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Originally posted by ensignia View PostI've never had more work with 3 full time clients, just been extended with 2 clients (one til Feb '26, and the other til Aug '25), both accepted rate increases and all are OIR35. 23/24 has been the most profitable year for my Ltd but it looks like 24/25 could be even better.
I'm going to make hay while the sun shines, because who knows what's around the corner, and it may very well be that I'll be in the same boat as many others.Comment
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Originally posted by mogga71 View Post
If you don't mind me asking ... what sort of work do you do?
Have 3 very different clients in different areas but generally the work is the same between them i.e. researching users, planning, designing and coordinating front end builds for web applications.Comment
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Damn. Went after a nice looking contract, but turned out to be something with someone already at the org lined up to take it, but they have to advertise any way because of procurement rules. Waste of my time, and I polished up my CV for it too.
Maybe whoever is getting promoted, will leave a space behind for me..?
Recruiter says the last year has been bad seemed but optimistic that things are turning? My expectation is that its not going to improve quickly.Last edited by willendure; 29 November 2024, 13:38.Comment
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Originally posted by willendure View PostDamn. Went after a nice looking contract, but turned out to be something with someone already at the org lined up to take it, but they have to advertise any way because of procurement rules. Waste of my time, and I polished up my CV for it too.
Maybe whoever is getting promoted, will leave a space behind for me..?
Recruiter says the last year has been bad seemed but optimistic that things are turning? My expectation is that its not going to improve quickly.
As for being optimistic...well lets just say it's much easier on the mind to keep thinking things will change for the better. I'm sure they will at some stage, but I wouldn't say it's going to be any time soon.Comment
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I don't normally get these types of emails, mainly because I don't do any recruitment I'd imagine.... anyway just received this from a recruiter:I know you may not have any active requirements currently, but I just wanted to reach out as over the last 2 weeks I have worked a number of roles within the Support & Infrastructure space so I have multiple, pre-qualified, immediately available candidates for the below jobs roles.
Help Desk Technician - £150p/day
Technical Support Specialist - £200p/day
IT Support Analyst - £250p/day
Network Architect - £350p/day
Security Engineer - £300p/day
Desktop Support Technician - £200p/day
Infrastructure Engineer - £275p/day
Site Reliability Engineer - £350p/day
IT Manager - £300p/day
Infrastructure Manager - £300p/day
All day rates stated above are all-inclusive of our recruitment fees and you can utilise the services of these contractors for a long or as little as you like and you have the right to cancel their services immediately.
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Originally posted by SchumiStars View PostWTF is wrong with me?
I am security cleared, Oxford Grad who has 25yrs of development experience in Java and .Net.
What have I got to do to get a contract, I have been looking for nearly 2yrs now. FFS.
Your path is not a lonely one, its literally a routlette wheel of luck. Yes, some people on here make their own luck but chance plays a big part.
If you want a job right now it seems Texas and the surrounding states is the place to be in 2024/2025.
Cold comfort for Brit IT workers but the enormous influx of people every year wont be helping, the economy is not growing fast enough to absorb everyone.Comment
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Originally posted by Smartie View PostAh statistics.
While the market is pretty terrible, the number of roles with 'developer' in the job title might not correlate exactly to the number of developer type roles.
For instance, it seems that 'Software Engineer' roles have become a lot more popular recently (below) - 50% of the number of 'Developer' roles.
The job used to be 'Programmer' but not many advertised roles for that these days - worth expanding your searches perhaps as trends in job titles do change.
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Originally posted by Bluenose View Post
Make sure you have your Linked-in tags setup with right right search terms and tweak your job titles to suit.Comment
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Originally posted by willendure View Post
Do you do keep changing job titles on LI? I was doing that to match my CV. Its the main reason I got fed up with LI because I felt I had to constantly tweak it to tell the same story as my CV. Can't be bothered with that - if I need to I will put something a bit generic like Consultant Software Engineer.Comment
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