Edit: long term so no "off" days & 150k ish per year depending how many holidays I take.
Ask HN: How much do you make in London?
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#132Developer (currently at a startup) £62k, no stock but I do have a pension/healthcare. 17 years experience, initially as a general web developer, then front end, now more back end. Currently Ruby on Rails but I can turn my hand to almost anything. Not a manager, not a senior developer, not a tech lead. No desire to be. I work quite short hours (9.30-5) and that's what's most important to me.
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Where do you work? There seems to be a significant lack of hardware jobs in London.
Nokia (and it's only just about in London). Other than Cambridge, Langley and Bristol there's very little in the UK at all.
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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...
(My current rate is an awful £300, and that was hard to find!)
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Nokia (and it's only just about in London). Other than Cambridge, Langley and Bristol there's very little in the UK at all.
Ah interesting, I didn't realise they had an office in London. Are there any engineering vacancies at the moment?
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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.
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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.
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#139Are we only talking programmer side? Digital marketing, education sector, 4 years experience: £39k + healthcare
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(My current rate is an awful £300, and that was hard to find!)
Is that per hour? I think I'd kill for that.. or was that per day? I'm based in the states so that seems quite nice for me.