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Having recently started an outside IR35 contract, for which the client had stated clear deliverables, I had my contract assessed by Qdos and was all deemed good to go. I knew at the time that a couple of the deliverables were not within the scope of my skills and experience but, having a limited...
For the first time in my contracting career I've taken a gig deemed as inside IR35 with a bank. Notice is 1 month and the gig is 6 which was non negotiable. I know that being inside IR35 covers that aspect of being a "disguised employee" , "under direction and control" etc. but really, to...
If anyone is considering a break after finishing a contract recently and is wondering what the market is like, well it's bad. Really bad. Having been on the bench late last year, then started a new gig briefly to then be diagnosed with a serious illness that laid me off work from March to...
After a bit of advice, I have been contracting now for just over a year and I am looking to move house. My partner is a permie with a substantial income, however not enough to go it alone on the mortgage. We currently have a staff mortgage through the halifax. I am wondering what the best...
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I took a day off sick last week and being the end of the quarter I had around 200 emails in my inbox the next day. Friday it took me 4 hours to deal with those and more that came in the during the night before.
On Friday I went away for the weekend and dealt with emails as they came in. Between...
Assuming a skilled senior .net engineer is a permie and earns £60k a year including bonus, etc. He wants to move from permie to contracting; first time contractor - he has read a good book about IT contracting so has some knowledge about it.
Should he move to contracting now; how is the market...
I'm a SQL Server, VBA and reporting specialist analyst/developer, looking to move into contracting from a SQL analyst / scripting package of £26k basic plus 5% pension, full sick pay and 25 + all bank holidays.
I'm looking to know what contract rate would equate to this package, taking into...
Given the dearth of contracts recently, and the wish to get back on the housing ladder (and needing a small mortgage) I took a permie *cough* *spit* role a few weeks back.
It's doing my head in already.... :suicide:
CV is flying but there's really not a lot of gigs out there at the moment it...
Looking for some helpful advise please. Have been operating through Ltd (outside IR35) for last 18 months and have 6 months remaining on my current contract. My old permie boss has contacted me saying they are looking for someone to do my old job and I have been his first choice, however it may...
I applied for a permanent site facilities manager role as I'm getting disillusioned with IT support, I have all the pre-requisite skills from previous jobs as well as the computer skills required to run the service desk.
Agent calls and thinks I'm over-skilled for the job, he wants to put me...