My Salary History
As discussed in the blog post announcing this page, this is the history of my salary and compensation changes, including bonuses.
You may also be interested in reading my post Lessons learned since posting my salary history publicly.
I've broken this down into the:
- Updated salary amounts
- Bonus amounts
- Stock amounts
- Increments themselves that make up a salary increase
It may be worth looking at my CV to see what work was required as part of the different roles.
You can also see the on-call payment details on my my on-call compensation history page.
| Date | Amount (£) | Description | Company | Level | Location | Role |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-01 | 105500 | Updated Salary | Elastic | C6 | Remote | Senior Software Engineer |
| 2024-12-27 | 500 | October Engineering Monthly Award Recognition | Elastic | C6 | ||
| 2024-12-06 | 90000 ($) | Stock | Elastic | C6 | ||
| 2024-05-01 | 101400 | Updated Salary | Elastic | C6 | Remote | Senior Software Engineer |
| 2023-08-14 | 99000.00 | Hiring Salary | Elastic | C6 | Remote | Senior Software Engineer |
| 122000 ($) | Stock | Elastic | C6 | |||
| 2023-04-01 | 94500.00 | Updated salary | Deliveroo | L5 | Remote | Senior Software Engineer |
| 5000.00 | Corporate bonus | Deliveroo | L5 | Remote | ||
| 2022-04-25 | 90000.00 (Note that 1 year later, L5 promotions/new hires are starting at 81000) | Hiring salary | Deliveroo | L5 | Remote | Senior Software Engineer |
| 9000.00 | Starting bonus | Deliveroo | L5 | Remote | ||
| 21400 | Stock | Deliveroo | L5 | Remote | ||
| 2021-10-18 | 69000.00 | Hiring salary | The Cabinet Office | Grade 7 | London | Tech Lead - Senior Software Engineer |
| 54700.00 | Base salary | The Cabinet Office | Grade 7 | London | ||
| 14300.00 | DDAT allowance | The Cabinet Office | Grade 7 | London | ||
| 2021-09-13 | 62370.00 | Updated salary | Capital One | Principal Associate | Nottingham | Tech Lead - Senior Software Engineer |
| 5670.00 | Competitive increase | Capital One | Principal Associate | Nottingham | ||
| 2021-07-25 | 56700.00 | Updated salary | Capital One | Principal Associate | Nottingham | |
| 1530.90 | Competitive increase | Capital One | Principal Associate | Nottingham | ||
| 2021-02-07 | 2215.57 | Corporate bonus | Capital One | Principal Associate | Nottingham | |
| 4185.25 | Corporate bonus | Capital One | Principal Associate | Nottingham | ||
| 55169.10 | Updated salary | Capital One | Principal Associate | Nottingham | ||
| 2627.10 | Competitive increase | Capital One | Principal Associate | Nottingham | ||
| 2020-07-26 | 52542.00 | Updated salary | Capital One | Principal Associate | Nottingham | |
| 5629.50 | Promotion - top-up to start of next band | Capital One | Principal Associate | Nottingham | Senior Engineer within a team, supporting the Tech Lead | |
| 2020-01-26 | 46912.50 | Updated salary | Capital One | Senior Associate | Nottingham | Mid-level Software Engineer, stretching into Senior Engineer responsibilities |
| 1912.50 | Merit increase | Capital One | Senior Associate | Nottingham | ||
| 5550.00 | Corporate bonus | Capital One | Senior Associate | Nottingham | ||
| 2019-01-27 | 45000.00 | Updated salary | Capital One | Senior Associate | Nottingham | |
| 1416.46 | Merit | Capital One | Senior Associate | Nottingham | ||
| 1583.54 | Competitive increase | Capital One | Senior Associate | Nottingham | ||
| 2019-01-27 | 3426.30 | Corporate bonus | Capital One | Senior Associate | Nottingham | |
| 399.45 | Corporate bonus | Capital One | Senior Associate | Nottingham | ||
| 2018-01-28 | 42000.00 | Updated salary | Capital One | Senior Associate | Nottingham | Mid-level Software Engineer, coaching junior engineers |
| 148.00 | Promotion - top-up to start of next band | Capital One | Senior Associate | Nottingham | ||
| 5794.91 | Merit | Capital One | Senior Associate | Nottingham | ||
| 3863.27 | Competitive increase? | Capital One | Senior Associate | Nottingham | ||
| 2017-01-29 | 32193.92 | Updated salary | Capital One | Associate | Nottingham | |
| 193.92 | Merit increase | Capital One | Associate | Nottingham | ||
| 2017-01-29 | 800.00 | Corporate bonus | Capital One | Associate | Nottingham | |
| 2016-09-12 | 32000.00 | Starting salary | Capital One | Associate | Nottingham | Graduate Software Engineer |
| 5000.00 | Starting bonus | Capital One | Associate | Nottingham | ||
| 2014-07-01 | 14500.00 | Starting salary | Intel | Placement Year Student | Reading | Placement Year Student - Appication Engineer |
Other excellent people sharing their own salary histories:
- Carol Gomez-Gilabert
- Josh Ghent
- Kristófer Reykjalín
- Matt Brunt
- Tom Withers
- Waleed Khan
- Xe Iaso
- Alastair Hey
- Charles Collicutt
- Gus Hogg-Blake
- Matthew Sanabria
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