The listing is web scraped from other sites (jobserve, cwjobs, etc), which is a problem since most of them are fake.
It would be great if there was an actual site&#x2F;company that had real jobs for the &quot;HN crowd&quot;. Even if just a few.<p>Several months ago I&#x27;ve moved to London with the goal of finding contract work but my experienced has been quite negative. But that is simply my case where (1) I&#x27;m not a specialist and (2) have no UK experience.<p>I&#x27;ve realized that not all that glitters is gold. All that glitter also made me commit the mistake of asking for market rate, which likely didn&#x27;t help.<p>Many of the ads are fake and the recruiters just call you to try to get info from you &quot;how are you finding the job market? any interviews? with who? what tech did they use?&quot; Just politely answer &quot;I&#x27;m sorry but that information is confidential and I respect my business partners&quot;<p>At this time I started searching for permanent roles, but have an obvious preference for contract.<p>Anyway, what I really wanted to ask is for any tips in landing a contract based role. Or if it&#x27;s hopeless for someone without &quot;UK experience&quot;.
I have a CS degree, have 10 year of professional experience, but very broad tech. But only the last 2 years are &quot;devops&quot; related which is what I&#x27;m interested. I like developing tools and automating. I don&#x27;t mind backend (and known a bit of Django). I also have a keen interest in ML (recently finished coursera ML MOOC).