Spring Statement 2025 affects contractors in potentially numerous ways – with ten devils in the detail, but it didn’t live up to its billing. How…
The boss of the world’s biggest building society has said women who work from home potentially put their career growth in jeopardy. Debbie Crosbie, Chief…
If you’ve worked in tech or finance, you know the drill. There’s always a ‘go-to’ person who gets the big projects, leads the meetings, and,…
As Recruiters for the Investment Management and Wealth Management sectors, partnering with internal recruitment teams is crucial for success. Let's dive into how internal recruiters…
In the fast-paced world of technology job adverts, deciphering the essence of a role can feel like untangling a web of jargon and buzzwords! For…
We grabbed our popcorn and pulled up a comfy seat, but today's budget announcement felt more like a party-political broadcast than a fiscal statement! And…
Forget curveballs, it’s these standard IT contractor interview questions you’ll likely slip on We all know that tricky IT contractor interview questions exist only to trip us…
Congratulations on receiving that job offer in Asset or Wealth Management! But what if the offer falls short of expectations? Fear not! At Bowers Partnership,…
It was an amazing experience to visit Barrett Town Primary School and SOS Children's Village in Montego Bay, Jamaica, through Pack for a Purpose, an…
A boutique hiring firm placing contractors solely in FS says it’s hard not to notice on London’s Square Mile the virtual replacing the physical, which…
Are you looking for your next big career move in Investment Management and Wealth Management? Don't worry, we've got your back. Here are five tips…
Which IT contractors will be very in-demand in 2023? Cloud Data Engineers, Visualisation Developers, Data Analysts, and all things Azure. For these four, I’m already…
Demand for IT contractors came a hair’s breadth away from falling flat in November 2022 -- at just 50.3, its lowest index score for two…
Agents are supportive too but, like the advisories, mainly because the UK needs “stability” (which Mr Sunak vowed yesterday), following the turmoil of the Liz…
Even in its significant chaos of late, the government surely must have woken up by now to the legacy of the IR35 off-payroll reforms --…
Even our office pooch Lady has got dog biscuits that aren’t as dry as Rishi Sunak’s Spring Statement 2022. But perhaps us recruitment bosses and everyone else…
Internal recruiters and direct-hirers on LinkedIn jobs should be your last resort if you’re serious about landing a freelance role! Don’t forget, direct-hiring clients and…
1. Sort IR35 status early and probe if it’s not right Establish IR35 status for new contracts on a VERY EARLY DOORS basis. So do…
A last-gasp in hiring before 2021 ends boosted IT contractors in November, arresting a three-month decline in growth. In fact, demand for freelance tech skills…
The pandemic will preoccupy the chancellor at Autumn Budget 2021, making even the best thing he could do for UK contractors – regulate umbrella companies…
As even first-timer contractors tend to know (and first-timers can be more receptive than veterans actually in this regard), a little ‘constructive criticism’ of how they operate…
If you hadn’t noticed, there’s quite a lot of frustration in the agency contractor space at present, and unfortunately, whether you’re a contractor or an agent, the…
Six million jobs in the UK have been made “anywhere jobs” by covid-19 and home-working coming together, with no subsector more vulnerable to its roles going abroad…
The housing market has fared unexpectedly well since the first coronavirus lockdown ended. But today, contractors and other individuals looking to buy property face three…
It didn’t pan out quite as it was forecast by my fellow agents, mainly due to the unforeseen introduction of ‘Tier 4’ covid restrictions, but…
A second national lockdown being imposed in England this Thursday due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic is receiving a very mixed response from the contractor…
As a contractor recruiter, I’ve worked through every market crisis going since 2000, but this ongoing one caused by the pandemic of covid-19 in the…
The government has been told to end “significant financial hardship” for 710,000 limited companies, inflicted by it barring their dividends from its Coronavirus Job Retention…
The largest ever crash in UK demand for IT contractors hit in the four weeks of April 2020, when the coronavirus pandemic and measures to…
We are still very much in business during the Covid-19 outbreak, and while we are working from home we are still operational on a full-time…
Employer National Insurance. The Apprenticeship Levy. And even the Status Determination Statement. Just three on a long list of IR35 reform-related costs passed on in…
The government has sensationally delayed private sector IR35 reform by a life-changing 12 months, after pressure by peers – and the coronavirus – made not…
With the government fightback against Coronavirus significantly stepping up yesterday, ContractorUK has invited us to outline what we’re doing as a contractor recruitment agency; what…
The taxman says there has been no negative reaction to letters he sent to engagers warning about the off-payroll rules making them liable for IR35…
AS PART OF A REVIEW INTO CHANGES TO THE OPERATION OF THE OFF-PAYROLL WORKING RULES (IR35), HMRC HAS MADE AN ANNOUNCEMENT TO GIVE BUSINESS MORE…
With 2020 and the arrival of controversial private sector IR35 reform in April nearly upon us, it’s important to take a moment to reflect on…
Following the glitziest contracting awards ceremony last night that contractor industry veterans say they have ever attended, ContractorUK is delighted to announce the winners of…
Every individual MP is being asked to oppose next year’s changes to IR35, in a mass letter-writing campaign backed by ContractorUK and ten other supporters…
Most PSC contractors know by now that from April 6th next year, they will lose the right to set their own IR35 status -- that…
A sense of panic among contractors’ private sector engagers, compounded by fears HMRC isn’t doing enough and so can’t be relied upon, has set in…
Draft IR35 legislation for off-payroll working in the private sector has today been published in Finance Bill 2019/20, containing a vow to forge ahead with…
Two more financial firms have foisted a finite number of renewals on hundreds of limited company contractors, as part of their bid to “sidestep” IR35…
The taxman must go back to the drawing board with his ‘small’ engager exemption - the key question he fails to ask in his consultation…
HSBC will cease engaging limited company contractors from this September, saving itself the job of having to assess them under a new IR35 from April…
The lowest level of demand for technology expertise on a temporary basis in 31 months hit IT contractors in March 2019, mainly thanks to the…
Morgan Stanley has cut pay for IT contractors at both its global and UK operations. The New York-headquartered bank told affected IT contractors to lower…
There’s been some raised eyebrows of late when I’ve told contractors the truth - that it’s agencies who will carry the heavier obligations of the…
Callum Wade, one of our Recruitment Consultants, recently caught up with us to give his inputs and ideas about the London Market and also an…
Even us recruitment captains have noticed that contractors have spent much of the year firing broadsides at regulation, whether it’s the 2019 Loan Charge or…
Source: Contractor UK 'Warnings that the UK’s status as an IT talent beacon will diminish due to Brexit were shrugged off yesterday as premature. In…
Bryony Sexton, from Bowers Partnership, asked herself the question – “am I out of my mind”? She said “Skydiving has always been on my bucket…
Although the word ‘scarcity’ and ‘shortage’ can have negative connotations in many walks of life, for a canny IT contractor these are the adjectives for…
Oscar Lorimer, studying for a Level 2 Diploma in Business Administration, is the worthy winner of our latest Apprentice of the Month award. Oscar currently…
We’re still only in single figures with how many days I’ve been back in the office since the extended festive holiday. But I’ve already lost…
Accountancy firm KPMG has imposed a period of enforced leave - a furlough -on its IT contractors. Commencing on December 16th and running until January…
We are pleased to report that we have not seen any knee jerk reaction from our client base post Referendum. We have however been closely…
No less than seven financial services organisations in about as many months. It all started within the first quarter with Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse,…
Two of London’s most respected banks used the first quarter of 2016 to cut the pay of their IT contractors, with termination offered to those…
Contractor’s Questions: Although I haven’t seen sweeping pay cuts for a while, I’ve heard whispers of an impending rate reduction at my client’s London office…
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