<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title></head><body><div>Ah, so my privacy will be in the hands of Google. Now I feel safe!</div><div>But regardless, I appreciate what you are doing, it is a little sad we don't have much options for actual anonymity on the internet, but it is what it is.</div><div><br></div><div>On Tue, Apr 29, 2025, at 9:57 AM, Tadas via Chat wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Greg,</div><div><br></div><div>This is to prevent spam and duplicate responses. The survey author cannot see any personally identifiable information.</div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:ii_ma2c05qq1" alt="image.png" width="560" height="315" crossorigin="anonymous"><br></div><div><img src="cid:ii_ma2c1ea62" alt="image.png" width="560" height="312" crossorigin="anonymous"><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Tadas</div></div></div><div><br></div><div class="qt-gmail_quote qt-gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="qt-gmail_attr">On Tue, 29 Apr 2025 at 10:51, Greg Molnar <<a href="mailto:greg@molnar.io">greg@molnar.io</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="qt-gmail_quote" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex;"><div><u></u><br></div><div><div>Hey</div><div><br></div><div>It doesn't seem to be anonymous, as it asks me to login to a Google account.</div><div style="margin-top:1em;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:1em;margin-left:0px;text-align:center;"><img style="max-width:100%;height:auto;" src="cid:ii_19680f88c5fcb971f161" crossorigin="anonymous"><br></div><div>Greg</div><div><br></div><div>On Tue, Apr 29, 2025, at 8:41 AM, Tadas via Chat wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt-m_-9070685555941235648qt"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hello LRUG,</div><div><br></div><div>I am Tadas, the person behind <a href="https://github.com/tadast/switching-to-contracting-uk" target="_blank">Switching to Contracting in the UK Guide</a>, <a href="https://discord.gg/7cTKmSwFwd" target="_blank">UK IT Contractors Discord </a>community, a long-time rubyist and a contractor.</div><div><br></div><div>Recently, I’ve noticed an uptick in interest in switching to contracting, but at the same time, others are moving to permanent roles in search of stability. Everybody's asking "what's the market like?", but nobody has data. Let's fix that!</div><div><br></div><div>There has also been some talk here on LRUG list, prompted by accidental reply-all responses providing a glimpse into daily rates, which makes me think that there is a lot of interest in this topic.</div><div><br></div><div>So if you've contracted in the last 12 months, please take a few minutes to fill out <a href="https://forms.gle/qXsUAczBLh94aZGB7" target="_blank"><b>this anonymous survey.</b></a> Feel free to share in other relevant communities or your personal circles!</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://forms.gle/qXsUAczBLh94aZGB7" rel="noreferrer noopener" title="https://forms.gle/qXsUAczBLh94aZGB7" role="button" style="border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-top-style:initial;border-right-style:initial;border-bottom-style:initial;border-left-style:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-right-color:initial;border-bottom-color:initial;border-left-color:initial;font-family:"gg sans", "Noto Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline-color:initial;outline-style:initial;outline-width:0px;word-break:break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-top-style:initial;border-right-style:initial;border-bottom-style:initial;border-left-style:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-right-color:initial;border-bottom-color:initial;border-left-color:initial;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline-color:initial;outline-style:initial;outline-width:0px;"><span class="font" style="font-family:inherit;">https://forms.gle/qXsUAczBLh94aZGB7</span></span></a></div><div><br></div><div>I'll share the results in a follow-up post on LRUG once we have enough data.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div></div><div><span>--</span></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(68, 68, 68);">Tadas Tamo</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(68, 68, 68);"><a href="https://www.codeme.lt/" target="_blank">Contractor/Product Engineer</a> </span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(68, 68, 68);">Join my <a href="https://discord.gg/uteWnwP9CU" target="_blank">Discord community for UK Contractors</a></span></div></div></div></div><div>_______________________________________________</div><div>Chat mailing list</div><div><a href="mailto:Chat@lists.lrug.org" target="_blank">Chat@lists.lrug.org</a></div><div>Archives: <a href="http://lists.lrug.org/pipermail/chat-lrug.org" target="_blank">http://lists.lrug.org/pipermail/chat-lrug.org</a></div><div>Manage your subscription: <a href="http://lists.lrug.org/options.cgi/chat-lrug.org" target="_blank">http://lists.lrug.org/options.cgi/chat-lrug.org</a></div><div>List info: <a href="http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org" target="_blank">http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org</a></div><div><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span class="qt-gmail_signature_prefix">--</span></div><div dir="ltr" class="qt-gmail_signature">Tadas</div></div><div>_______________________________________________</div><div>Chat mailing list</div><div><a href="mailto:Chat@lists.lrug.org">Chat@lists.lrug.org</a></div><div>Archives: <a href="http://lists.lrug.org/pipermail/chat-lrug.org">http://lists.lrug.org/pipermail/chat-lrug.org</a></div><div>Manage your subscription: <a href="http://lists.lrug.org/options.cgi/chat-lrug.org">http://lists.lrug.org/options.cgi/chat-lrug.org</a></div><div>List info: <a href="http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org">http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org</a></div><div><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div></body></html>