Ask HN: You make more than £150k/year in London, what do you do?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13814960

by londonjobs • 9 years ago

23 26 9 years ago

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I'm almost at 150k, born & raised in London, and I currently live there.

I fly out to other cities on weekends to party. Berlin, Paris, Reykyavik. London is a great launchpad to check out other cities.

I'm saving & building passive income (developing mobile/web apps and charging monthly fees) so I can do this perpetually, Once I hit £10K a month passively I'm going to cut the cord and leave for good.

EDIT: I'm 27, 4 years experience as a backend software developer

partisan• 9 years ago

I'm guessing he was asking what line of work you are in and not what you do with your money once earned though I find your answer interesting as well.

thk_you_yeeezy7• 9 years ago

Oh, I've edited my post in case you're right

malux85• 9 years ago

Hey, wanna grab a coffee? [Email in my profile]

PapaSlug• 9 years ago

Congrats! Can you share any of the saas products/web apps that you're working on? I'm going to start building a little side project this month. Really keen to hear about how you're getting users to these apps as well! Indie Hackers is a great blog for reading up about other self funded services and SAAS products.

bbcbasic3• 9 years ago

Seems to be some info in his profile.

thk_you_yeeezy7• 9 years ago

I make apps for other people, and then charge to host them/provide minor upkeep. Things like web apps for evening classes, with schedules, integrated payments etc. So they aren't my products, I just make them for a client

londonthrowme2• 9 years ago

To those who respond to this, can you also please add your age/experience/title/industry, and base/bonus %.

I work in Finance and make half of this so it would be interesting to know where the ceiling is.

UK-AL• 9 years ago

I would assume a lot would be contractors.

zerr2• 9 years ago

Contractors aside, full-time devs have similar salaries, with bonuses in a finance sector in London. Also, usually it's "front-end", i.e. closer to the trader job. Infrastructure ("back-end") gals make less.

osullivj• 9 years ago

Working with traders is usually referred to as "front office". It's usually much more interesting, but also more demanding and stressful. Back office - trade processing, settlement, payments etc - is lower status and lower pay, but also less stressful.

zerr2• 9 years ago

Much more interesting if you're into finance. But there are people who are more interested in tech-side, infrastructure implementation, etc...

RugnirViking• 9 years ago

As an aside, I make just over 1/10th of that, 50km from London as a junior dev.

ionised• 9 years ago

How many years on the job? Is it your first after university?

My first job out of Uni was with a (terrible) civil engineering firm in Merseyside that paid £19000 when I first joined. I was just happy to be getting my foot in the door.

throwaway12722• 9 years ago

I'm 28 and work as an IT Security Sales Engineer/Solutions Consultant in London. Typically I'm called when a Security Operations Centre is being built; mostly insurance/finance type companies but not always.

Previously a Java back-end dev, then Security Analyst, stint of consulting and now FTE Sales Engineer for approx 3 years.

Last year I made around £175k. This year I will definitely make at least that, but it's likely I'll be closer to £200k.

My total package is broken down roughly as 50% basic salary, 25% commission, 25% stock vesting monthly which I auto sell and take in my pay slip.

I have quite niche skills in IT Security, and I'm consistently ranked at the top of my team worldwide. Working for a major company.

deval2• 9 years ago

Out of interest, how did you go from a back-end Java dev role to a security analyst?

throwaway12722• 9 years ago

Back-end dev at a security company, built a lot of software the analysts were using. Seemed more interesting at the time than development, agreed with management that I could slowly move into the role - turns out I was right, really interesting job!

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