About UK wages and health insurance

Hello all,

I have an offer from the UK..I have arnd 2 years experience in J2EE...The offer is 26K pounds+bonus. The place is somewhere in west sussex. I am not even sure whether its a good deal or not as I dont know the cost of living there. I'm from Germany.

With some tax calculator I found out that take home is arnd 1600Pounds. Is this a normal salary in the UK for a Masters graduate with 2 years experience? I did not deduct the Health insurance from the take home. I dont know how much it would be. Could anyone throw some light on that?(% of health insurance from the gross, employer contribution to the health insurance,etc)

thanks
Aravind

Originally posted by Aravind Nambi:
Hello all,

I have an offer from the UK..I have arnd 2 years experience in J2EE...The offer is 26K pounds+bonus. The place is somewhere in west sussex. I am not even sure whether its a good deal or not as I dont know the cost of living there. I'm from Germany.

With some tax calculator I found out that take home is arnd 1600Pounds. Is this a normal salary in the UK for a Masters graduate with 2 years experience? I did not deduct the Health insurance from the take home. I dont know how much it would be. Could anyone throw some light on that?(% of health insurance from the gross, employer contribution to the health insurance,etc)

thanks
Aravind

I am not sure about West Sussex but in London it should be around 32-35K, given that you have a good degree and quality J2EE experience. But of course London is more expensive than West Sussex, especially housing prices.

Thanks for the reply

Aravind

Hi Arvind ...i also wanted to work in UK. Can you please help me with details and contact of the consultants and how to get job there.
I have 2.5 years experience in Java/J2ee.

I believe NI contributions (health and pensions) is 9% though I can't honestly remember whether it recently wen't up 1% to 9% or whether it is now 10%.

�26k isn't too bad depending on the living costs in the area, I'm not familiar with Sussex myself, if that is 2 years of commercial experience in total. If you have more commercial experience in total and 2 years in J2EE then it would be a little low I'd think.