Shape of the market

[foxbat3000]

What about daily rates ? Going up/down ? Anyone ?

For me in Support they are static but you cant cut rates much in my arena unless you enjoy the sound of monkeys.





A project manger: A person who juggles spinning plates on both hands and both feet while balancing a performing seal on the end of his nose.

[foxbat3000]

Me too

I have to say my phone is going crazy in the past week from nothing. I have been put forward for 4 roles. One of those I had an interview for this morning. I have a fifth one in the pipeline which they will confirm this evening if they feel I am suitable after scouring the market more which is what they said. I am really not sure what is happening for me this week but I hope I get one of the roles.

Same here got put forward for four got an interview for one(best CV good interview)
nearly 2 week back but nobody wants to make a decision these days case it wrong and the end up on a redundancy list. so you wait and you wait and you do a little more waiting gah!!!

[FarmerPalmer]

Harder than previous years, not so much about, more people looking, and rates are down.

But I have been lucky, as I've only had 1 week between contracts.

But then again I've taken a 25% cut this year to keep myself in business.

75% of good money is better than 100% of no money.

Its a matter of supply and demand, with supply currently outstripping demand.

Phone has been ringing more recently - with agents wanting to talk to me - so must be getting better.

[Fred Bloggs]

What about daily rates ? Going up/down ? Anyone ?

About 10 to 20% down on 18 to 24 months ago.

[kaiser78]

What about daily rates ? Going up/down ? Anyone ?

[Fred Bloggs]

Miserable, flat, zero jobs available. This year started dead and seems to have got steadily worse for my skill set. Since most of the available jobs were on projects that were fully funded before the financial slump and I suppose many projects are now wrapping up, I guess my sector will be a while yet before it improves. Presently, my daily Jobsite.co.uk search has not revealed a single job in the last 2 months that I can apply for. That's never happened to me before.

[Hawkeye]

Congrats - what area of IT are you in?

Am a PM with a very mixed background of clients. Am not sure if there is sme word on my CV that is being picked up but it is a complete turn around. I know I haven't bagged a role yet but it has pulled my spirits up.

[nomadd]

Pants.

+1

So that's 2 pants.

Nomadd

[Clippy]

I have to say my phone is going crazy in the past week from nothing. I have been put forward for 4 roles. One of those I had an interview for this morning. I have a fifth one in the pipeline which they will confirm this evening if they feel I am suitable after scouring the market more which is what they said. I am really not sure what is happening for me this week but I hope I get one of the roles.

Congrats - what area of IT are you in?

[Hawkeye]

I have to say my phone is going crazy in the past week from nothing. I have been put forward for 4 roles. One of those I had an interview for this morning. I have a fifth one in the pipeline which they will confirm this evening if they feel I am suitable after scouring the market more which is what they said. I am really not sure what is happening for me this week but I hope I get one of the roles.

[swamp]

It's this shape:

http://old.jobstats.co.uk/jobstats.d...S.d/index.html

[Clippy]

Shape of the market

Pants.

[mace]

Well, the market was quite lively in July, tailed off mid August to mid September and it looks as if it may be back to July's numbers now (just going on Jobserve daily stats for that). I've not answered the phone to speculative agents since I signed my contract a few weeks ago, so can't be sure as to how well the market's really going. My skillset never had a boom, so the bust isn't so noticeable.

[foxbat3000]

Well three weeks in I cant say its any worse than 2008 I've got a better CV than then so I'm optimistic I'd like to hear how others are doing.