State of the Market

[edison]

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.

I've done a lot of recruitment for some clients in the past. Had a few of these speculative emails recently along the lines of asking whether I've firmed up plans for 2025 yet and how the recruiter would be happy to solve all my resource problems.

IT Manager at £300 a day all in? £250 a day would only get you a new grad BA just 2-3 years ago. At this rate, contractors will soon be paying the client £200 a day for the privilege of coming to work <cue Four Yorkshiremen sketch>.

[GJABS]

At this rate, contractors will soon be paying the client £200 a day for the privilege of coming to work .

Well indeed one option open to some of us with savings, might be to buy into an existing business who uses our skills. Not without risk of course.