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Quoting george parker <georgeparker20@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
New Scientist has come out with it's Careers Guide and I thought the list would be interested in IT & Technology salaries for the South West. These come from a recruitment agency salary guide. They split the Country into 6 and the Southwest takes in Gloucester, Somerset, Devon & Cornwall, maybe across to Southampton. IT trainee Â22,853 ranked 4th Network engineer Â25,180 ranked 5th Security manager Â49,095 ranked 1st Technical architect Â42,390 ranked 4th IT Director Â71,885 ranked 6th I wonder what that security manager does. Has he found a way to make Windows secure?London, of course, is highest in 5 out of 6 areas. Don't go there if you're atrainee. In engineering in general, an experienced engineer's salary ranges from Â35,000 for automotive engineers to Â47,000 for oil & gas engineers with electrical/electronic at Â38,000 and CAD at Â39,000.
Hmm, I'd kind of take those figured with a pinch of salt. The roles I've seen for experienced IT Technicians seem to hover around the Â17k to Â22k mark with trainees often only getting nearer to the Â13k mark.
Contractors tend to get more, but the problem with that being that there is no real job security and when you're not working you're not earning (and sometimes contractors can go a month between contracts, especially times like this where there are probably about 10 to 20 applicants for one job).
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