See Sam's post in the other thread...

Everyone and their dog these days is a '.net software developer'.

I think I've met so many people recently and been like 'so, what do you do?' - they reply 'oh software development'...

Either they're bullshitting, or the market is saturated with em :lol:

although 1 guy who claimed to be 'software development' - when i quizzed him further, turned out he did nothing really to do with software and just updated some xml files occasionally :lol: :lol: :lol: dick.

[Edited on 07-07-2009 by Paul_J]

i want to be software develpoer, looking to retrain as a mature student :)

All depends on how much time they write off though I suppose (whilst you're all on CS) :lol:

I record my time at £70 an hour, but 15% of my time is regularly written off and the bill becomes a bit unmanageable for clients. I never understand that, might as well just be a little be cheaper in the first place :boggle:

edit - but I'm a building surveyor, not IT.

[Edited on 07-07-2009 by AndyKent]

quite sickening isnt it

We charge $1100 a day for my services and that's just to another part of the same company!

I will consider contracting when I have 5+ years experience and the market has calmed down a bit.

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Originally posted by James
A decent developer with front office banking experience can contract at a rate of about £800 a day.

That works out at about £192,000 a year pre-tax :cool:

Plus contractors pay less tax anyway :look:

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Originally posted by Paul_J
I work at a rate of £850 + vat a day.

However, I don't keep it :lol: it goes in my companies bank :( boo.

Time to become freelance contractor :lol:

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I work at a rate of £850 + vat a day.

However, I don't keep it :lol: it goes in my companies bank :( boo.

Time to become freelance contractor :lol:

A decent developer with front office banking experience can contract at a rate of about £800 a day.

That works out at about £192,000 a year pre-tax :cool:

Plus contractors pay less tax anyway :look:

what do they do / earn Dom?

Shame i didn't go into the software developer industry like my old man and brother as the wages are incredible :cool:

I masquerade as a PHP Web Dev for a living. I've done a fair bit of C#/.Net too and I'm thinking thats definately the way forward.

Amiga 500 with dot matrix printer.

Meeeeeeee!

Delphi, Delphi.Net, C#.Net, PHP, ASP, MSSQL..

I work in the transport industry and have done for the last 10 years..

.Net developer with SQL Server. In Finance based software targetting small to mid sized businesses.

Web design/development - usual PHP/MySQL/Javascript etc.

Used to do some VB back in the day so I suppose I could do ASP/.NET if I really had to.

Uhm, used to work as a web developer but I was the back-end guy writing PHP and MySQL. I know VB quite well too, but nothing advanced.

Just wondering how many people on here actually work as a developer.

If so, what technologies do you use and what industry are you in?

I'm a .Net developer with SQL Server and I currently work in Investment Banking.