James
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Registered: 1st Jun 02
Location: Surrey
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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.
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xa0s
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Registered: 4th Mar 08
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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.
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Sam
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Registered: 24th Dec 99
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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.
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Paul_J
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Registered: 6th Jun 02
Location: London
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.Net developer with SQL Server. In Finance based software targetting small to mid sized businesses.
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DaveyLC
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Registered: 8th Oct 08
Location: Berkshire
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Meeeeeeee!
Delphi, Delphi.Net, C#.Net, PHP, ASP, MSSQL..
I work in the transport industry and have done for the last 10 years..
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Ojc
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Registered: 14th Nov 00
Location: Reading: Drives : Clio 197
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Amiga 500 with dot matrix printer.
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Laney
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Registered: 6th May 03
Location: Leeds
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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.
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Dom
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Shame i didn't go into the software developer industry like my old man and brother as the wages are incredible 
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Paul_J
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Registered: 6th Jun 02
Location: London
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what do they do / earn Dom?
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James
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Registered: 1st Jun 02
Location: Surrey
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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
Plus contractors pay less tax anyway 
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Paul_J
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Registered: 6th Jun 02
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I work at a rate of £850 + vat a day.
However, I don't keep it  it goes in my companies bank  boo.
Time to become freelance contractor
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Sam
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Registered: 24th Dec 99
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quote:
Originally posted by Paul_J
I work at a rate of £850 + vat a day.
However, I don't keep it it goes in my companies bank boo.
Time to become freelance contractor
I wouldn't recommend doing that at the moment mate
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DaveyLC
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quote:
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
Plus contractors pay less tax anyway
Yeah you can be a 'sole trader' if you work for yourself and its a nice little tax scam, plus near enough everything is tax deductable
Always been tempted going contracting but I dont like the uncertainty of it all, its nice to be on the books some times.. Does sicken me to think the company I work for charges £600-800/day (depending on the contract) for my services 
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James
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Registered: 1st Jun 02
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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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willay
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quite sickening isnt it
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AndyKent
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All depends on how much time they write off though I suppose (whilst you're all on CS)
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 
edit - but I'm a building surveyor, not IT.
[Edited on 07-07-2009 by AndyKent]
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Jambo
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Registered: 8th Sep 01
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i want to be software develpoer, looking to retrain as a mature student 
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Paul_J
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Registered: 6th Jun 02
Location: London
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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
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 dick.
[Edited on 07-07-2009 by Paul_J]
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