State of the Market

[KentDogWalker]

Surprisingly gone very quite in the Azure Solution Architect space. Post holiday slowdown or ominous signs of things to come?

k8s on bare metal becoming more popular, with AWS used as managed k8s

[KentDogWalker]

I am receiving noticeably fewer approaches for Scala roles.

time to learn typescript

[PCTNN]

I'm taking 100k permie now, was on £500 pd for a a while but keep changing COs

Yeah the first 6 figure permie offer I get I'd probably take it as well. For what I do and my level of experience there are no permie jobs paying that much; so far the best permie offer I got was 75k (plus benefits). I'm still better off contracting.

[TheDude]

time to learn typescript

Er - why?

[KentDogWalker]

Er - why?

cause node going multithreaded and web-assembly

[rocktronAMP]

I'm still getting a few approaches on LinkedIn, some inside IR35 that I enjoy shooting down given I'm in a long term contract. On that subject, this is proving to be the best contract I've had in nearly 20 years of contracting. The work and the people are great. Very relaxed. It's 100% remote and outside IR35. Further, I invoice and receive payment in USD, which is currently very strong against GBP. I don't contract in London finance anymore, for obvious reasons, but this set of circumstances mean I'm on £50k+ more than I was on in London and without the hassle of staying away mid-week.

Where I can get a guaranteed long contract like that? I'd come off perm for it. Superb. I presume that your ultimate client has no UK office presence at all and ergo the SDS requirement is very simple to generate.

Because it is North America, are you working those time zone hours. Hopefully your client is not in the San Francisco time zone (PST) (-8 hours time difference), I mean.

Anyhow pleased for you

[jamesbrown]

You're unlikely to get lucrative contracts with overseas clients unless you're a recognised specialist and you've built a network. You may get lucky, but I mostly work for overseas clients and I've never been cold called or contacted through advertising like a website or linkedin or anything like that, only contacted through ex clients or clients or suppliers of ex clients or people I've met over the years at conferences/events etc. Without that, a tiny overseas supplier looks pretty high risk and not on the radar at all.

[BlueSharp]

What an odd week. Missed out on a contract that would of been perfect but managed to pick up a part-time contract that will fit nicely with the current gig.

[oliverson]

Where I can get a guaranteed long contract like that? I'd come off perm for it. Superb. I presume that your ultimate client has no UK office presence at all and ergo the SDS requirement is very simple to generate.

Because it is North America, are you working those time zone hours. Hopefully your client is not in the San Francisco time zone (PST) (-8 hours time difference), I mean.

Anyhow pleased for you

I was approached on LinkedIn about it. 11th hour as I was talking to an insolvency practitioner about liquidating the Ltd, having been on the bench 17 months. You're right, no physical UK presence so the IR35 reforms don't apply and it's down to me, the client and QDOS to reach an outside determination, which we have.

The team are mostly UK-based but we do have occasional calls involving the US.

Thanks

[KentDogWalker]

quite a few phone calls, but few interviews atm