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London developers do not get paid well vs cost of living. I interviewed for a city based senior data engineer role at a large insurer and was supprised that the
by shubb 6y ago
London developers do not get paid well vs cost of living. I interviewed for a city based senior data engineer role at a large insurer and was supprised that they choked at 45K basic not much package.
Generally uk dev pay is very bad compared to US or even other Europe.
Contract work used to be basically the only way to make good money but this has now been nobbled. Not a good city to work in.
As a result permie developers generally don't have a huge amount of a savings.
- fennecfoxen 6y agoI was able to get Senior at £74k in London. Nothing to sneeze at in principle, save for the London cost of living. Moved to New York following Brexit, now making literally twice that. (Paying twice that for housing, too, but my housing is more like 15 minutes from work instead of 60 and I have a real subway option instead of putting up with Southern Rail and the strikes.)