State of the Market

[Bluenose]

So far this year I have received several approaches a day.

Some cold from Indian recruitment companies, some from UK recruitment companies and one from a previous client.

There's hundreds of recruitment consultants out there with telephone quotas to fill.

When the market was pumping in July jobserve had approx 58,500 vacancies, today its reading about 37,000 but its always bad in January.

[TheDude]

Four calls today before 10am. All for consultancies doing government work.

Several departments are using Scala which is a very much in demand skill and these guys can't/won't compete with the financial services sector.

[TheDude]

Six more calls today.

All from Indian agencies recruiting for service providers/consultancies working for the UK government.

£450pd inside IR35 when the going rate is double that.

[KentDogWalker]

why do those agencies pick on the uk market, and push out all the good agents

[PerfectStorm]

Six more calls today.

All from Indian agencies recruiting for service providers/consultancies working for the UK government.

£450pd inside IR35 when the going rate is double that.

Who's offering £900pd roles?

[northernladuk]

Who's offering £900pd roles?

Here is your problem

TheDude
Fingers like lightning
TheDude doesn't make much sense

[TheDude]

Who's offering £900pd roles?

Firms who accept that if you want to leverage certain technologies the downside is that skilled practitioners are going to cost you.

Government agencies are never going to compete with financial services if they are using large service providers who require their cut on top.

[Bluenose]

Who's offering £900pd roles?

those roles are currently more common in public sector as there is an unwritten policy to try and swap out the outsourced bods costing 1650pd with peeps that cost 850-1150pd.

[dsc]

Who the hell costs 1650pd?

[jamesbrown]

Who the hell costs 1650pd?

As noted in this thread a million times, there is no "contractor market". Perhaps uncommon in IT, but pretty common for actuaries, interims and some other specialist areas (e.g., that require maths PhDs).