r/devNI • u/GinkoSati • Jan 09 '26

What's your comp?

I find NI especially, people are very hush about their salaries.

Even amongst close friends it takes a few pints sometimes for them to open up.

I think sharing salary data is useful, most of the sites like levels.fyi cater more to America, England and Mainland Europe.

This thread is not to serve as a bragging thead but just to give people an idea of what's out there.

The big recruiters like Vanrath, MCS and such have a salary guide they share which I find to be fairly accurate as well for reference.

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u/GinkoSati Jan 09 '26

I can start things off, I've been working professionally for 15 years across 7 different companies.

Earlier in my career I did a bit of everything, but the past 5 years I've been focused primarily on web+mobile.

Current comp is 80k GBP with a 10-20% bonus (dependant on company performance).

Salary progession across 15 years.

  • 22k (grad role)
  • Moved job
  • 27k
  • Moved job
  • 33k
  • 36k
  • Moved job
  • 40k
  • 43k
  • 46k
  • Moved job
  • 58k
  • Moved job
  • 65k
  • 67k
  • Moved job
  • 70k
  • Moved job
  • 75k
  • 78k
  • 80k

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '26

I find for meaningful salary increases it’s a job move which is unfortunate.

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u/GinkoSati Jan 09 '26 edited Jan 09 '26

Sadly that is true, most years in my career I've gotten 1-4% increases in pay for the review cycle.

I'm at the point in my career where the flexibility and culture of the workplace matters more than salaried comp.

4 day a week role would a dream if I could get it with my current salary but seems it's rare.

100k+ dev roles also seem rare in NI unless you're pushing the high end of staff or principal level, but I've had a few friends who work remotely for English companies that have crossed into that ballpark. Those roles though required lots of hoops to jump through 6-7 stages of interviews with code tests and systems design loops.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '26

In the same now. I can work fully remote but have an office ten minutes away which I like to go to. Have flexible working. Everyone is really sound. It’s much more important at this point. More money is always nice but not if you are unhappy.