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Ask HN: Average Salary for PHP Dev in London?

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Post by payamb »

I'm a PHP Developer with above average ( I think ? ) experience ( 3 years commercial experience in Manchester )

I've quite comfortable with OOP, Design Patterns, Symfony, Laravel , Custom build solutions etc ...

In the past few months i was busy building search solutions using Elastic Search, Caching solutions using Redis and Geo coding.

Also i manage bunch of ec2 instances , a few google cloud servers and quite confident in managing and maintaining our production servers.

Git / Average javascript knowledge / Ansible / HTML & CSS as usual.

I have 40k job offer in Manchester but i want to relocate to London, Now i see the average salary in London is about 45k ? is that right ? Please could you give me an idea how much should i be looking for in London ?

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Post by payamb »

crjHome wrote: post #2

London is a really expensive place to live. I bet your rent would be double compared to Manchester, so even though your salary is less you will have probably have more money in the long run.

That's ture, But on the other side you get to enjoy the vibe of London i suppose.

I'm already decided to move to London , But i don't know if the recruiter i'm working with is not good, Or the average PHP dev salary is low.

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#4

Post by [deleted] »

payamb wrote: post #3
crjHome wrote: post #2

London is a really expensive place to live. I bet your rent would be double compared to Manchester, so even though your salary is less you will have probably have more money in the long run.

That's ture, But on the other side you get to enjoy the vibe of London i suppose. I'm already decided to move to London , But i don't know if the recruiter i'm working with is not good, Or the average PHP dev salary is low.

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Post by sghi »

That sounds about right - I used to (don't hate me) work in recruitment and £40-50k was about the top end of the range for PHP devs in London before people started moving into contracting. YMMV and I'm sure there's exceptions but it doesn't sound like you're too far off the mark

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#6

Post by onion2k »

payamb wrote: post #3
crjHome wrote: post #2

London is a really expensive place to live. I bet your rent would be double compared to Manchester, so even though your salary is less you will have probably have more money in the long run.

That's ture, But on the other side you get to enjoy the vibe of London i suppose. I'm already decided to move to London , But i don't know if the recruiter i'm working with is not good, Or the average PHP dev salary is low.

But on the other side you get to enjoy the vibe of London i suppose

There isn't much of a vibe if you can't afford to go out.

Re: Ask HN: Average Salary for PHP Dev in London?

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Post by throw923498 »

I hired many developers including PHP developers in London.

I would call 3 years commercial experience below average to average. Depending on ability it would be high-level junior developer to low-level mid developer. £40-45k would definitely be the high end of what you could expect, and it would rely on you interviewing very well to get it.

PHP is not a technology stack that's hard to find people in, and therefore salaries tend to be lower. Other tech stacks that are more specialised tend to attract higher salaries, but there are less positions available.

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Post by odonnellryan »

payamb wrote: post #3
crjHome wrote: post #2

London is a really expensive place to live. I bet your rent would be double compared to Manchester, so even though your salary is less you will have probably have more money in the long run.

That's ture, But on the other side you get to enjoy the vibe of London i suppose. I'm already decided to move to London , But i don't know if the recruiter i'm working with is not good, Or the average PHP dev salary is low.

From my personal experience, and my experience with results from surveys/polls (such as the one Stack Exchange did) I've seen PHP being around 85% of what the average developer makes from other categories (Python, C#, so on).

I'm seeing numbers from $50,000 - $60,000 for developer salaries in London. Obviously a lot of things come into play, but that should give you some idea:

http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/jobs/london/programmer.do

and

https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/london-programmer-salary-...

Recruiting firms in general do not have your best interest at heart...but that doesn't mean you can't get a mutually beneficial agreement down.

There is also always room for negotiation.

Re: Ask HN: Average Salary for PHP Dev in London?

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Post by throw923498 »

onion2k wrote: post #6
payamb wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's ture, But on the other side you get to enjoy the vibe of London i suppose. I'm already decided to move to London , But i don't know if the recruiter i'm working with is not good, Or the average PHP dev salary is low.

But on the other side you get to enjoy the vibe of London i suppose There isn't much of a vibe if you can't afford to go out.

If you are getting paid £45k in London, this would not be something you have to worry about. Sure you'd have less disposable income than Manchester, but the idea that you couldn't afford to go out is ludicrous.
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