[Fifer82]

Well done SkyScanner! I live 20 minutes from Edinburgh, and I don't really see what others are saying here. I am in a very flexible but really lame paid role, I have friends who have offered me a job in England twice. In Edinburgh though, it is either corporate jobs (demand), low paid hacky jobs for media agencies (pays in peanuts), and everything else is 50k jobs paying 28k via a recruitment agency who skims all the cream... ie: You need to be a mug.

Otherwise where are people seeing all the tech jobs?

[nemesisj]

Well, my company Administrate is hiring in Edinburgh and we are still a fairly early stage (~50 people) startup. We pay pretty well. Check out www.getadministrate.com

[Fifer82]

Awesome mate! Unfortunately, I wouldn't be much good for your available roles, but great to see another successful local company going strong. All the best with going forward.

[johnnyfaehell]

> everything else is 50k jobs paying 28k via a recruitment

I have no idea how that even works. Every time I got a job from a recruiter in the UK I got 100% of the month. Recruiters get paid on top of what you get paid, not you paying them.

[Fifer82]

Unregulated Middlemen. My best friend is a successful IT Recruiter in Glasgow picking up 6 figures this year, and the amount of perks he gets from the company is almost unbelievable. Good on him! However, that kind of wealth isn't coming from a 2% fee like a 1998 high street office worker agency. It is coming from somewhere, and that somewhere is your pocket.

[Marazan]

The recruiter gets a percentage of your listed salary (the percentages are eye waterigly huge)

So the company that employs you was obviously willing to pay a higher salary than they one they gave you.

[dajohnson89]

Your point is valid, but consider that recruitment is a labour cost either way. It will eat into the salary.