Wheres the big money in IT?

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According to this:

https://www.numbeo.com/quality-of-life/in/Cardiff

The best places to be really are Liverpool, Newcastle and Leeds. Cardiff has a higher quality of life than Leeds does, however I've never seen a single job in Cardiff, but tbh Liverpool and Newcastle do have jobs (Leeds and Manchester more so I guess)

https://www.numbeo.com/quality-of-l...stle+Upon+Tyne&tracking=getDispatchComparison

This being said, in fairness, what's most important to me is the bit that says "Property price to income" ratio. Leeds does slightly better than Newcastle and Liverpool on that regard

https://www.numbeo.com/quality-of-life/in/Leeds

 

Yeah I have noticed, that rent is about the same in the north and in the south. It's always easier for me to buy a house here, when I already live here! Leeds is "my city" tbf. Well technically Bradford is, but we don't talk of Bradford lol. This being said, in my town, house prices have actually fallen, crashed, and stayed there

In 2008, they crashed. Bundle that, with more people leaving this town, leading this town to being basically a town for people aged 40-50+ It's basically becoming a retirement town, without meaning to. It'll all change in a three or four decades perhaps, but that's a long while away. I'd likely be retiring myself then! (or dead)

 

Don't tar all us southerners with the 'London' brush, there's plenty further south you can go and be further away from London than as if I was in Leeds ;)
For me I've always had jobs that have allowed me to live where I like, sometimes it's been a local job, more often than not it's a job where it doesn't matter where I live and that's how it'll probably be from now on.
Granted that's not necessarily easy to do, but for me it was what I wanted and have been fortunate enough to be in that position.

Going back to the original question, as has been said take a look at the job ads and see what the jobs are with the salaries you're after to give you something to work towards, and get a plan together

 

Expanding on my earlier comment on 'sales', technical pre-sales specifically can be a very lucrative area to get into.

 

Lol. I am aware that the south includes more than London. Still even in Reading, I have the same issue. House prices cost a lot. Same goes for Bristol tbh, and same goes for Oxford too.

 

I think that's basically what most Checkpoint people do lol. Not so many people actually support checkpoint...

 

specialization

and contracting is where its at !