Out of curiosity

there is plenty of money. programmers I guess especially Java and .NET i would say. of course there is networking, testing, support side of IT. Testing i dont think is that much, dont know about networking and support.

It also depends on the company and also the pay increases as you show them potential and/or work your way up i..e junior prog, senior prog, leader, manager etc etc.
 
Short of starting up your own company I would say that being a contractor at an investment bank is probably the most lucrative thing in IT.

The downside is that the work is generally not good. Banks in general have no idea about doing IT properly and you'll be forced to do things in a sub optimal way.
 
so whats the average salary in programming? not that I'm up for a change of career my brain probably couldn't handle programming languages :rolleyes:
 
Haircut said:
Short of starting up your own company I would say that being a contractor at an investment bank is probably the most lucrative thing in IT.

The downside is that the work is generally not good. Banks in general have no idea about doing IT properly and you'll be forced to do things in a sub optimal way.
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Being a permanent employee at a hedge fund isn't bad either.

They tend to be small enough that there's a good chance (if you're forceful) that you can do things properly (we do Agile; scrum moving into kanban, TDD, automated integration tests, pair programming, etc... all those good things that make you feel like you're "doing it right").

With the pension and other perks, including the bonus, you can earn way in excess of a what a contract developer does.
 
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