Oracle DBA Contractor market dead?

[bniekerk]

Its probably your rate.

The market is flooded with migrants asking for between 200 to 300 a day.

Ofcourse there contracts that pay much higher than that but there arent
as many as there used to be..

I've been in the UK 7 years now (probably still count then as a migrant with UK passport) but my rate is in the £400 a day region. Maybe the market is more realistic now only willing to pay more for specialist DBA skills, which is good. It means that the quality of DBAs needs to be higher and the client get a better deal.

[donaldduke]

Its probably your rate.

The market is flooded with migrants asking for between 200 to 300 a day.

Ofcourse there contracts that pay much higher than that but there arent
as many as there used to be..

[bniekerk]

I've only recently started looking for my first contract after my permanent employment ended a week ago and I find the market not bad at all, but then again I have nothing to compare it against.

[expat]

I've just started looking for an Oracle DBA contract, and am finding a complete lack of interest from the agencies. Is this a really bad time of year to be lookng for a contract? If so, when are the good times?

I've never had this lack of interest before. Is the UK Oracle DBA contractor market dead? Is the contract market itself finished? Is it better to go permanent?

If anybody else is looking right now, how are you finding the market?

Could it be that a combination of Oracle's automation of the routine tasks that are the bread-and-butter of some people who carry the title DBA, plus the large number of people volunteering to perform these tasks from India, has not only reduced the market for local DBAs, but reduced it especially to the more critical posts which might be less likely to offered on a contract basis?

[expat]

i think oracle itself is almost dead, its replaced by MS SQL server crap even in large accounts from what i hear. It seems that the oracle webserver is also a big piece of @#{#.
Larry has sold is yacht i believe

Not at all true, I don't think (dunno about the yacht, but buying Siebel can't have been that expensive). Not in large accounts, SQL Server won't cut it. Oracle on unix is still it; or even DB2 on mainframe if you need real scalability and speed. Look at what banks use, they have scale and criticality. I know of none that use SQL Server.

[sappatz]

oracle

i think oracle itself is almost dead, its replaced by MS SQL server crap even in large accounts from what i hear. It seems that the oracle webserver is also a big piece of @#{#.
Larry has sold is yacht i believe

[EqualOpportunities]

I've just started looking for an Oracle DBA contract, and am finding a complete lack of interest from the agencies. Is this a really bad time of year to be lookng for a contract? If so, when are the good times?

I've never had this lack of interest before. Is the UK Oracle DBA contractor market dead? Is the contract market itself finished? Is it better to go permanent?

If anybody else is looking right now, how are you finding the market?

I'd not noticed that it had slowed particularly - I guess it depends what your CV looks like (this is conjecture, though)... I've not had any trouble, and I'm sh1t

[threaded]

Send your CV to Darren.Jacks@huntress.co.uk

[Underscore2]

well

I know that RBS are currently looking for 4 Oracle DBAs.........send your cv to Lorien.

[ChimpMaster]

Generally it's a tulipe market out there right now. Everyone knows the world as we know it is coming to an end, so no doubt organisations everywhere are battoning down the hatches, as well as looking to the new world for their next stream of profits.

[wendigo100]

The market is mixed, I think it is generally OK, for generally general things.

Generally I'd agree.

In my type of work I've seen several people come onto the market from private companies cutting costs or going bust, but they tend to get sponged up by government-funded work.

In general.

[BlasterBates]

The market is mixed, I think it is generally OK, for generally general things.

[threaded]

There exist more than one contracts in Copenhagen at the moment.

[HonkyTonk]

I've just started looking for an Oracle DBA contract, and am finding a complete lack of interest from the agencies. Is this a really bad time of year to be lookng for a contract? If so, when are the good times?

I've never had this lack of interest before. Is the UK Oracle DBA contractor market dead? Is the contract market itself finished? Is it better to go permanent?

If anybody else is looking right now, how are you finding the market?