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from the team behind ContractorUK
Estimator CV check
See how your CV reads against the 22 live Estimator jobs on ContractorUK. Tender stage work is in 50% of them: does your CV show it?
Job Match is free with a Fitread account: live UK jobs ranked against your CV, best fits first.
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What Estimator adverts ask for
From the 22 live Estimator jobs on ContractorUK, read 27 October 2026. Each skill with the share of adverts that name it.
Titles these adverts use
A recruiter searching a CV database types the advert's title. Use the one that is true of your work in your first line.
- Estimator 8
- Senior Estimator 5
- Freelance Estimator 3
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.
CV checks for related roles
Roles whose adverts ask for many of the same skills.
- Commercial Manager Procurement and contract management 73% Stakeholder Management 52% Negotiation 43% 44 adverts
- Design Manager Design management 55% Stakeholder Management 30% CDM Regulations 23% 47 adverts
- Project Manager Project Management 96% Stakeholder Management 33% Civil engineering 15% 305 adverts
- Quantity Surveyor Final accounts 59% Forecasting 57% Contract administration 56% 125 adverts
- Project Engineer Project Management 39% Stakeholder Management 23% Civil engineering 22% 64 adverts
- Buyer Procurement and contract management 83% Supply chain management 57% Negotiation 52% 54 adverts
- Document Controller Document control 100% Filing and document management 62% Microsoft Office 41% 34 adverts
- Site Engineer Setting out 92% Civil engineering 82% As-built and O&M documentation 42% 203 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.