Ask HN: Elance for software designers/architects?

I am interested in starting doing contractorship work in addition to daily job. I has been working as a leading software engineer in several latest projects, and it included a lot of software design and software architecture.

The problem is, I recently moved to relatively remote location (from even more remote location, but that's a different story), so my professional network did not yield any local business yet.

Hence, the question: is there a Elance-like place with much higher barrier to entry for both sides?