I'm a software engineer building web apps for a UK based startup, with offices in the South West of England, London and San Fransisco. The opportunity to move to London has recently been presented to myself and the other engineers, with the overall objective to have all UK engineers in London before we start a large new project.<p>I understand that salaries in London are on average higher than the rest of the UK to make up for the cost of living. However, I'm not exactly sure how the salaries of London engineers in a similar job with similar experience stack up against my own.<p>If you're an engineer in London, I'd love to know what area you work in, your salary (if you're happy to say) and any other thoughts you have about startup salaries in London.<p>Myself, I have one and a half years experience and I'm currently on £20k.
As a data point for your London vs not London question - if you work for a university in London (vs a university outside of London) you normally get something like an extra £2.5k per year as a "London allowance". I think public service type jobs get an extra payment too (teachers, police, etc) but I don't know how much.
It varies a lot depending on sector/technology/funding-status, I run a job board (www.coderstack.co.uk) which is used by a fair amount of London startups (I think including yours if your company is who I think it is) and I've seen salaries range from 18k-35k for junior web developers.
Can't really say. But I analyse wage demand based on job sites, reviews (People post salaries, fake ones too), past company history (Known for poor/good salary average?) and personal reference (like here). Hope it helps!<p>/IANALondoner
that is terrible. if you are a half decent php guy you could expect 25k. if you were really good 30k. if you could demonstrate something useful like hadoop or c++ more.<p>what else are they offering? if you are getting stock, cost for moving and regular training sessions on growing skills like scalable, Haskell or big data stuff, then you might just as well stomach it.<p>if you have a CS degree and have experience with version control, coding in a team, and delivering you are being undrbumped.<p>come to London get a work permit, leave and get a real job with a startup that value it's team.
Hard to say without seeing your code and knowing the tech you work with, but I'd assume a lot more than £20k. Is that one and a half years of coding, or one and a half years since graduating?
I left London in 1994, and at that time I was earning 25K GBP, being 4 years out of university. 20K now sounds very low, being the US equivalent of quite a bit under $40K.