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Some facts on the agency's and the customer's prices:
Case1:
Me: 65,- p.h.
Agency 78,- p.h. to customer (a personell department)
internal personell dep. to final department 89,- p.h.
EIGHTYNINE EUROS! ... and the final department "sells" the costs for development together with the ready product...
Here in germany, I cannot observe any change in rates so far. All offers still stay at the same level. But I also do not see any rising, such as in the past two years. Seems the top has been reached.
my english should be good enough, whereby it might be improved, of course.
Hm, embedded programming had been a subject with decreasing meaning in recent years in my CV.
When you work for and bill to your local UK service provider, you will pay of course UK VAT.
If you bill directly to Germany, you can leave away any VAT if you own a european VAT number, where I am not 100% sure if this is realy required, since I used to work for austria already, and billed...
(reply to comlpete paragraph of OP) :
Typical behaviuor of either agent or customer. They sort you into the queue and try find somebody cheaper oder better skilled. I always work with a 2-day timeout: If I have no "yes" i consider the project to be lost. Saves time.
Beofer doing so, there has...