Reply to: Highest day rate you have ever seen for your skillset.

[GigiBronz]

As you may have seen in the news, Silicon Valley Bank just went bust with around 94% of deposits uninsured by FDIC and their focus was on tech businesses, so those layoffs are about to accelerate...

If all the banks are crashing(they are all operating on similar models) and they usher in cbdc’s and social credit…

We’ll all be probably digging in some mine somewhere for all the crap we’ve said in here

highest rate would be able to afford another day

[jamesbrown]

On the downside, there have been quite a few layoffs in Silicon Valley of late.

As you may have seen in the news, Silicon Valley Bank just went bust with around 94% of deposits uninsured by FDIC and their focus was on tech businesses, so those layoffs are about to accelerate...

[ladymuck]

What cert are you doing? Is it the BCS one?

This
https://www.credly.com/org/the-open-...ure-foundation

[edison]

What Lance says!

You can do intensive courses and get it done in under a week if you're willing to put the effort in to not thinking like a developer. It's expensive to do so you ought to look at the ROI you'd get from the certificate before committing.

The Business Architecture cert I'm looking will cost about £350 because it's self-study, foundation level, and is not the full enterprise architecture framework that core TOGAF is all about. Core TOGAF isn't for me, it's completely unnecessary for what I'm interested in.

What cert are you doing? Is it the BCS one?

[brightondeveloper]

What Lance says!

You can do intensive courses and get it done in under a week if you're willing to put the effort in to not thinking like a developer. It's expensive to do so you ought to look at the ROI you'd get from the certificate before committing.

The Business Architecture cert I'm looking will cost about £350 because it's self-study, foundation level, and is not the full enterprise architecture framework that core TOGAF is all about. Core TOGAF isn't for me, it's completely unnecessary for what I'm interested in.

Yeah - I spoke with someone about this and I think I am going to line up the Azure Solutions Architect Expert cert as it's more inline with my trajectory - thank you

[ladymuck]

How hard is a TOGAF to do - as a seasoned developer say? Does it take a long time to go through?

What Lance says!

You can do intensive courses and get it done in under a week if you're willing to put the effort in to not thinking like a developer. It's expensive to do so you ought to look at the ROI you'd get from the certificate before committing.

The Business Architecture cert I'm looking will cost about £350 because it's self-study, foundation level, and is not the full enterprise architecture framework that core TOGAF is all about. Core TOGAF isn't for me, it's completely unnecessary for what I'm interested in.

[Lance]

How hard is a TOGAF to do - as a seasoned developer say? Does it take a long time to go through?

It's a different mentality.

Developers make the worst architects. In fact techies always struggle to abstract themselves from the detail to actually become a proper architect.
Having said that, there's a LOT more to architecture than TOGAF.

[brightondeveloper]

Dunno about as a side-line but there are regularly architect roles about. I'm thinking of getting the Business Architecture Foundation cert as I'm seeing more of that type of role coming up.

How hard is a TOGAF to do - as a seasoned developer say? Does it take a long time to go through?

[ladymuck]

hmmm ... regarding the Agile / SCRUM trainer, I did training at Skillsmatter (participant in a course) about 14 years ago and I knew a trainer there from the SCRUM Alliance. I had no idea that it was still going strong, I'd thought it was on the LATE ADOPTER / That Ship Has Sailed stage.

Question: is there any market for a sideline business of being a solution architect?

Dunno about as a side-line but there are regularly architect roles about. I'm thinking of getting the Business Architecture Foundation cert as I'm seeing more of that type of role coming up.

[rocktronAMP]

That reminds me, my other half teaches TOGAF (amongst other mind-numbingly dull things). Version 10 is now out so keep me in the style I'd like to get accustomed to and book that course in!

hmmm ... regarding the Agile / SCRUM trainer, I did training at Skillsmatter (participant in a course) about 14 years ago and I knew a trainer there from the SCRUM Alliance. I had no idea that it was still going strong, I'd thought it was on the LATE ADOPTER / That Ship Has Sailed stage.

Question: is there any market for a sideline business of being a solution architect?

[ladymuck]

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The real money, however, is in training, particularly Agile/Scrum type things. I know trainers who used to easily clear 10k for 2 days work (someone I know did 5 days, all expenses covered in Dubai for 25k).

Not my bag, but great if you want to be mortgage free by 40...

That reminds me, my other half teaches TOGAF (amongst other mind-numbingly dull things). Version 10 is now out so keep me in the style I'd like to get accustomed to and book that course in!

[DigitalUser]

A friend of mine has billed £1700/day a while ago. I've hit £1200 and am not a million miles off that at the moment, but the market has been incredibly variable over the past few years and these are the types of gig that are a direct sell into the client and more consulting-type in nature (I'm both ex-Big 4 and ex-MBB).

The real money, however, is in training, particularly Agile/Scrum type things. I know trainers who used to easily clear 10k for 2 days work (someone I know did 5 days, all expenses covered in Dubai for 25k).

Not my bag, but great if you want to be mortgage free by 40...

[jamesbrown]

What is a high-end skillset these days? Is it devOps/Cloud?
I'm currently just a linux bod with some Identity Access Management and just general jack of all trades. Currently getting myself trained up in Cloud and DevOps - seems what all the job boards seem to be requesting these days from an Infrastructure perspective (other than software devs)

I'm not in IT, so I couldn't tell you, but I'm talking about niche skillsets where you typically need to sell internationally to get consistent work. The US jobs market has been booming, so there was/is a better chance than normal to get work in the US as, say, a coder, but ordinarily the market there is very deep and wide, so there's no real need to look overseas for general skillsets. That said, someone with a generalist skillset may get lucky. On the upside, the Inflation Reduction Act will probably increase demand in the US even further. On the downside, there have been quite a few layoffs in Silicon Valley of late. Either way, you're more likely to succeed if you have good contacts there.

[gazelle]

That depends on your skillset. If you have a high-end skillset, it doesn't really matter where you are in the world to most businesses, but US businesses tend to pay at the upper end of international rates, even before the boost from Cable. If your skillset is more typical, then you'll probably struggle to get work overseas without very good contacts.

What is a high-end skillset these days? Is it devOps/Cloud?
I'm currently just a linux bod with some Identity Access Management and just general jack of all trades. Currently getting myself trained up in Cloud and DevOps - seems what all the job boards seem to be requesting these days from an Infrastructure perspective (other than software devs)

[brightondeveloper]

The US market is quite an interesting take, never considered it before, speaking to a quite helpful agent couple of days ago, seems quite a few people are going this way. He also said rates were higher, but lower to what the US locals getting, hence why US companies are ok with taking on people outside of the US.
Was also wondering how to get jobs in the US - he said open up our linkedin profile to looking for jobs in US and/or other countries.

Just a slight take on highest rate, it seems now quite a few people are taking on multiple inside contracts, a fellow contractor at my last place had 3 on the go, the combined rate would be quite something!

3?!! how do you even handle that?!