£1000/day is still “just” around £250K/year, and at this daily rate you won’t have it easy as a contractor. Highly paid gigs are not as plentiful, are normally

£1000/day is still “just” around £250K/year, and at this daily rate you won’t have it easy as a contractor. Highly paid gigs are not as plentiful, are normally shorter, and require very active search and sales work. You always need to find your next similar consulting gig quickly once your current one is over — every day of downtime or non-billable work between gigs costs you £1000! In short, parent comment got it wrong, tech in London doesn’t pay you £300-400K/year.