Google says the median salary for a dev in the UK is 45,000 GBP/year. I'm hesitant to believe any government services are sufficient to make up the compensation

Google says the median salary for a dev in the UK is 45,000 GBP/year. I'm hesitant to believe any government services are sufficient to make up the compensation gap, even at the median level. At the upper percentiles the gap widens significantly. Though global salaries may normalize somewhat along with broader adoption of remote work