Reply to: Demand for IT Contractors going off a cliff

[MrRobin]

See. Look again. Was just the January lull that happens every year.

I'm going to trademark my own saying...

It'll be fine™


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

[milanbenes]

I got to say lads, doesn't look good does it.

Time to batten down the hatches and step up a gear and do a good job, hopefully being the last one to get kicked out and appreciating what you have.

All the best,

Milan.

[Troll]

So... which agency is going to go bust first?

[BrowneIssue]

Is it a compulsion with numbers... like trainspotting?

No. Researching the market. I do a full extract of Jobserve into a database and work out what skills are being asked for to determine what training I want, what areas and so on.

When I came across Jobstats I was a bit narked!

[bobhope]

Looking at hourly rates:

http://www.jobstats.co.uk/jobstats.d/Rates.html

It looks like we never even got back to the rates offered in 2000 (£68 for the top 10% of earners and coincidentally was my rate in 2000-2002) in nominal terms, never mind real terms.

£68 is about £95 in today's money. Kind of depressing in a way that I reached my peak earnings at the age of 26 and it's all down hill from now on.

[Sockpuppet]

If you want to know if a hard rains a gonna fall -

Take a look at restaurants in your locale - are they busy or do you see a lot of empty tables - that - for the past few recessions in the UK was always the most predictable early warning sign.

There was maybe 1 less car at the McDonalds drive through? Should we be worried?

[Dow Jones]

Yep

I have seen all the restaurants and bars in London full of Eastern Europeans spending their hard earned cash-not!

[AlfredJPruffock]

If you want to know if a hard rains a gonna fall -

Take a look at restaurants in your locale - are they busy or do you see a lot of empty tables - that - for the past few recessions in the UK was always the most predictable early warning sign.

[Troll]

I have been keeping a log of stats from Jobserve for myself since 2000. Specifically, the number of IT roles in the UK per day.

Is it a compulsion with numbers... like trainspotting?

[Fran]

Glad I'm ion the Northwest for once, not anywhere near as scary as London

[Dow Jones]

Wrong time of the year

Worst possible time (and not just because of the recent credit freeze). Busiest time is Apr-Jun, quietest Jan-Mar.

[VectraMan]

Debt looks fairly safe, and good rates. I think I'm going to get into debt:

http://www.jobstats.co.uk/jobstats.d...T.d/index.html

[SizeZero]

Good to see some things are consistent

http://www.jobstats.co.uk/jobstats.d...X.d/index.html

[Diver]

Dust off your Plan B's everyone

[HairyArsedBloke]

Demand for workers falling off so what does the government do?

Yup, you guessed - increase the supply. Link: BBC

I'm glad I'm out the game these days. (Own co., not on the bench)