Seasonal factors have helped the still-shrinking temporary IT jobs market move towards growth for the first time in four months.

Your limited company’s end isn’t an end to your director responsibilities, no matter what the dark web might have you believe. Or pay for.

Despite a minister’s warm words, the ERB risks leaving some contractors in the cold, just as SOW and consultancy gigs start to show green shoots.

Ignoring formalities because you’ve got a friendly agent or enthusiastic end-user risks setting yourself up for failure as a freelance tech professional.

Shadow business secretary vows to ‘look at reforming IR35’ if the Conservatives are returned to power.

How contractors can safeguard against the lack of choice, changes, and disruption threatened by April’s brolly legislation.

Where contractors, agencies and end-clients are most at risk of falling foul, now and from April 2026.

JSL tipped to sit alongside the current list of avoiders, ‘tightening the taxman’s approach via deterrence and enforceable recovery.’

A foreshadowing of JSL that emphasises the purpose of the April 2026 rules also appears to reveal when a penalty isn’t truly a penalty.

Bonafide PSCs have my sympathies, because an IR35 plug-in for ‘Open To Work’ won’t get a place on LinkedIn’s development roadmap any time soon.

Although it has four factors for contractors to consider, it’s the ‘how’ of Control that still does the heavy lifting in 2025-26.

Why ‘yes mate, all good’ when your phone pings from an agent probably isn’t the best reply.

Freelance tech staff forecasts are up, but the chancellor’s ‘kicking’ and her possibly incoming ‘car crash’ are keeping temporary IT billings down. And dwindling.