Re: Good, good.
Indeed, even though IT professionals themselves are rather underpaid in the UK...
I'm not sure that's accurate.
In London it isn't - the market rates for skills here are sky high, my earning ambitions are more curtailed by the PAYE tax system than they are by the market. Everything after £100k starts to hurt more than it helps (67% effective tax rate), and anything over £150k just ruins your private sector pension (allowances seem to have been made for public sector pensions).
In the rest of the country you have plenty of £70k IT jobs in the public sector (My wife is always trying to get me to take one and join her).
Private sector roles in non-london may well be underpaid.... I've not much recent experience with those.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
