no one working for the BBC in the UK would make that sort of money as a developer

I don't know about that. I've seen a few tech jobs around the £70-80k mark at the BBC, which is about $120k. Throw in the additional benefits and it's probably not far off.

Hah, I wish. I was a senior engineer there and earned less than half that.

You don't join the BBC for the money in IT... for the lax culture perhaps.

a few, and they'll be in London so your living costs can be truly massive.

Sometimes the rates you see advertised are also 3 month contract jobs where someone is looking for attention by stating the contract amount as if the job was 12 months salaried.

This seems to have been prompted by the criticism he recieved for this appalling piece of work: http://plover.net/~bonds/nolongeraskeptic.html#islamophobia

That link clears a lot up. I can stop wasting my time. yawn

Wow. Apart from how terrible that is, I am pretty impressed at the hypocrisy. "Stop using logic to try to shut down discussion. On an unrelated note, stop talking because misogyny/islamophobia/SJW nonsense."

what sort of experience did you have before you started contracting? I'm surprised you were able to get a 250/day job as a 19 year old.

I had a few freelance gigs and a small stint as a permie at an agency back home but nothing near the kind of portfolio i have now. Luckily i was interviewed by people that appreciated the fact that i taught myself and i could demonstrate that knowledge.

no, just oxbridge. in terms of prestige and difficulty of admission Edinburgh is well below other non-oxbridge universities...

Edinburgh is definitely not quite Oxbridge level on those factors. But it certainly is higher than the 'Red brick universities'. There are 24 universities in the Russell Group, and none of the red brick universities fall in the top 5 as it is an outdated term. It could be argued that Edinburgh falls in the top 5, which are comparable to the Ivy League.