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I wanted to ask that which UK city is the best to get higher salaries for web developers with lower living expenses to save as much as possible :) with following skills
PHP (OOP/structured)
PHP-mysql
php-excel
php-cURL
php-xml
php-SOAP
php-xml-rpc development
PHP-ajax
XHTML
DHTML
CSS
Photoshop
Flash
Illustrator
SEO, ModRewrite, Linux and Windows, SEM, Excellent written and spoken English
and what should be the average expected salary for such a web developer?
thank you very much
But if you feel the personal touch helps, then it has to be London - and if you search around the edges, you can live as cheap as any major UK city.
Also big companies and software houses usually like to have an in-house developer who can be in quick physical contact with them and can work with team closely and they offer good salaries so I guess offshore thing works but you won't get what you deserve.
I have done some research on London, the salaries are high there but in start it is hard to find a good job and also the living expenses are very high as compare to Manchester and Birmingham etc
You can get good paying jobs all over the country, just start applying and then move wherever you get the highest paying offer. Preferably not London.
To be absolutely honest, if you find a job which pays a reasonable salary and is outside of the major cities then go for it. The quality of life will more than make up for anything else.
if anybody has UK working experience and wants to share the expected salary for a good web developer? and do the software houses pay more or other companies which hire webmasters to maintain and develop their own company applications for example e-commerce portals, online stores etc etc
1. They can be as expensive as London; shop around.
2. 50%+ of their catchment area is a little on the wet side ;)
As for London, it has the highest, like ridiculous, house prices in the UK and only an idiot would live there, very few English do!
For low cost housing, try a social housing estate - Paulsgrove in Portsmouth is cheap, dangerous, nasty and commutable to London.
Harefield near West End in Hampshire (it's misleading, though technically correct to call it Southampton) is also cheap, and commutable to London but a pain to do so.
Basingstoke pays London salaries but offers Hampshire house prices and cost of living, but is very easy to commute to London.
the north-west is very cheap to live, but out of reach of London. But if you are working remotely, what does it matter?
As for salaries, why not try the online job agencies and see what they are advertising? (Except of course that they advertise jobs that don't exist at salaries that are therefore irrelevant, so as to entice registrations and attract potential customers).
Matt
I was born in Brighton, so I can confirm it does have things going for it: gay capital of the UK, stoney beach, nightmare car parking, prostitution and a great pier <bg>As for London, it has the highest, like ridiculous, house prices in the UK and only an idiot would live there, very few English do!
For low cost housing, try a social housing estate - Paulsgrove in Portsmouth is cheap, dangerous, nasty and commutable to London.
Up to a point; if you were born in Brighton, you'd know that another thing going for Brighton is house prices as high as London :)
Nowhere has prices *higher* than London, that's true ... but some 8 million idiots - 60% of them English - live there, many of us by choice.
Plus "commutable to London" makes even the cheapest of alternatives nearly as expensive, with all that wasted time too.
The benefits of London outweigh the downside - and that includes the opportunity benefits. Come to Sunny london! ;)
