Demand for IT Contractors going off a cliff

[Sockpuppet]

Glad I'm not an IT contractor right now...

[swamp]

I'm at the coal face (i.e. the bench) and I can report that things are quite busy, though clients seem slow on interviews. Since the New Year I have had two interviews and one pending, with lots of others "yet to come back". Unfortunately the one interview that went well is not the one I'm interested in

So far I'm still optimistic about the market...

[HairyArsedBloke]

Demand for workers falling off so what does the government do?

Yup, you guessed - increase the supply. Link: BBC

I'm glad I'm out the game these days. (Own co., not on the bench)

[Diver]

Dust off your Plan B's everyone

[SizeZero]

Good to see some things are consistent

http://www.jobstats.co.uk/jobstats.d...X.d/index.html

[VectraMan]

Debt looks fairly safe, and good rates. I think I'm going to get into debt:

http://www.jobstats.co.uk/jobstats.d...T.d/index.html

[Dow Jones]

Wrong time of the year

Worst possible time (and not just because of the recent credit freeze). Busiest time is Apr-Jun, quietest Jan-Mar.

[Fran]

Glad I'm ion the Northwest for once, not anywhere near as scary as London

[Troll]

I have been keeping a log of stats from Jobserve for myself since 2000. Specifically, the number of IT roles in the UK per day.

Is it a compulsion with numbers... like trainspotting?

[AlfredJPruffock]

If you want to know if a hard rains a gonna fall -

Take a look at restaurants in your locale - are they busy or do you see a lot of empty tables - that - for the past few recessions in the UK was always the most predictable early warning sign.