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  • 06-10-2019 1:35pm
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    antimatterx
    Registered Users Posts: 2,668 ✭✭✭


    Hi All,

    What do you think is the current best-paying tech stack in Dublin currently and going forward. I'm a frontend developer right now using HTML, CSS and vanilla Javascript. I have 1-year experience and I'm making 32K.

    I've only been a frontend dev for 4 months, before that I was a backend dev using PHP.

    I'm currently incorporating Node/Express and React into my stack, so I have a stronger hand negotiating in the future?

    Is JS a high paying job here?


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    Anima
    Registered Users Posts: 3,945 ✭✭✭Anima


    https://www.morganmckinley.ie/article/2019-technology-permanent-salary-guide

    Can see the average salaries here based on location.


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    dotsman
    Registered Users Posts: 3,635 ✭✭✭dotsman


    Any half-decent full-stack engineer with solid experience in Spring-boot and Angular can make a fortune right now. Likewise, with DevOps tooling (but that can be difficult as there is such a variety in tech/tools and companies are always stupid about hiring people with the exact tech/tools, rather than let them learn the smaller ones on the job)

    Obviously, you are only a junior with 1-year experience, but if I was you, forget PHP. While there is still some work in it, there are a lot of devs out there with experience. If you want to go down the road of full-stack, you need Spring/.NET along with front-end.

    Or, you could just specialise in front-end, but your need to get decent experience in Angular/React, ideally both (along with the obvious additions -> Node/Bootstrap/SASS/LESS etc. Likewise, it is not just about knowing languages. Understanding UX design/Unit Testing/CI-CD pipelines/Data structures and quality/APIs/Agile/DevOps etc are what distinguishes a junior from a more experienced/quality dev.

    Finally, don't assume you will stay a dev all your career as the market keeps getting flooded with immigrants in a bid to keep salaries down and/or offshoring (even though it always ends up costing at least twice as much for half the quality) and tech trends keep changing. At some stage (hopefully many years from now) you may want to branch off in to architecture/Scrum Master/Project Manager/IT Manager etc, so keep learning as you go and take on as much general project/team-related experience as you can along the way.


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    WhiteMemento9
    Registered Users Posts: 1,573 ✭✭✭WhiteMemento9


    I can see why Angular is such an in demand skill. Not only is it very popular in enterprise applications but it is quite hard with a steep learning curve coupled with the fact to understand and use it well you need an undertsnading across a very diverse range of topics that dotsman covered in the post above. It feels more like you are working in a backend than a frontend when you are using Angular if that make sense.


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