Agencies and the market

[hgllgh]

ok ... ok ... i retracted the statement I made to the honourable gentleman some time ago


are IT rates genuinely coming down ?

[TheBigYinJames]

are IT rates genuinely coming down ?

I hope not, I'm out on the steet in 3 weeks time.

[Jaws]

Haven't applied to many roles yet but from the responses I got, no-one used the credit crunch excuse as a means of getting my rate down (although inevitably they all tried to get me to lower it). Didn't even hear "the market is saturated with .net developers".

[DodgyAgent]

are rates coming down genuinely is the question then ?

They are not so much coming down as becoming static. Contractors are reluctant to push for increases and more of them are extending their contracts. There is less quibbling about rates. We have about 200 contractors and I am concentrating heavily on Germany at the moment as there is a real shortage of people out there.

[TheBigYinJames]

We have about 200 contractors and I am concentrating heavily on Germany at the moment as there is a real shortage of people out there.

I can't wait for the modern version of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, where three Geordie IT consultants head out to Dusseldorf to work on an IT project, and get up to all sorts of laddish capers, such as avoiding capital gains, ordering room service from an empty room of the Hilton, and trying to claim prossies as tax deductable.

Static rates would do me fine, as long as the volume is still there.

[basshead]

I expire at the end of this month as well.

My condolences

[expat]

I can't wait for the modern version of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet....

Already here. Go to any British airport on Monday morning and you'll see queues of Britain's highly-skilled IT workforce going off to work - in real economies.

You won't see the equivalent in the departure halls of the airports in the countries that they are flying to.

[DodgyAgent]

Already here. Go to any British airport on Monday morning and you'll see queues of Britain's highly-skilled IT workforce going off to work - in real economies.

You won't see the equivalent in the departure halls of the airports in the countries that they are flying to.

Its not so much the British airports as Eastern European/Turkish airports. I have just placed a Korean and an Iranian into Germany at 30% margins...

Mind you I am lending them some money for flights

[expat]

Its not so much the British airports as Eastern European/Turkish airports.

Not for you maybe. I'm more concerned that this country can't make use of the rather good skills that it has. That's an economy on the way down.

[DodgyAgent]

Not for you maybe. I'm more concerned that this country can't make use of the rather good skills that it has. .

The skills that this country has are I am afraid a little bit too expensive despite the downturn in the economy. Now if UK contractors were to learn German then they can go into the German speakers only section of the market, which will pay really well.