It depends on what you define as above average. The minimum wage here in the UK is £5.93 an hour, so just under £12,000 a year (roughly $18.5k). The 'average'

It depends on what you define as above average. The minimum wage here in the UK is £5.93 an hour, so just under £12,000 a year (roughly $18.5k). The 'average' wage in the UK is somewhere around £24k-£26k (roughly $37k-$40k). For developers I'd say graduates start out at around £25k-£30k (roughly $38.5k-$46k) and the wages start to middle out at around £35k-£50k(roughly $54k-$77k) depending on your experience and seniority. So in terms of 'above average' I'd say yes when in comparison to the rest of the population, but only by a marginal amount. There are extreme cases in the development sphere though - many developers who work in Finance will probably earn a lot more than those working in a more 'average' development job.