State of the Market

[Fraidycat]

So you are just completely guessing then?

If had a BA mate who was on 900 a day a few years ago. He gave that up to do his Plan B and five years later had nothing to show for it.

[TheDude]

If had a BA mate who was on 900 a day a few years ago. He gave that up to do his Plan B and five years later had nothing to show for it.

I pity the fool.

[northernladuk]

I pity the fool.

For being his mate? Me too.

[PCTNN]

wooo BOOMING market. Just been asked if I'd be interested in a contract for a public sector client paying....drum roll...375 inside ir35. I did the same role at the same client 3 years ago for 650 (always inside ir35)

[Bluenose]

Just quickly looking on jobserve

^ this is the problem

My advice is to make sure you are using CV Library as their search facility for recruiters is above and beyond Jobserves and many of them use it as a primary source to call you, decent ones too, not just Damco solutions.

I use jobserve to check the pulse of the market but it should never be used to gauge contract rates.

In 'Soviet Russia, recruitment consultants call YOU' etc.

And yes, many people would work happily for 500pd inside IR35 for the rest of their lives but this is the IT contractor forum and someone, somewhere has to expense for NLUK's monthly wet almond latte bill from Cafe Nero.

This is what happens when socialists invade government, all the aspiration gets sucked out of everything, i dispair i tell thee!

[northernladuk]

My advice is to make sure you are using CV Library as their search facility for recruiters is above and beyond Jobserves and many of them use it as a primary source to call you, decent ones too, not just Damco solutions.

Have CV Library upped their game them? They were bloody awful when I last used them. A poor attempt at scraping and logging old/out of date roles. There was another one that launched around the time they did that was even worse. There was nothing extra on CV library that wasn't on Jobserve plus a lot of other out of date junk/replicated roles.

I use jobserve to check the pulse of the market but it should never be used to gauge contract rates.

Totally this. I think this stems from agents marking up roles and then offering lower, not the jobsites though.

There is ITjobswatch that pulls all the stats on rates vs roles etc but again it's based on scraping from the recruiting pages so includes false roles and artificially increased rates as well.

somewhere has to expense for NLUK's monthly wet almond latte bill from Cafe Nero.

Damn straight.

[eek]

Have CV Library upped their game them? They were bloody awful when I last used them. A poor attempt at scraping and logging old/out of date roles. There was another one that launched around the time they did that was even worse. There was nothing extra on CV library that wasn't on Jobserve plus a lot of other out of date junk/replicated roles.


Totally this. I think this stems from agents marking up roles and then offering lower, not the jobsites though.

There is ITjobswatch that pulls all the stats on rates vs roles etc but again it's based on scraping from the recruiting pages so includes false roles and artificially increased rates as well.



Damn straight.

I know that a lot of agencies are looking at moving to CV Library for candidate search given TotalJobs insane price increases. So it may not matter if the parsing has improved or not - for many agencies it's the only affordable game in town.

[KentDogWalker]

So what is better now for juicy contracts, CWJobs or CV library?

[northernladuk]

So what is better now for juicy contracts, CWJobs or CV library?

If you are looking you look at them all.

[Fraidycat]

"Wall Street and tech giants weed out workers as recession looms: Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Google slow hiring as Goldman Sachs reinstates year-end job cuts after profits plunged..Meta, Amazon, Tesla and Alphabet previously said they planned to slow hiring "

Anyone noticing a slowdown out there?

Im still in contract but looking very likely i will be not be renewed at year end.

I think 2023 is going to be a really bad year for the IT jobs market.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ion-looms.html