[LRUG] uk salaries

Jonathan j.fantham at gmail.com
Mon Mar 19 11:15:57 PDT 2012


I was hoping to hear that! I know I'll be considering less by moving
to a salary but if I want to stay in the UK for a while then that's
something I am going to have to deal with.

The other option I was considering was just to come back on a holiday
visa for the olympics and forego the working life for a while, but
you've reassured me a bit that sponsorship won't be so bad and that my
salary expectations aren't completely ridiculous.

Thanks a lot!
Jonathan.

On 19 March 2012 17:46, Ash Berlin <ash_lrug at firemirror.com> wrote:
> My experience is only based on working/hiring people in London, but I'd say that those averages (again picking London not UK as a whole) are on the low side and someone with your experience should be in the upper quartile of the salaries on the jobswatch website.
>
> Sadly you will be on a chunk less as a premie than a contractor. Part of the reason is that as a permie the company has to pay national insurance contribution which is basically 12-14% of your salary. Sadly the price difference is usually more than this :(
>
> -ash
>
> On 19 Mar 2012, at 17:31, Jonathan wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm a kiwi, I've been working in the UK for almost two years now and
>> it's coming up to the end of my visa so I'll either need to leave soon
>> or look at options to stay.
>>
>> Up until now I've been contracting and have had a couple of clients
>> but my main one would like to offer me a salary and sponsor me to stay
>> for a while (they've had a lot of trouble finding people in the past).
>> I have been quite happy with the idea of leaving at the end of my two
>> years but I'm finding that I rather like London so staying for a while
>> longer doesn't seem so bad! So I'm weighing the options and trying to
>> make an informed decision.
>>
>> What I'd like to know is the kind of salary I can expect from the UK.
>> I know that there are a lot of jobs out there (we do like a good
>> discussion about jobs), but I don't know if the advertised wages are
>> actually representative of lruggers expectations. Does anyone know a
>> general ballpark figure for rails developers? I'm used to contracting
>> rates so I'm hoping I won't have to take too much of a pay drop
>> (although I suspect that will be the case if I go on a salary). In
>> your opinion are websites like this an accurate representation?
>>
>> http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/jobs/uk/web%20developer.do
>> http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/jobs/uk/ruby%20on%20rails.do
>> http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/jobs/uk/senior%20ruby%20on%20rails%20developer.do
>>
>> Here's a little about me to give you an idea of my skill set: I've got
>> about three years rails experience and about 4 years .NET experience
>> before that so I have around 7 years web development experience total.
>> I work with any of OSX/Linux/Windows but I'm currently using OSX most
>> of the time. I've worked for some fairly big name companies back home
>> along with some smaller web based companies so my CV looks good on
>> paper and although I may be tooting my own horn; I'd say my general
>> competence is very good or excellent (I've never had anyone complain
>> at least!).
>>
>> Any advice is much appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks
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