Im not in London still in(uk), 1.5years IT Security,18k :(
Ask HN: How much do you make in London?
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#142Contractor, currently £650/day. Hoping to increase that to £850/day by end of year. Experience > 15 yrs in web dev, though maybe only last 5 applies now (I don't do PHP 3 or perl any more). Edit: long term so no "off" days & 150k ish per year depending how many holidays I take.
what language?
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#143Hadn't worked in the western workforce in 7 years. Turned up in London in 2009, got £40k, kicked ass, had £60k within 3 months, up from there. These days I honestly wouldn't live in London for under £100k. I think the thing to do is contract work, live out of London (even in mainland Europe) if at all possible.
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#144This is a bit depressing. In 2010 I retired from full-time post as Investment Bank, front office senior dev on £100K with 30-50% bonus, 20 years experience. C++, Java, Sybase, finance tech and domain knowledge, and colleagues in hot areas were getting way more than that. My impression that rates are dropping seems to be confirmed.
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#145Senior Software Engineer (and manager) at Google, ~15 years experience. 100k GBP salary, plus 20% bonus and stock vesting. Gross 200k+ GBP.
how's this compare with your colleagues on the state side?
London Googlers get paid significantly less than their CA counterparts for the same roles.
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#146Throwaway. £79k + stock option + benefits
forgot to add - startup, 16 years of experience. lead role
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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.
I'm in nottingham. Would be interested in any opportunities or some ideas. Boots, capital1, reuters seem to be the major ones. I'm currently contracting in smart metering.
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Shoot me an email (see profile). Medium sized company - analytics, financial services, other interesting data science stuff. Offices in London and elsewhere :-) I'll help steer you to our HR people and if you're successful, will receive a modest introduction bonus. We pay well, but not investment bank salaries. We have lots of PhDs - they're coming out of our ears, so you'll feel quite at home. It also seems that the…
tried, I seem unable to find any email.
Sorry old.lag@gmail.com
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Pure curiosity - is this for an 8 hour day? or 10? or more? Just wondering what the downsides are to working for a bank.
everyone's experience is different, but usually the pain is not from long hours, but from bureaucracy, old technology and some hostile colleagues.
It's the hostility that would kill me.
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#15070k + stock + 1% matched pension. Senior software engineer. PhD and 4 years professional experience. Work 9:30 to 6. Ruby on Rails.
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