Your Best Rate And Year

[rocktronAMP]

780 p/d for a leading software company around 10 years ago or arguably £690 offshore for 4 years, lower rate, but zero tax.

Now working for the NHS for £275 INSIDE IR35 , during Covid - going to heaven and also paying what I "got away with" during the offshore years

I am jealous of all of these bold figures in this thread.

My best contract rates were 2019 and just shy of £600 per day on a couple 6 monthers and, now, because of the pending IR35 in the private sector, I accepted a fixed term contract that translates to roughly to £400 per day.

(I spent 3 months on the bench in the winter and managed to get in the door just before the "lockdown" )

Tulip!

[Scoobos]

780 p/d for a leading software company around 10 years ago or arguably £690 offshore for 4 years, lower rate, but zero tax.

Now working for the NHS for £275 INSIDE IR35 , during Covid - going to heaven and also paying what I "got away with" during the offshore years

[VillageContractor]

£800 at the beginning of 2020 - then I got canned because of Covid.

[BigLadFromBeeston666]

Best year: 2019 / beginning of 2020
Rate: £850 p/d with some weekend work

Worked like an absolute slave for that. Now on a much more humble £500 p/d with extension offered until December 31st.

It's not as much dough, but the work / life balance is good. Also gotta take what you can get nowadays.

[vwdan]

Ironically my best rate was this year, before COVID where I was earning near enough double my average. No idea of my best year - I sincerely don't measure it financially. Most fun year is easy - 2014. Lots of really interesting work, had a retainer with one client and just generally a good laugh.

[BR14]

1/1/99 three days doing feck all.
12 hour dayshifts @£200 PH.
crazy.

[tranceporter]

Steadily gone up in day rate since I started in 2011. From £275 to £650 now. Mostly contracts around the M4 corridor and now in Swindon. This is my first contract where I am working in Cloud IAAS automation (terraform et al) deploying enterprise wide shared services in AWS and Azure. Quite different to my previous .NET Core/Angular full stack dev contracts. Have been in back to back contracts since I started with the exception of dec-feb 2012 when I was on bench. Looking to get some AWS architect certs done if time permits. In a SOW contract now, so a bit different to the day rate concept, but Outside IR35.

[hungry_hog]

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On a serious note, my best was because of the way they multiplied. Day was pretty good anyway for what I do £500.

First day, we want people to work 7pm to 7pm. Feck. No way that £500 is looking good now. Then they said they want some to work nights 7-7. What! Then saturdays and sundays too. There was almost a riot as you can imagine.

BUT they offered 1.5x for the 12 hours. OK. 1.5 times if it was a night shift. Then 2.0 if it was sat-sun. All cumulative. Worked out 1.5x1.5x2.0 if you worked a friday, saturday or sunday night. So 4.5x normal rate. That was good.

Best thing was you did bugger all in the night. They a gym and xbox, free food and most people had a kip.

That sounds like the dream

One of our DBAs had a similar contract at a Bank. He was paid to 'keep an eye on things' over the weekend (remote) on silly money, he ended up doing property refurbishment at the same time. Made a pretty penny from both.

[jamesbrown]

Best gigs have been fixed price ones (also the worst ). Best turnover was last year, but probably the least enjoyable year too.

[psychocandy]

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On a serious note, my best was because of the way they multiplied. Day was pretty good anyway for what I do £500.

First day, we want people to work 7pm to 7pm. Feck. No way that £500 is looking good now. Then they said they want some to work nights 7-7. What! Then saturdays and sundays too. There was almost a riot as you can imagine.

BUT they offered 1.5x for the 12 hours. OK. 1.5 times if it was a night shift. Then 2.0 if it was sat-sun. All cumulative. Worked out 1.5x1.5x2.0 if you worked a friday, saturday or sunday night. So 4.5x normal rate. That was good.

Best thing was you did bugger all in the night. They a gym and xbox, free food and most people had a kip.