> 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.
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...
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...