[dalbasal]

In much of Europe, software salaries are in two separate modes or tiers. Local mode and international mode. This is true in neighbouring countries (Germany & England) too.

Ie, some jobs are part of the global software development market, and they pay salaries close to what you'll find in software hubs like silicon valley.

Very generally, these tend to be in the software business. Ie the company makes its revenue from software products rather than (eg) an insurance company that employs devs to customize their CRM instance. Also, if English is used as a working language, it's a better bet.

[mattmanser]

In the UK you only really see those sort of salaries for high pressure financial IT jobs (well, last year I looked 3-4 years ago). Whether those jobs will suddenly disappear soon is a good question.

Or you become a contractor, which pays almost double what a salaried employee makes, but is less stable.