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

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Post by wannabecontract »

throawaylondon3 wrote: post #27

Senior front end developer. 4 years experience. Now a contractor on my first project at £350/day in a big company. Expecting this to rise to 400/450 for the next gig. A few months ago I was full time at a startup on £52K.

48k, London startup, frontend, 2.5 yrs exp. Took a paycut from 52.5k (@ 1.5 yrs exp) for this role.

Off topic - As someone in your exact previous position and looking to make the same move to contracting do you have any advice, did you find it easy to land that first contract?

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

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Post by thrwwyldn777 »

"Lead Developer" with a startup, £55k (I refused options in preference of salary).

I have a PhD (4 years programming), and ~4 years professional experience as well.

Previous roles: Fresh Graduate: "Developer" £28k + £3k bonus. Fresh PhD Graduate: "Senior Developer" £40k.

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

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Post by ThrowAwayLondon »

throawaylondon3 wrote: post #24
ThrowAwayLondon wrote: post #6

(throwaway account for obvious reasons) Web Developer in London for a dating company - £75000 pa (with bonuses it's around £110000 pa)

Are you a team lead or architect or similar? This seems high for just a web developer

Nope, but I am one of the seniors in the team and been here for a while. To be honest my title doesn't really reflect my work because I do end up dabbling a lot with other infrastructural work so could say it's an architect position.

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Post by matthewmacleod »

jakub_g wrote: post #20

Semi-related question: How do you calculate taxes in UK? Is the base of the tax the salary offered by companies in job offers? I mean, with say £60k job offer, do I pay tax from £60k? (with the last £17k being taxed at 40%)?

Nope, you pay tax on the full amount. Each taxpayer has a personal allowance (currently £11,000 generally, but this varies) on which no tax is paid; a rate of 20% applies to income between £11,000 and £42,000, a rate of 40% on income between £42,000 and £161,000, and a rate of 45% above that.

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

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Post by frowaway_lon »

This 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.

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

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Post by ThrowAwayLondon »

dan_b wrote: post #32
throawaylondon3 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you a team lead or architect or similar? This seems high for just a web developer

More importantly, are they hiring?

Actually no :( we just finished hiring some new candidates to fill our team. Like I mentioned in the earlier comment I am an outlier because I do end up working a lot with architectural tasks so maybe my job title doesn't justify my work.
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