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I've been working with a client and currently making our collaboration more formal with a new contract. I'll be providing consulting (architecture etc.) services and possibly some web development hours as well. Should I have 2 different rates for these two services or do you think...
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I would occasionally get contacted by an agency (this time it was Parallel Consulting) who is adamant that I disclose my past rates. I find it quite sneaky. I think the only reason they want to know this so that they can negotiate a rate down. They is either the client or an agency who...
Just had somebody try and tempted me to work near Lake Geneva
They have been a bit vague about rates, I have worked in Brussels and Holland before
Can anybody tell me what sort of rate I should be looking for ratewise , the job is mainly Oracle
Are there any unpleasant gotchas in the tax...
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I'm coming from abroad and living now in Edinburgh. At the same time being a contractor is new to me (previously permanent).
I have a business background as project manager / product owner / product manager in various industries (real agile for more than two years in the banking...
Hi - I'm not contracting atm but I still get a lot of recruiters contacting me with PM roles and I've noticed in the last 6 months that rates have dropped consistently below £400/day. Is everyone finding this? Is this acceptable? Is it a case that people are selling themselves short? This is not...
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I'm currently in a contract with a company to provide services to a client of theirs. This client has awarded the next contract to a new company. Both the end client and the new company want me to stay on and work as a contractor for this new company.
I've signed a memorandum of...
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I am going to have my 1st interview as contractor tomorrow. (I was perm for last 6 years). I told my daily rates to the agency and she has forwarded same figure to the company. They (agency) also told me avoid negotiating rates directly with the client! I am concerned that if I don't do...
Here in Luxembourg and in Belgium I hear people say that the market is picking up.
Is it? Of course here its the the seasonable top, so people might mistake it for a general trend,
or it might be the sum of a general and a seasonable trend making it noticeable.
Been looking for an asp.net webdev contract on jobserve for a few weeks now and the rates for about half of the contracts posted are diabolical ... below £300/£250 a day.
Anyone taking or know of someone who has taken one of these lower paid contracts? Maybe there are too many asp.net...