Grand a day.

[anonymous-user]

Top tips, although I do worry that I'll run out of bullets before the secret agent runs out of quips.

[greygoose]

Another top tip is don’t step on her shoes when dancing with Olga at the Smersh discotheque, there will be blood on the dance floor.

[anonymous-user]

No snags, and being a two dimensional character with no internal monologue is so me anyway.

[Rev Limit]

Occasionally used to see contract Senior IT Sec roles paying £1000+ per day in banking

[Kent Border Kenny]

Taylor James said:

FX...

Loads of people who will teach you on youtoob

You get a Lambo as well..

Seriously, that sort of rate is usually only achievable with experience or if you are fortunate/clever enough to be in a niche area. Very few people command £365K+ PA on a salaried basis. A lot of people who command that rate on a self-employed basis will not work every day but the day rate is not out of the ordinary in consultancy.

It's only 250 days if you are counting those in work, so £250k. it's still a lot, but I'd imagine that there are a fair few thousand accountants and lawyers on that, and if you are good at the job you can still get around that in a relatively junior sales or trading job in banking.

[Mr_Megalomaniac]

Blown2CV said:

In IT you need to get fairly high up in order to get close to the grand. The ones most consistently in that range are experienced change directors etc with excellent track records. Chief Architects (like me) if they have excellent track records can be in that range too, and 700+ a day is reasonably common. For real reputation, it can go way over the grand. The closer you get to that, the more few and far between the gigs are, so you won't get consistently top money and be fully utilised all year. For high pressure gigs too, you can wave bye to taking even the odd day off.

There is a weird anomaly that even senior sounding roles in IT can have massively varying salary ranges. I've seen CTO roles for £55k, but equally I've seen same for £200k. Even the latter isn't quite a grand a day.

It's all moot anyway as IR35 has fked decent day rate independent contracting right in the ahole.

Outside of the IR35 bit, I recall 2 years back the one of the sub-workstream leads on our data piece was on £980/day - he just did PM style stuff. Clashed with the programme director so he left, but she (the programme director) was on a big heafty £2.8k a day. Granted this was a high profile change programme in a big bank, but that struck me as quite a solid day rate.
Not sure what IR35 will nuke it to now.