[kugelblitz]

I think it's more that it's a crap job market. Have been dev freelancing for about 10 years, used to be able to choose from a few projects within a couple of weeks of searching.

But the last 18 months have been hard. On some freelancing projects I was up against 80 or 120 other devs. (I live in Germany.)

Recruiting agencies have told me the same. I finally found 2 part-time projects after 6 months of search and will now try to wait our the dry period.