I have seen one interesting thing with this regard: in London, the same companies eraised about £20000 in the base salary for the high level professionals for the same roles and positions (architects, sr. managers and so on)

I even know a financial company that openly said it would fier its own staff to hire unemployed specialists in the market or hire back for reasonable salaries

I think, we have to wait a little when employers understand via their pockets that the baby boomer era is over ...