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The UK contract IT jobs market in December 2025 sat between the economy being shut from covid and then reopen from the pandemic. Measuring 40.7, last month was not as bad for IT contractors as June ...

Companies House is a government agency that keeps details of every single limited company in the country.

Our contractor calculator section provides you with a detailed illustration of what you could earn as a contractor. Whether it's operating through your own limited company or via an umbrella company, ...

Alerts that an agency paying an inside IR35 worker £37k ‘may be the tip of the iceberg’ are hyperbole -- if they are said to apply beyond the agency. In M Appiah v Tripod Partners, a judge said Tripod ...

Contractor’s Question: Is the projection of four interest rate cuts in 2025 (albeit reportedly now reduced to three cuts), the final nudge I should need to take £20k out of my savings account - paying ...

Umbrella companies employ contractors working on temporary engagements. They sit between a contractor and a client or recruitment agency, and handle all the administration and payroll. Umbrella ...

The Agency Workers Regulations, "AWR", will come into force on 1 October 2011. The legislation will give temporary agency workers the same basic rights, after 12 weeks in the same assignment, as those ...

A sense of relief that private sector IR35 reform will be both delayed and inapplicable to small clients is giving way to increasingly fierce disquiet over the chancellor’s plans. In fact, despite the ...

The FCSA warns the Treasury’s James Murray MP that without intervention on multiple fronts, the UK’s temporary labour supply chain could collapse.