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> I'm sure many in London would be intrigued where all the typical full-time software engineer salaries of £62k-£78k are to be had ;-) Maybe I talk to the wrong

> I'm sure many in London would be intrigued where all the typical full-time software engineer salaries of £62k-£78k are to be had ;-) Maybe I talk to the wrong people or we're just more secretive in the UK but it's not often I hear salaries like that being thrown about. In London there are definitely a fair amount of people making £100k+ writing software, and outside of finance. The key difference is they are on the contract market. There seems to be a ceiling on perm salaries even if someone is worth the money.

elemeno 14y ago
That's likely because salaries are also linked to how much everyone else in a company is making as well so it's hard for someone to be paid a lot more than other people at the same level in a company. Contractors can be budgeted differently though being something closer to a pure transaction of "you write me this, I pay you this much". Very curious about these well paying non-finance contracts though - I've been thinking about leaving the financial world, but so far the salary differentials have been stopping me. I've not worked outside of finance, so appropriate places to find those type of contracts is an unknown to me.
- porlw 14y ago
  For an example of non-finance related rates, general Oracle contracts start at around 400UKP per day. I work with Oracle Retail (Merchandise ERP), which commands 500UKP plus.