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.
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.
I have a friend who works for a FAANG company. He moved from California to London, staying with the company.
He took a 35% pay cut, and he tells me that cost of living in London is much higher than what he left behind in California.
It made sense for him, because he had personal reasons both to be in Europe and to take the specific open position he took that he wouldn't have been able to get on California, but he was much richer in California.