Reply to: Are dayrates suddenly taking a dive?

[TheFaQQer]

Yep, my biggest weakness is that once I've spent three months with clueless muppets my politeness filter starts to evaporate until my contempt for their utter muppetry becomes obvious to even them.

I don't usually last three months. Eighteen months into this gig and any pretence of respect or cordiality for either the end users or management disappeared some time ago.

[speling bee]

Sadly, yes. You get a higher rate to promise the earth and then watch as some poor techie sod has to clear up your mess.

Apparently, this might have something to do with the ability to speak to people normally, and wash occasionally, but I don't believe that for a second.

You are right to be suspicious. The emboldened 'and' should read 'or' for accuracy.

[eek]

Sadly, yes. You get a higher rate to promise the earth and then watch as some poor techie sod has to clear up your mess.

Apparently, this might have something to do with the ability to speak to people normally, and wash occasionally, but I don't believe that for a second.

Yep, my biggest weakness is that once I've spent three months with clueless muppets my politeness filter starts to evaporate until my contempt for their utter muppetry becomes obvious to even them.

[TheFaQQer]

The latter condition appears to me to be a subset of the former condition.

Sadly, yes. You get a higher rate to promise the earth and then watch as some poor techie sod has to clear up your mess.

Apparently, this might have something to do with the ability to speak to people normally, and wash occasionally, but I don't believe that for a second.

[speling bee]

Yes, but since when was that important.

I have Prince 2 you know

PRINCE2

Otherwise it sounds as if you're in a sexual relationship with a top male recording artist.

Not that I'm judging.

[oracleslave]

And don't have the skills to do it, either

Yes, but since when was that important.

I have Prince 2 you know

[speling bee]

I am too expensive

And don't have the skills to do it, either

The latter condition appears to me to be a subset of the former condition.

[TheFaQQer]

I am too expensive

And don't have the skills to do it, either

[oracleslave]

Surely they aren't desperate enough to ask you to do it??

I am too expensive

[TheFaQQer]

7 months in Hampshire by any chance?

Yep. The three people I could think of aren't available - including one who prefers to be working on your project, I believe.

Surely they aren't desperate enough to ask you to do it??

[oracleslave]

I've had five agencies contact me about the same role this morning,

7 months in Hampshire by any chance?

[TheFaQQer]

I've had five agencies contact me about the same role this morning, which is paying £670 a day.

I'm not interested in it, though.

[The Spartan]

Oh dear it's been proven time and time again that if you pay peanuts you get monkeys, the fact of the matter is if you compromise on quality then you'll come a cropper later on I've seen this on mulitple projects where deadlines haven't been hit or releases have been delayed. You only have to look at outsourcing and the calamity that has been, what would make these large programmes any different?

[ITSkillsGap]

Current Day Rates

Hi guys,

I speak to a lot of Test Managers and Dev Managers etc in my role and I would say that a pretty accurate average for the UK Daily rates are between £300 - £350 per day.

For instance a Test Analyst with ISEB/ISTQB will go for about £330 per day in the South of England at the moment. Of course this varies from industry to industry a bit and individual client, but that should give you a good idea where to position yourself for a mid level role.

It is getting harder and there are a number of large new programmes appearing in the market for employers to access lower cost testers and developers, but luckily for the contractors not everyone knows about these yet!


Have you seen this site? - Software Testing Contracts, Contractor Rates for Software Testing Skills

Hope this is useful to you all.

[Mulder]

I have to admit I normally use Jobserve, some are generic CV harvesting roles but you can usually spot those, some will be a bit better disguised CV harvesting roles but at least for Senior BA roles in Scotland, I would say a good chunk are genuine roles.

At the moment I am in the lucky position of not currently looking as not on the bench, but also agents contacting me about roles (most mass e-mails) but some are a bit more targeted so domestically I have not needed to use a Job search engine for a while (other than to keep an eye on rates).

For my BAs in Scotland at least with my experience, I wouldn't say day rates are taking a dive just now.