Re: Contract market these days?
* Ian Brayshaw ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >Just wondering what it was like in the UK right now. > > > > >... what the overall feel of the market is right now whether people > >are knifing coming in and out of interviews or if it's pretty easy > >to find IT work, etc. > > It seems to be quite strong, but definitely not as buoyant as it was. A > number of traditional sources of contract work seem to be drying up (a few > banks are sacking a lot of contractors in favour of permanents), but at the > same time there still a steady stream of people needing the temporary work > force. The dot bomb market has kind of leveled off and there's not as much > money being thrown around, but the market is a long way from being on > death's door. > Agreed, there is still a very good market for engineers (that may be spelt wrong, its late and i've just spent 2 days being addicted to baldurs gate 2) as opposed to web `programmers', it goes back to my fundamental rule of contracting have at least 3 good and well seperated areas of discipline before going contracting (i.e. perl & javascript are not well seperated) Greg -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
Re: Contract market these days?
>Just wondering what it was like in the UK right now. >... what the overall feel of the market is right now whether people >are knifing coming in and out of interviews or if it's pretty easy >to find IT work, etc. It seems to be quite strong, but definitely not as buoyant as it was. A number of traditional sources of contract work seem to be drying up (a few banks are sacking a lot of contractors in favour of permanents), but at the same time there still a steady stream of people needing the temporary work force. The dot bomb market has kind of leveled off and there's not as much money being thrown around, but the market is a long way from being on death's door. If you've got the skills there's plenty of work (as always). My £0.02. Ian _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Contract market these days?
Just wondering what it was like in the UK right now. My brother's on the point of quitting his current gig as web architect, designer, producer, JavaScript hacker (of quite some skill at this point), linux admin, and general "buck stops at me" type of gig. I know that hardly describes anyone here but I'm curious what the overall feel of the market is right now whether people are knifing coming in and out of interviews or if it's pretty easy to find IT work, etc. Thanks, Paul
