Top paid jobs in the uk

16th :cool:

IT Strategy and Planning Professionals. This is the closest thing to what I do but not exxact. It's not really representative though.

I know a plasterer who makes three times what they list....
 
31st/32nd but I'm on pretty much what they quote and I'm not fully qualified yet :confused: and I'd expect to get more like twice what they state eventually.

[edit] Read it properly this time... Make that 12th :D with aspirations on 4th
 
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Software Pro - 50th.

Just shows the effect immigration has had on that particular profession. There was a time we were a lot higher.

Ditto, well will be when I graduate next year, 'only' starting on 24k though :( :p

Can't really blame immigrants entirely though, at the place I'll be working there are ~50 people, of which 4 aren't english, it's more down to just the vast increase in people doing computer science type degree's I think...
 
Wow, OcUK willy waving has reached new heights ;)

I'm 182 BTW, although that's average and my wage is normally higher depending on my shift patterns and overtime.
 
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Why do you suspect immigration for this? I'd have thought it has more to do with outsourcing to other countries.

True but a lot of Indian IT professionals still come over here to work as well - believe it or not, but it's quite hard to run an IT service from India where none of the developers actually know what their customers are talking about ;)

Often when Indian IT people come to the UK on a long-term project the company will hire then a 1 bed/studio flat for them and expect them to work on Indian IT wages (~£12k I think). Funnily enough when they find out how bad they are getting screwed they leave fairly sharp-ish, and as they already have a visa, they get another job easily. After 5 years they can become British citizens or something I think?

This annoys me a lot more than offshoring, because I don't think there's anything that can be done to stop that, however the government should be doing more to protect its citizens from this sort of exploitation of immigration.
 
edit/ never mind, can't read!

They have the Engineering disciplines, but surely they vary a lot more as to Chartered status?
 
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