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> London is notorious for low SWEng salaries I was actually going to challenge this before I did a bit of research and discovered you're right - the average wa
by movedx 6y ago
> London is notorious for low SWEng salaries
I was actually going to challenge this before I did a bit of research and discovered you're right - the average wage for a software engineer is £47,500 (https://www.cwjobs.co.uk/salary-checker/average-it-salary https://www.cwjobs.co.uk/salary-checker/average-it-salary). That's ugly.
I'm from Liverpool originally (live abroad now) and I have friends in Manchester earning £50-60k... in the North of England. That's a big wage in that area.
- drexlspivey 6y agoThat's for IT though? Software engineer average is £72500 based on your link
- rootusrootus 6y agoAnecdotally, the one senior dev we have on my team from London makes mid/upper 40s. I was astounded when I found that out.
- disgruntledphd2 6y agoYeah, even both Google and FB pay engineers pretty terribly in London. I was once asked to move there, and I refused unless they accounted for cost of living changes. They didn't, so I stayed working at my original office.
- jumhyn 6y agoThe stat you link appears to be for "IT" jobs across all of the UK. Restricting the search to "Software Engineer" and "London"[0] bumps the number up quite a bit to £72,500 as of when I checked. [0]: https://www.cwjobs.co.uk/salary-checker/average-software-engineer-salary-london https://www.cwjobs.co.uk/salary-checker/average-software-eng...
- movedx 6y agoThat's a good catch. I hadn't realised it was targeting the country because I specifically searched for London. Silly me. 72k in London isn't a lot :)