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Front-end developers salaries

6 points by afrontender 12y ago

It seems to me in my country (Eastern Europe country) the salaries of the Front-end developers are lower than the salaries of the backend developers (.NET/Java/C++). I chose the Front-end route (Javascript mostly not only HTML/CSS) and this irritates me. Do you observe similar tendency in your area?

anonfunction 12y ago
Yes, here in SF it is much the same. However there is also the "full-stack" developer that has come to be in high demand and ranks somewhere in the middle in terms of salary. As for why it is this way I think it's just simple economics. There is more "supply" of front-end devs than back-end which in turn drives the salary of the latter upwards.
richardknop 12y ago
I live in London and that's not quite true. There is a lot of demand for front end guys, especially with AngularJS (Backbone shows up quite a lot as well, EmberJS only rarely), NodeJS and single page web app experience. And salaries for these positions are actually on par with backend roles at the moment. Of course there are some poorly paid front end jobs but if you have been keeping up with latest frameworks and tools in the JS world, you will fall into the lucrative group of front end jobs. When you are contracting, they can actually be higher. I see lots of lucrative Angular and Node contracts around (£500-600/pd).
- afrontender 12y ago
  Yeah, I got a job proposal via Linkedin last week for a Front-end (JS/Node/Angular) position in London and in the description was mentioned £500 per day, which is almost my monthly salary!!! The problem is that I'm not planning to go abroad for the time being.
  - richardknop 12y ago
    Well, I'm afraid in eastern Europe it's quite hard to get a good salary as a front end guy. I would suggest relocating although I understand it's not an option for everybody. Since you are in EU, you don't need VISA to go to UK, for example.
  - richardknop 12y ago
    Btw, where exactly in Eastern Europe are you from? I'm from Eastern EU as well :)
    - afrontender 12y ago
      Bulgaria :)
debacle 12y ago
"Front-end" for 80% of companies still means Photoshop/Dreamweaver and maybe a bit of jQuery. In places where "Front-end" actually means HTML5/CSS/JavaScript, single page, MVC, etc, the salaries are comparable to back-end programmers.
- afrontender 12y ago
  You're right and exactly because of the lack of serious JS projects in my country the front-end salaries are pretty low. If more larger Node/Angular projects appear, the salaries would get high as these technologies are a lot more advanced than just styling few buttons with jQuery.

6 points by afrontender 12y ago

anonfunction 12y ago

Yes, here in SF it is much the same. However there is also the "full-stack" developer that has come to be in high demand and ranks somewhere in the middle in terms of salary. As for why it is this way I think it's just simple economics. There is more "supply" of front-end devs than back-end which in turn drives the salary of the latter upwards.

richardknop 12y ago

I live in London and that's not quite true. There is a lot of demand for front end guys, especially with AngularJS (Backbone shows up quite a lot as well, EmberJS only rarely), NodeJS and single page web app experience. And salaries for these positions are actually on par with backend roles at the moment. Of course there are some poorly paid front end jobs but if you have been keeping up with latest frameworks and tools in the JS world, you will fall into the lucrative group of front end jobs. When you are contracting, they can actually be higher. I see lots of lucrative Angular and Node contracts around (£500-600/pd).

afrontender 12y ago
Yeah, I got a job proposal via Linkedin last week for a Front-end (JS/Node/Angular) position in London and in the description was mentioned £500 per day, which is almost my monthly salary!!! The problem is that I'm not planning to go abroad for the time being.
- richardknop 12y ago
  Well, I'm afraid in eastern Europe it's quite hard to get a good salary as a front end guy. I would suggest relocating although I understand it's not an option for everybody. Since you are in EU, you don't need VISA to go to UK, for example.
- richardknop 12y ago
  Btw, where exactly in Eastern Europe are you from? I'm from Eastern EU as well :)
  - afrontender 12y ago
    Bulgaria :)

debacle 12y ago

"Front-end" for 80% of companies still means Photoshop/Dreamweaver and maybe a bit of jQuery. In places where "Front-end" actually means HTML5/CSS/JavaScript, single page, MVC, etc, the salaries are comparable to back-end programmers.

afrontender 12y ago
You're right and exactly because of the lack of serious JS projects in my country the front-end salaries are pretty low. If more larger Node/Angular projects appear, the salaries would get high as these technologies are a lot more advanced than just styling few buttons with jQuery.