I've been exclusively contract my entire (15 year+) career. Contractors tend to be money oriented. The simple answer is, pay more. As a Senior/Lead software en

I've been exclusively contract my entire (15 year+) career. Contractors tend to be money oriented. The simple answer is, pay more. As a Senior/Lead software engineer, I get paid more contract, for the same work and there's no shortage of it. That's the market reality (in the UK at least). If a perm position matched what I was making as a contractor, I'd consider it. The hit to the wallet is too great to consider anything else. If I went perm i'd be looking at a 50% pay decrease after taxes in real-terms.