Reply to: Final day rate poll before IR35

[DoctorStrangelove]

Back then in embedded, you needed FPGA, VHDL and suchlike to get £50/hr.

For my pedestrian crap it was £35/hr tops.

I note that more recently rates of £45 - 50/hr seem to be quoted quite often, though again they want the VHDL stuff.

And once you lose all the expenses it's not really worth the effort.

I'm fecked if I'm paying for hotels and mileage out of taxed income.

[Mordac]

Back in the day I never achieved £300/day.

It was even worse if you were hardware.

The joys of embedded software.

20 years ago, £400 was the benchmark in my area, if you had additional skills you might push it up to £600 but that probably involved some quite messy project management. (That wasn't for me - MF will be along shortly to confirm )
Now £300 (usually inside) is a push, so I've scaled back (and I'm not touching agency related roles at all) but I don't think the UK IT industry is benefiting from this new hard regime, and I'm grateful that it's not my problem.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Back in the day I never achieved £300/day.

It was even worse if you were hardware.

The joys of embedded software.

[Paddy]

The categories are all wrong

should be

less than 300
300 to 399
400 to 499
500 to 599

and so on.

or
in £'s

less than 300
300 to 399.99
400 to 499.99
500 to 599.99
600 to ∞

[PCTNN]

The categories are all wrong

should be

less than 300
300 to 399
400 to 499
500 to 599

and so on.

[LondonManc]

what's that?

Like yours but bigger.

[Paddy]

where is >£2000 option?

That is the starting point for barristers

[CheeseSlice]

asking rate, or current rate?

If current rate, you should have a £0 option (benched)

[JohntheBike]

Can tell someone with no background in data designed that poll.

Boundaries should not overlap as anyone charging a day rate on the boundary (I am one of them) has to decide between one of two options and the results will be skewed, probably towards the upper bucket due to male contractors needing to prove they don't have a small winkie.

a small winkie

what's that?

[LondonManc]

where is >£2000 option?

Ask yer mum

[Andy2]

where is >£2000 option?

[BrilloPad]

It did not go high enough for my current rate. So I put my butler's rate instead.

I will give different results for all my sockies.....

[northernladuk]

Can tell someone with no background in data designed that poll.
.

Look who the OP is. The fact he managed to post it all is a win.

[ladymuck]

Can tell someone with no background in data designed that poll.

Boundaries should not overlap as anyone charging a day rate on the boundary (I am one of them) has to decide between one of two options and the results will be skewed, probably towards the upper bucket due to male contractors needing to prove they don't have a small winkie.

[NotAllThere]

Maybe not a good idea to make it a public poll.

Changed it, and modified the final option.