Sam
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Given today's current financial climate, what do you lot think is the best paying IT job to have at the moment (i.e. web design, software development, PC repair, whatever)?
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James
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Out of those you listed, software development.
Business Analysis and Project Management probably pay better though.
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DaveyLC
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Lots of people going for hosting and co-location so I'd say some of the high end network analysts are raking it in at the moment.
Not as much money to be had in software development these days as everyone and their dog wants to be a .Net programmer and most companies want to move to the .Net framework for development.
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James
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Forgot about network analysts, that can pay pretty well too.
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Sam
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Yeah every fucker does software or web development these days (including me  ) been thinking of keeping my web design business as a sideline and pursuing another avenue in IT. I've done technical support and networking before, I do fancy getting back into network engineer work but wasn't sure if it still paid fairly well and if there were actually any jobs in this field so I thought I'd see what other good paying jobs there were out there before making my mind up.
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willay
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depends on qualifications, CCNA apparently can rake in between 25-30k.
I have no quals, just 5 years cisco experience atm
[Edited on 07-07-2009 by willay]
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willay
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and please do not say analysts, network analyst, support analyst, just some bullshit way to make you feel better about your job title. What happened to the good old engineer 
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willay
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oh btw Penetration Testers get alot of money, around the 60k mark quite easily.
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DaveyLC
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quote:
Originally posted by willay
and please do not say analysts, network analyst, support analyst, just some bullshit way to make you feel better about your job title. What happened to the good old engineer
I'm just talking about the sort of people who know TCP/IP like an intimate sexual partner and can configure a router to give you a hand job. 
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DaveyLC
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And whats peoples definition of well paid?? I'd say £30-40k is good money for IT, £40-50k is well paid and £60k+ is very well paid.
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willay
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when i started there wasnt any analysts, we were all engineers.
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willay
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I agree Davey, thats a good scale.
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DaveyLC
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quote:
Originally posted by willay
I agree Davey, thats a good scale.
I forgot to add:
£60k = Well paid and raped by the government
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willay
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60+ is 60+ at the end of the day mate, yum.
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DaveyLC
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Its the Tax though, it sucks.. Once you hit the 40% tax bracket anything on top is just a bit depressing once it hits your bank!
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James
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quote:
Originally posted by DaveyLC
And whats peoples definition of well paid?? I'd say £30-40k is good money for IT, £40-50k is well paid and £60k+ is very well paid.
There are a lot of people in IT on less than £30k.
I always tend to find that most salary surveys suggest IT salaries are higher then they actually are.
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willay
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yes but still, under 30k is gay James.
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James
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Well, yes I agree 
But still.........
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willay
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ok so we've successfully singled out alot of people so far 
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M2RTY
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project management and security is where i went...
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Andrew
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I earn jack shit doing IT Support
Waiting for my review before i make any decisions really.
Got lots of qualifications and starting CCNA in September.
Currently the market is on it's arse which reflects wages.
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Tim
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I think the industry/location is more important than the discipline 
The more niche you are, the more you'll be compensated. EMC/HDS specialists, columnar databases (KDB+ etc), blah, blah, blah.
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my title says im Senior support technician but it really means general dogsbody
getting a pretty good wage out of it too
we are just moving into .NET Frameworks for our software.. im getting less and less involved in the actual development side but a lot more on the testing of the product.
also sales, customer service and even man the 2nd line calls too
we are a specialist software company for the freight industry and are very sort after so will always be a roll for me there.
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kz
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I was a computer engineer for Renault on £16k  and... just been made redundant. Not sure what to do next, help!?
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James
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What does being a computer engineer at Renault involve?
With respect, a salary of £16k suggests a skillset that isn't revolutionary.
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