| Oh, 55k GBP is a nice salary by absolute standards, but not for software developers in London. Yes, you can see people working for so little. But why leave money on the table? > Sure, if you go into the financial sector or find a startup where they don't know their arse from their elbow about software workers, you can dupe them into giving you more money. Yes, obviously. Why wouldn't you? If some sectors have more money than sense, that's an opportunity--not a problem. (I can see that there are reasons to take a lower salary in return for a job you really like; but then you don't get to complain about low pay.) Source: I've lived and worked in Cambridge (Cambridgeshire), Singapore, Sydney, London in various roles. Mostly in big tech and finance. And, yes, if you look at Glassdoor you can find the numbers you cited. In my experience Glassdoor seems to be systematically lower than the numbers I get from my own experience and asking friends and coworkers. (But I might just be living the charmed life that people live who have enough sense to negotiate salaries on job offers?) |