I'm constantly amazed by the terriible salaries on offer to UK ops people. 24K and that depends on experience?? Well what if you don't meet the required level of experience?? As one previous poster mentioned, it might be as low as 20k?? How are you supposed to live in that region of the UK on 20k?
Not a dig at silverjet per se as this seems to be normal for uk airlines to pay ops folks poorly. Lousy hours and lousy pay, but with no shortage of takers then the blame can be evenly apportioned.