[zimpenfish]

> 100k+ as a freelancer is significantly more rare

What are we meaning by "freelancer" here?

I'm taking it (as a UKian) to mean "contractor" and every contractor I know is on £100k+ (which is currently ~$129k).

[wikibob]

Can you share a story or two? I'm interested in the UK contracting market. The pay for salaried positions in the UK Is shockingly low.

[zimpenfish]

I mostly do Perl stuff and get £400-500 day rate easily even though I'm far from a Perl expert (and, indeed, I loathe and despise the language nowadays.)

There's a few (senior) Go contracts starting to appear in London (at £500+/day) that I'm hoping signify the start of a trend.

[flarg]

Depends who you work for. A solid LinkedIn plus the subscription option, with stints in the big 5 and some solution architect experience gets you some decent money.

[zimpenfish]

Similarly, if you can pick up the (relatively) obscure FinTech stuff (kdb+, Vertica, M/Mumps/Caché, etc.), that's a definite ticket to decent money and job security.