Security Roles

[hands]

Hi,

I'm thinking of starting contracting. My skills are mainly around security products - IBM, CA & Microsoft. Any ideas what the market is like for security focused contractors right now... The usual sites jobsite cv-library seem to indicate it's okay...

Any info?

[deckster]

Sure, come on in. Rates have never been higher and clients are crying out for more contractors. You can claim anything you like on expenses and put all your income through Lichtenstein so you don't pay any tax either!

[ratewhore]

Hi,

I'm thinking of starting contracting. My skills are mainly around security products - IBM, CA & Microsoft. Any ideas what the market is like for security focused contractors right now... The usual sites jobsite cv-library seem to indicate it's okay...

Any info?

They are vendors, not products. Dependent on what products you specialise in you could either do pretty well or crap...

[swamp]

The usual sites jobsite cv-library seem to indicate it's okay...

Most job boards are full of bulltulipe CV harvest, reference requesting, copy-and-pasted 'roles'.

You might be lucky as you sound you're in a niche, but the only real barometer is can you get a (contract) interview? Otherwise if you've got the balls then jump in. Personally I'd wait a year and start contracting at the start of a (hopeful) upturn.

[ContractIn]

Hi,

I'm thinking of starting contracting. My skills are mainly around security products - IBM, CA & Microsoft. Any ideas what the market is like for security focused contractors right now... The usual sites jobsite cv-library seem to indicate it's okay...

Any info?

Areas that still have funding are linked to compliance and DLP. If you dont have much experience with delivering in these fields then I would wait a while.

[hands]

They are vendors, not products. Dependent on what products you specialise in you could either do pretty well or crap...

I'm consulting at the moment... CA SiteMinder, Microsoft ILM, ADFS, IAG, ISA and IBM Tivoli Access Manager & Tivoli Identity Manager...

[hands]

Most job boards are full of bulltulipe CV harvest, reference requesting, copy-and-pasted 'roles'.

You might be lucky as you sound you're in a niche, but the only real barometer is can you get a (contract) interview? Otherwise if you've got the balls then jump in. Personally I'd wait a year and start contracting at the start of a (hopeful) upturn.

Yes - I've been offered a 6 month contract... I'm very much in a niche and have a good CV in the area... the rate is in excess of 600 a day, so is kinda attractive...

[hands]

Sure, come on in. Rates have never been higher and clients are crying out for more contractors. You can claim anything you like on expenses and put all your income through Lichtenstein so you don't pay any tax either!

yeah - thanks for that.

[darmstadt]

My skills are mainly around security products - IBM, CA & Microsoft.

IBM have RACF
CA have Top Secret and ACF2
What do Microsoft have?

[hands]

Areas that still have funding are linked to compliance and DLP. If you dont have much experience with delivering in these fields then I would wait a while.

Yeah - stuff I do is around compliance SOX, and Data Protection... looks like these areas are still okay...