Marketwatch

[Heavenlyz]

Dear all, apart from 19 months in the RN back in 88/89 and 18 months as a temp in 89/90, I have been a contractor since that time, and despite narrowing myself to the midlands and south yorkshire have managed to gain market rate or above subcontracts for more than 95% of the time since 1990.

I was wondering whether anyone has any URL's for "state of the UK contract market" type analysis, especially those with history?

Would also be nice if I could narrow the geography even more than UK.

TIA.

[javalad]

I hope these links will help u

http://www.jobstats.co.uk/jobstats.d/SKILL.html

http://www.itcontractor.com/Computer...jobs_watch.asp

[Heavenlyz]

Thanks, first site is indeed helpful, but I'll have to have a look at the 2nd link at home

[ratewhore]

why such a short time in the RN?

[ChimpMaster]

I hope these links will help u

http://www.jobstats.co.uk/jobstats.d/SKILL.html

http://www.thissitesucks.com/Compute...jobs_watch.asp

Javalad, why are you posting porn links here?

[Heavenlyz]

why such a short time in the RN?

Flying didn't meet my expectations and, without flying, I couldn't stomach going to sea.

The answer to the next question is, "no, I didn't want to be a crab".

[javalad]

Javalad, why are you posting porn links here?

TazMan.. I think u r in some other world..

[administrator]

TazMan.. I think u r in some other world..

No, he was right! A while ago I added a phrase replacement so that anyone posting links to one of the other contractor sites had the url replaced with thissite sucks.com as they had been spamming us and I couldn't be bothered to edit them out each time. The domain was not registered at the time but some enterprising porn webmaster had registered the domain and started using it... Changed to something less pr0n-like this time

[javalad]

Oh.. is it so.. sorry TazMan..

[expat]

No, he was right! A while ago I added a phrase replacement so that anyone posting links to one of the other contractor sites had the url replaced with thissite sucks.com

Interesting that you see nothing wrong in replacing contributors' links with another without warning. Yes it's your board but it's their comment: it shows an unfortunately unsurprising lack of respect.