State of the Market

[Fraidycat]

Working 4 days / 3 nights in London for me will cost the best part of £800 minimum (train / flight with an OK hotel and meal attached).

Is that per week or month?

[eek]

Is that per week or month?

per week.

Early morning train fare is £280 (return) or so, hotel £160 for anything half decent. Back in 2016 I remember 3 nights in Southwark Travelodge was £400.

[Fraidycat]

per week.

Early morning train fare is £280 (return) or so, hotel £160 for anything half decent. Back in 2016 I remember 3 nights in Southwark Travelodge was £400.

40,000 a year, if it were a longer term contract is obviously not sustainable.

Obviously it can be done a lot a cheaper if you are prepared to compromise.

It is not ideal, but it's the kind of thing the government is making us do by forcing IR35, lowering our standard of living.

[northernladuk]

40,000 a year, if it were a longer term contract is obviously not sustainable.

Obviously it can be done a lot a cheaper if you are prepared to compromise.

It is not ideal, but it's the kind of thing the government is making us do by forcing IR35, lowering our standard of living.

Some good Avios points can be earned for a much needed holiday to relax for sure.

[SussexSeagull]

I had a very good and fairly well paid contract or a year half way up the country that probably cost me £1,000 in expenses (I spent about £6,000 in train tickets that year). If that was inside IR35 I would have been better off getting a local permanent job.

I am sure the market will eventually settle into a new normal post-Covid but the downside for business will be a smaller flexible workforce to come in and do a job and disappear when they aren't needed anymore.

People will do what is best for them which could include an inside contract but it is certainly a less appealing option now.

That said, from my limited view of the market while there is a lot of inside contracts I am possibly seeing a slight bump in daily rate to partially compensate.

[SteelyDan]

Over the past few days my RSS in-box from Jobserve has been flooded with loads of opportunities. Majority I would say are 'Inside', others FTC, but a smattering of 'Outside' roles too with what I would call 'normal' rates. All related to the vaccine providing some confidence maybe, plus on the cusp of a new financial year for budgets?

[ResistanceFighter]

My standard response was always, 'If you look at my CV, you will see that before I did XYZ, I had never done before, XYZ.'

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[Bluenose]

Too many contractors and too few contracts. Jobserve has gone from several hundred jobs a day to probably about 50 passing my initial filter.

We are up to almost 12k jobs on jobserve today from the 'bottom' which i recorded at approx 2,850 in April 2020. It was steady for a while at around 6,000 through the bear market so the amount of activity has doubled in approx 10 days.

If this momentum continues we will will hit 25k again in short order.

[northernladuk]

We are up to almost 12k jobs on jobserve today from the 'bottom' which i recorded at approx 2,850 in April 2020. It was steady for a while at around 6,000 through the bear market so the amount of activity has doubled in approx 10 days.

If this momentum continues we will will hit 25k again in short order.

April 2020 isn't a good yardstick. It's the month IR35 should have set in but they cancelled it last minute. Caught everyone out.

[SussexSeagull]

We are up to almost 12k jobs on jobserve today from the 'bottom' which i recorded at approx 2,850 in April 2020. It was steady for a while at around 6,000 through the bear market so the amount of activity has doubled in approx 10 days.

If this momentum continues we will will hit 25k again in short order.

Interesting. The contract I finished today still had work to do but the powers that be didn't want to pay for it (the permanent staff are going down to a four day week) which I think is fairly common at the moment. The work isn't gong anywhere.