Professional service contractors to experience high demand
Business is booming for many contractors, but there’s one sector set to explode: the professional services sector is primed for a huge uptick in demand.
Business is booming for many contractors, but there’s one sector set to explode: the professional services sector is primed for a huge uptick in demand.
The Next Big Thing when it comes to demand for contractors is here: the e-commerce sector is growing like mad and is in need of qualified professionals.
If you’re self-employed, it doesn’t matter if you’re a freelancer or an umbrella company contractor – it’s damned hard to secure a home loan right now.
Well here’s a nice little bit of new research: around 30 per cent of new billings from large firms could end up going to contractors over permanent workers!
Freelancers and umbrella company contractors tend to welcome news of talent or skill shortages, as it means more work for them – but is this necessarily good?
It turns out that they’re not just a nation of sheep-shaggers: Scotland is positively the place to be if you’re an umbrella contractor, it seems!
If you’re a freelance accountant or one that works for an umbrella company, brace yourselves: you’re going to be quite sought-after in the coming months.
Whilst you might not have been particularly good at science during your school days, if you’re an umbrella company worker you’re going to learn to love it soon.
In a world where a given industry has trouble fulfilling its permanent staffing needs, contractors stand to reap the rewards in a major way.