Income

In the name of openness and transparency, following in the footsteps of this tweet!

Salary (or equiv) Job Title Year Notes Work Location
£220,000-£250,000 Director and Consultant, Cloud native and Kubernetes 2022-now As a director of a consultancy offering services to companies running and building cloud native applications. This is made up of day-rate work at £775/day, hourly work at £200 an hour and some fixed price work. It's hard to work out a figure... Fully Remote
£95,000 + c.a. £6000/yr in overtime (on-call) Senior Infrastructure Engineer 2021 (May to September) Pay increase from the same company Fully Remote
£80,000 + c.a. £6000/yr in overtime (on-call) Senior Infrastructure Engineer 2020 (April) - 2021 (April) Moved to Full-time work again after COVID made all my consulting clients cancel contracts Fully Remote
£130,000 Director and Consultant, Cloud native and Kubernetes 2020 (January) - 2020 (April) Started my own company consulting clients on cloud native and kubernetes, charging around £550/day Fully Remote
£55,000 (from May -> September) then £85,000 (September -> December) Senior Platform Engineer 2019 (May) - 2019 (December) Promoted to senior in May, then in September I resigned to start consulting, the company increased my salary to see out the end of a project 1 Day a week London, 2 Days Birmingham, 2 remote
£50,000 Software Developer 2018 (December) - 2019 (May) 2 Days Birmingham, 3 remote
£35,000 (first 6 months) increased to £45,000 (until I left) Software Developer 2018 (Jan) - 2018 (Dec) Semi flexible, few days a month from home. The rest in Birmingham
£28,000 Automation Engineer 2017 (April) - 2018 (Jan) 5 days a week in Birmingham
£22,000 for 9 months, then £25,000 2016 (March) - 2017 (April) First job in Tech 5 days a week in Birmingham