What counts as a good (daily) rate these days?

[EddieNambulous]

Some people are dreaming if they think 400 - 500 pounds a day is a 'good rate' in the current market.

Unless you're in central london, I'd say that was a ******* good rate in the current climate.

I'm doing around that for .NET in London (but not central).

[DocP]

Offshore rates are around £120 a day for MOSS.

[cojak]

Depends where you are looking I suppose - UK or Bangalore ?

and what field you'er looking at...

[swamp]

Some people are dreaming if they think 400 - 500 pounds a day is a 'good rate' in the current market.

Unless you're in central london, I'd say that was a ******* good rate in the current climate.

I'm getting a 'good rate' in central London but I'm bored and I'm thinking of looking for a new gig. Is this a good idea? Is it easy to get £500 a day? I'm not in finance BTW.

[EddieNambulous]

I'm getting a 'good rate' in central London but I'm bored and I'm thinking of looking for a new gig. Is this a good idea?

You may get rather more than bored sitting at home without an income.

Seems like rates are reasonable for those that can get gigs but I personally don't think getting gigs at the present time/economy could be called "easy".

[Belle]

Saw a Test Manager role advertised today for £750 a day. Cripes. Of course your mother had to have worked in Investment Banking whilst pregnant with you, your father and all his cousins must have Security Clearance and preferably your children should be well versed in the Prince2 methodology.

[nomadd]

I don't see 500 when times are good.

In the current market 200 would be about the going rate for what I do

tim

Jeezus - learn some different skills man

When "times were good" I was hitting £1k+ per day, as were many of my fellow contractors. Best I ever achieved was £1.2k. If you weren't even hitting £500 in the "good old days", then you might have been better off going permie.

The problem is, it's a bit of a daft market at the moment. I've just taken a call for a WAS6.1 specialist, Central London based. Quoted rate was £350. I just laughed and tried to put the phone down on the girl. She insisted on talking, and five minutes later put the cv forward to the client at £500. Now, having read most of the posts on this forum, that seems to be a regular occurrence these days.

I think rates are all over the place, but nowhere near as bad as people make out - and I certainly wouldn't be entertaining roles like you where a "good" rate is classified at £200. I'd be better of permie (and of course as a permie I wouldn't have to "work" for a living! )

Nomadd

[Stolly]

Jeezus - learn some different skills man

When "times were good" I was hitting £1k+ per day, as were many of my fellow contractors. Best I ever achieved was £1.2k. If you weren't even hitting £500 in the "good old days", then you might have been better off going permie.

The problem is, it's a bit of a daft market at the moment. I've just taken a call for a WAS6.1 specialist, Central London based. Quoted rate was £350. I just laughed and tried to put the phone down on the girl. She insisted on talking, and five minutes later put the cv forward to the client at £500. Now, having read most of the posts on this forum, that seems to be a regular occurrence these days.

I think rates are all over the place, but nowhere near as bad as people make out - and I certainly wouldn't be entertaining roles like you where a "good" rate is classified at £200. I'd be better of permie (and of course as a permie I wouldn't have to "work" for a living! )

Nomadd

I don't know what his skillset is, but if its worth £200 per day contracting why do you think he'd be better off permie given that his skillset probably is paying less than £30k a year.

[nomadd]

I don't know what his skillset is, but if its worth £200 per day contracting why do you think he'd be better off permie given that his skillset probably is paying less than £30k a year.

...because he might just get that £30k salary. Plus paid holidays, pension, some free retraining, chance of career progression, etc., etc. And not have all the normal contractor hassles. I wouldn't contract for £200 a day - just not worth it for the heartache involved. But hey, that's just me. Each to his own, I guess.

Nomadd

[digerido]

I've heard about these rates, £500 £600 even £700 + per day. Can people honestly earn this amount?

For the past 10 years I have had to constantly re train, pass exams and gain the qualifications just to get the £250 £300 per day Infrastructure jobs, if I'm lucky

Someone enlighten me please what roles command such rates?

Jeezus - learn some different skills man

When "times were good" I was hitting £1k+ per day, as were many of my fellow contractors. Best I ever achieved was £1.2k. If you weren't even hitting £500 in the "good old days", then you might have been better off going permie.

The problem is, it's a bit of a daft market at the moment. I've just taken a call for a WAS6.1 specialist, Central London based. Quoted rate was £350. I just laughed and tried to put the phone down on the girl. She insisted on talking, and five minutes later put the cv forward to the client at £500. Now, having read most of the posts on this forum, that seems to be a regular occurrence these days.

I think rates are all over the place, but nowhere near as bad as people make out - and I certainly wouldn't be entertaining roles like you where a "good" rate is classified at £200. I'd be better of permie (and of course as a permie I wouldn't have to "work" for a living! )

Nomadd