£40-45k with that experience sounds about right in my experience (startups, not sure about large companies).
Ask HN: Average Salary for PHP Dev in London?
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#12Can't speak to London particularly but my experience has been that the secret to better salaries is to be a dev that knows not a dev. It helps alot to have solid fundamentals that you can work with in several different languages/platforms and be able to demonstrate that you understand "systems" more than isolated applications. (i.e. the world of enterprise development ;)
Re: Ask HN: Average Salary for PHP Dev in London?
#13£40-45k with that experience sounds about right in my experience (startups, not sure about large companies).
Is that all? In London? Nevermind, below poster stated supply/demand lowers the cost of PHP developers.
Re: Ask HN: Average Salary for PHP Dev in London?
#14£40-45k with that experience sounds about right in my experience (startups, not sure about large companies).
Is that all? In London? Nevermind, below poster stated supply/demand lowers the cost of PHP developers.
At a RoR/JS/Go shop in London I was making about that much with ~4 years experience, yeah.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Depends what part of london you live i guess.
Re: Ask HN: Average Salary for PHP Dev in London?
#16Can't speak to London particularly but my experience has been that the secret to better salaries is to be a dev that knows not a dev. It helps alot to have solid fundamentals that you can work with in several different languages/platforms and be able to demonstrate that you understand "systems" more than isolated applications. (i.e. the world of enterprise development ;)
I'd say you'd probably need to understand a lot more about distributed systems, SOA, micro-services in enterprise development than normal development.
Re: Ask HN: Average Salary for PHP Dev in London?
#17£40-45k with that experience sounds about right in my experience (startups, not sure about large companies).
Is that all? In London? Nevermind, below poster stated supply/demand lowers the cost of PHP developers.
Also you need to realise that the wage in the Uk is lower than elsewhere. They have lower employment tax, etc. The average wage in the UK is £24k. This is take home more money than people who get paid €45k in Germany.
Re: Ask HN: Average Salary for PHP Dev in London?
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is that all? In London? Nevermind, below poster stated supply/demand lowers the cost of PHP developers.
Also you need to realise that the wage in the Uk is lower than elsewhere. They have lower employment tax, etc. The average wage in the UK is £24k. This is take home more money than people who get paid €45k in Germany.
But that's pretty low salary for london. Bankers/Accountants/Professional services, 45k is first job level for london.
It's just programming in general in UK, isn't that highly paid.
Re: Ask HN: Average Salary for PHP Dev in London?
#19Compared to the expenses, salaries in London seem to be pretty low. I was wondering, isn't London kind of a hotspot for high salaries in Europe?
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#20If you're getting offered 40k in Manchester the same price range in London is 50-55k. 40k is the high end for Manchester so you should be looking at the high end for London. Unless you're doing Magento.