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I'd quite like it if my fellow developers in the UK would stop charging so damn little for their services too, salaries in this country are comparatively depressed compared to North America or Australia, yet we still have the constant bleating from business about lack of available talent.

You would think that this would result in higher salaries as engineers are in high demand, but no...

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Much of that bleating is just posturing. They know they could get plenty of talent if they paid for it, but they'd rather outsource. For outsourcing you usually have to show that you can't find talent in-country so companies do all kinds of tricks to make sure they can't fill the positions and can outsource the job.

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