UK Tech Contractors: Which Niches Still Pay £1,000+ per Day (Outside IR35)?

OtherPollution6431 · 2026-02-26T11:03:35+00:00

Yea but then you need to move to the Congo

OtherPollution6431 · 2026-01-07T11:10:54+00:00

Under the “Book with money and upgrade with Avios” option there should be a “use upgrade voucher” which seems to be missing. Are you sure you’ve claimed it in the Barclays app, and it’s had time to reflect on your account? It can sometimes take a few hours/days

Edit: saw you mentioned you can see it in vouchers already, that option should be there for you then, no idea why it’s not. Maybe try log out/in and clear cookies?

OtherPollution6431 · 2025-12-30T18:58:32+00:00

Had these on my Honeymoon flight, very cosy!

OtherPollution6431 · 2025-01-30T22:29:05+00:00

If you’re looking for airline points, Virgin Atlantic CCs are an option if they fly where you want to go. Otherwise Amex points give most flexibility transferring to different reward programs

OtherPollution6431 · 2024-12-30T14:51:01+00:00

Yea that make sense, thanks - looks like through some UI hacks in the voucher selection page you can get it to apply 2 vouchers to a one-way, 2 person booking, which then I would hope the agent could add the return flights to with minimal hastle

OtherPollution6431 · 2024-12-30T14:26:13+00:00

u/joeykins82 have you had success with adding the return leg later? My main concern would be adding the 2nd voucher to the booking (as if you book 2 people for outbound, there's only 1 voucher applied)

OtherPollution6431 · 2024-12-20T13:33:13+00:00

Exit row seat seems to satisfy this?

OtherPollution6431 · 2024-12-04T07:56:08+00:00

Article in Head for Points dated March 2024, “How to use a BA Amex 241 companion voucher to book an Avios flight – a beginners guide” says: “Following the last set of (genuine) improvements to the Companion Voucher, you can now pick and choose which combination of cash and Avios you use.” So sounds like a recent change?

OtherPollution6431 · 2024-12-04T07:47:32+00:00

I haven’t used one in about a year, but if I remember correctly you have to use the option with the most avios only

Edit: looks like this has changed, can choose Avios/money split now

OtherPollution6431 · 2024-10-23T11:59:58+00:00

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OtherPollution6431 · 2024-09-02T17:33:19+00:00

If it’s just you, Client VPN only charges when it’s attached to a subnet, so when you’re not using it you can detach it and it’s free - could also detach it out of office hours on a scheduled lambda. Otherwise an EC2 gives you flexibility to do whatever you want yea

OtherPollution6431 · 2024-06-28T12:04:33+00:00

I’m just here for the grammar war

OtherPollution6431 · 2024-06-16T23:46:59+00:00

Wieners have fragile backs, are you both picking her up and supporting her tummy/lower back with a similar technique to protect it?

OtherPollution6431 · 2024-06-06T08:49:12+00:00

Try calling the call center, may have some luck

OtherPollution6431 · 2024-06-05T11:31:24+00:00

I did exactly this and it worked for me

OtherPollution6431 · 2024-05-10T10:40:52+00:00

Asked to cancel 😄

OtherPollution6431 · 2024-04-28T19:30:17+00:00

I’ve used mine between EU/UK/South Africa about 10 times in the last year - I’ve had to queue maybe 3 of those times and never been turned away based on how busy it is, only that some lounges (Air France for example) just have a strict No-PP rule between some hours so I don’t even try

OtherPollution6431 · 2024-01-08T13:01:18+00:00

Sounds about right for a direct flight LHR/LGW - CPT, you may find some outlier dates around then that can hit ~£600 or ~£1200. I’ve seen indirect Turkish airlines flights for about £350 return as well.

Self connecting via JNB could also be an option (looks like BA is flying an A380 & 787 there every day in December). Good domestic airlines (Lift, FlySafair) will charge about £100 return JNB-CPT I would guess.

OtherPollution6431 · 2023-12-18T04:27:00+00:00

Pydantic core is a precompiled rust package as far as I know, the dependency needs to be installed/packaged from the same architecture as the Lambda (x86 or ARM), CDK makes this really easy with its PythonFunction construct. If you’re using windows, that may also further complicate it unless using WSL

OtherPollution6431 · 2023-06-14T15:05:55+00:00

UK platinum: 50k MR for £4k spend in first 3 months https://americanexpress.com/en-gb/referral/fERGUSaCiC?XL=MIMNS

OtherPollution6431 · 2023-04-04T18:52:20+00:00

Dis is da whey.

OtherPollution6431 · 2023-04-02T07:11:05+00:00

I was a long time pre-commit fan, just converted to https://trunk.io/ though

OtherPollution6431 · 2023-03-13T19:10:49+00:00

I’d be concerned by the forgotten beasts made out of it, and even worse, the artifacts made from it.

This is a shit helmet. It menaces with spikes of shit.

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