The Ironhack Blog

Let's start with the basics: what is web development? Put simply, web development is the process of building, maintaining, and managing functional websites. This can include everything from designing the visual layout of a site to writing the code that makes it run to ensuring that it's optimized for search engines and mobile devices. If you want to become a web developer, it's important to have a basic understanding of programming languages like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. With back-end development, you can write website code, ensure site functionality, and optimize server operation. With front-end development, you can design page layouts, incorporate graphics, and improve script performance. Or you can even work with both as a Full Stack Developer!

Women continue to be underrepresented in tech, with only a small percentage of women pursuing careers in this field. Despite the fact that women make up half of the workforce, they are still underrepresented in many tech-related fields, including data analytics.

You’ve probably heard about tech salaries and that you can expect to earn a nice salary in the tech field. And while tech salaries vary significantly based on country, you can expect lots of room for growth, flexibility, benefits, and that salary you’ve dreamed of. Are you aware of all these benefits? After we dive into some average UX/UI design salaries in some major European countries, we’ll explore other advantages - like bonuses! - that you can expect from a career in tech. 

You’ll often see us talking about how great the tech industry is (naturally), and we truly believe it is. It’s a place where we see all kinds of people build the careers of their dreams, no matter their background, socio-economic status, demographic, or even personality type. 

Celebrating International Women’s Day, we’ve gathered twelve of London’s biggest female voices in tech. We asked them to share some advice for the next generation of women thinking of getting into tech. Looking at how they started their careers themselves and the challenges they had to face, they talk about their own role models, and even debunk some tech myths. Ready?

“Girls can’t do math!” is something you may have heard at school when you were a child. Unfortunately, the world we live in is built upon long-running beliefs and notions that influence how we think, feel, and act, which can continue into cycles in adulthood and beyond. When we look at companies in STEM, there is a clear disparity between the ratio of men to women. But why? And how can we change it?