re IT specialists leaving the RAF, my last firm paid a number of ex RAF IT specialists £300 to £500 per day....
And with Cyber coming on line, once they've got some qualifications and experience in that field, you can probably add a 0 to those rates of pay as industry and finance scrambles to get hold of them. Whereas it used to be pilots leaving the service with an ATPL and lots of hours to go into well paid jobs in the airlines, I suspect in the coming years it will be the well qualified JNCOs from the IT sections walking into jobs with salaries that look like phone numbers.