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by vidarh
1955 days ago
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I was recently called by a Facebook internal recruiter that claimed (I wasn't interested, so can't verify - he might have been telling bullshit) that the relatively low level developer job he was hiring for in London had a budget of around USD $165k/year. But the London developer market has very broad salary range. It's not that many years ago I worked at companies where we hired senior developers around the GBP 40k/USD 55k mark. The 30 minutes door to door commute is the problem if comparing, as London is huge. A 1 hour commute is closer to the norm. But a 1 hour commute on a train is very different to the same 1 hour if you're driving and can't spend a good chunk of it with your face in a book or watching Netflix or whatever. In terms of housing, my current mortgage for a 3 bedroom terraced house with a garden in London is about USD $2k/month, but that does mean living further out from the centre than what you want. For anyone moving to London, my tip is Croydon. It has an awful reputation which is mostly unearned (it's a very large borough, and very diverse, and it's reputation is pretty much down to scale and some small pockets of the most deprived parts of the borough), and so it's unreasonably cheap for how good transport links it has in to the centre. There are places in London I might prefer if money was no object, but money really would need to be no object, as up until maybe the 3-4 million pound range you'll get more for your money here than ost other places in town. |
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Working in London in 2007/8 it was common for senior developers to switch to contract work since it was fairly easy to at least double your salary that way (GBP 500/600 a day was about the going rate then IIRC.) At the time I remember traveling to the US and everything seeming very cheap at the 1.90 GBP/USD exchange rates pre Brexit and financial crash...