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

[FarmerPalmer]

C/C++ with embedded, linux, unix and windows, and over 20 years
2008: £320 per day
2009: £240 per day
but its better than £0 per day

and yes I've had a permie job paying more than this

[utrinqueparatus]

I just took a 3rd line role for 170 a day and now found out the agent is taking 295 a day... The Bloody Cheek!!!!!!

[SuperZ]

C/C++ with embedded, linux, unix and windows, and over 20 years
2008: £320 per day
2009: £240 per day
but its better than £0 per day

and yes I've had a permie job paying more than this

£240, that`s less than my newbie contractor rate back in July 2003 as a teaboy......

[BlightyBoy]

My rate is over Euros 500 p/d and given the current exchange rate, that's probably over 500 quid.

Mind you, I'm not in the UK so that probably doesn't help.

[RichardCranium]

I just took a 3rd line role for 170 a day and now found out the agent is taking 295 a day... The Bloody Cheek!!!!!!

Agent gets £125 = 73.5% markup = 42.4% margin

That's outrageous on your rate.

Are you 100% sure the figure you've been given isn't from a permie trying to wind you up? (I might have done so when I was permie.)

Is the VAT included on one, but not the other? (Although that would still make it 33.8% markup)

You definitely need to be looking at a big rate increase on renewal.

[utrinqueparatus]

Put it this way the rate the clientco are paying is as certain as if i saw it with my own eyes... (shhh i did )

Yeah tell me about it, It will definitely be an increase my rate or I walk moment

[moromou]

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?

I am on £700 / day.
I have a Master in Financial Engineering.
And work on implementing pricing models in Interest Rate derivatives.

[ChimpMaster]

I am on £700 / day.
I have a Master in Financial Engineering.
And work on implementing pricing models in Interest Rate derivatives.

So you signed-up and dug out a 10 month old thread just to tell us that?

Anyway I've only got a BSc but my rate is higher than yours. So there

[cojak]

Suggestions?

30% than 2007...