londondev123

I don't think this is accurate - though London might just be very different. I'm a 26 year old Australian C# developer that moved to London this year. In two weeks I had several job offers ranging from £50-57k.

Since then I've built up a network of connections and beefed up my skillset (spending more time with js frameworks such as Angular) and since received offers in the £65-70k mark. These were always "senior tech lead" positions, but they never seemed like real management jobs and I'd still spend the majority of the time writing software.

In the end I've jumped to contracting because the money is 2-3 times that of permanent roles and it was just too tempting. But the roles are there, especially in London - Ruby devs included.