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Might work for an individual with specific talents, might not.

As I say, the market is not in a depressed state at the moment, it's not the case that it's a ridiculously low offer that's what UK software jobs pay.

Software engineers are just not paid rockstar wages in the UK. So they will find people to fill many of the roles. Software salaries are still good compared to average wages, so people will go into it, and work for better-than-average-but-not-awesome money.