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14.02.2008, 09:39 quote

toby

Does anyone of you happen to know a chart that shows the rates for IT freelancers in the UK?

Something similiar to:



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...ideally even a break-down for different programming languages/skills!

 

14.02.2008, 10:01 quote

Anonymous

To be honest, the rates vary so much in this country, even according to location! For some jobs I do here in Plymouth I can only charge maximum £25 per hour, but for the same work in London I can ask £65 (or more!) (for Flash work in this example)

Sorry I can't help with a chart, but there is a very good Freelancers forum on http://freelanceswitch.com where people would probably know.

 

14.02.2008, 19:18 quote

samenoname
samenoname Joined: 20 Jan 2008 Posts: 448 Location: United Kingdom, England, Devon
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toby wrote:
Does anyone of you happen to know a chart that shows the rates for IT freelancers in the UK?

Something similiar to:



(SW-Entwickler - SW Develeoper
IT Berater - IT Consultant
Administrator - Administrator
Projektleiter - Projectleader
IT Trainer - IT Trainer)

...ideally even a break-down for different programming languages/skills!


I thought you meant pay rates and i was going to say 5oo dollars per page but as far as ratio is concerned i dont know

 

14.02.2008, 19:33 quote

Anonymous

I think he meant hourly rates (pay).

 

18.02.2008, 21:15 quote

chewy84
chewy84 Joined: 13 Jan 2007 Posts: 21 Location: United Kingdom, England, Northamptonshire
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Depends on where you are in the country, what your skills are, and what time of the year it is. And some companies are pushing lower rates because of the talk about the dip in the economy.

 

21.02.2008, 09:45 quote

kebabman
kebabman Joined: 03 Jan 2007 Posts: 931 Location: United Kingdom, England, Lancashire
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I agree with what was said above really. Location matters a lot. I live up North and I can't charge nearly as much here as I can in London.

The type of work affects the rate greatly as well. For my embedded C work on bespoke hardware architectures I can charge well in excess of £100 an hour to most companies because of the lack of skills in the area. Less for normal C programming. *nix consultancy work brings £50 an hour upwards usually and web work about half that. It all depends on the clients requirements as well. Have to take it all one job at a time.

Speaking of which I'd better get some more code written...
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