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    Originally posted by MrButton View Post
    Excellent article.

    It’s safe to assume almost all of what they’re talking about is about IT professional roles.
    I agree as that is where the biggest cost savings can be made...meantime you have contractors posting on here about asking for higher rates @ renewal time!

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      Originally posted by uk contractor View Post
      I agree as that is where the biggest cost savings can be made...meantime you have contractors posting on here about asking for higher rates @ renewal time!
      Brexit to the rescue.

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        Market was good for me

        Just thought I would give something back to the forum by giving my little report on the market:

        I'm a long time contractor with skills in SQL Server development, ETL and Data Warehouses. I started looking in Mid April , loading a new version of my CV on all the job boards and applying for a new contract on jobserve. There seemed to be plenty of jobs in the City for around £500 a day and I just signed a new contract today. This time around I found the market pretty good with about a month of bench time. Contrary to other's experience, I did fine following the tried and true route of using job boards and waiting for agents to call. I never bothered to update my Linked in profile.

        I'm not a native and have a strong accent. I did notice a LOT more questions about my immigration status than ever before.

        One last thing - I was pleasantly surprised to find that if you sign up for free to MyVisualStudio.com, you can get tons of good stuff for free. The most interesting for me was 3 months of Pluralsight training which I was just about to pay for. I was also able to get free versions of Visual Studio, SQL Server, Power BI and a Virtual machine to load it all on. This was super helpful for upgrading my skills. I found out about this here, but figured it can't hurt to say it again.

        Good Luck to all that will follow....

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          There's not one market thats homogenous in terms of demand..theres many within it..all the different specialisms areas etc...so Im surprised a lot of people think it should be bad for everybody... company i contract at cant hire enough people...its really hard to find quality contractors...

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            Originally posted by uk contractor View Post
            Job hopes of 4m Brits hit by an
            Many of these are IT related posts so its not going to get better for many UK born IT workers anytime soon.
            A Think-tank, quoted by Dailyfail...

            Newsflash - even in EE IT pays better than London and large parts of the UK in real terms, largely thanks to the offshoring.

            So yeah - "They took our jobs", but not the immigrants.

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              Originally posted by hairymouse View Post
              Just thought I would give something back to the forum by giving my little report on the market:

              I'm a long time contractor with skills in SQL Server development, ETL and Data Warehouses. I started looking in Mid April , loading a new version of my CV on all the job boards and applying for a new contract on jobserve. There seemed to be plenty of jobs in the City for around £500 a day and I just signed a new contract today. This time around I found the market pretty good with about a month of bench time. Contrary to other's experience, I did fine following the tried and true route of using job boards and waiting for agents to call. I never bothered to update my Linked in profile.

              I'm not a native and have a strong accent. I did notice a LOT more questions about my immigration status than ever before.

              One last thing - I was pleasantly surprised to find that if you sign up for free to MyVisualStudio.com, you can get tons of good stuff for free. The most interesting for me was 3 months of Pluralsight training which I was just about to pay for. I was also able to get free versions of Visual Studio, SQL Server, Power BI and a Virtual machine to load it all on. This was super helpful for upgrading my skills. I found out about this here, but figured it can't hurt to say it again.

              Good Luck to all that will follow....
              I knew when I was posting this that I was jinxing it. AFTER I signed the contract, the agent called me this morning with some story about the client thinking the rate was £120 per day less. Time to keep looking....

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                Leaving the circuit now jobs in SC sector has recommenced but found most of the projects are now aiming for the end of the year for a full completion. It's going to be a very long dry spell coming for rollout engineers in central government after november 2018

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                  Not in London lots of sc deployments, not enough contractors, we have a break in the project but are being paid to not work for a month

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                    I have just spent my longest time on the bench although the first 4 weeks I didnt really try. Typically, I had nothing come along for 4 weeks after and then all of a sudden, I got 3 offers. This market has been a bit more difficult than usual and I have seen a fair few contractors saying the same. Another thing I have noticed is a shift in roles to Edinburgh for £100 less a day.

                    Bench time is when you find out what you are made of

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                      Originally posted by ContractorHardman View Post
                      I have just spent my longest time on the bench although the first 4 weeks I didnt really try. Typically, I had nothing come along for 4 weeks after and then all of a sudden, I got 3 offers. This market has been a bit more difficult than usual and I have seen a fair few contractors saying the same. Another thing I have noticed is a shift in roles to Edinburgh for £100 less a day.

                      Bench time is when you find out what you are made of
                      you in edinburgh?

                      what types of roles are you talking about? dev/pm/...?

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