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by muzfuz 3417 days ago
True - but then that's the general issue with London vs the rest of the country. Compared to other careers, dev salaries in London make the city pretty liveable. I'm certainly not struggling to service a mortgage in Zone 2, and many devs I know are similarly comfortable.
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switch007 3417 days ago
You, or you and a partner? Do you work in finance?

I'm having trouble with my idea of average dev salaries and zone 2 prices equalling comfortable (i.e. nice amount of savings and disposable income after mortgage payment). If non-finance, I must be really out of touch with London salaries. I had an email today offering "up to £50k" for a devops position at a web agency...risible.

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user5994461 3416 days ago
Risible indeed. Lemme give you more perspective of London salaries. Good you are in DevOps because I got that keyword on my resume too.

These are all the LinkedIn messages with a salary range I got since the beginning of February. Mostly from recruiters. (target: typical 20-30 years old, nothing special).

* DevOps Engineer - Cloud Managed Service - Aldgate east (London) - £50k - £65k

* DevOps Engineer - a global digital market agency - Canary Wharf - £60k - £70k

* DevOps Engineer - Kings Cross - £65k - £75k

* SysAdmin (DevOps) - £50k

* Senior Site Reliability Engineer - market leading eCommerce client based in London - £70,000 + 20% bonus and competitive benefits.

* Consultant on <specific tech I worked on before> + DevOps - "The day rate is around the £800 mark."

* world’s largest peer to peer lending services - up to £75K + benefits.

* London’s leading Cloud and Automation Consultancies (within financial services). - up to £60K + benefits..

Of course, it's only the 9th right now. The month just begins :D

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muzfuz 3417 days ago
Myself and a partner, and no I'm not in finance, and don't plan to be any time soon. Also, it's the very edge of zone 2, so that helps.
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walshemj 3417 days ago
the problem I that marketing and publishing don't treat the techies with respect "contempt" was how my last but one boss put it and he was a director at a subsidiary of relex
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