While London is a finance hot spot, jobs from Google, Facebook or similarly competing company will also be in that range. And that's not even the top salaries,

While London is a finance hot spot, jobs from Google, Facebook or similarly competing company will also be in that range. And that's not even the top salaries, there are also jobs that pay in millions. You'll also find similar salaries in Amsterdam, Paris, Zurich... I'm just stating that jobs that pay the same as in the article do exist in Europe, and I don't believe they're as exceptional as you suggest. There just is a large spectrum of salaries for software engineering, and as we all know, 90% of everything is crud, so of course the median will be much lower.