Those Knutford jobs

[cojak]

are asking for experienced people for rates of 180GBPs per day!

What's going on over there??

(Although I think I can guess... )

[Tingles]

Also a couple out at Chester-ish - sub-£200

I just keep telling myself - supply and demand, but it doesn't make it any easier!!!




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[BolshieBastard]

are asking for experienced people for rates of 180GBPs per day!

What's going on over there??

(Although I think I can guess... )

Im gobsmacked you're surprised. Back in 2001 downturn, Barcrap were one of the first to introduce a pocket hitting 'take it or leave' 20% rate cut and no negotiation.

Where I worked on site in Babbage, one permie barcrap manager was actually laughing down the phone as he said to his colleague 'you should see the look on the contractors faces!'

The twats at Barcrap didnt even have the decency to tell us about the take it or leave offer and instead bravely posted it on their intranet, probably in the hope no one would notice.

Needless to say I eventually told them to **** off and they are now on my black list of clients to never work for again.

180 pd does not surprise me one jot.

[BlackenedBiker]

As stated in earlier posts I was involved in sourcing a development DBA for Client Co recently.

Of the 10 CVs put through for the role only 2 were British nationals.

I was outraged....

Now I know that this makes me sound like a racist, I am not, but in this climate are we saying that there are no British DBAs who need a job.

I think not, just agents trying to keep their margins high IMHO.

Such low rates will not encourage nationals to apply as they can't afford to work at those rates (I worked out £260 a day is my minimum is I want to keep saving for a pension). Agents can then load the ClientCo up with Foreign workers who will accept low rates leaving the agent with loads of cash.

Shocking

[Shimano105]

BB, last year I was on a similar rate to that - you were boasting that you were on £500 a day and that I must be a tea boy. I warned you to expect a significant readjustment come renewal time did I not?

Now I don't want to say I told you so, but I told you so.

[rootsnall]

I'm just trying to come up with a direct rate to pitch myself at to very local client I've done a couple of stints with previously. There is an Indian on site and I'd be trying to displace him so the rate would have to catch the penny pinching PMs eye. The dilema is how low to go !?

[Wilmslow]

are asking for experienced people for rates of 180GBPs per day!

What's going on over there??

(Although I think I can guess... )

Would be perfect for me - Barclays, nice campus, and, a bike ride away from my house

[Tingles]

I'm just trying to come up with a direct rate to pitch myself at to very local client I've done a couple of stints with previously. There is an Indian on site and I'd be trying to displace him so the rate would have to catch the penny pinching PMs eye. The dilema is how low to go !?

A bowl of rice a day?

[Tarquin Farquhar]

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Such low rates will not encourage nationals to apply as they can't afford to work at those rates (I worked out £260 a day is my minimum if I want to keep saving for a pension). Agents can then load the ClientCo up with Foreign workers who will accept low rates leaving the agent with loads of cash.

Shocking

If you can't get that rate, what do you do? Forget the pension, there's a mortgage to pay. Is this what forces us to get a Plan B? What's a good Plan B in the present climate, for someone with a lifetime's experience in IT?

[darmstadt]

For over a year now I've been getting jobs in my daily Jobserve mail for Knutsford, both perm and temp but recently it has gone up and the rates are absolute crap. A lot of the positions are advertised by multiple agencies and all with different rates, astounding.

What will happen is that the company in question will go to the DWP and state that they can't get British nationals and so require visas for foreign nationals (actually one of the agencies is a foreign national agency.) They want the work done cheap and they'll get it done cheap and in the end everyone loses, dimwits (these people are like ostriches burying their heads in the sand)