Hello. I'm struggling finding a new contract. I'm just trying to gauge the state of the market here. Cheers.
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Originally posted by plawren1 View PostHello. I'm struggling finding a new contract. I'm just trying to gauge the state of the market here. Cheers.
get a permie job...Comment
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These kind of questions are meaningless as:
1. Some people are limited to a particular area while others can work UK wide, Europe wide or world wide
2. There are different skill sets within every larger skill
In both cases these give you are a larger or smaller market.
Oh and I have got a couple of emails for embedded software in my inbox in the past 2 weeks, but as I'm not in that field and I'm in a contract, I deleted them without reading past the first line. I do read some emails more thoroughly if they sound laughable and pass them on......"You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JRComment
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Originally posted by northernladuk View PostIt's the state of contracting come April 16 and 17 you want to be worried about.Comment
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Have a look at the Future of Contracting thread. Talks about T&S being disallowed, dividend tax and Ir35 in there.'CUK forum personality of 2011 - Winner - Yes really!!!!Comment
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The embedded market is pretty much dead, through agencies at least.
The good news is that there aren't any candidates left either, so if you apply for the odd role you still have a chance.
QUOTE=plawren1;2164422]Hello. I'm struggling finding a new contract. I'm just trying to gauge the state of the market here. Cheers.[/QUOTE]Comment
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Originally posted by foobarz View PostThe embedded market is pretty much dead, through agencies at least.
The good news is that there aren't any candidates left either, so if you apply for the odd role you still have a chance.
QUOTE=plawren1;2164422]Hello. I'm struggling finding a new contract. I'm just trying to gauge the state of the market here. Cheers.
Thanks foobarz. That's my thinking too. Much appreciated as I can't "gossip" in non permy land. I'm staying put. Won't go back to permy unless I'm desperate :-)Comment
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Originally posted by plawren1 View PostHello. I'm struggling finding a new contract. I'm just trying to gauge the state of the market here. Cheers.
Which bit of embedded are you in? ARM? PIC? FPGA? cPLDs? What languages? C? C++? VHDL/VERILOG? JAVA? Which OSs? RTOS? Linux? Bare metal? What application areas? Military? Commercial? Industrial? Yada, yada yada...
I mainly do embedded stuff these days for fun, tbh, as the contracts I see are few and far between and the rates are generally poor for the skills requested. The reason I ask your skillset is that you are probably best to exploit it across other areas outside of embedded - you can certainly do that with C++, JAVA and Linux, for example. Ditto any network and web programming skills.nomadd liked this postComment
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I am based in the west end of the M4 and specialise in real-time embedded C/C++, and market goes up and down, and rates with it - it's supply and demand, but there always seems to be local work when I want it.
I work with both RTOS and bare metal, tiny PICs and multi-core ARMs.Comment
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