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by nailer 2894 days ago
My general feeling is that front end developers are paid less than DevOps (which is what we call sysadmins these days, after all the 'pasting stuff from a Word doc into Solaris' people became managers at banks and the people who could actually automate shit took over). DevOps and back end engineers are paid about the same.

Frontend: 300-400ish GBP/day in London

Backend / DevOps: 600 GBP/day in London

Weird thing is, when I did backend the first time round, I had no idea of event loops and async (asides frm some theoretical knowledge since nginx uses them). I found frontend FAR more complex as a result.