Hi,
I'm on my first contract and I'd been out of work for around 9 months, 6 months on a different non IT project and then 3 months looking for an IT contract when plan A went tits up. I was pretty desperate and I only want to work in a specific area, Shropshire. So I took a support role for £13/h. The support role turned out to be a project management role which extended into a software engineering role and extended again into 2nd/3rd line support role. I've now been in this role for about 4 months got my bank balance back to the right side of zero and now I looking at the rate and thinking OMFGG!
I signed the contract tho so nobody to blame but myself. The pimp is saying he might now be able to get me on a contract paying £18/h. Ok its support, desktop and server but £18! Now you guys and girls have been around the block more times than I, so I might have limited contractor expeience but loads of real world experience so what sort of rate would you be asking for?
I'm on my first contract and I'd been out of work for around 9 months, 6 months on a different non IT project and then 3 months looking for an IT contract when plan A went tits up. I was pretty desperate and I only want to work in a specific area, Shropshire. So I took a support role for £13/h. The support role turned out to be a project management role which extended into a software engineering role and extended again into 2nd/3rd line support role. I've now been in this role for about 4 months got my bank balance back to the right side of zero and now I looking at the rate and thinking OMFGG!
I signed the contract tho so nobody to blame but myself. The pimp is saying he might now be able to get me on a contract paying £18/h. Ok its support, desktop and server but £18! Now you guys and girls have been around the block more times than I, so I might have limited contractor expeience but loads of real world experience so what sort of rate would you be asking for?
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