Re:Salaries in the UK (Score 1)

"The weird thing is that people in the electronics/embedded market seem to earn far less than people working for banks doing straightforward VB SQL stuff. Realtime control work always strikes me as the hardest thing in software, so how come Database developers get payed so much more?"

Simply put, it's because your pay is ultimately based on the (potential) business value of what you do. Difficult things do not necessarily mean they're worth a lot on the market.

Beis