You need to take a trip up north and/or to coastal UK towns if you think this is the reality. 60k a year would be a well paying job up here. At my previous job,

You need to take a trip up north and/or to coastal UK towns if you think this is the reality. 60k a year would be a well paying job up here. At my previous job, 60k is what the Technical Development Manager was on, who was in charge of multiple development teams. Senior devs were typically on 40k - 55k, mid level devs on 28k-35k and junior devs 22k-28k. And this was an international company (UK mainly but recently opened in the US) which was raking in over a billion in revenue. The UK is a very unequal place.