Moving to UK from New Zealand to contract

[Pgtips]

VMWare, it's not going anywhere soon.

True. From what I can see on Jobserve, Citrix XenApp Migration work still seems to attracting good daily rates too.
There seems to be a massive variation of what daily rates are on offer though. A few seem pretty laughable like they want someone who's an expert across storage, virtualisation, networking and server admin for 150 a day!

[Dallas]

We have a tonne of NZ'ers leading the Chinese tech teams in china.

[Pgtips]

We have a tonne of NZ'ers leading the Chinese tech teams in china.

China is our biggest export market. In return Chinese are allowed to pump their cheap money into our real estate market which has a created a massive bubble in Auckland. I'd dare say that Auckland property overall is more expensive than that of London. Plus I think we've sold off a lot of farmland to them as well. China owns us pretty much.

[SussexSeagull]

I know Contracting is facing challenges in the upcoming years but I really do think all this talk of it being over as an industry is a bit overdone. Everyone has a different skill set and there will be regional variations but most contractors I personally know see to be doing ok.

I do think at times people think confuse the state of the financial sector with the state of the whole industry.