Reply to: Is there life in Newcastle?

[Inv]

I'm based near enough to Newcastle to be qualified to answer this, I suppose. Overall contracting opportunity seems poor in the entire North East, not just Newcastle. There does seem to be the odd sprinkle of development based contracts, but the ones I've seen tend to be fairly specific and short lived.

[eek]

Not been out there in a long while, think it was when the nightclub boat was still there (Tuxedo Princess?) with the revolving dance floor. And how it listed to one side making you think you were more drunk than you really were.

qh

In my day it was Tuxedo Royale. All gone now - the Princess was scrapped in Turkey the Royale caught fire in Boro....

[quackhandle]

Central is where all the good drinking places are (well, except for the Old George off High Bridge St, that is!), the Bigg Market is so yesterday now even the chavers avoid it.

Not been out there in a long while, think it was when the nightclub boat was still there (Tuxedo Princess?) with the revolving dance floor. And how it listed to one side making you think you were more drunk than you really were.

qh

[washed up contractor]

Get yersel doon the Bigg Market, plenty of "life" doon there bonny lad.

qh

Central is where all the good drinking places are (well, except for the Old George off High Bridge St, that is!), the Bigg Market is so yesterday now even the chavers avoid it.

[quackhandle]

FTFY

Get yersel doon the Bigg Market, plenty of "life" doon there bonny lad.

qh

[northernladuk]

I think Newcastle is generally a poor location for contractors. For every one gig I hear of there, I hear of 10+ in Edinburgh and Glasgow .

FTFY

[borderreiver]

I think Newcastle is generally a poor location for contractors. For every one gig I hear of there, I hear of 10+ in Edinburgh and Glasgow.

[washed up contractor]

There's a number of financial opportunities in and around Newcastle.

You've Virgin Money at Gosforth on the old \ modernised Northern Rock site, Newcastle Building Society and Brewin & Dolphin in the city centre, Sage near Hazelrigg, Atom Bank further out at Durham although contractor opportunities are bordering on few and far between.

Last I heard though Cognizant had become the sole preferred supplier at VM and Brewin & Dolphin positively discourage 'speculative' approaches.

[eek]

SAGE is in Gosforth

Sage don't have contractors unless you have a skillset they need which was Ruby on Rails for a while and previously Java... I suspect if you know Apex they may want you but its not often they take contractors...

Decent office though with a nice lunchtime walk route (round the block) if you have something they need.

[Sausage Surprise]

SAGE is in Gosforth
I've also had contracts at Northern Rock (Virgin Money) and BT

[barrydidit]

RPMI (round the corner from me) are now a TCS stronghold....

Ah...

The pimp who called me about it was a right pita anyway.

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Virgin money is good. I had a gig there a few years back. I don't see too many contracts going there though. The railway pensions administration people are in Darlington I think, occasional gigs advertised there.

RPMI (round the corner from me) are now a TCS stronghold....

[barrydidit]

Virgin money is good. I had a gig there a few years back. I don't see too many contracts going there though. The railway pensions administration people are in Darlington I think, occasional gigs advertised there.

[BlasterBates]

No not really, Newcastle is in the middle of nowhere. Yorkshire is much better.

[eek]

I am a Londoner - working, predictably, in financial-services IT (I hate the grandiose "data science") - whose wife got a good academic job in Newcastle. There are thoughts of relocation, but searches on Jobsite and EFinancialCareers (I use "sql" as the search keyword) come up nearly empty. Newcastle-based contractors: are there any big financial employers in Newcastle? Do people commute to Edinburgh? Do people commute to London?!

No

DWP and HMRC at Longbenton (all will be inside IR35 nowadays) and EDS / HP / HPE / whatever its now called at Silverlink are the main contractor places in the North East. There isn't any financials services really here except for Virgin Bank and Atom..