Standards / Rates are slipping

[pmeswani]

Just been contacted by 2 agents for the same role (Security Analyst) citing £170 to £200 p/d. And this is for a London Council. Standards are slipping in a big way.

[DimPrawn]

I was getting £480 pd in London in the 1990's.

I would say anything under £600 pd now in London is a piss take surely?

[pmeswani]

I was getting £480 pd in London in the 1990's.

I would say anything under £600 pd now in London is a piss take surely?

For IT Security work, anything less than £300-£400 is a piss take. But as Councils are cutting back, they are hoping some mug would take any stoopidily low money to work for them.

[AtW]

I was getting £480 pd in London in the 1990's.

[DimPrawn]

It was actually £60 per hour, but I used to work roughly an 8 hour day there.

I worked at Cadbury Schweppes HQ in Berkeley Square for a few years working on a VB6 / SQL Server 7 system.

[AtW]

VB6

[DimPrawn]

It started as a VB5 system, and was upgraded to VB6 during the development.

It was all the rage in 1998!

[swamp]

I had a look on JobServe yesterday and rates are looking low right now.

[AtW]

It started as a VB5 system, and was upgraded to VB6 during the development. It was all the rage in 1998!

I was programming in assembly and C at the time and I earned exactly bugger all for it ...

[sasguru]

I was getting £480 pd in London in the 1990's.

?

You must have been crap.
In the 90s every man and his dog "programming" HTML was on £500 per day