I've been in the UK for 5 years now, London for 4 of them. We've been here 4 years longer than originally expected (London was never part of the plan) mainly because the work has been so plentiful, enjoyable, and well paying. While it won't be challenging The Valley any time soon there is quite a strong start-up scene in East London in addition to more established businesses and the BBC who always seem to be looking for developers.
I don't know of a ruby contractor in London who is looking for work, and I know of lots of businesses that are finding it difficult to place any full-time ruby devs. It's definitely a City where networking gets you much further than recruiters typically will so first stop when you land should definitely be to hit up one of the LRUG, Pub/Sub Standards, Hacker News, Javascript, or numerous other tech meetups. Feel free to drop me a line if/when you land, Glenn On Feb 10, 11:34 am, Pat Allan <p...@freelancing-gods.com> wrote: > Hi Jason > > Of all the Ruby groups I've visited, London's the busiest and biggest. I > don't keep track of how much work there is there, but as Brent's suggested, > the LRUG meets are a great place to jump into the local community, and I'm > sure people there will be friendly and helpful. > > Cheers > > -- > Pat > > On 10/02/2011, at 10:25 PM, Brent Snook wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hey Jason, > > > There was a fair bit of Rails work when I was there about a year ago. > > Best bet is to get involved in the community, sign up to the LRUG > > (London Ruby User Group) mailing list and go along to some meetups if > > you're there. Skills Matter also run a bunch of meetups where you'll > > find a lot of the local Rails crew. > > > Places like Ruby 50 specialise in Rails recruitment, get registered > > with them too if you are interested in that channel. > > > Brent. > > > On 10 February 2011 22:04, Jason Langenauer <jlangena...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, > > >> I'm currently toying with the idea of moving to London for a year or two. > >> Does anyone here have any insight into how good, bad or otherwise the > >> Ruby/Rails contracting market there is, in the wake of the GFC? > > >> Regards > > >> Jason Langenauer > >> jason.langena...@constrex.com > >> +61 418 240 380 > > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > >> "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > >> To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com. > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > >> For more options, visit this group > >> athttp://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > > To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
