State of the Market

[cojak]

Wow, you need 20 years experience over three very different sectors all for £550, inside?? What is the world coming to?

Most of those SBA’s have retired and are doing other things these days.

[eek]

Wow, you need 20 years experience over three very different sectors all for £550, inside?? What is the world coming to?

Cheapstakes will always be cheapstakes and see what they can get away with.

Problem is £550 inside is still a £150,000 or so yearly cost so I can see why they think it's a great deal..

[sreed]

1800 Indians turn up for 10 positions in person back home in Gujarat, chaos ensues.

I think some UK companies still occasionally do open interview days for perm roles, no idea what the turnout for those would be in this market.

Wow. That is crazy. Instantly rules out women I guess.

And this is the country Sunak wanted to do a trade-for-visas deal with! Thank **** that never came to pass.

[hungry_hog]

Cheapstakes will always be cheapstakes and see what they can get away with.

Problem is £550 inside is still a £150,000 or so yearly cost so I can see why they think it's a great deal..

For a PAYE rate it's ok, if it's Umbrella it's not great

it's still well over 100k, and miles over what most people can dream of, I feel like everyone here lives in Mayfair, drives a Bugatti and has 15 high maintenance wenches

[sreed]

Wow, you need 20 years experience over three very different sectors all for £550, inside?? What is the world coming to?

There’s no way they’re getting someone with that breadth of skill set and experience for that rate. We have an equivalent one-man band consultant SA on my project and he charges £1,500 a day though it’s only 3 days a week Tue-Thu.

I can only imagine that the recruiter just wants to throttle the number of applications they get. Either that, or they’ve vastly oversold themselves to the client!

[FIERCE TANK BATTLE]

Highest rate I ever had was 550, normal is 400-430, in this market I would go lower. Always outside. I'm a developer/architect/anytitleyoulike although I very experienced, yet since nobody can even remotely measure or identify good developers it is difficult to stand out.

No bugatti or harem

[dsc]

Cheapstakes will always be cheapstakes and see what they can get away with.

Problem is £550 inside is still a £150,000 or so yearly cost so I can see why they think it's a great deal..

The thing is, is this is what most offer, this becomes the market rate. Who cares what used to be paid 5-10yrs ago.

[SussexSeagull]

Another week and I could say another week to being no nearer to getting a contract but as the last couple of contracts I got came out of the blue I am not sure you can say that anymore.

[Fraidycat]

A week after the election and zero bounce on Jobserve.

When interest rates were near zero 3 years ago, I though 5%+ interest rates would kill the economy in general.

The only thing that seems to have been killed are large chunks of the IT jobs market.

Which other job markets (i mean outside of IT) are having a equally bad or worse time than us?

[PCTNN]

Market not looking great for UX/UI Design roles so it's a good thing my contract has been extended until the end of the year.