Contract Market for Developers (C++ Java etc)

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TimberWolf replied

14 April 2009, 14:13
Originally posted by denver2k View Post

SAP...is it kinda cooking skills ??? or some sort of anti starvation pills

Or Suicide Assistance Pill?
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denver2k replied

14 April 2009, 14:11
Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post

Just learn SAP and never go hungry again.

SAP...is it kinda cooking skills ??? or some sort of anti starvation pills
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TimberWolf replied

14 April 2009, 14:00
Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post

Just learn SAP and never go hungry again.

Learning it is the easy part. The difficult part is finding a friend who is willing to 'act' as referee to back up your claims that you used it at HisClientCo, which is ideally a blue-chip company. With two such friends (or perhaps one dodgy agent) you have it made.
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swamp replied

14 April 2009, 13:49
C++ isn't a mainstream development language any more. It's quite niche and a typical skill for which you'd be forced to hire in an expert contractor, so not a big surprise there are still contracts out there for it.

The market for .NET and Java is much much bigger, and any small drop in the market would see many good contractors fighting over roles, which seems to be the situation.
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DimPrawn replied

14 April 2009, 13:47
Just learn SAP and never go hungry again.
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TimberWolf replied

14 April 2009, 13:45
Originally posted by darmstadt View Post

And COBOL and PL/I

What about CSP, VSAM, DL/1, Mantiss, Endeavour, etc? Some of those were still lurking in the lower depths of my CV until not so recently.
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darmstadt replied

14 April 2009, 13:38
Originally posted by zeitghost

Demand for FORTRAN IV seems pretty steady...

And COBOL and PL/I
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DaveB replied

14 April 2009, 10:13
Originally posted by BlasterBates View Post

...so we seem to have a difficult market for tester, PM's, trainers, but what about programmers....C++, Java, .NET. When I look on Jobserve there still seems to be plenty of C++ jobs, or are there the same number of jobs but more applicants. Is it really difficult??

Still jobs out there, but more people chasing them and they are paying lower rates.
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BlasterBates started a topic Contract Market for Developers (C++ Java etc)

14 April 2009, 08:46
Contract Market for Developers (C++ Java etc)

...so we seem to have a difficult market for tester, PM's, trainers, but what about programmers....C++, Java, .NET. When I look on Jobserve there still seems to be plenty of C++ jobs, or are there the same number of jobs but more applicants. Is it really difficult??
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