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Pay isn't great and there aren 't a lot of jobs. For more high level software dev there are lot's of jobs and the pay is much better.

Just as an example, in Vancouver, I got poached by a recruiter from G&E to work with FPGA in a senior position. The offer was around 80K.

At London a senior embedded systems engineer would get 40-45k pounds.

A senior fullstack / devops / backend dev at any of those cities can clear around 50% more easily with 10 times more jobs available to pick from.