Software developer contractor

alx said:
Normally from taking dividends out of your company rather than a high salary.
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yup!

Anyways thanks all. last few days have been great. learned so much in 3 days then i have in 3 months working as a perm!

i think as a contractor, not only do you get more money but i feel that you learn much more as well
 
Thought I'd revive this thread and add my own questions:

I've been a permanent C# Developer for ~7 years, and am considering the jump to contracting.

I'm based in Derbyshire so can serve Sheffield, Derby and Nottingham without too much trouble. I've had a brief search on some jobs website for contracts but there is only 1 posted?!

Is this normal or is the contracting market just massively suppressed because of Christmas?

The rate advertised is £280-300pd, is that normal? I saw £400pd mentioned earlier, but guess that was for a more specialised role.

Also, I'm primarily a back end/library developer so I'm not so hot on some of the more front end biased technologies like Knockout or Angular. I can put together a fairly basic V of an MVC site but that's about it - I mainly do the M, the C and down to the database.
Is that something I should work on?
 
If you are using jobserve they only look at the last 7 days using the search function and you wont find many adds the fist week after Christmas at all, this will be the case for a lot of them. Should start picking up in the next few weeks though.
 
I usually use jobsite for daily job alerts. I've noticed that during any holiday period and weekends that the amount of jobs posted drop dramatically.

I can't say much about the skills you should be learning but I would say that if your looking for as much money as possible, you should do some research into the skills that pay more. Otherwise just become really good at what you like and are comfortable with
 
well about 9-10 months on and really enjoying doing contracting.

wish i did it sooner.

Off to vietnam for a 3 week break after my contract is finish here in the next few weeks :)
 
Doing GREAT!

Love this life-style. i've made lots of new friends by jumping from one contract to another and have already traveled to Vietnam and Lisbon so far this year with another holiday planned at the end of august to go to Croatia for a Festival!

Just started a new Contract gig yesterday and enjoying it already. getting to know more people here again, new friends, new opprtunities.

I never use to be a social freak but now i am!

I recently even did a private photo shoot of a ex work mate and her boyfriend and just yesterday watched the world cup with my previous work collegues!

Brilliant stuff. In perm you are stuck with the same people for the duration of your time there, get less holidays and kind of learn a bit less as you tend to work on just 1 or two projects in a perm role
 
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