To think it's realistic to get a strictly 9-5 Tech job paying £75k+?

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WIBU to think it's realistic to think I could earn £75k+ working in Tech (programming) if I wanted to work strictly 9-5 with no extra work at home?

It's the hours that won't work.
DH is a contractor, earns £100k. Works whilst children are at school, stops for about two hours, six-eight, then works more in the evenings. Sometimes lots, sometimes a little.
We're nowhere near London, and he works from home 99% of the time, with occasional meetings (random places such a Geneva, Copenhagen, Nottingham).
He can only do this because he's built up such an excellent reputation.
However, there's no sick pay for contractors, or holiday pay, or maternity/parental etc.
He's been seriously ill for eight months...

I also have to roll in and say YAB unrealistic.

Most of the jobs I have seen for that pay are either in quant hedge funds or for principle / lead programmers. And even then, the people who earn that are the people who come into work 6 days a week sometimes.

I do think language choice has a little to do with it but I feel that type of experience / current project may have more to do with it.

Saying that I have no clue as I couldn't even code in the language I work with when I started my current job. So who really knows!

i don't now this industry, but as my career has developed I have found that the more i earn the less hard I have to work. Seniority and reputation have bought flexibility and less scrutiny. Experience has taught me how much I really need to do and what was just for show as I climbed the ladder etc, so maybe it is possible.

The salary is achievable, the hours would be impossible to get. Also if you weren't willing to put the extra time/work in when necessary there will always be someone who will so you wouldn't last long. Good salaries in a competitive industry mean staff really are expendable sadly.

YANBU. DP is on £60k in a techs job and hardly ever works overtime, often gets the chance to work from home too.

He has achieved this in the time we've been together, so three years.

He has had some very good opportunities, and is very good at what he does, gives talks at conferences and things like that. But it certainly isn't impossible.

20+ years in projects for the financial industry and the health sector tell me YABU. The high salaries come with the expectation of non traditional hours, unpaid overtime, and dropping everything for work. I hate it but that has been my career reality. Those not willing to put in the hours were never kept long.

I've just googled and apparently the median contract rate for a SQL Server DBA is currently £363 per day, which amounts to more than 75K a year. I think that job could be done 9-5, but I don't have experience of lots of different organisations, so can't say what's usual.

The UK excluding London median rate is show as £350.

From this site.

www.itjobswatch.co.uk/contracts/uk/sql%20server%20dba.do

In my industry it is easy enough to earn that amount and more while usually working 9-5 or 9-6 but you have to be prepared to put in a lot more hours when needed. On the plus side, it's easy (often encouraged) to work from home and people may do a few hours in the office, then do a school run and pick up again later in the evening.

firesuit but contracts rates are much higher. Developers ads I have seen are £400-450 a day often. Also DBAs aren't developers. I write stored procedures and also work with ORM but I wouldn't dream of applying for a DBA role.

I think it's fair to say the consensus is you can get £75k and above if you are a contractor or you are willing to work more than the standard 40 hour week and is in a leadership/management role.

Did you want to contract or a perm role? What languages do you
programme and what is your experience? My DH earns £60k and works from home full time 10am-6pm BUT that was a pay drop for him compared to his previous role and hours, and he's worked in the industry for 12 years and took a step down to secure that role.

It depends what your qualifications are. I know people earning over 100k working 9-5 (including work from home days once a week) but they have top qualifications (1st from top university and PhDs in maths with lots of programming experience or computer science) and are heavy weights mathematically. Alternatively if you have expertise in something like machine learning/training neural networks you'd be in high demand and could earn 200k plus without much overtime.