State of the Market

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automation == cost savings
cloud optimisation == cost savings
license reconciliation == cost savings

InfoSys provide all those and more.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-akshata-murty

[andromedan]

I did manage to survive the pandemic but there aren't that many front-end roles right now and if they are they usually want a one-man army. It's ok to burn your war chest but after a while and crisis after crisis, I'm not sure if it's worth it.

[PCTNN]

First contract after coming back from permieland and I may have hit the jackpot. I just heard the news that there is now a hiring freeze at my public sector client. No more hires for the foreseeable, both permies and contractors.

The project is part of a long term very well financed programme so this means that the project team will be fighting tooth and nail to keep the resources they have as they won't be able to replace them. So that's me safely locked in a contract for as long as I want it to last. I'll do 2 years, I quite fancy the work.

[SussexSeagull]

First contract after coming back from permieland and I may have hit the jackpot. I just heard the news that there is now a hiring freeze at my public sector client. No more hires for the foreseeable, both permies and contractors.

The project is part of a long term very well financed programme so this means that the project team will be fighting tooth and nail to keep the resources they have as they won't be able to replace them. So that's me safely locked in a contract for as long as I want it to last. I'll do 2 years, I quite fancy the work.

I hope that ia the case but I am not sure there is such a thing as a safe contract in either public or private sector for the foreseeable future.

[SussexSeagull]

I did manage to survive the pandemic but there aren't that many front-end roles right now and if they are they usually want a one-man army. It's ok to burn your war chest but after a while and crisis after crisis, I'm not sure if it's worth it.

Time between contracts has been a problem for me in a test over the last few years.

[PCTNN]

I hope that ia the case but I am not sure there is such a thing as a safe contract in either public or private sector for the foreseeable future.

Given one of the contractors in my team has been at the client for 4 years, another one for 2.5 years and another one for 8(!) years, I'm pretty confident.

[Fraidycat]

I just heard the news that there is now a hiring freeze at my public sector client. No more hires for the foreseeable, both permies and contractors.
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So that's me safely locked in a contract for as long as I want it to last. I'll do 2 years, I quite fancy the work.

You sound confident, hiring freeze could end up meaning no contract extension..

[tsmith]

Given one of the contractors in my team has been at the client for 4 years, another one for 2.5 years and another one for 8(!) years, I'm pretty confident.

Has to be public sector surely?

[tsmith]

I did manage to survive the pandemic but there aren't that many front-end roles right now and if they are they usually want a one-man army. It's ok to burn your war chest but after a while and crisis after crisis, I'm not sure if it's worth it.

Contracting has always been a borderline decision vs perm for me even when most roles were outside and more favourable tax landscape. With most roles now seemingly inside that destroys contracting completely for me.

Even if you get outside gov now increasing both corporation tax and dividend tax, so even that is less attractive.

Juice just isnt worth the squeeze for me -maybe for some if you want to be a contractor purely so you can move around every year just for the sake of it

[SussexSeagull]

Given one of the contractors in my team has been at the client for 4 years, another one for 2.5 years and another one for 8(!) years, I'm pretty confident.

As I say, I wish you well but we are about to enter a two year recession.