These are the salaries you could command in financial technology
Financial technologists have enjoyed salary rises over the last 12 months as increased demand and counter-offers drove up pay. As we've mentioned previously, though, this hasn't necessarily amounted to more overall compensation because of shrinking bonuses.
But among an general increase in base pay, it seems that developers - particularly those with C++ skills - have enjoyed the largest rise, as the figures from Robert Walters' latest salary survey below show, with a 20k uplift on last year at the senior end.
Why is this? Adam Pizzie, manager - IT at Robert Walters, says it's down to a combination of increased demand for their services, reduced bonus potential, counter-offers and a dwindling supply of talent.
"Development staff in financial services generally saw an uptick in demand, across Java, C# and C++," he says. "But the fact that a number of people who would have previously considered themselves C++ developers have switch across to other programming languages has left something of a shortfall."
Below is the breakdown of what salary Robert Walters suggests you should be earning in financial IT:
