Thread about IT contracting

[Moscow Mule]

Midas - down 24%

Lost your Midas touch eh?

AS400 Developer - + 15% BOOMED!

[Marina]

I noticed that VB.NET contract pay on average at least £100/day less than C# ones and there are a lot less of them. Why does anyone bother with VB.NET?

How about J# or Java.Net.sharp, or whatever it's called? (so obscure I can barely remember its name)

I bet only about two people in the country have ever used it, which means if they're contractors their rates must be either astronomical and/or they spend 90% of their time on the bench.

[DiscoStu]

Test Analyst +1.12%

Boomed I tell you!

[NickFitz]

How about J# or Java.Net.sharp, or whatever it's called? (so obscure I can barely remember its name)

I bet only about two people in the country have ever used it, which means if they're contractors their rates must be either astronomical and/or they spend 90% of their time on the bench.

Similarly for JScript.NET

[DS23]

Oracle 6 +1 £424 +0.56 % 7800 (10.30 %)
Oracle 10g 89 +1 £397 -2.89 % 1374 (1.815 %)
Oracle Developer 166 -15 £418 -2.89 % 721 (0.952 %)
Oracle Reports 171 +38 £419 +8.64 % 699 (0.923 %)
Oracle DBA 189 -39 £389 -5.07 % 593 (0.783 %)
Oracle 8/8i 197 +17 £434 +13.09 % 563 (0.744 %)
Oracle Consultant 290 -1 £478 +6.79 % 340 (0.449 %)
Oracle Forms 309 -17 £375 +4.18 % 306 (0.404 %)
Oracle EBS 323 -11 £401 -18.47 % 288 (0.380 %)
Oracle Discoverer 341 +46 £421 +1.97 % 256 (0.338 %)
Oracle Financials 344 -8 £462 +4.83 % 253 (0.334 %)
Oracle Applications 346 -55 £428 -5.11 % 251 (0.331 %)
Oracle RAC 362 -59 £417 -6.32 % 230 (0.304 %)
Oracle RMAN 380 +55 £393 +0.03 % 206 (0.272 %)
Oracle OWB 441 +61 £421 -11.97 % 135 (0.178 %)
Oracle 11i 445 -108 £369 -16.49 % 131 (0.173 %)
Oracle Application Server 456 -25 £356 +17.45 % 120 (0.158 %)
Oracle Analyst 465 -27 £412 +11.30 % 111 (0.147 %)
Oracle Workflow 472 -83 £435 -8.16 % 104 (0.137 %)
Oracle Functional Consultant 482 -10 £501 +6.26 % 94 (0.124 %)
Oracle OLAP 504 +22 £461 +0.32 % 72 (0.095 %)
Oracle HRMS 511 -26 £408 -6.03 % 65 (0.086 %)
Oracle ERP 512 +80 £492 -2.47 % 64 (0.085 %)
Oracle APEX 517 +87 £445 +20.20 % 59 (0.078 %)
Oracle Project Manager 521 +69 £487 +4.67 % 55 (0.073 %)
Oracle 10gAS 522 +7 £338 +19.61 % 54 (0.071 %)
Oracle Financials Consultant 523 +18 £477 +9.11 % 53 (0.070 %)
Oracle Technical Consultant 526 +12 £414 -9.40 % 50 (0.066 %)
Oracle Enterprise Manager 527 +50 £396 -0.76 % 49 (0.065 %)
Oracle Certification 529 +36 £366 -12.86 % 47 (0.062 %)

boomed and doomed etc.

[ratewhore]

I like Dim (Nearly said DP but know for sure it would be misconstrued). He talks sense in the same vein as Ozzy Osbourne (the only one in his family who made ANY sense at all)...

[Moscow Mule]

I like Dim (Nearly said DP but know for sure it would be misconstrued). He talks sense in the same vein as Ozzy Osbourne (the only one in his family who made ANY sense at all)...

Dirty minded perv.

[tay]

I've got this theory.

years ago MSACCESS was taught in uni's as an exemplar so the students could get a project in. These guys left uni and a lot of them put ACCESS guru 5 years on their CV. Rates, and the reputation of the product fell like a stone.

The same is now happening with .Net. The good guys will survive, but for the average dude or new entry - forget it.

Your theory is rubbish. .Net is not being taught in universities, it is all Java and C++ (mostly Java).

My current client has been trying to recruit for a grad to do .net stuff... paying good grad rates (£48k) and they cant get any who have done any .net, they will just get a java person and give them a brain washing course at Microsoft. If you are a grad with .net (if there are actually any) you are a lot better off than one of the masses of grads with Java.

[TheBigYinJames]

God I hate it when I agree with something tay says.

[Bagpuss]

48K for a grad job, I'm in the wrong industry. I bet the pay their canteen staff £500 a day