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My impression is that they actually pay the tech people pretty well to be chained to a desk...

£31 000? Meh, that is low. Finance industry gets you above 75k

I think it's more that finance is high rather than GCHQ is low. £31k is about average for engineering grads.

It's 31k after five years experience.

And being public sector, that's "if you suck everyone's cock on the way up".

You do, however, get a government pension. Which is worth a small fortune.

prospects.ac.uk is full of shit as a rule.