I've done contracting in Australia, UK and The Netherlands. Australia and EU are great for contracting. There are some really well paid London software engine

I've done contracting in Australia, UK and The Netherlands. Australia and EU are great for contracting. There are some really well paid London software engineering contracts (often paying higher than EU ones) but most are for big finance firms and they often want people to have a finance background so it's harder to get in. Also from my experience, UK contract recruiters tend to be more picky about having an exact technical skill match. Australian contracts are the easiest to get. Some pay ridiculously well. I did an indefinite rolling contract that paid the AUD equivalent of USD $650 per day, $13K per month. It wasn't particularly challenging either. I later travelled to other countries where software engineers were treated like factory workers so the country definitely matters.