Will the contract market recover? If so when?

[SueEllen]

40k is lot. At least for me anyway. It is good thing that you are doing well in contracting. Thanks god, I only have 1 kid in no fee public school.

Stop boasting about how much more intelligent your kid is.

[mmo0690]

Stop boasting about how much more intelligent your kid is.

I am not boasting. mine is still very young and in primary school.

[Lance]

I've never been so busy.
And we can't find good people for love nor money.

So the "market" is fine. It's just the skillsets y'all have that are wrong.

[TheDude]

I've never been so busy.
And we can't find good people for love nor money.

So the "market" is fine. It's just the skillsets y'all have that are wrong.

What 'good people' can't you find?

[Lance]

What 'good people' can't you find?

Security Analysts.
3rd line infra engineers, with good cloud experience (lots of good CVs but 1st interview exposes weaknesses, lies and bulltulip).

Intelligence is the biggest problem. Smart people can learn anything, but there are very few smart people looking for work (or the recruiters we use cannot find them).

[malvolio]

Security Analysts.
3rd line infra engineers, with good cloud experience (lots of good CVs but 1st interview exposes weaknesses, lies and bulltulip).

Intelligence is the biggest problem. Smart people can learn anything, but there are very few smart people looking for work (or the recruiters we use cannot find them).

Recruiters are the problem, most likely. How detailed is the job spec you gave them? Most of their initial sift will be on keywords, nothing else. Tech architects will have the hardware skill set. for example, but you will never see them.

[PCTNN]

40k is lot. At least for me anyway.

40k is a lot especially if you waste them for a private school. I said waste because the biggest idiots I have had to deal with in my life they all had one thing in common: they went to private schools. Absolute dorks with 0 street smarts.

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

I've never been so busy.
And we can't find good people for love nor money.

So the "market" is fine. It's just the skillsets y'all have that are wrong.

BS. All the agents that I know very well are saying it's absolutely dead. And they have spoken openly about the situation. It is absolutely dire.

[eek]

BS. All the agents that I know very well are saying it's absolutely dead. And they have spoken openly about the situation. It is absolutely dire.

Security isn't really development work it's Business As Usual (or at the very least trying to ensure things remain business as usual).

The current issue is firms aren't investing unless it's end of life replacement projects (and even then this clientco is trying to do things on the cheep).

[northernladuk]

Security isn't really development work it's Business As Usual (or at the very least trying to ensure things remain business as usual).

You could also add that being a critical area they'd be decently funded, pretty static/forecastable workload and have enough perms in. Not like projects that flex and can be cancelled/ramped up as the budget dictates so having a level of fluidity that lends itself to contractors.