Is IT contracting moving towards developer centric contracts

[ikodel]

Hi,

Sysadmin here with the usual Windows Server, AD, Exchange and VMware vSphere (also vCloud) infrastructure experience (installing, configuring, admin etc).

Looking for a new contract soon and doing job searches at the usual suspects seems to show developer type jobs outweigh those of sysadmin and infrastructure.

Is this a trend others are seeing?

[vwdan]

I've only been interested in the contract market for the last 18 months or so, but my impression is that the whole industry is dominated by dev type roles. I also get the impression from this place that most are devs.

Doesn't really matter though, so long as the roles you're after are still there!

[minestrone]

Most of the big places I have worked at moved most of these roles offshore sadly, they tend to now just take on PMs, BAs and senior devs.

Which is a pain in the arse for the devs as you end up managing the offshores numpties.

[eek]

Most of the big places I have worked at moved most of these roles offshore sadly, they tend to now just take on PMs, BAs and senior devs.

Which is a pain in the arse for the devs as you end up managing the offshores numpties.

Not quite, often they are onshored numpties (who sadly won't listen even when you tell them how to do every single step of the task)..

[ikodel]

Thanks for the advice.

I'm at a bit of a crossroads on whether to continue down a technical route or move to project management perhaps.

If I do continue down the technical route, I'll have to dust off my old programming books from when I was learning Java 18 years ago

[suityou01]

Thanks for the advice.

I'm at a bit of a crossroads on whether to continue down a technical route or move to project management perhaps.

If I do continue down the technical route, I'll have to dust off my old programming books from when I was learning Java 18 years ago

What makes you think you are cut out to be a project manager?