IT jobs – what is the current market like for skilled web devs?

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1. It’s okay. The IT market is currently slowing down expecting recession. A lot of hiring is frozen. All major companies I know are only hiring backfills, not growth.

   Still jobs, but they’ll be tougher to get, which I imagine drives down potential wage.

2. It depends on the specific area. Many IT companies are scaling back recruitment to better weather the incoming recession however fintech is still aggressively recruiting.

   There are a lot of roles in crypto offering utterly eye watering salaries right now for those that can stomach the volatility of that sector.

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4. Market is great in my sector – Network Security (Contractor). It’s recovered since they made the IR35 changes with more higher day rates to reflect it.

   In the finance sector it’s very difficult to hire at the moment, people have too many options and are getting paid more to stay in their current roles if you actually get to the offer stage. This is both in networking/security and coding (friend was trying to hire in a hedge fund).

5. Anecdotally speaking, I’m just not seeing the downturn everyone else is. The market still seems good to me in London. I’m a Data Engineer and just accepted an offer for £100k and I wasn’t short of options. 3-5 recruiters contact me on LinkedIn every day. My friends also seem to be having similar experiences.

6. Web dev is fine. Pop on LinkedIn, spruce up the profile and the recruiters will come to you. They’re actually pretty good in the Javascript/React space.

   There’s a lot of jobs and a lot of movement. Even throughout the pandemic most of the devs I know were moving every 12 months or less.