Work for Senior A/P Java/Oracle

[DRIFTIN]

I'm in the middle of a contract here in Darwin as a Senior A/P doing Java/Oracle programming. It has been pretty good 2yrs/50$hr/great conditions but I am wondering if the market rates might be better down south for this sort of work for when my contract ends.

Anyone know of anything going? I don't have any particular speciality - have been an A/P commercially for 7yrs from PHP/postgres through to Java/Oracle/C#/Sql Server/ - have also done tons of interface work and am pretty handy at producing decent interfaces.

Any pointers greatly appreciated.

Adam

[MZ21]

I'm in the middle of a contract here in Darwin as a Senior A/P doing Java/Oracle programming. It has been pretty good 2yrs/50$hr/great conditions but I am wondering if the market rates might be better down south for this sort of work for when my contract ends.


Adam

Adam,

For someone that knows there stuff and can work w/o surpervision we would normally being paying around 800-1200/per day. For this money we expect you to know SQL Server / Oracle / VB.NET / C# to an expert level.

Location Sydney

[DRIFTIN]

So Sydney is the place to be? I've also been told Canberra is also quite good if you're keen.

I'm surprised that a really good A/P could earn that sort of money even in Sydney. I was under the impression that rates like that were usually reserved for pure analysts and project managers.

Housing in Darwin has gotten ridiculously expensive, so there's not much of an advantage cost-of-living wise here anymore!

Adam

[intehnet]

just dont' come to perth. shithouse pay.

[MZ21]

I'm surprised that a really good A/P could earn that sort of money even in Sydney. I was under the impression that rates like that were usually reserved for pure analysts and project managers.
Adam

Don't forget, for this sort of money, I'd expect you to recite all the .net framework classes off the top of your head, know PL/SQL, T-SQL etc etc. For contract work I reckon $100ish/Hour is fair as you have no job security beyond the term of the contract.

[DRIFTIN]

Don't forget, for this sort of money, I'd expect you to recite all the .net framework classes off the top of your head, know PL/SQL, T-SQL etc etc. For contract work I reckon $100ish/Hour is fair as you have no job security beyond the term of the contract.

Yeah that'd be me.

I work with 5 other programmers for the same Government department (contracted through Spherion - no doubt you've heard of them). We're considered a bit nutty - the best team of programmers in Darwin - I guess that's why we're paid well by Darwin standards. There's actually noone else up here I'd suggest they hire for this sort of work. $400/day pretty much means we'll keep on working until they run out of stuff for us to do - there's nowhere else in Darwin that will pay like that.

Adam

[Impakt]

Driftin: The company i work for are always looking for java people in Sydney. Full time tho, not contract. If you are interested, PM me.

Impakt