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Re:Ask HN: 6-figure freelancers of HN, what do you do? by wikibob on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @10:44AM (#15132496)
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.
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Re:Ask HN: 6-figure freelancers of HN, what do you do? by zimpenfish on Thursday August 31, 2017 @03:34AM (#15138757)
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.

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Re:Ask HN: 6-figure freelancers of HN, what do you do? by flarg on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @11:39AM (#15133047)
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.
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Re:Ask HN: 6-figure freelancers of HN, what do you do? by zimpenfish on Thursday August 31, 2017 @04:23AM (#15138950)
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.
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