The going rate
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I am just wondering if anyone can tell me what the usual rate of pay is for a windows devloper in the UK. I need per-hour figures for both working over the christmas and otherwise in a consultancy role. The project involves both MFC and control of industrial machinery. Any ballpark figures which will help me in negotiating a reasonable pay package would be much appreciated. Joel Holdsworth "Outlook not so good" That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next
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I am just wondering if anyone can tell me what the usual rate of pay is for a windows devloper in the UK. I need per-hour figures for both working over the christmas and otherwise in a consultancy role. The project involves both MFC and control of industrial machinery. Any ballpark figures which will help me in negotiating a reasonable pay package would be much appreciated. Joel Holdsworth "Outlook not so good" That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next
When I was looking at contracting a few years ago a good starting point was around £35/hr, but I heard of rates between £20/hr (not good) and £50/hr (yes please!). I don't know what it is now though. Consultancy tends to be a daily rate. I'd reckon between £500 and £2000, but you're going to have to seriously deliver the goods at £2000 a day!
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I am just wondering if anyone can tell me what the usual rate of pay is for a windows devloper in the UK. I need per-hour figures for both working over the christmas and otherwise in a consultancy role. The project involves both MFC and control of industrial machinery. Any ballpark figures which will help me in negotiating a reasonable pay package would be much appreciated. Joel Holdsworth "Outlook not so good" That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next
I don't know about consultancy specifically, but JobStats[^] may be worth a visit. It isn't the prettiest of sites, but there's a lot of browsable statistics. Gavin Greig "Haw, you're no deid," girned Charon. "Get aff ma boat or ah'll report ye." Matthew Fitt - The Hoose O Haivers: The Twelve Trauchles O Heracles.
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I am just wondering if anyone can tell me what the usual rate of pay is for a windows devloper in the UK. I need per-hour figures for both working over the christmas and otherwise in a consultancy role. The project involves both MFC and control of industrial machinery. Any ballpark figures which will help me in negotiating a reasonable pay package would be much appreciated. Joel Holdsworth "Outlook not so good" That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next
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When I was looking at contracting a few years ago a good starting point was around £35/hr, but I heard of rates between £20/hr (not good) and £50/hr (yes please!). I don't know what it is now though. Consultancy tends to be a daily rate. I'd reckon between £500 and £2000, but you're going to have to seriously deliver the goods at £2000 a day!
Ok, thanks. The reason I ask is because I'm a student. There's a long history here, and there are some threads from about six months that talk about the problems I was having. Basically I was working for around £80 per day writing 40,000 lines of code over the summer for a customer called Dorman Long[^] - who specialise in lifting large pieces of buildings. Unfortunatly the project was badly mismanaged, so I never got a chance to test the software with real hardware before returning to Uni. Inevitably there were bugs in the software, and this is my boss asking me to spend the christmas break of 2 weeks working on the project. I _really_ don't want to work this christmas, but he really has no choice but to employ me - he doesn't get payed if it's not fixed by 2nd January. I'm usually overly reasonable when it comes to these things, but because I don't want to work for him, I intend to be sterner about my rate of pay - remuneration to reflect inconvenience, rather than extortion! Do you (or anyone else) have any further wisdom on the subject? Joel Holdsworth "Outlook not so good" That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next
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Ok, thanks. The reason I ask is because I'm a student. There's a long history here, and there are some threads from about six months that talk about the problems I was having. Basically I was working for around £80 per day writing 40,000 lines of code over the summer for a customer called Dorman Long[^] - who specialise in lifting large pieces of buildings. Unfortunatly the project was badly mismanaged, so I never got a chance to test the software with real hardware before returning to Uni. Inevitably there were bugs in the software, and this is my boss asking me to spend the christmas break of 2 weeks working on the project. I _really_ don't want to work this christmas, but he really has no choice but to employ me - he doesn't get payed if it's not fixed by 2nd January. I'm usually overly reasonable when it comes to these things, but because I don't want to work for him, I intend to be sterner about my rate of pay - remuneration to reflect inconvenience, rather than extortion! Do you (or anyone else) have any further wisdom on the subject? Joel Holdsworth "Outlook not so good" That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next
Well, given your history with the company you could treat it like overtime and up your rate to time and a half or double time.
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Well, given your history with the company you could treat it like overtime and up your rate to time and a half or double time.
Hmm, that's a sensible idea. Now I just have to negotiate this thing. Brian, my boss, being a classic Type A personality can be a real struggle to deal with (considering I'm a complete Type B). Joel Holdsworth "Outlook not so good" That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next