Stocks also play a role. The creator of Redux was making 100k£ (+35k£ in stocks) at FB. That said, there is a huge disparity in salaries in London. I was maki

Stocks also play a role. The creator of Redux was making 100k£ (+35k£ in stocks) at FB. That said, there is a huge disparity in salaries in London. I was making 100k£ per year as a random full time engineer with 15 years of experience in some unknown company and working (potentially) fully remote before covid. I know VPs and CTOs making 120-200k£. I could get a contract for 600£-700£ daily and the top contracts I've heard for senior engineers from my friends are 1k£/1.2k£ per day (generally Java or Angular jobs in banking where things are on fire). There are plenty of engineers who never go past 50k£.