Market downturn

[PrestonChris]

My most resent role has involved a lot more work with non relational databases. Redis, mongodb, cassandra and even when we discussed relational it moved towards postgres. In my opinion oracle is definitely a dieing market right now, saying that obiee seems to get a lot of love.

I think the newer companies are more inclined to use these but in the past when i was a permie for CSC I've worked for companies such as Royal Mail , BNFL , Westinghouse , BAE and Tfl and they all have huge Oracle infrastructure so its still out there

These were all development areas not just OBIEE or Oracle Apps

[Cirrus]

I think there has been about 12 jobs advertised since October

Wow - with your skills and big name companies: only 12 jobs. You are using Jobserve? I would have thought well over 100 by now...

[SueEllen]

Wow - with your skills and big name companies: only 12 jobs. You are using Jobserve? I would have thought well over 100 by now...

Means he's missing jobs that aren't being advertised.

[Bee]

It's surely the worst IT contract market for a long time. What do others think? I haven't had a contract all last year (last one finished late 2015) so it's the worst period for me since 2012 certainly. It depends what you do, of course, but the market for testers is definitely saturated, you certainly need strong automation skills (Selenium/UFT etc.) I don't have much of that so I'm considering doing a course but self training never seem to do you much good. The market for developers of all kinds seems good, but won't these projects ever go into UAT or something (or are people not bothering with that anymore)?
What's happening?

The experience that I have worldwide is that positions are saturated by Indians.

[PrestonChris]

Means he's missing jobs that aren't being advertised.

This is what i'm thinking , as I mentioned I have no relationships with any recruiter for previous work, the first 2 contracts I secured myself

I have been for 2 interviews with different recruiters, amazes me the attitude difference before interview and after , I have been chasing feedback for both interviews and have struggled , very rude !

[SueEllen]

This is what i'm thinking , as I mentioned I have no relationships with any recruiter for previous work, the first 2 contracts I secured myself

I have been for 2 interviews with different recruiters, amazes me the attitude difference before interview and after , I have been chasing feedback for both interviews and have struggled , very rude !

You just have to get on their email mailing lists.

Some will spam everyone while others will only spam people they have worked with before.

[VillageContractor]

You need to tailor you jobserve searches better.

Don't specify a location and put "OR" between job titles.

Maybe have multiple searches sending out based on job titles or key words

[MrMarkyMark]

The experience that I have worldwide is that positions are saturated by Indians.

Not all are

[eek]

Not all are

+1.... In my sphere there isn't enough Indians with the expertise. Suddenly my carefully crafted skillset across multiple items is very relevant...

[coolhandluke]

E.ON Are always looking for good Oracle developers.

Based JCT27 M1 (Nottinghamshire)