Reply to: The official CUK "What is happening in Contracting" thread

[gingerjedi]

Main area of skills/work: Support

Are you currently in a contract: Yes
If so, when does it end: 2 weeks

Are you currently on the bench: N/A
If so, how long has it been: N/A

Experience of market since on the bench: N/A

Sadly for me being ridiculously busy and having permy staff threatening to go on the sick with stress if I go doesn’t seem to be registering with the bean counters so far.

I really should be scouring jobserve by now shouldn’t I?

[s2budd]

Main area of skills/work: Unix / Storage or Middleware
Are you currently in a contract: No, finished at the End of December from Barcap.
If so, when does it end: 2009

[SallyAnne]

I never had Clippy down as an agent

It just shows, you never can tell on here!

[Xenophon]

Tea

They love it.

[d000hg]

Main area of skills/work:Software (lead) developer

Are you currently in a contract: Yes, 2. One is Java & Flex, one is C++
If so, when does it end: Neither has fixed end date - when it's finished!

[original PM]

Main area of skills/work: Project Management, Interim Management, Business Process Re- engineering, Software design, HCI specialist, Trainer, Tester, Part time accountant.

Are you currently in a contract: Yes

If so, when does it end: Nov 09 (at present)

[Svalbaard]

Main area of skills/work:
SAP specialist.
Managing SAP projects and programmes.
Posting on CUK in between shouting at thick colleagues.

Are you currently in a contract: Yes
If so, when does it end : Eventually

[BrilloPad]

There have been several threads recently regarding who is on the bench, how long for, what the market is doing etc so it makes sense to have a dedicated thread to cover this.

Blimey, I must be bored!

Main area of skills/work:
posting on cuk

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[BrianSnail]

Main area of skills/work: Nosebagging

Tea

[VectraMan]

Main area of skills/work: C++/C# code monkeying
Are you currently in a contract: Yes.
If so, when does it end: April 09
Is your rate crap: yes.
Are you bored with the work: yes, yes, yes.

[NetwkSupport]

Main area of skills/work: Nosebagging

Are you currently in a contract: Yes
If so, when does it end: March (3 month rolling )

Experience of market since on the bench: not much out there in terms of choice, very hard to get to get to interview stage, eployers extremely selective/choosy over who is hired.

[OwlHoot]

Main area of skills/work: perl, PHP, .NET. Mostly back-end but some front end

Are you currently in a contract: Yes, starting next monday

If so, when does it end: April

Are you currently on the bench: was for a month, and probably will be again after april

[dang65]

Main area of skills/work: Front end web - Ajax, JavaScript, CSS etc

Are you currently in a contract: Yes
If so, when does it end: End of March, but recent meetings at client keep referring to work up to end of June

Are you currently on the bench: Uh, no

[DimPrawn]

Main area of skills/work:

Are you currently in a contract:
If so, when does it end:

Are you currently on the bench:
If so, how long has it been:

Experience of market since on the bench:

Name and contact phone number of last 4 references:

HTH

[Coalman]

Main area of skills/work: Utilities (Power).

Are you currently in a contract: Yup.

If so, when does it end: July 2009.