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As someone making £27k in the UK your salary is also crazy to me. The kind of numbers that get thrown around really have no meaning to me.

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As someone making 18k€ in Eastern Europe your salary is also crazy to me. And I manage to save >30% of my salary and my quality of living is fine.

I've earnt that as a monthly figure as a London contractor.

There is a market if you're willing to play the game.

Nice. What kind of contracting gig did you do?

DevSecOps consulting for a large brand that was hacked and a bank undergoing a transformation. Managed it for about 2 years, before that the standard rate was £700-£800 p/d.

Did have a large transformation under my belt and critical national infrastructure as feathers in my hat.

That's above market rates. You'd have to be on £1350 a day. Most contracts I see are £450-£750. How did you swing agency / big consultancy rates as a freelancer?

I sold myself as a one man consultancy without the land and expand bullshit. I hit £1500 a day, which was the max before you hit a world of bureaucracy. It's a lot easier to sit on about £1000-1200k a day.

The intention isn't to brag, it's just to point out there is a market here that can be tapped even if you can't travel to SoCal.

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