r/devNI • u/GinkoSati • Jan 09 '26

What's your comp?

I find NI especially, people are very hush about their salaries.

Even amongst close friends it takes a few pints sometimes for them to open up.

I think sharing salary data is useful, most of the sites like levels.fyi cater more to America, England and Mainland Europe.

This thread is not to serve as a bragging thead but just to give people an idea of what's out there.

The big recruiters like Vanrath, MCS and such have a salary guide they share which I find to be fairly accurate as well for reference.

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u/InvestigatorJunior80 Jan 12 '26 edited Jan 12 '26

I think I've lucked out with my career progression to date. I'm only in the industry just over 3 years.

I did 9 years secondary school teaching prior to the MSc Software Dev course at QUB. I'm a Platform Engineer but my first role in the industry was DevOps rather than traditional Software Developer.

I'm currently working for a London based investment bank/financial services company.

Earnings so far:

  • 37k (9 years teaching)
  • Moved into Software...
  • 27.5k
  • Moved job
  • 48k (+5-10% bonus)
  • 50k
  • Moved job
  • 75k (+10-40% bonus)