From business planning to sorting your accounts, starting out as a contractor can feel like a lot. Here’s how new contractors can forget the faff and hit the ground running.

Examples of good practice for umbrella companies’ isn’t a fishing expedition. Even if some of the spelt out legal duties could be checked up on.

Contractors usually get three options to formalise ‘going it alone.’ Now, there’s a fourth; it’s neither on your own nor forking out for an accountant.

The IT contractor jobs market in March 2025 made a good fist of defying a near-washout four weeks for UK hiring. While demand for IT workers on a contract basis didn’t grow last month (again), the ...

April tax changes: why choosing the right business current account should matter to contractors now more than ever.

Taxman blackens the black mark he’s already put by three companies, while ‘naming and shaming’ four more schemes that he says ‘contractors should exit.’ ...

An HMRC update clarifies that while the starting gun may be unholstered in April 2026, it won’t be fired until April 2027.

A recruiter told me that at six pages, my CV is too long and I need to reduce it to two pages. A few questions come to mind. Do I really reduce my CV length and miss out what I have achieved? Secondly ...

April tax changes: why choosing the right business current account should matter to contractors now more than ever.