Negotiation
Advice about negotiating compensation
- A people pleaser's guide to salary negotiation
Colleen Lavin's advice on negotiating salary - Let's talk about money
Flora Devlin's excellent advice on salary negotiation - 5 rules of salary negotiation
Glassdoor's tips on salary negotiation - How to negotiate your salary
J. D. Roth shares key advice for negotiating your salary - Exactly what to say when recruiters ask you to name the first number… and other negotiation word-for-words
Aline Lerner shares her expert advice on salary negotation - Why we don’t negotiate salary and neither should you
Bahvin Parikh explains why they don't negotiate salaries with individual employees
Pay transparency
The benefits of being more open about salaries
- My salary history
Jamie Tanna shares his salary history and explains why he and others are doing this. - Why pay transparency Is a good business practice and how to approach it
Jafar Owainati outlines why and how to overcome the barriers to pay transparency. - Making salaries transparent
Colin Howe shares his experience of introducing pay transparency at his company - Open salaries at Buffer
Joel Gascoigne shares Buffer's approach to open salaries - Providing a public salary history page
Jamie Tanner shares his salary history, and explains why he and others are doing this
Salary benchmarking
Be more informed about what people are paid for different roles
- 2025 UK tech and IT salary guide and market trends
Robert Half's guide to salary trends - Salary benchmarks - Jan '25
Oliver Bernard's salary benchmarks to give you a rough idea of salaries across tech roles in the UK - Data-driven salary negotiation
Tara Ojo breaks breaks down her research process for salary negotiaions - The trimodal nature of software engineering salaries in the Netherlands and Europe
Gergely Orosz analyses software engineering salaries - IT Jobs Watch
IT Jobs Watch enables you to search by job title provides information about salaries across their job ads in the UK - Otta salary benchmarking
Otta's benchmarking covers a range of roles in London and seems reasonably accurate
Equity and share options
Some roles include equity, and if you are not familiar with this it is worth finding out more
- Share options explained: essential guide for UK startups
SeedLegals offers guidance on share option schemes in the UK - Equity 101 for software engineers at big tech and startups
If you are offered equity or options as part of your offer then Gergely Orosz's guide is worth a read. Please be aware that rules around tax etc. will be different in each country and so you will need to do some research specific to where you live too.