And one thing to add which might be relevant for decision making - the salaries in London are 30-40k entry, 50-60k for 2 years experience and ~70k for 4 years experience, with a few companies going to 80k. Obviously the rents are higher and the people are ruder etc etc etc.
I know you asked about Manchester specifically and I have no desire to start a debate, but just for reference. On 24 July 2014 12:15, Alex Lynham <acelyn...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Not sure if this applies for everyone, seem to remember there was a lot of > chat on IRC about this a little while back, but entry was around 18-20 for > most people, add circa 10k for a mid. From memory of that thread and my > experience so YMMV. > A > > --- Original Message --- > > From: "Will Jessop" <w...@willj.net> > Sent: 24 July 2014 12:02 > To: nwrug-members@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: [NWRUG] Greetings from Japan > > On 23 July 2014 15:47, Adam Akhtar <adam.akh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > * How is the ruby / rails job scene back in Manchester. Big or small? > > Growing or shrinking? > > I would guess we have the second largest ruby user group, outside of > London (anyone got any numbers for that?) if that's an indication. The > attendance numbers have been pretty static over the years, maybe > increasing slightly (~20 people per month). > > > * What is a typical salary for entry ~ mid developers? > > I'll let someone else chip in here with more concrete information, but > I'd guess ~35-40k? > > > * Who is hiring? Beyond this mailing list are there any other good > sources > > for hiring announcements? > > I don't know just how many Rails jobs there are available in > Manchester, On The Beach seem to be perpetually hiring, but they're > out in the sticks. > > > I have been programming with ruby / rails for over 5 years now > individually. > > Since then I've created various rails apps such as > > How much of your programming is on GitHub? Proving you can program > Rails effectively is going to be valuable even if you don't have > commercial experience. > > Will. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NWRUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to nwrug-members+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to nwrug-members@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NWRUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to nwrug-members+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to nwrug-members@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NWRUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nwrug-members+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to nwrug-members@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
