Not that I don't believe him but....

[Sockpuppet]

Was talking to a mate the other day who said that "for the right contracts" a PHP / Smarty, Database (abstraction layers) and AJAX developer can earn £300/day.

A quick look doesnt reveal anything around those fiqures. Most I can find is £200 (£26/hour) yeah there are £400 plus contracts but also require ASP .NET / C++ exp.

Anyone?

[bogeyman]

Was talking to a mate the other day who said that "for the right contracts" a PHP / Smarty, Database (abstraction layers) and AJAX developer can earn £300/day.

A quick look doesnt reveal anything around those fiqures. Most I can find is £200 (£26/hour) yeah there are £400 plus contracts but also require ASP .NET / C++ exp.

Anyone?

My dear boy.

Some of us have made a point of not getting out of bed for less than £600 per day.

C++ and ASP.NET are not exactly rare skills, are they?

The rare (and profitable) skills are mainframe ones e.g. (OS/3x0, MVS, VM, VSE) sysprog.

Sadly, there are too few places where these skills are required as the current incumbants have long since decided to stick with it.

[Sockpuppet]

C++ and ASP.NET are not exactly rare skills, are they?

I dunno

I design warehouses and transport solutions - know very little about how common languages are. Ask me what the cheapest port in the adriatic sea is for 40ft ISO containers or what "add blue" really is and why it needs to be in lorry engines that are not fitted with an EGR valve then we're talking

(the answers are Kopper, Slovenia and so that the engine complies to Euro 5 standards )

Ok, enough of being a smart arse.

I was asking as if you can get £300/day as a general IT monkey (PHP & Smarty, Databases are not rocket science) I was thinking of learning AJAX and keeping it as a substitute for grey sheds should I ever need it.

[GeorgeGregan]

I dunno

(the answers are Kopper, Slovenia and so that the engine complies to Euro 5 standards )

You ought to write a book on warehouse and transport solutions for dummies.

[Sockpuppet]

Dont laugh....when I started at my last place I went into the kick off meeting with a copy of this under my arm... linky

Broke the ice fairly well.

[darmstadt]

The rare (and profitable) skills are mainframe ones e.g. (OS/3x0, MVS, VM, VSE) sysprog.

There's still plenty of them, you just got to look for them plus quite a few of them are called administrators nowadays (weird I know but my last big sysprog gig was pure sysprog but I was an administrator!)