Ryan_Shmotkin

So, I keep reading posts telling us there is a huge shortage of talent in the valley and everywhere. And then I look around, and I got at least a dozen super talented people unable to get the work they want.

CONTEXT: Been developing for 10 years now, from army days, where I built a large network of great developers *. Many of them worked in the big names here (MS/Intel/Google/Nice/etc) and/or got offers of either to work or relocate with others. But they went the startup way and now slowly trickle back to the market looking for freelance and project work.

And while amazon gladly offered my friend $120K to relocate to the states, no one is willing to give him a freelance project if he wants above $50/hour (unless he sits full time in their office and becomes de-facto employee).

Can someone explain how this can be ?

(o) To be clear, these are Java / C# / Rails, areas that should be super hot (even had an Android dev who couldn't find a decent project).

As any web freelancer, I have multiple clients, multiple rates and even the odd subcontractor.

Each client (hopefuly) pays at different time.

And I would love to see some history and statistics.

What would be a good tool ?