Friday, December 17, 2004
When urgent means really slowly
I've been putting a toe in the water of the contract market again here in the UK as I have a number of delayed projects and a gap in January and February , it's a few years since I did any contract stuff and I've noticed quite a few changes;
LOW Rates - much lower than 5 years ago and apparently they're better than the last couple of years!
Slow speed of response from clients - every requirement is *urgent* yet the agents are tearing their hair out trying to get responses out of clients.
Odd combinations of skills required complete with long experience - Eg my client requires strength in application servers JBoss, Weblogic , WebSphere and Tomcat together with lots of C++/C# ? no mention of Java at all ! C# is fine as it can be assumed most Java developers will easily pick up c# but C++.
I'll let you know how things progress.
LOW Rates - much lower than 5 years ago and apparently they're better than the last couple of years!
Slow speed of response from clients - every requirement is *urgent* yet the agents are tearing their hair out trying to get responses out of clients.
Odd combinations of skills required complete with long experience - Eg my client requires strength in application servers JBoss, Weblogic , WebSphere and Tomcat together with lots of C++/C# ? no mention of Java at all ! C# is fine as it can be assumed most Java developers will easily pick up c# but C++.
I'll let you know how things progress.
