Tech prosperity deal?

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Yeah, I think to be a succesful contractor you need to go one of 2 ways. 1. Some out of date, hard to find niche skill, that is still in demand because there are still enough systems using it in big enough companies that will pay well for the skill or 2. Some cutting edge skill that is in demand but...

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Wish I was blisfully unaware that you exist!...

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*facepalm* Get in the sea! you daft cow......

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Not this nonsense again. It will just get hacked and then someone will take out a load of loans in your name, transfer ownership of your house, and get a fake passport while they are at it. Wish they would just give up.

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I thought this was going to turn into an I got laid story!...

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Yeah, I think there will be contracts for civil engineers, concrete suppliers, welders, electricians, brick layers, its just not the kind of contractor that is mainly on here.

On the question of wider business investment - yes, that is missing and why our contract market is lacklustre....

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Here is the number of AI jobs per month advertised on jobserve, since I started monitoring this:

196 Oct-2024
194 Nov-2024
115 Dec-2024
229 Jan-2025
171 Feb-2025
219 Mar-2025
243 Apr-2025
227 May-2025
180 Jun-2025...

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Had one like that. Worked for an investment bank and then a few years later came back. The hiring manager opened the interview by saying he spoke to my previous manager who told him I was perfect for the job so it was mine! Then we looked at the clock and we still had 45 minutes, so we just found some...

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A lot of the money seems to be for building data centres, the actual IT side of which will presumably just be cloned from the owners existing data centres. Not an industry or opportunity I really understand.

There is a heavy AI focus, and I do see more AI contracts coming up. Maybe this...

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https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...stment-economy

Anyone think this will have any impact for contractors?

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Indeed. Sometimes you find yourself in these situations and its not your fault and there is nothing you can really do about it, and even trying to sort things out is just going to make your life miserable. Current contract, the hiring manager that interviewed me was hopeless and did not really give...

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Anectodal evidence beats stats. Every time....

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Don't get your knickers in a twist. I think the image is pretty self explanatory, it even has a caption at the top you can read that says what is about.

Sorry, did not realize we only accept accademic standard citations on this forum!!

FX Evolution. (2025, September 12). The...

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On the question of number of inside vs outside contracts available, I have rss feeds on jobserve that monitor all IT inside and outside. Its not 100% reliable as the perfect search terms cannot be found, but I would say generally it is pretty accurate. Here is the post count for the last year, since...

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They may cut rates BUT inflation is rising again, so perhaps not....

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It takes practice I think. Blew my recent permie interview in part because I just didn't really know what kind of things they would ask or what kinds of answers would get me the job, but to be expected if its the only permie interview I have done in 25 years!...

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I actually made my case 2 months ago because I could see where things were headed. This time around I just nodded and smiled - 4 weeks to go!...

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This happened on a major Scottish Government project - Indian manager working in the project as some kind of PM used his contracting Ltd to bring in a load of them on T2 visas, all working through his company and he was taking a big cut too. He actually made millions out of it....

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Potentially huge how? What are the actual implications for contractors?...