[pablobm]

One interesting fact: even though they are explicitly looking for Python devs, no actual Python experience is required. This is the second instance I see of something like this in London (the first being the company I work for, http://new-bamboo.co.uk).

It looks like there's a lack of experienced developers in London, or at least in some technologies. Therefore companies needs must resort to finding "generic" good programmers who can be trained.

Of course I don't have any statistically significant data, only anecdotal experience. However it does resonate with the difficulty that we have had finding Ruby devs at New Bamboo in the last few months.

Does this sound familiar to anyone? I wonder if there's the same lack of supply of PHP devs.

[d3monkey]

>It looks like there's a lack of experienced developers in London

Because anyone with half a brain has left the UK and come to SF/NYC, where they pay ~3 times as much. If I was in the UK, I'd be on some measly 26K salary and living above a chop shop in Tooting.

[colinhowe]

There's definitely a lack of good developers in London. We don't mind too much about what language people know as the fundamentals of good software translate to pretty much any language :)