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from the team behind ContractorUK
See your CV the way agencies see it
Paste a real UK advert, add your CV and get your match score in seconds: the skills it shows, the ones it’s missing, and what each is worth. Free, no card.
Job Match is free with a Fitread account: live UK jobs ranked against your CV, best fits first.
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Every skill the advert names, and what adding it is worth
Everything a reading checks
Your CV the way the advert, the agency’s software and the recruiter will read it. The score is free with no account; a free account opens the full reading.
- Every skill in the advert
- Compared with your CV, with the points adding each is worth.
- A match rate from code
- Out of 100: skills 70, the advert’s title 15, a matching sector 15. Never AI.
- 13 searchability checks
- Contact details, headings, date format, short forms, length and more: what agency software needs to read your CV.
- 17 recruiter checks
- Measurable results, tone, overused phrases, UK conventions, chronology and more: what the person reading it notices.
- Pay and IR35
- On contract adverts, the day rate against the role’s advertised median, and IR35 exactly as stated.
- Tickets and checks
- Credentials the advert asks for, like DBS, CSCS or a licence, with the issuer’s own page.
- Formatting
- Fonts, margins and layout, checked on the file itself.
- An AI review, checked
- Written around your score. It can’t change a figure, and a sentence naming something your CV doesn’t show is removed.
Read the way a CV database reads it
Agency systems file your CV as a record and search it by its words. Fitread checks what they rely on: contact details in the body, standard headings, one date format, and each term written the way a search asks for it.
Anything a search could miss is flagged, with the fix in plain words.
What employers are asking for this month
Read every morning from the 15,011 live jobs on ContractorUK. Pick your role for its full list and its own CV check.
- Teaching Assistant Special educational needs (SEN/SEND) 76% One-to-one support (1:1) 49% Primary education 43% 1,533 adverts
- Supply Teacher Primary education 47% Classroom management 38% Behaviour management 34% 1,217 adverts
- Tutor Special educational needs (SEN/SEND) 91% One-to-one support (1:1) 64% SEMH (social, emotional and mental health) 52% 344 adverts
- Project Manager Project Management 96% Stakeholder Management 34% Building services (M&E) 16% 306 adverts
- Site Manager Project Management 32% RAMS (risk assessments and method statements) 28% Toolbox talks and site inductions 24% 298 adverts
- Electrician Electrical installation 44% First and second fix 18% Fault finding 16% 277 adverts
- Administrator Microsoft Office 48% General administration 44% Excel 37% 261 adverts
- Site Engineer Setting out 90% Civil engineering 81% As-built and O&M documentation 43% 204 adverts
- Fitter Mechanical and electrical assembly 48% Reading technical drawings 26% Pipework and pipefitting 23% 168 adverts
- Design Engineer Reading technical drawings 19% Electrical design 19% Mechanical engineering 19% 162 adverts
- Plant Operator 360 excavator 36% Loading and unloading 18% Forward tipping dumper 15% 154 adverts
- Interim Local government 26% Stakeholder Management 19% Forecasting 16% 148 adverts
Questions people ask
Do UK agencies use an ATS?
Agencies search their own systems (often called a CRM), and job-board CV databases, by job title, skill words, location, pay and how recently you were active. The words in your CV decide whether it comes up in that search at all.
Will software reject my CV before a person reads it?
In the systems we checked, every documented automatic rejection comes from a screening answer (right to work, clearance, DBS, a licence, availability), never from the words in your CV. Being found is the hard part.
Is it only for IT contractors?
No. It reads any CV against any UK advert: contract, temp or permanent, in any sector.
How is the match rate worked out?
Our code compares the advert’s skills with your CV’s. The advert’s skills your CV shows earn 70 points, the advert’s title 15, and a matching sector 15.
Is my CV stored?
Not unless you sign up. The file is read and not kept. Its text is held, encrypted, for 30 minutes so that a free account made in that time can keep it; otherwise it is deleted.
Is it free?
Yes. The match score is free with no account, and a free account gives you full readings for 5 adverts every 30 days, plus Job Match, the Tracker, the CV builder and the LinkedIn check. Fitread Pro adds unlimited readings and every fix explained, with 7 days free.
Who runs the CV check?
Fitread, from the team behind ContractorUK. It is a service of Fitread Ltd: your CV goes from your browser to Fitread to be read, and ContractorUK never sees it.