Bravo2zero_sps

My best Mate is from Harrogate, we worked together in London for one of the top 3 global investment banks for a couple of years. He then decided to move back home with his Mrs and was shocked by the salaries in Leeds. He had to take a 50% pay cut by moving up there but doing a job that was more technically involved than the one he was doing for twice the money in London. He is doing all support now upto server support and project work where as before we were senior desktop analysts. His pay in Leeds is less than what a basic desktop support role in London pays.

With your CV David if you want to earn the money those skills deserve you need to get yourself down to London and would easily be on £50k+ perm or a hell of a lot more contracting.

I'm 7 years older than you and don't have those server/scripting skills and am still trying to get into infrastructure from the 3rd line support team i'm currently in. You starting at 15/16 is a perfect example of why I will never recomend to anyone going to Uni anymore. I did, came out at 23 and didn't get into IT until I was 26. I was already 10-11 years behind you by that point and thats something I regret as the skills you have at 25 are what I am still aiming for at the age of 32.

There is nothing for you to be down about thats for sure, with a CV like that you should be able to walk into a job anywhere. Good luck with getting a new job, not that you will need it