@luxbock additionally, you should understand that a contract role should attract ~2x the hourly rate vs. an employee role

so if you're talking about a "once off deliverable to a brief" that's actually more expensive per hour

because you're offering no job security, the person who has to do the work has their own overheads like insurance, and they're taking responsibility (liability) for the outcome of the work in an way that an employee would not

@thedavidmeister thanks, yeah I had not considered that, like I said I have never done programming as a job

well, you can always find someone at a cheap hourly rate who claims to be able to do what you want

but look at it this way, people who are great at programming have no problem consistently getting 5-10x the rate you're offering, often needing to turn away work to maintain a work-life balance

so think about what that might say about someone jumping at the chance to work for a lower rate

obviously, this is a massive generalisation, but...

it's worth thinking about 🙂

OTOH, maybe the task you need done is suitable for a junior

🤷

Maybe move discussion to #jobs-discuss?

maybs

also, FYI @luxbock , "spec" means something specific in clojure https://clojure.org/about/spec so you might want to use the word "brief" instead

although "familiarity with the brief is desired" is sort of assumed 😛