Highest day rate you have ever seen for your skillset.

[WTFH]

I would have thought it was obvious - it's the current market rate for a contract project manager in finance

Either it answers his age-old question of what is the equivalent annual salary to a day rate - the answer being it's what the market supports for that particular role - or he's picked two numbers at random neither of which reflect his actual salary or dreamt-of day rate.

[PCTNN]

As a project manager in finance working five days in the office 8AM -> 6PM perm salaries are 120K with a 3% pension contribution. Bonus is +5%. A comparable contractor amount is 700 per day

Those are my numbers - Kind enough to share yours ?

a finance company only offering a 3% pension contribution and 5% bonus? Who are those peasants?

[ChimpMaster]

Highest advertised for my (now mostly dead) skillset was £750/day. When I got the offer it was at £650/day due to the usual agency shenanigans. Now this was in 2004 so was a lot of money to me even coming off a £70k permie job.

Highest I ever charged was on a contract I won at £650/day and worked up to £1k/day.

Now I'm a poor permie on £85k but thinking of going back contracting as a general solutions/integration analyst. £500/day will be fine for me now.

[hungry_hog]

Someone on 900 a day (outside) at one of the large Banks - BA with SME knowledge of reg
Most of the other BAs on 550 ish

[d000hg]

Just post which is the highest regardless of situation so they can jack off to it.

For someone who complains an awful lot about people posting guff here, you post an awful lot of guff yourself. Nobody needs your irritating complaints every second post that you don't like the topic. Post it once then **** off, or just restrain your impulse to share your opinion.

Professional forum, stop arguing with people and bullying them. We're adults, we don't need a vigilante mod-wannabe.

[Six It]

I work offshore O&G - best i have seen for my role was £950/day (UK equiv as it was in USD) - currently its more like £800 outside UK and £700/day inside UK waters (outside IR35 is getting harder to find but transport, food and accommodation is always provided when "at sea").

[Burns]

I'm a SQL Consultant. Just leaving permiedom where we were paying a UK agency circa £1k/day and a polish consultancy £500/day although no idea what the actual contractors were getting out of that.

Current contract comes out just over £900/day direct with a US client which is pretty good for a SQL bod I think.

[jamesbrown]

Current contract comes out just over £900/day direct with a US client which is pretty good for a SQL bod I think.

In general, US rates are much higher than UK rates (quite apart from GBP being relatively weak, which makes them even higher in GBP).

[Burns]

In general, US rates are much higher than UK rates (quite apart from GBP being relatively weak, which makes them even higher in GBP).

Yeah, agreed. It wasn't an accident that I looked for a US gig.

[jamesbrown]

Yeah, agreed. It wasn't an accident that I looked for a US gig.

Absolutely. I focus on the US and Canada now for the same reason, plus the work tends to be interesting (not in IT, but the same applies across industries AFAICT).