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UK, outside of London the average salary is roughly £40k for an experienced programmer ($66k). It does seem to be climbing rapidly though, 3 years ago £35k was
by mattmanser 13y ago
UK, outside of London the average salary is roughly £40k for an experienced programmer ($66k). It does seem to be climbing rapidly though, 3 years ago £35k was more the avg, now I'm getting recruiter emails claiming up to £45k.
So unsurprisingly it's just a sliding scale depending on your local GDP, there's not some universal pay grade.
- lgleason 13y agoWhich languages? From what I understand you could earn that in South Africa and have a much better standard of living. Given the cost of things in the UK that is crazy....
- mattmanser 13y agoAll of them. I think part of the problem is class, there's a psychological barrier in the UK that employees shouldn't earn more than managers. The other part of the lower pay is that we had a lot more people dabble with development in our school system in the 80s/90s because of the BBC programs and the Micro/Archimedes in schools which means we started running short of developers a lot later than other countries. Both of those are speculation, but that's my belief.
- thisone 13y agoI've seen c#, Ruby, and the odd PhP with a decent salary up North. C and C++ also has a calling up here, but more specialized to the particular company (think Ubisoft). Recently saw a posting for a Linux kernel dev. I haven't really seen calling for more niche languages, but I'm also only looking at the postings that come into my email. Re the comment about management salary, I have been given that as a reason during salary negotiation as to why they can't pay what I'm asking. The salaries I've been seeing have risen quite a bit in the past 2 years (after dropping suddenly, recession and all).