State of the Market

[courtg9000]

with security clearance?? wtf?

IT Configuration Technician: Desktop, Windows, Security Clearance
Hatfield
£109p/d
Contract 60 Days
IT Configuration Technician: Desktop, Windows, Security Clearance - (RL7815)
Our Global Enterprise client is looking for an IT Technician to be part of their growing team that will provide effective and efficient support to our clients.
Start Date: ASAP
Duration: 60 days (initially)
Pay Rate: £98 p/d (PLEASE NOTE: Employer NI is paid for by the client)
Total Daily Earnings: £109p/d (includes rolled up holiday)
IR35 Status: Inside
Location: Hatfield
NOTE: Active SC Clearance will be utilised.
Responsibilities:
• Provide IT configuration services at a component level whilst being self-sufficient to manage workload within timely parameters.
• Provide software installations and configuration in an existing IT infrastructure or pre-designed project and will be familiar with current?Microsoft desktop Operating Systems.
• Bespoke System work. In house systems (training given).
• Building (Software) various systems using detailed scripts. Training provided on scripts
• Effective up-line reporting - Must have strong and effective communication skills and ability to communicate with stakeholders at all levels.
• 25-50% of this role is data input, all on spreadsheets so input is manual.
• Consolidating consignments for distribution.
Soft Skills:
• Flexible approach and ability to work co-operatively within a newly created team environment
• Should be a self-starter and be able to perform quality assurance and control to create technical deliverables that are error free/with minimal non-functional defects.
• Experience in operationally supporting large, complex technical environment.
• Methodical and structured in their approach to tasks.
• Capability to organise and prioritise tasks
• Strong interpersonal skills to establish/maintain relationships and interact with team members
• Strong organisation and time management skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
To apply for this IT Configuration Technician contract job, please click the button below and submit your latest CV.
Curo Services endeavours to respond to all applications, however this may not always be possible during periods of high volume. Thank you for your patience.
Curo Services is a trading name of Curo Resourcing Ltd and acts as an Employment Business for contract and temporary recruitment as well as an Employment Agency in relation to permanent vacancies.

Fiver says this is Computacenter

[fulcon]

Results and analysis of a recent survey of 163 IT contractors on the state of the UK IT contracting market:

https://github.com/tadast/switching-...urveys/2025.md

[eek]

Fiver says this is Computacenter

It's minimum wage - so I don't think it matters who it is.

Curo really is a strange firm, they seem to qualify themselves for a lot of end clients and then completely screw up the recruitment side of things.

[avonleigh]

Results and analysis of a recent survey of 163 IT contractors on the state of the UK IT contracting market:

https://github.com/tadast/switching-...urveys/2025.md

Interesting that around double the amount of outside gigs than inside. Rest of it kinda what I would have expected.

[SchumiStars]

Computacentre
Hayes
Loriem
Experis
....were are the old school boys....

[agentzero]

with security clearance?? wtf?

IT Configuration Technician: Desktop, Windows, Security Clearance
Hatfield
£109p/d
Contract 60 Days
IT Configuration Technician: Desktop, Windows, Security Clearance - (RL7815)
Our Global Enterprise client is looking for an IT Technician to be part of their growing team that will provide effective and efficient support to our clients.
Start Date: ASAP
Duration: 60 days (initially)
Pay Rate: £98 p/d (PLEASE NOTE: Employer NI is paid for by the client)
Total Daily Earnings: £109p/d (includes rolled up holiday)
IR35 Status: Inside
Location: Hatfield
NOTE: Active SC Clearance will be utilised.
Responsibilities:
• Provide IT configuration services at a component level whilst being self-sufficient to manage workload within timely parameters.
• Provide software installations and configuration in an existing IT infrastructure or pre-designed project and will be familiar with current?Microsoft desktop Operating Systems.
• Bespoke System work. In house systems (training given).
• Building (Software) various systems using detailed scripts. Training provided on scripts
• Effective up-line reporting - Must have strong and effective communication skills and ability to communicate with stakeholders at all levels.
• 25-50% of this role is data input, all on spreadsheets so input is manual.
• Consolidating consignments for distribution.
Soft Skills:
• Flexible approach and ability to work co-operatively within a newly created team environment
• Should be a self-starter and be able to perform quality assurance and control to create technical deliverables that are error free/with minimal non-functional defects.
• Experience in operationally supporting large, complex technical environment.
• Methodical and structured in their approach to tasks.
• Capability to organise and prioritise tasks
• Strong interpersonal skills to establish/maintain relationships and interact with team members
• Strong organisation and time management skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
To apply for this IT Configuration Technician contract job, please click the button below and submit your latest CV.
Curo Services endeavours to respond to all applications, however this may not always be possible during periods of high volume. Thank you for your patience.
Curo Services is a trading name of Curo Resourcing Ltd and acts as an Employment Business for contract and temporary recruitment as well as an Employment Agency in relation to permanent vacancies.

No phone number listed. Call it with 141 before the number, to withhold your phone number, and ask to speak to the agent. If they don't answer, complain about the rate and make it clear you're not happy. I've seen adverts get withdrawn after a backlash. Nobody with SC should be working for what is essentially minimum wage work like this. Minimum wage is the lowest legal pay a company can get away with, so work that requires no brain power. This role at least requires some brain power and the agency Curo taking a bigger cut to drive down the rate is what is happening here. They are infamous for this.

[malvolio]

No phone number listed. Call it with 141 before the number, to withhold your phone number, and ask to speak to the agent. If they don't answer, complain about the rate and make it clear you're not happy. I've seen adverts get withdrawn after a backlash. Nobody with SC should be working for what is essentially minimum wage work like this. Minimum wage is the lowest legal pay a company can get away with, so work that requires no brain power. This role at least requires some brain power and the agency Curo taking a bigger cut to drive down the rate is what is happening here. They are infamous for this.

It's primarily a data entry role maintaining a CMDB on the face of it. so no real technical skills needed, but they may be handling stuff related to systems using sensitive or secret data (IP addresses, access points, whatever) so SC is actually necessary. That said, surely supervision can be provided until clearance comes through; this is not a Ministry after all.

Still a rubbish job though...

[Snooky]

Just been rejected for a developer position at a Formula One team because my salary expectations were too high!

Maybe they should stop pissing champagne up the wall and changing tyres every five minutes if they want to be able to afford top talent?

You were probably rejected for one or more of these reasons:

• you think you're better than they think you are
• you're actually better than they need for the money they can afford and you or they misjudged your skill match to the requirement
• you're out of touch with what the market is paying for your level of "top talent"
• they already have another candidate, possibly internal, and are going through the motions
• they're complete idiots who have no idea what they're doing and prefer pissing champagne up the wall and changing tyres

I've never attended an interview where I didn't already have a good idea of the rate or package on offer, did you not find this out first?

[SussexSeagull]

Interesting that around double the amount of outside gigs than inside. Rest of it kinda what I would have expected.

I suspect a lot of outside contracts don't get advertised anymore.

[GJABS]

Results and analysis of a recent survey of 163 IT contractors on the state of the UK IT contracting market:

https://github.com/tadast/switching-...urveys/2025.md

Discussion of this survey on Reddit - which also seems to have a subreddit named "ContractorUK" - no idea if it is related to us!

https://www.reddit.com/r/ContractorU...tate_of_uk_it/