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rocktronAMP
Fingers like lightning
Last Activity: 3 July 2026, 17:13
Joined: 8 June 2007
Location: London, UK
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  • As I said above. The agency has Giant on their PSL. I found their calculator here https://www.giantgroup.com/umbrella#calculator

    I don't think I will be making salary sacrifices into a pension, because I have personal debt to deal with. If I survive 6 months of this Inside IR35 gig then,...
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  • Questions: Regarding Umbrella companies.

    Do you approach them directly or is that the remit of the consultancy / agency through their PSL?

    Do you need to have a proof of contract at the time of application? I am going through the DBS checking and security integrity check...
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  • Ditto Moi!

    My last contract was Outside IR35 and finished 2 weeks ago. The one before that was also Outside IR35. Yay me.
    However, my run of fortune could not go on forever. I just had contract offer Inside IR35 £680 per day for 9 months, possibly the job end by Xmas. On reflection...
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  • rocktronAMP
    replied to State of the Market
    Wow! Thanks willendure for your thoughts. I speculate mass Agentic Interviewing claiming to cut out the recruitment consultants and scale on today's macroeconomic realities, "Today, we built a new fangled AI platform called WILL-U-ROCK (see what I did there?) that interviews 1,000 senior devs in...
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  • rocktronAMP
    replied to State of the Market
    I am still looking... I thought two weeks ago would have the berries, because I had few decent interviews and then nothing else. One rejection, but remaining two still are positive but there is no news and the poor recruiter are chasing whoever. That's my state of the market. Up and then down. Meanwhile...
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    Last edited by rocktronAMP; 5 June 2026, 15:05.

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