Hacker News Reader

Comment by ddalex | Hacker News Reader

I can confirm around 100k (pounds) in London, unless you're going to the giants (FB, Google) that go above that.

Lol no. That’s delusional in London, unless you take into account day rate work

85-90k is the upper bound on senior dev salaries, but companies can and will go above that if you have specific skills they need and can't easily recruit for.

(I make 6 figures in London, and that's full time and at a software company.)

What would an average salary for a medium-level dev look like? I've seen 40k GBP a few times, but that seems quite low.

In 2012, I was looking for mid level work (Gaming, but not entirely dependent on it) and yeah that was exactly the figure I seen. In London 40k is like 20k outside London meaning you have a bunch of Mid Level developers picking up a street sweepers wage without a pension attached.

I just don't believe I somehow missed all the decent jobs during a lul either.

I've never thought game dev was a smart career move. Too many naive kids entering the market and too many sweatshops taking advantage of them.

40k, 50k, 60k possibly. Medium-level is pretty nebulous though. It could be a talented coder without much experience, or a journeyman with many years and without something extra like domain expertise. Smart money would pay more for the first, but people like a bargain too.

Head out of finance and tech (funded or profitable) and those numbers start to look more like senior salaries.

Don't forget about hedge funds. Judging from the messages I get from recruiters there are plenty of them.

Their offer total compensations significantly above 100k£

Wow, in the last 4-5 years the economy has really picked up. I moved back to Scotland after working in Berlin and Amsterdam and work remotely today for a Paris based agency.

Until I read your comment, I had guaranteed myself never to work for a UK company. Will need to do some more research at some point.

I thought he asked about Copenhagen?

Reply on news.ycombinator.com