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?