[Patient0]

Have you taken a look on Jobserve lately? Contract rates in London of 500gbp per day are easily achievable with your skill set. You have to be good though...

Here's an email I received just a couple of days ago from a recruiter:

"Are you interested in the following contract or perm position..?

Key Tech: C++, STL, Boost, NAG, Real-time, Multi-threading, Parallel-processing, GPU (GPGPU / CUDA / OpenCL), Grid Computing, Agile, TDD.

Leading financial software house requires a number of talented C++ developers to work on high performance grid computing solutions for a tier 1 Investment Banking client based in London.

The successful candidate would be working with cutting edge hardware and state of the art software tools, delivering real-time pricing & risk applications, on-site in a Front Office environment.

Essential Skills: Proven ability to develop and maintain large C++ libraries using STL Strong core computer science knowledge; data structures, numerical algorithms Experience of high performance development; optimisation, threading, profiling Passion for technology, innovation and delivering outstanding software.

Desirable: Use of Boost & NAG libraries GPU programming, particularly GPGPU / CUDA / OpenCL Java and C# / .NET experience Compiler theory / cross-compilers / code generation Work experience in the finance industry, particularly front office

* Finance experience NOT essential, developers from a Gaming, Telecomms, Medical or Areospace type background welcome to apply *

Location: London Rate: £500-£650/day Duration: 12 month contract (depending on experience)

Apply with your latest CV or call for further info...

Or if you're not looking, feel free to forward this mail to a friend.

Regards,

 	 Jamie Burgess 

IT Division Huxley Associates 0207 469 5050 [e-mail] "

[Joeboy]

Recruiters sometimes advertise nonexistent jobs, or existent jobs at nonexistent rates, to get their foot in the door. I wouldn't necessarily take advertised jobs/rates on jobserve at face value.

[Patient0]

True - but there are also real jobs for this rate and higher. The advertised rate for that posting is lower than my current daily rate.

[rodh]

I have noticed this. There seems to be a massive gap between the finance sector and everyone else. I'm not too sure what to make of that. For the sake of comparison, the average salary for a Software Engineer at Google in London, according to Glassdoor (before bonuses) is £45k.

[Patient0]

I find that very hard to believe... that's way too low.

[Nursie]

I used to work for big blue in London and that would probably be about right for there too, if not slightly more generous.

Outside of the financial sector the money is just not that good in this country.