Contractor vacancies grow whilst availability shrinks
While vacancies for freelancers and umbrella company contractors might be growing by leaps and bounds, contractor availability is starting to dwindle.
While vacancies for freelancers and umbrella company contractors might be growing by leaps and bounds, contractor availability is starting to dwindle.
Industry experts are predicting a banner year for any freelancers or umbrella company contractors involved in the IT sector after the results of one report.
The Professional Contractors Group has confirmed that pay rates for freelancers and umbrella company contractors are on the increase.
The Recruitment and Employment Confederation says that employers are courting freelancers and umbrella company contractors with increased pay rates.
The Association of Professional Staffing Companies has been chuffed to bits lately on the back of new research that says everyone loves using contract workers.
Apparently confidence in the British workplace has been on the increase over the past 12 months, according to the Centre for Economics and Business Research.
The UK oil and gas sector is going strongly – so much so that recruitment for contractors in the industry is about to hit a massive bump very soon.
With the UK lagging behind when it comes to adaptability in the employment sphere, British firms are losing out on talented workers – and this is costing them.
With Tech City growing by leaps and bounds, IT contractors in the capital are bracing for a serious increase in levels of demand for their services.
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?
Tell us something we don’t already know: a new survey from an industry body says that umbrella companies and other interim service providers run the economy.
You’re quite lucky if you’re a freelancer or an umbrella contractor working in the media or information technology fields in the current day and age!
I know you’ve been waiting for this: the Association of Professional Staffing Companies says you’re all no longer abnormal freaks of nature!
Whether they work as a freelancer or as part of an umbrella service company, the number of Brits comfortable with interim work dwarfs the rest of Europe.
Employers make use of umbrella service contractors in nearly every sector, but one of fastest growing uses for freelancers and contract workers is to carry out change management for businesses, a new survey says.
The infrastructure needed to roll out 4G broadband is coming to the UK, and one technology journalist recently said that highly skilled freelancers working with umbrella companies are likely to benefit from the increased demand for their skills.