How much can you earn as a Software Engineer in the UK in 2024?

In this video I breakdown how much you can earn as a Software Engineer in the UK in 2024. I cover salaries for junior engineers up to senior, principle and lead engineers as well as giving some tips for how you can get started as a software engineer if you're looking to get into the industry.

[onurislak]

it is very difficult to live in London with this money for junior roles.

[Helios-]

As a graduate developer with 0 years experience, I got 2 offers, both outside of London. One for 30k and the other was 35k

[robbiedeegan]

Enjoyed the transparency! As a data scientist in London I can say it's quite similar advice! Salary depends mostly on industry

[hiFolks-Networking-Platform]

🥇Thank you for sharing your insights, Chris.

[samho]

Honest and realistic figures 👍🏻 thank you

[acidhauss]

Great video that more or less matches my experience with the UK job market.

Really agree that there's always going to be a lot of variability in the job market, particularly as you go from midlevel-senior.

I'm on £45000 as a "midlevel" full-stack C#+React developer - not the best salary in the world but does allow occasional abroad working and a good work life balance working in a small friendly team.

Like you I self-taught myself about 30 (4-5 years ago); one of the blunders I made was probably not specialising in what I wanted to do off the bat and moving about a lot between industries. I think if I stuck with React or C# for 1/2 companies I'd be in a better position.

Great video again!

[vinylwarmth]

Principal usually has more scope than a single team

[npmSteven]

Great video mate, what you said matches well to what I've seen in the current market.

[codeintherough]

Its crazy you guys pay just as much as we do for college but make 1/2 as much starting.

[zuowang]

jarring to see this as I was working in a non faang company as a new grad with 180k annual income, and the interview process was frankly very easy. unfortunately I didn't crack the harder interviews like HRT which could tripple the salary

[Omer]

I feel like I missed the boat big time with the tech industry. i'm trying to change career/upskill but like you say, I don't see any avenue into this job as an entry level/junior role. I wanted to specialize in Data engineering because I figured web dev/pure software engineering is over saturated, but even with that I'm not seeing many junior roles

[MA-SPEED]

What about junior software engineers at meta and Google?

[vhchoang]

This is pretry accurate IMO. Most job postings ive see online for senior level is around 60k-90k.

But then on social medoa I keep hearing junior level can get up to 100k, and if you're not then youre not doing it right.

[aturan-foqt]

Thanks. Lots of people think even juniors earn £100K. But yours are real numbers. Before IR35 legislations, that money would be possible for majority of SWE but not anymore. Tax, tax, tax...

[___m]

im learning python right now at 32 years old im a plasterer by trade but want to get out of construction, it hurts my head on the route i should take . is python a sought after skill, i need some guidance any information is appreciated . like will i have to do an IT help desk job first etc

[RedGreenBlue]

Great video! Do you think yould you do a video on the self-taught route? i.e. which courses you'd recommend (lots of crappy sites out there and scams) and how to build your portfolio? 😃

[benlambert]

The big question, do you find the job or does the job find you? aka recruiters vs job sites?

I took at job as a tester who has time to learn code, I do also write programs for the company. 14 months later I "know" C++, C# and QML, but I'm not sure where is the best place to look for jobs. I'm also self taught via work and Udemy courses.

[Ashlesha-cyoc]

Hey how to get first job in uk.I have experience in India, but not getting any calls, I am on dependent visa

[jesusbustillos]

My friend you look like: Monaco - what do you want from me 😊