I agree. My experience of folk I know in London is that even vague competence is going to get you £35-40k - and being actually good is going to get you a fair bit more than that.
Hell - I live in bloody Dorset and I'd be expecting to pay at least £35k for a decent dev.
I'm confused about what kind of work the 0-30k folk are doing and for whom. If I were in that group I'd be seriously thinking about:
* Switching jobs - I'd be job hunting right now
* I'd be looking at freelancing rates and experimenting with that
* I'd be taking a serious look at my skill set, and the skill set of the job adverts and doing a compare and contrast
* Thinking about whether I'm selling and marketing myself appropriately
Seriously - it's a sellers market in London for dev skills right now. I regularly get folk chasing me for £50-60k jobs - and I'm explicitly not looking, don't live in (or want to live in) London, and have very un-hip skills in the old CVs they have of mine (perl anybody ;-)
Hell - I live in bloody Dorset and I'd be expecting to pay at least £35k for a decent dev.
I'm confused about what kind of work the 0-30k folk are doing and for whom. If I were in that group I'd be seriously thinking about:
* Switching jobs - I'd be job hunting right now
* I'd be looking at freelancing rates and experimenting with that
* I'd be taking a serious look at my skill set, and the skill set of the job adverts and doing a compare and contrast
* Thinking about whether I'm selling and marketing myself appropriately
Seriously - it's a sellers market in London for dev skills right now. I regularly get folk chasing me for £50-60k jobs - and I'm explicitly not looking, don't live in (or want to live in) London, and have very un-hip skills in the old CVs they have of mine (perl anybody ;-)