Reply to: Want gig in the South West - how to go about finding it?

[LondonManc]

Brymon Airways. It's just come back to me.

Used to know all the crew on their services. Friday night flight back from Jersey or IOM was always a right hoot.

Never had the pleasure; the furthest I've done business down that way was Taunton for a couple of days and same for Bristol. Made no sense flying (back when the M6/M5 used to be reasonable). Would certainly consider flying Manchester to Newquay for a week away for just me and the enemy, though.

[Pip in a Poke]

Didn't know you could do Exeter - London. Shame they closed Plymouth, there was a small regional airline that operated out of there that served all the UK regions. That was going back a bit though.

Brymon Airways. It's just come back to me.

Used to know all the crew on their services. Friday night flight back from Jersey or IOM was always a right hoot.

[Pip in a Poke]

Flybe to London City - I wish they'd do Manchester to LCY - would save me a lot of time.

Hmmm... interesting.

I shall take that into account when I'm considering where to buy next.

[LondonManc]

Didn't know you could do Exeter - London. Shame they closed Plymouth, there was a small regional airline that operated out of there that served all the UK regions. That was going back a bit though.

Flybe to London City - I wish they'd do Manchester to LCY - would save me a lot of time.

[Pip in a Poke]

Nothing sustainable past Bristol from what I've seen. Some PS sector sites (Cornwall council are skint at the moment though) but you may be better basing yourself near a town with an airport with regular flights to London and Manchester for commutes, e.g. Exeter and Newquay.

Didn't know you could do Exeter - London. Shame they closed Plymouth, there was a small regional airline that operated out of there that served all the UK regions. That was going back a bit though.

[LondonManc]

Nothing sustainable past Bristol from what I've seen. Some PS sector sites (Cornwall council are skint at the moment though) but you may be better basing yourself near a town with an airport with regular flights to London and Manchester for commutes, e.g. Exeter and Newquay.

[FarmerPalmer]

Well it ain't the SE or the South, and it's in Wiltshire which is in the SW of England...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ky6hK4kb3c

[northernladyuk]

Swindon's a county in its own right.

I'd say it's pretty much clinging on to the edge of the WC.

That is actually Swindon's motto.

[Pip in a Poke]

Well it ain't the SE or the South, and it's in Wiltshire which is in the SW of England...

Swindon's a county in its own right.

I'd say it's pretty much clinging on to the edge of the WC.

[WTFH]

Holy bumping old thread, Batman!
According to some, Hungerford is in the South East.

[SueEllen]

Swindon? The South West? How dare you!

Well it ain't the SE or the South, and it's in Wiltshire which is in the SW of England...

[Pip in a Poke]

Time was, you wanted work in Bristol you'd talk to Sandersons. these days they've been taken over tby the bean coutners, all the good guys have scattered and the ones that are left fulfil your every expectation of agent's abilities to know their market and their contractors. So Jobserve is your friend.

I've lived in Bristol for all the 16 years I've been freelance. I've had two gigs here, and one of those was in Bath. However, the catchment area for clients is as big as Greater London but with much better motorways, it depends how far you want to drive each day.

Same here. And the one I had in Bristol was just a 6 week number.

Have had plenty of others in the region all within a reasonable commute - Swindon, Taunton, Wells, Salisbury Gloucester, Cheltenham , Ciren.

But the biggest source of work in the whole region, not a dickie bird apart from that one.

[malvolio]

And don't forget both Liverpool Victoria and Freinds Provident are in Exeter.

that said there are huge number of major comapnies and organisations in Bristol, ranging form all the major banks and finance houses, several HMG sites that aren't the MOD, three major telecoms companies and a host of smaller but still significant people. Hiring has always been quite strong on the word-of-mouth element though...

[SimonMac]

That will be those wags from the MET Office then

Thats a can of worms that needs opening. They regularly pop up in the news wanting the next and biggest compute arrays. However last year they wanted an Architect to review Amazon and other cloud strategies with serious enterprise knowledge and wouldn't pay more than £275 a day wonder who gave up 500 a day to do that then? and if they did I wonder how much enterprise experience they had...

Met Office is Exeter, Taunton is UK Hydrographics Office, and I know from first hand experience the rates the MO are very good.

[theroyale]

Saw a couple of SQL/BI roles in the SW on jobserver today paying up to 425/day which is pretty good going...

Those would be in Taunton and they're the only "South West" job ads that I've followed up that are actually anywhere near the SW. Responded to one today - this South West turned out to be Reading :O