<div><div dir="ltr">I often advise that day rate/salary/seniority isn't just based on technical skill, but a focus on delivering value to the client through good communication skills, working well with non-technical team members, and an ability and willingness to work in uncertain and sometimes difficult environments.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">But also good adherence to professional etiquette, such as not sending a private email to 100s of other people. It's good to know that I still have room for growth.<br></div></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 1 Feb 2025 at 12:58, Wilson <<a href="mailto:wilson.dsigns@gmail.com" target="_blank">wilson.dsigns@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div dir="auto">I've done £425, £500, £550 and £625 for a few months. My best and longest gig was £700 for 3 years. Then I went to Thailand to start my own thing. When I returned to Europe, during the Great Depression Of Ruby Contracts, there were no contracts and I had to go permanent.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Feb 1, 2025, 10:56 Toby Privett <<a href="mailto:toby@snaplab.co.uk" target="_blank">toby@snaplab.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div dir="auto">My freelance rate - 500/day - hasn’t changed in years. Might go some way to explaining why I have so much work on. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 1 Feb 2025 at 08:46, Najaf Ali <<a href="mailto:ali.najaf@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">ali.najaf@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div dir="ltr">Would definitely be interested in hearing peoples experiences and thoughts on this. I sometimes feel like my entire programming career was a ZIRP. Quite enjoying my life as a Japanese salaryman these days though.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Feb 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM Patrick Gleeson <<a href="mailto:patrick.c.gleeson@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">patrick.c.gleeson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div dir="ltr">Leaning in to this, I'd love to get a feel for what the Ruby contractor market is like at the moment. My last contracting gig (which was also my first contracting gig), was a couple of years on £700/day (but inside IR35 so the headline figure is a bit misleading). I'd love to hear what the range of going rates is at the moment (to be clear, I've got my next thing lined up so this is purely curiosity on my part combined with the general belief that breaking the taboo of discussing compensation is occasionally healthy).<div><br></div><div>Patrick</div><div><a href="https://patrickgleeson.com/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">I don't know what I'm doing, I just make it up as I go along</a></div></div><div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 31 Jan 2025, 11:13 James Darling, <<a href="mailto:james@abscond.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">james@abscond.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div dir="ltr">Whoops, that's embarrassing. 😭</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 31 Jan 2025 at 10:38, James Darling <<a href="mailto:james@abscond.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">james@abscond.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div dir="ltr">Hi Nick,<div><br></div><div>I don't think we've met (embarrassing if we have!) but I've been an LRUGer for about 20 years.</div><div><br></div><div>This sounds interesting to me, and something I'd definitely be able to help with! Nice to see a project with no React. I live in Leyton and love meeting up, so location is great. I once integrated the dutch payment system iDEAL for a startup via Stripe's API that I believe is still running.</div><div><br></div><div>Here's my <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/abscond/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a>, <a href="https://github.com/james" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">GitHub</a> and <a href="https://abscond.org/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">website</a>. I'm currently on £850/day.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>James</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 27 Jan 2025 at 19:21, Nick Tabernacle <<a href="mailto:nick@beo.so" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">nick@beo.so</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div>Hi LRUG, <div><br></div><div>As a RoR contractor I've been on the other side of these emails for many years, so it’s nice to be 'giving back' with some contract opportunities directly to this group.</div><div><br></div><div>I’m looking for a Rails contractor for a two month internal MVP build, likely extended to six months. The client is a multinational non-profit.</div><div><br></div><div>Ideal experience:</div><div><br></div><div><ul><li>Rails 7 (and all the obvious things it includes)</li><li>>10 years on Rails to a Senior level</li><li>Can provide examples of full stack work</li><li>Hotwire (more experience the better)</li><li>TailwindCSS</li><li>Stripe payments</li><li>API integration</li><li>CI/CD on Azure (essential) </li><li>Any Azure knowledge/certificates welcome</li><li>Comfortable with the enterprise onboarding process</li><li>Remote but will need 2 days a month at our office in Liverpool Street talking around a whiteboard most likely. </li></ul><div><br></div></div><div>I’m also looking for someone interested in using AI to improve productivity and share their metrics, for good or bad.</div><div><br></div><div>Please let me know your desired rate, Linked In || YouTube || Github.</div><div><br></div><div><b>No recruiters or recruiting companies please. </b></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks LRUG :) </div><div><br><div>
<div>Nick Tabernacle</div><div><a href="mailto:nick@beo.so" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">nick@beo.so</a></div><div><br></div><br>
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