New Grad SWE London salary is more realistically 35k to 60k, Small Companies and Consultants are around 35k, Big Banks do 50k, and the bigger startups do like 55 to 60k.

The 100k is pretty much the elite prop trading, that's the whole LC hard grilling that 99.9% of candidates aren't going past.

> And you know that it is VERY difficult to earn beyond £80k/yr as a SWE outside of top foreign employers in the UK like Google or Citadel.

That’s not correct at all. There’s a ~130k job going for lead engineer of a data team at a home improvement store.

It’s not “VERY difficult” - it’s not easy but it’s definitely achievable.

Low relative to the US Tier 1 cities only. Just based on a cursory look at levels.fyi London median comp is £96k [1] while e.g. Houston is £103k [2] Toronto is £80k [3]. In fact, the only location I could find outside the US that was higher was Zurich at £126k [4]

[1] https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/locations/london-... [2] https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/locations/greater... [3] https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/locations/greater... [4] https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/locations/greater...

First, CoL is miles lower in Houston and other tier 2 cities in America - you can buy a detached house for around $500k/£400k in a posh neighborhood. Not happpening in inner ring London.

Secondly, I've noticed issues with Levels.fyi ranges outside US/Canada and top tech hubs like Tel Aviv and Bangalore. Most markets don't have the same awareness of the tool, so salaries tend to be overestimated.

Calling it right now: give it five years, and even Raspberry Pi will be relocating.

ARM is already somewhat relocating - some of their newest cores, like Cortex A78, were designed in Austin.

I don't think they'd relocate, but that doesn't matter.

They most likely will pull an ARM and hire almost entirely in the US and India instead of in the UK, because competitive British engineers would immigrate to the States, and you can get top tier Indian chip design talent across the spectrum for $30-60k.

>British engineers would immigrate to the States.

I just don't think this is very true, some perhaps but not many.

Secondly, if "the salleries are too low in the UK" is the argument then why would companies be interested in shifting hiring to the states?

The answer is right in your own question. They are shifting hiring to the US because the top talent is leaving the UK, or leaving the field.

It is impossible to immigrate to the US unless your employer is willing to go through the time-consuming and expensive process of sponsoring a visa + green card, which they have little reason to do since they can pay you less over here. I've been designing chips for years in the UK at ARM and elsewhere, haven't encountered anyone moving to the States

Oof. That is rough. I assumed Arm would give the L1/2 option to high caliber employees - it's the norm in India.