Simon K

Hi all,

Im a solaris / unix contractor and am currently looking for contracts in the south east, i.e. surrey / hampshire / sussex. Anyone else noticed how pi55 poor the contract market is ?

A few jobs up in the city, but been there, done it for 7 years, so am trying to stay out of that area.

Ive been contracting over 12 years now, and its the worst Ive ever seen it.

How you lot finding it ?

Cheers

SBK

OllyK

Struggling to find .NET bods in the Midlands, contract or permenant, so guess it's pretty bouyant up here

Suresh

Quite frankly quite a lot of mediocre people in the IT contracting market have been earning more than good money in the City, whilst delivering pretty poor results. I hope they squirrelled their ill-gotten gains away, as they'll be needing something to fall back on right now.

warrenm2

dunno is it as bad as Jan / Feb 00? Not yet - you could hear a pin drop then

Simon K

I agree about the comment regarding mediocre people, but thats life. Lost count of the number of contracts Ive been on where the resident permies complain about contractors, about how we are money robbing gits, w4nkers, useless, whilst they sit back and do nothing, as we fix the systems.

SBK

290 AND READY

Yeah i work for a big accountants doing IT and the market is terrible.
The days of good money doing long term contract work are over..for the moment.
Best trying to get a lower paid perm position for a while and ride out the wave mate

jods

I'm doing ok

Oracle Financial Analyser 11i

DBA

Pharma Co

Been on contract since 1999.

Facing a quiet future when the system gets binned in 2010.

ChefDude

Is that an understatement ?

The only thing i regret career wise was, at 20 years old and working in barclays, being asked if I wanted to be a DBA and, after everyone said it was dull, said "no thanks"

oracle financials dba's buy 2 mitsi evolutions... coz they can lol!

finalzero

yep - why I left the contract market this year, after being in it for over 8 years.

We had a big demand for .NET developers in Buckinghamshire but it's gone all dead round here now.

KiwiGTI

We are struggling to get staff over here in Australia, on what is/will be one of the biggest IT projects in the world.

But I have had 4 of my old colleagues in the last month contact me asking if I know anything going. There are an awful lot of IT contractors out of work.

J4CKO

iTrader: (1)

I am an Oracle and SQL Server DBA, did one contract and went perm with them cos I am so great

Glad I am not contracting at the moment, or rather, glad I am not looking for a contract.

I like being near home, cant be arsed with living away, in London this week and it would drive me mad doing it all the time, dont mind a bit of time away but not that bothered about money, do alright anyway.

MattW

lol I read this all day on the Contractor UK forum, give me a break

Eddie1980

I have been out of IT contracting over 5 years, and had a call only this morning from a very old agency asking if I was still available for contracting as they had a position..

Terminator X

iTrader: (7)

Contractors must have made hay whilst the sun was shining so now that it's not you'll have to rely on fortunes amassed over last 10yrs

TX.

Petem95

There's seems to be a hell of a lot of out-of-work IT bods out there! We've had to hire some network engineers recently (Cisco, Extreme, 3com skills), and the amount of CV's we've got has been amazing - and some people with excellent skill sets and experience are scrambling over low-end positions!

sa1tnpepper

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