Andy Tang

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A friend of mine is looking to relocate to Cardiff, but can't currently find a job there.

He has several years of IT (primiarly with NT/Intel platforms) in a cusomter facing environment, including large banks in the city and The London Stock Exchange.

NT4, W2K and W2k3 experience - Server side
Win9x, NT4, W2K and XP experience - PC side

Are his expectations of £15 per hour or £25k per year unrealistic?

Any agencies that may be of use?

Thanks
ANdy

darlodge

Has he found any jobs he like's the look off regardless of money?

Some still say that the IT market is flat and flooded with underqualifed mcse's. Where as others say the IT job market has picked up again.

I'd say 25k was abit high however it really depends on what exactly he is best at doing. General desktop support roles can go from about 12k-25k. Server support is more.

Darren

Andy Tang

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TBH I believe he is setting his sights too high. If it were the South East, I'd say the salary would be a little under, but probably realistic. For Cardiff, I don't really know!

scoobyjimbo

Guys

IT job market is picking up but not in south wales and especially not in cardiuff.. Cardiff has never been that good for IT jobs anyway, but you will find the jobs that are out there are lower paid than they were say 3 years ago. If i was your friend I would look for roles the other side of the bridge as the availlability of positions is higher and the salaries much greater.. This would mean a train or car commute but hey the jobs are there...

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J

mike1210

im working in IT in cardiff (well Ponty) at the moment and yes the other side of the bridge will bring more money for sure. Desktop support goes from 10k upwards I find. He could be looking for 25k with a team leaders job or server support. My place now even for desktop support you need a degree in computing and active directory experience among other things due to so many people applying which says a lot for how many IT jobs are around here.

Andy Tang

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At the end of the day it's what £80 per month (IIRC) for an electronic pass on the bridge, so it's not a major expense, especially if the jobs are paying much more!

TopBanana

Used to work in Swindon - lots of the guys commuted from Cardiff way

scoobyjimbo

Yep i have commuted from cardiff to swindon in the past. I now commute from near chepstow to bristol each day and the tag is £80 pr month. Not bad really when you look at bristol salaries.. I recently appointed a guy who was working in cardiff as a senior developer and he earned 23k in cardiff and now is on at least 10k more than that in bristol.. madness.. but the demand is in the south west and so wages rise, plus the living costs in the bristol area are much higher than that of south wales, although some areas like chepstow/magor/cardiff are closely catching up now.

J