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After all your time contracting, how easily can you find a new contract in terms of weeks/months spent searching for one? The reason I ask is because I'm getting tired of bureaucracy too and have been considering taking a break and getting into contracting as a software engineer for a while to see how that goes...How reliable is the pipeline of work in the software dev contracting world if you want to maintain access to a steady supply of income/benefits?

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In the UK at least I can correct your timeframe to days and weeks, not weeks and months.

The quickest I have found a contract position from a cold start is 45 minutes.

Market's teeming and has been for years, aside from the obvious Covid period, there hasn't been any meaningful market collapse for a long time.

Saying that, this time of year is generally poor as companies eye Xmas and start shutting up shop. You'd do well late January onwards and especially after the start of the next budgetary cycle, typically end of March.

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