Market really this bad?

[dude69]

Just got spammed the following:

Please note my client will not accept CV's lacking the following skills ASP.NET3.5, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008, MS Team Suite 2008 and Telerik.

My London based Insurance are currently on the look out for a strong .NET Developer.

This is a greenfield project working on creating an online underwriting system that will be used by external brokers and underwriters. The perfect candidate will have worked on Internet trading systems, and be able to demonstrate good knowledge of security and performance for each of the systems.

KEY SKILLS

C#, ASP.NET 3.5, JavaScript, AJAX, HTML, CSS, Visual Studio 2008, MS Team Suite 2008, Telerik and SQL Server 2008.

Desirable Skills

LINQ, nHibernate or Similar
Source Control (MS Team Suite or Subversion)

Location

City of London

Rate

£275 - £300

Length of Contract

6 Months

[Fred Bloggs]

You forgot the "must send 2 references" !

[zara_backdog]

You forgot the "must send 2 references" !

And copy of your passport, NI number and if you have had any interviews.

[Olly]

flipping heck £300 .....bugger this, I'm going travelling.

[eliquant]

That's what they would pay for an Indian IT worker for those skills to sit in London (the Indian wouldn't get the £300 / day though).

It just aint worth it, leave IT like I'm doing and set something else up, don't piss your life away begging money off others living on a drip-feed if you can help it.

[thunderlizard]

That's just the rate they want to pay, not the rate they might end up having to pay.

It seems like a long list of skills, but nobody would have used Telerik without having all the others anyway.

[dude69]

flipping heck £300 .....bugger this, I'm going travelling.

Indeed.

If I had that experience, and in particular "Internet trading systems" experience, which is Front Office, I'd be looking for £600+.

At least I would have been last year.

[Billy Pilgrim]

That's what they would pay for an Indian IT worker for those skills to sit in London (the Indian wouldn't get the £300 / day though).

It just aint worth it, leave IT like I'm doing and set something else up, don't piss your life away begging money off others living on a drip-feed if you can help it.

And from my experience would do nowhere near £300 worth of work either

[Jubber]

Are you honestly telling me you couldn't live on 300 per day?

That's 1500 per week. So even with the worst tax provision that would be a grand a week in your bin.

If I couldn't live on a grand a week something is very very wrong.

[deckster]

That's nothing...I've just seen an advert for a 12 month contract in the arse-end of nowhere in Austria (I know the client), using a number of pretty niche skills, for 240 euros/day. I was selling these skills for £600/day back in 2001!

It's bad, it's really bad...