Lowering salaries - it's the end of IT as we know it (and I feel fine)

[MaryPoppins]

Without going in to the whole tacky "look at my wad"

[Francko]

I work in a team of 60% bobs and 25% poles, they said to me that they just cannot hire a UK person, there is none out there.

Everyone I know is in work, rates that I have been offered are some of the highest I have ever been offered and I believe that the market is going to get much better.

So maybe jobserve is not a proper indication of the market as it used to be.

However I remember the good old days where you typed a search with keyword java in 5 days and you got 20-30k jobs. Now you get 2k at worst.

Like in the other recession, people with good running rates did not even realise how tough was outside. I might have been away from the UK market for too many years now but I can tell you that at first glance it doesn't look like anything at all what it used to be from the outside. And come on, we all agreed now to this, even the government - T H E R E I S N O S K I L L S H O R T A G E, many qualified local people are on a bench.

[Francko]

IMO the rates are lower

compared to when I started contracting by the second year I was on 100k. I am still on the same rate even though I am now older, fatter and more experienced. Based on both of the former I should be on another 30%

I think 30% at least must be the increase in your obesity. You should definitely demand more than that.

[doodab]

compared to when I started contracting by the second year I was on 100k. I am still on the same rate even though I am now older, fatter and more experienced. Based on both of the former I should be on another 30%

If contractors were purchased by the pound I'd be retiring soon.

[alreadypacked]

Without going in to the whole tacky "look at my wad", I'd say rates aren't too bad at the mo - not as high as they have been but still way better than other areas of business. More importantly, I don't know anyone in my area who's benched which is a better sign (IMHO).
On the whole I'm still happy doing what I do.

Oh please, better than our current path

[Lumiere]

Everyone I know is in work, rates that I have been offered are some of the highest I have ever been offered and I believe that the market is going to get much better.

WHS

Agents are desperately begging for leads ..

[sasguru]

So maybe jobserve is not a proper indication of the market as it used to be.

However I remember the good old days where you typed a search with keyword java in 5 days and you got 20-30k jobs. Now you get 2k at worst.

Like in the other recession, people with good running rates did not even realise how tough was outside. I might have been away from the UK market for too many years now but I can tell you that at first glance it doesn't look like anything at all what it used to be from the outside. And come on, we all agreed now to this, even the government - T H E R E I S N O S K I L L S H O R T A G E, many qualified local people are on a bench.

You're still banging on about commodity "skills"? Are you thick?
When are you going to realise that knowing Java programming is not really adding value since any man and his dog can do it?
Salaries are not falling for hard and rare skills and never will.

[AtW]

Salaries are not falling for hard and rare skills and never will.

What's your hard and rare skill? Whatever it is, that's clearly not keeping your gob shut

[shaunbhoy]

What's your hard and rare skill? Whatever it is, that's clearly not keeping your gob shut

He has a 10-inch tongue, and can suck a golf ball through 4 metres of garden hose.

[markinbrussels]

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