Security Roles

[hands]

Good skills to have. Should be work for you in mainland Europe too, if you fancy a change of scenery.

Just out of interest, if you've bagged a 6 monther at over £600/day already, why are you asking what the market is like?

Guess I'm wondering if it's worth chucking in a decent salary as a permie to risk it as a contractor ...

[pmeswani]

What do Microsoft have?

Active Directory based on a broken implimentation of Kerberos 4.

[ratewhore]

I'm consulting at the moment... CA SiteMinder, Microsoft ILM, ADFS, IAG, ISA and IBM Tivoli Access Manager & Tivoli Identity Manager...

Good skills to have. Should be work for you in mainland Europe too, if you fancy a change of scenery.

Just out of interest, if you've bagged a 6 monther at over £600/day already, why are you asking what the market is like?

[hands]

Areas that still have funding are linked to compliance and DLP. If you dont have much experience with delivering in these fields then I would wait a while.

Yeah - stuff I do is around compliance SOX, and Data Protection... looks like these areas are still okay...

[darmstadt]

My skills are mainly around security products - IBM, CA & Microsoft.

IBM have RACF
CA have Top Secret and ACF2
What do Microsoft have?

[hands]

Sure, come on in. Rates have never been higher and clients are crying out for more contractors. You can claim anything you like on expenses and put all your income through Lichtenstein so you don't pay any tax either!

yeah - thanks for that.

[hands]

Most job boards are full of bulltulipe CV harvest, reference requesting, copy-and-pasted 'roles'.

You might be lucky as you sound you're in a niche, but the only real barometer is can you get a (contract) interview? Otherwise if you've got the balls then jump in. Personally I'd wait a year and start contracting at the start of a (hopeful) upturn.

Yes - I've been offered a 6 month contract... I'm very much in a niche and have a good CV in the area... the rate is in excess of 600 a day, so is kinda attractive...

[hands]

They are vendors, not products. Dependent on what products you specialise in you could either do pretty well or crap...

I'm consulting at the moment... CA SiteMinder, Microsoft ILM, ADFS, IAG, ISA and IBM Tivoli Access Manager & Tivoli Identity Manager...

[ContractIn]

Hi,

I'm thinking of starting contracting. My skills are mainly around security products - IBM, CA & Microsoft. Any ideas what the market is like for security focused contractors right now... The usual sites jobsite cv-library seem to indicate it's okay...

Any info?

Areas that still have funding are linked to compliance and DLP. If you dont have much experience with delivering in these fields then I would wait a while.

[swamp]

The usual sites jobsite cv-library seem to indicate it's okay...

Most job boards are full of bulltulipe CV harvest, reference requesting, copy-and-pasted 'roles'.

You might be lucky as you sound you're in a niche, but the only real barometer is can you get a (contract) interview? Otherwise if you've got the balls then jump in. Personally I'd wait a year and start contracting at the start of a (hopeful) upturn.

[ratewhore]

Hi,

I'm thinking of starting contracting. My skills are mainly around security products - IBM, CA & Microsoft. Any ideas what the market is like for security focused contractors right now... The usual sites jobsite cv-library seem to indicate it's okay...

Any info?

They are vendors, not products. Dependent on what products you specialise in you could either do pretty well or crap...

[deckster]

Sure, come on in. Rates have never been higher and clients are crying out for more contractors. You can claim anything you like on expenses and put all your income through Lichtenstein so you don't pay any tax either!

[hands]

Hi,

I'm thinking of starting contracting. My skills are mainly around security products - IBM, CA & Microsoft. Any ideas what the market is like for security focused contractors right now... The usual sites jobsite cv-library seem to indicate it's okay...

Any info?