 2.5 years experience (Grad May '14), 38k, 12% bonus.
- londontosser 10y agoYet another throwaway acct. 20+ years large-scale ops and security, last five with one of the "big five" tech companies. £100K base plus stock worth £150-200K/year depending on which way the market wind was blowing on vesting dates. Currently doing my own startup and cyber-security consulting for £750-900/day.
- gooseherald 10y agoContractor, currently £650/day. Hoping to increase that to £850/day by end of year. Experience > 15 yrs in web dev, though maybe only last 5 applies now (I don't do PHP 3 or perl any more). Edit: long term so no "off" days & 150k ish per year depending how many holidays I take.
- wavee 10y agowhat language?
- gooseherald 10y agoMainly PHP if you can believe it. Lots of JS too though these days.
- throwaway78978 10y agoHow do you plan to get beyond £650/day?
- gooseherald 10y agoHaven't increased my rate in nearly 2 years and soon will be expected to take on extra responsibilities (herding a team etc) so going to negotiate a bump in rate.
- Thisisrandom8 10y agoIm not in London still in(uk), 1.5years IT Security,18k :(
- contingencies 10y agoHadn't worked in the western workforce in 7 years. Turned up in London in 2009, got £40k, kicked ass, had £60k within 3 months, up from there. These days I honestly wouldn't live in London for under £100k. I think the thing to do is contract work, live out of London (even in mainland Europe) if at all possible.
- throwbay654321a 10y ago70k + stock + 1% matched pension. Senior software engineer. PhD and 4 years professional experience. Work 9:30 to 6. Ruby on Rails. Throwaway account
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- ldnthraway 10y agoFinance, QA, permie, 5 yrs exp., 56k + ~10k bonus. I've been longing to go contracting in the last few months, but judging by the sentiment on this thread, it doesn't look like it's a wise choice.
- user1728596 10y agoSoftware Developer - 13 years experience One of the big tech companies 70k Base 20k Bonus + ~20k / year stock vesting
- throwaway78978 10y agoSenior Web Dev £550/day 7 years experience no degree. Startup salaries topped out at 80k (ignoring non-liquid stock) so went contracting. You need the stomach for it, but it pays a lot better for similar work.
- anonforpay 10y agoSoftware engineer (front-end) 8 years experience 77k basic 10k bonus plus stocks
- z4n 10y agolead developer, no degree, gaming: 75k base + 30k bonus. Mostly c++, some objectiveC and java
- z4n 10y ago7 years of experience
- novapost 10y agoSenior Systems Specialist,32k pa. This is in the North East of England. Job actually involves anything from traditional system/network admin to web development and almost everything inbetween, supplier management, procurement. Probably under paid for the roles covered but thankfully not in a major city.
- qqqqqqqqqqq 10y agoyikes! 28k in London, full stack dev with 2 years experience... react + redux, node, express, elasticsearch, rabbitmq, postgres, mongo etc.
- aprdm 10y agoUsed to make £32k at startup. 3 years of experience .
- ThrowAwayBlah 10y agoContract PM in Investment Banking IT, 20+ years experience, £800/day.
- infinii 10y agoThis thread has me thinking whether all those claims that financial compensation isn't that important in job satisfaction is true or not. How often do we see threads asking about non-financial benefits.
- ldn_throwaway 10y ago1.5 years experience, full-stack web developer at a startup (Ruby, some Go), earning £25k in Central London. I'm broke and it sucks. I've tried interviewing other places but haven't found anywhere offering above £30k.