State of the Market

[jamesbrown]

Was tempted, but I get a bad vibe, can't think why...

https://www.jobserve.com/gb/en/find-...5A573D8B97B40/

The "per day" seems to be a typo

[jamesbrown]

Ability to work within a (thinly documented) extensive codebase

[eek]

The "per day" seems to be a typo

If I knew enough Java I would be tempted to join for a day or so to see how bad the code base is.

As I dread to think of the standard of the work given the rates they are paying.

But equally they probably think they are being generous paying £40-50k a year for a developer which makes things kind of worse.

[BigDataPro]

testers rarely handle production information. So there's less need for SC.

Probably you are not aware but they do. For example passport printing and/or epassport gate testing etc (automated border control system) currently done by Thales group.

[PerfectStorm]

End of current contract coming up, presumed extension so I'm looking around as a Plan B.

Surprised at just how healthy the market is - lots of Outside IR35 work. Things look workable.

[LadyPenelope]

End of current contract coming up, presumed extension so I'm looking around as a Plan B.

Surprised at just how healthy the market is - lots of Outside IR35 work. Things look workable.

I'm not seeing masses of BA contracts on Jobserve. Am I looking in the wrong place? Thanks.

[eek]

I'm not seeing masses of BA contracts on Jobserve. Am I looking in the wrong place? Thanks.

A lot of contractors get their work directly from their linkedIn contacts not via agencies.

[PerfectStorm]

I'm not seeing masses of BA contracts on Jobserve. Am I looking in the wrong place? Thanks.

About 20 went up in the past day

[baen]

Reasonable rates for BA roles, e.g: https://www.jobserve.com/KNhwp

[gruntling]

I've been looking for a few weeks and had a few leads in the early days and one interview but my general impression is that the market is fairly weak compared with a normal March (usually the busiest month before start of financial year).

Seem to be getting more leads via linkedin than jobserve which seems fairly dead. A warning is that a common scam is "outside IR35 until Apr" gets rewritten by agents to "outside" and I'm relaxing my reqs to include "inside" :-(

Upside is number of times "remote" is mentioned. Wondering whether to return to my old role (now "inside") or hold on a few months over the summer.