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Retraining as IT contractor, starting at the bottom.

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    Retraining as IT contractor, starting at the bottom.

    Hi, I have been working as a contractor in financial services compliance (ie not at all IT) for a few years and have noticed on here that a standard day rate for IT contractors is circa £800 pd, whereas I have never even got to half of that. I am also furloughed.

    So, can I retrain as an IT contractor? I don't have high day rate expectations given that my only IT qualification is GCSE. Where would I start to get a basic bums-on-seats position? Would it be good to learn Python on the Harvard Uni site for example?

    Thank you

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    £800 pd?

    Oh Dear...
    "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
    - Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...

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      #3
      Can't you ban the troll?
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        #4
        19..... Please
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          #5
          Originally posted by bingocaller88 View Post
          Hi, I have been working as a contractor in financial services compliance (ie not at all IT) for a few years and have noticed on here that a standard day rate for IT contractors is circa £800 pd, whereas I have never even got to half of that. I am also furloughed.

          So, can I retrain as an IT contractor? I don't have high day rate expectations given that my only IT qualification is GCSE. Where would I start to get a basic bums-on-seats position? Would it be good to learn Python on the Harvard Uni site for example?

          Thank you
          I am IT contractor and I noticed that brain surgeons are on £2k per day. I am retraining as a brain surgeon but I need someone to practice on; I will pay you £800 pd if you let me practice lobotomy on you.
          "A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices," George Orwell

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            #6
            Originally posted by cojak View Post
            £800 pd?

            Oh Dear...
            LOL - I've never got above £600, with £550 my normal rate. Maybe I need to get some IT skills to get some of these £800 day rate roles Are there any online VBA courses I could do?
            I am what I drink, and I'm a bitter man

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              #7
              Originally posted by bingocaller88 View Post
              So, can I retrain as an IT contractor? I don't have high day rate expectations given that my only IT qualification is GCSE. Where would I start to get a basic bums-on-seats position? Would it be good to learn Python on the Harvard Uni site for example?
              Do you have three hours to spare?

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                #8
                Over in general I advise people to do this.

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Whorty View Post
                  LOL - I've never got above £600, with £550 my normal rate. Maybe I need to get some IT skills to get some of these £800 day rate roles Are there any online VBA courses I could do?
                  That's probably the agency rate. They send in a contractor inside IR35 on 400 pd.

                  Maybe OP should start an agency - there is no need to have IT skills, you just need to find contractors that will do the job and you pocket the rest.

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by elsergiovolador View Post
                    That's probably the agency rate. They send in a contractor inside IR35 on 400 pd.

                    Maybe OP should start an agency - there is no need to have IT skills, you just need to find contractors that will do the job and you pocket the rest.
                    If only that were the case*

                    *I used to b a shareholder in an agency
                    Former IPSE member
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