More really is less.......

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

Not necessarily. The correlation coefficient between cost and skill is not massively high Blagging and selling yourself affect rates perhaps as much as skill especially if clients don't really evaluate you - they see you charged £600/day at your last contract and assume that means you're a £600/day kind of guy

That is true, but usually the kind of places that pay that amount of money expect value for money. So provided your next place is clued up it will do some proper referencing and find out if they go their money's worth (currently waiting for a contract to come through which required 5 years of references!)