And Hamburg has terrible salaries, too, if the €2500/month take home I was offered for a senior engineer role by one of Germany’s biggest companies is anything to go by.
That's a European wide problem. Most great software opportunities are still clustered around the handfull of tehc hubs where big-tech, FANGS and VC funded companies have their offices: London, Dublin, Amsterdam, Berlin, Stockholm. Anmywhere outside of that and opportunities take a nose dive.
Hmm, maybe - did you see the PDF reports from swissdevjobs/germantechjobs a few weeks ago?
Zurich, Zug, Bern and Geneva were out there as around double the numbers of anywhere in Germany. I know Switz isn't cheap to live in, but still. Honestly I wish I was still back in London.