The State of the Market

[BlasterBates]

Please note, due to the volume of applications, we are unable to contact all applicants personally. If you haven't heard from us within 7 days of application, please assume that you have been unsuccessful.

Location London
Country England
Start Date ASAP
Duration 6 months
Rate £350-£365/Day

[BolshieBastard]

I can guarantee there's no job and even if there is, it wont be paying £350 pd!

[AtW]

UK average salary is £24k, let's say £27k total employment cost including employer NI: £350 per day x 20 days per month x 11 months = £77k: 3 times national average and if you take into account disposable income that can be potentially left after unavoidable living costs then the difference might well be 10 times or even more.

[swamp]

Not sure what your point is: a) Agents not informing unsuccessful applicants, or b) £365 a day in London.

a) Has always happened.
b) No idea whether £365 is low because we don't know what the contract is. But £365 beats watching Trisha, if that's your only option.

[TykeMerc]

No mention of what the role is, skillset or industry. It's a stellar rate for first/second line helpdesk support.

[TheRefactornator]

I'll take that for .NET/C# development. I've got 12 years in and it would be working away from home but in my opinion that's not a bad rate at all..more would be better of course but surely anyone can live on that??

[Francko]

UK average salary is £24k, let's say £27k total employment cost including employer NI: £350 per day x 20 days per month x 11 months = £77k: 3 times national average and if you take into account disposable income that can be potentially left after unavoidable living costs then the difference might well be 10 times or even more.

"UK average salary is £24k".

Average does not mean median. Hard working people like many on here are on 75-100k and over. People like you are near 0, that's why the average is 24k; because it includes many you and a lot of chavs on the dole. That does not mean that 24k is a "median" salary (perhaps for toilet cleaners).

[minestrone]

"UK average salary is £24k".

Average does not mean median. Hard working people like many on here are on 75-100k and over. People like you are near 0, that's why the average is 24k; because it includes many you and a lot of chavs on the dole. That does not mean that 24k is a "median" salary (perhaps for toilet cleaners).

My salary is 4k and I doubt anyone on here has a salary above 10k.

[HairyArsedBloke]

My salary is 4k and I doubt anyone on here has a salary above 10k.

If Hector is watching, I earn nothing whatsoever.

[AtW]

"UK average salary is £24k".

Average does not mean median. Hard working people like many on here are on 75-100k and over. People like you are near 0, that's why the average is 24k; because it includes many you and a lot of chavs on the dole. That does not mean that 24k is a "median" salary (perhaps for toilet cleaners).

Nice try but no cigar my italian comrade:

"The results of the 2008 ASHE show that median weekly pay for full-time employees in the UK grew by 4.6 per cent in the year to April 2008 to reach £479. Median earnings of full-time male employees was £521 per week in April 2008; for women the median was £412."

£479 x 52 weeks = ... £24,908.

"The top 10 per cent of the earnings distribution earned more than £946 per week, while the bottom 10 per cent earned less than £262. Between April 2007 and April 2008 the distribution of gross weekly pay widened, with a 3.5 per cent increase at the bottom decile, and a 4.4 per cent increase at the top decile."

Meaning, that 90% earned less than £946 per week or £50k.

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=285

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So, even at contractor rate with 11 months of work that rate would put one into top 10% earners in the UK, probably top 5% actually, which means if you whine about this rate you have no touch with reality whatsoever.

My salary for last FY was £6k, SKA ate the rest...