Re: FN-FORUM freelance rates

date posted 29th January 2001 22:56

Anything between £45 and £80 is about right dependent upon the skill set you
are using (and where you want to work) to develop dynamic database driven
web sites. I would also suggest you are not pricing yourself out of the
market and that in general you are cheaper, than say somebody from Accenture
(Arthur Anderson Consulting) or PWC who usually price themselves at around
800+ a day.

Skill sets I use are ColdFusion, HTML, Javascript, Database (Oracle, SQL
Server, MySQL and Access). All work is found through jobserve.com.

If you can get into Java (jsp) you can get rates in excess of £100 an hour,
but you have to have a serious grounding in Software Design/Engineering.

It also depends on your focus. I'm currently focusing on Intranet rather
than Internet development. The market in the Internet world is more
volatile, where as Intranet development is usually undertaken by larger
corporations (i.e. with more cash), and the work is more varied as you are
developing online systems to support the business processes of the company.
At the end of the day, if they change a requirement, you just do the work,
and they accept the charge. No questions asked. Intranets also have the
added bonus of being forever evolving.

Adam Reynolds
Craze Limited

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gerbil" [EMAIL REMOVED]
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Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 4:16 PM
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM freelance rates


> >It depends on where you are. For eg,. companies charge anywhere
> between US
> >$ 12 - 15 an hour for projects
> >n the US.
>
>
> Strangely enough there's another similar thread on one of the
> newsgroups I'm on (it's just Director work) where they are saying if
> anyone charges less than $50 an hour then they are classed as a
> beginner and won't get much work. They were suggesting that a 'good'
> wage would be to charge $100 per hour, which makes it (errr..) about
> £60 an hour here? I'd still argue you are pricing yourselves out of
> the market.
> To get around this I charge by the day *shrugs* Much simpler. Values
> still rear their heads but I've not had any complaints at £200 - £250
> a day, which with regular work is more than enough to keep me happy,
> especially since I get the odd job where I can charge much more.
>
> This might be different because I'm very specialist, but the others
> talking about ridiculous prices are more general. Strangely enough in
> the same breath of these people trying to keep the charges high, I'm
> getting more mails than ever from american contacts asking if I've got
> any work they can have because the market is dying badly over there.
> Makes you wonder...
>
> Barry Swan
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