A Developer will make anywhere between £35k and £50k depending on experience (this matches with what I saw when I was looking for a job a year ago)
Get yourself a solid year long stint somewhere & the pay will be £100k - £150k
I make around £40k as a developer with 11 years experience, which seems about average for my city.
My total cost of living each month is around £930. That includes my mortgage.
The company where I was working before I made ~£29k as developer, some people in that company were on as low as £21k. The average was probably around £25k.
Contracting rates can be good, I regularly get calls about contracting jobs from recruiters with rates around £400-£450 a day for a 6 month contract. But then you have the hassle of looking for a new contract every 6 months or so. That hassle is just not worth it for me.
I get emails each day from a job place with jobs. Today the jobs are
C# .net developer - £30k - £45k
C# software developer - £28k - £35k
Senior python developer - £65k
PHP Developer - £35k - £42k
.NET Developer -£38,000 DOE
.NET full stack developer - £35 - £50k
Java Developer - Upto £65k
Javascript Developer - £30-£40k
These are all for positions with many years experience. I don't know where people are seeing £100k a year salaries?
The effect of price rises (council tax, travel, utilities, rent etc) combined with your salary remaining stagnant is nothing short of devastating over a period of 10-20 years.
Companies pretending that inflation doesn't exists probably contributes quite a bit to job hopping
Edinburgh vs. SF (~1.8x) :
https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...
Edinburgh vs. Seattle (~1.3x) :
https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...
Southern Europe is even worse. I was offered a role of Senior/Lead engineer (with over 10 years exp) for "maximum salary of 45k Euro". And was told by their recruiter that this is considered high for Spain.
