Reply to: The future of Perm/Contract roles in the City

[No2politics]

I guess it depends on who the client is and how good your negotiations are I work from home 99% of the time, am on the best rate I've ever been on, and have more than enough contact with the people I work with.

Plus 1.

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

I guess it depends on who the client is and how good your negotiations are I work from home 99% of the time, am on the best rate I've ever been on, and have more than enough contact with the people I work with.

lucky for some.

[DirtyDog]

Rates are usually lower, lack of social contact, the implication that you won't work as hard because you're working from home and actually end up working more than if you were office based

But apart from that nothing

I guess it depends on who the client is and how good your negotiations are I work from home 99% of the time, am on the best rate I've ever been on, and have more than enough contact with the people I work with.

[Dallas]

Senior developer roll in city these days is £85k - £115k plus bonus and pension so not too bad most the senior developers at my place are 27 - 30, dev manager your looking at £110k min to about £140k plus bonus 0-25%. Contract rates IMO need to increase in the city, permy £ seems to have gone up but contract rates pretty static.

+1 this is what I see

[amcdonald]

How do you suffer when working from home?

Rates are usually lower, lack of social contact, the implication that you won't work as hard because you're working from home and actually end up working more than if you were office based

But apart from that nothing

[DirtyDog]

It is getting to the stage that work from home gigs are worth suffering with

How do you suffer when working from home?

[MyUserName]

That's one expensive sandwich.

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to doodab again.

Can anyone do the needful for me?

[redgiant]

Well, just watch out for her wings ... and the police.

The Queen already has dibbs on them ... well only the unmarked mute ones according to her official site - http://www.royal.gov.uk/royaleventsa...wanupping.aspx

[doodab]

Senior developer roll in city these days is £85k - £115k

That's one expensive sandwich.

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

Senior developer roll in city these days is £85k - £115k plus bonus and pension so not too bad most the senior developers at my place are 27 - 30, dev manager your looking at £110k min to about £140k plus bonus 0-25%. Contract rates IMO need to increase in the city, permy £ seems to have gone up but contract rates pretty static.

that's not what the emails from recruiting are saying....

[amcdonald]

It is getting to the stage that work from home gigs are worth suffering with

[ELBBUBKUNPS]

Senior developer roll in city these days is £85k - £115k plus bonus and pension so not too bad most the senior developers at my place are 27 - 30, dev manager your looking at £110k min to about £140k plus bonus 0-25%. Contract rates IMO need to increase in the city, permy £ seems to have gone up but contract rates pretty static.

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

60K is rather low for a doctor? A couple of GPs I know are on far more for 3/4 day weeks.
But 60K isn't enough for London, with a family.
He can send his wife out to work or alternatively get social housing (shared ownership and the like)

Currently training to eventually be a surgeon.... Salary will not be above 100k for quite a few years yet.

[sasguru]

So what does that mean for London in the future? I know a few of my friends are looking to move to my area due to the kind of figures you are quoting - a graduate doctor friend of mine on 60k with a family is struggling day to day.

60K is rather low for a doctor? A couple of GPs I know are on far more for 3/4 day weeks.
But 60K isn't enough for London, with a family.
He can send his wife out to work or alternatively get social housing (shared ownership and the like)

[petergriffin]

Birmingham is the place to be:

TECH WAR: Brummies say firms 'lose out' in London's Tech City

Are in Brum? They call the Colmore district the Wharf of the West Midlands. But frankly, it cannot be compared.