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Re: Ask HN: How much do you make in London?

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Post by atemerev »

strongai wrote: post #104
thrwaynow wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

today you can still get £100k+ as a senior developer in a bank for doing c++, java, with or without domain knowledge, but bonus is likely to be a lot less, more like 15-30%, of course exceptions apply

Pure curiosity - is this for an 8 hour day? or 10? or more? Just wondering what the downsides are to working for a bank.

If you have chaotic alignment, you'll like it. 12-hour workdays mixed with occasional periods of having nothing to do at all, no specs, no working process (or, alternatively, multiple failing attempts to go full SCRUM), hacks upon hacks upon hacks in systems processing billions per day, on-site urgent calls at 2AM, having to double as devops, internal tech support and psychotherapist...

On the upside: money and lots of interesting technologies and shiny things in the zoo.

Re: Ask HN: How much do you make in London?

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Post by LondonTA77 »

ASIC design, 7 years here now. £45k + bonus + pension + healthcare. Without the bonus it isn't anywhere near what you'd get in a bank, explains why so many of my university mates took their EE degrees into finance. Probably partly due to the lack of hardware jobs in the capital. I've always found the name 'Silicon Roundabout' very ironic.

Re: Ask HN: How much do you make in London?

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Post by noelwelsh »

dnnrly wrote: post #88
gringofyx wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle, Bristol, Liverpool... probably in that order. I've heard good things about Glasgow, Birmingham and Cardiff too. The North West has been good to me and I've never really had to leave the area because there's pretty good transportation links over a wide area with a large population. And I've lived and worked in Berlin too, it's nice, but by no means the perfect solution. And y'know... it m…

You should try Nottingham too. There is at least 1 major brand with deep pockets offering very interesting amounts of money for developers at the moment.

What is the company? Recently moved to Nottingham. Not looking for a job but curious to learn more about the tech scene.

Re: Ask HN: How much do you make in London?

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Post by londonite »

throwaway782 wrote: post #60

Snr Cloud / Infra. £650 day remote working (desk in London but physically in the office 1-2 days a month), 1 yr contract - but renewable. Annualised, £156K

Do you mind describing what are your daily tasks in broad terms?

Asking for a... uh, for a friend. Yeah.

Re: Ask HN: How much do you make in London?

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Post by m_t »

jbms wrote: post #106
throwawayPayLdn wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not bad to be honest, 8-7 but I do get out for an hour or so at lunch.

Those look pretty bad to someone outside London. How much travel on top of that?

Working 10hr per day looks bad even inside London!

Re: Ask HN: How much do you make in London?

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Post by jbms »

ldneng wrote: post #11
dan_b wrote: post #3

May I suggest something more anonymous like a google spreadsheet? Or a HN poll?

I think keeping it in comments here is better since spreadsheets tend to to have a lot of messed up data (looking at previous surveys). What people share is definitely free-form, so I'd prefer to leave the data rather unstructured. Creating a throwaway is also really easy and bogus comments are easier to deal with than someone messing with the spreadsheet. However, I've created a spreadsheet ( https://docs.google.com…

I recommend making a web form using Google spreadsheets - which takes 3 minutes, and making the spreadsheet read-only.

When I last posted an open spreadsheet to hacker news it grew, then got defaced with all the data deleted. Someone restored it but it was work to ensure no data was lost.

Re: Ask HN: How much do you make in London?

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Post by bugahdug »

PHP Developer in the Southwest of UK (Devon, Cornwall, Somerset etc) 25k, no bonus - and that's about average. Living here isn't the cheapest either, £600pcm for a 2 bed flat, over £1,000 a year for water.

Really need to move towards the midlands (Bristol, Birmingham, Leicester, Staffordshire - cheaper rent, cheaper water, higher pay)

I've been a Dev for 7+ years.

Re: Ask HN: How much do you make in London?

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Post by pyb »

gringofyx wrote: post #63

Reading some of the amounts listed is a bit depressing, I thought that the increased cost of living in London would justify salaries and rates much higher than the average. By contrast I know from personal experience you can earn the same or better than what's listed here outside of London and enjoy the lower cost of living.

In my experience, contract rates in London have been dropping like a stone in the last 2 years. I'm still not sure why that is, but feel forced to start planning my escape...
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