I notice all the answers so far are in the US. Any UK or Australia stories to keep my hope up? Interesting to see 250k is a realistic salary for a developer as

I notice all the answers so far are in the US. Any UK or Australia stories to keep my hope up? Interesting to see 250k is a realistic salary for a developer as well. I never see any jobs anywhere near that in the UK or Australia - except maybe London as a contract developer in finance.