The official CUK "What is happening in Contracting" thread

[BrianSnail]

Main area of skills/work: Nosebagging

Tea

[BrilloPad]

There have been several threads recently regarding who is on the bench, how long for, what the market is doing etc so it makes sense to have a dedicated thread to cover this.

Blimey, I must be bored!

Main area of skills/work:
posting on cuk

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[Svalbaard]

Main area of skills/work:
SAP specialist.
Managing SAP projects and programmes.
Posting on CUK in between shouting at thick colleagues.

Are you currently in a contract: Yes
If so, when does it end : Eventually

[original PM]

Main area of skills/work: Project Management, Interim Management, Business Process Re- engineering, Software design, HCI specialist, Trainer, Tester, Part time accountant.

Are you currently in a contract: Yes

If so, when does it end: Nov 09 (at present)

[d000hg]

Main area of skills/work:Software (lead) developer

Are you currently in a contract: Yes, 2. One is Java & Flex, one is C++
If so, when does it end: Neither has fixed end date - when it's finished!

[Xenophon]

Tea

They love it.

[SallyAnne]

I never had Clippy down as an agent

It just shows, you never can tell on here!

[s2budd]

Main area of skills/work: Unix / Storage or Middleware
Are you currently in a contract: No, finished at the End of December from Barcap.
If so, when does it end: 2009

[gingerjedi]

Main area of skills/work: Support

Are you currently in a contract: Yes
If so, when does it end: 2 weeks

Are you currently on the bench: N/A
If so, how long has it been: N/A

Experience of market since on the bench: N/A

Sadly for me being ridiculously busy and having permy staff threatening to go on the sick with stress if I go doesn’t seem to be registering with the bean counters so far.

I really should be scouring jobserve by now shouldn’t I?