State of the Market

[NowPermOutsideUK]

Senior Backend Developer
Start: Immediate
Location: Remote initially, London from February 2021
Rate: £400 per day inside IR35
Duration: 6 months (will extend)
Key Skills/Knowledge:
10+ years Java experience
Spring Boot, Maven, Jenkins, Hibernate

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Backend Engineer - E-Commerce
Start: Immediate
Location: Remote/London
Rate: £350 per day outside IR35
Duration: 6 months
Essential skills:
Experience developing REST, JAVA GraphQL
Scripting using Python

Would be useful to know what the old rates were for these two examples!

[eek]

Would be useful to know what the old rates were for these two examples!

Try roughly double and outside.

[SueEllen]

I mean, come on! In an office London from February 2021?!. I wonder if these people read the news.

It is a way for the agent to say if you don't live commuting distance don't bother applying to cut down the number of applicants.

[Old Greg]

Looking grim, guys.

[eek]

Looking grim, guys.

That tells me he can bulltulip but doesn't tell me he has any actual skills.

And a look at his profile confirms exactly that - he has an MBA after 2 years as a code monkey in India and 2 years working in Primark while doing a second / third rate MBA at a former poly.

[PCTNN]

I'd never hire someone who wears the shirt collar outside the sweater, unless I was hiring a gardener.

[eek]

I'd never hire someone who wears the shirt collar outside the sweater, unless I was hiring a gardener.

He's from India and it's Edinburgh at 9am in November..

[founder]

That tells me he can bulltulip but doesn't tell me he has any actual skills.

And a look at his profile confirms exactly that - he has an MBA after 2 years as a code monkey in India and 2 years working in Primark while doing a second / third rate MBA at a former poly.

Agile/Scrum is a disposable skill

[jayn200]

I'd never hire someone who wears the shirt collar outside the sweater, unless I was hiring a gardener.

He looks fine. Much more presentable then lots of young coders these days.

But ya he has a tough hill to climb, btech with an mba from India neither at schools that mean anything doesn't get much more common than that. Really hard to stand out.

[ladymuck]

He's from India and it's Edinburgh at 9am in November..

He could still have the shirt collar tucked inside the sweater