CUK looks at contract openings in Part One of a report on Ireland's IT jobs market.

Recruiter says the City has taken an even bigger stake in the UK's IT jobs market.

'Technically, the mere issuing of a cheque means the client has paid you - victim of crime or not.'

Agency billings show the sixth month halted a slide in demand for IT contractors.

Tax expert helps an IT contractor with a client unsure of the relief on R&D spending.

Ten signposts to where demand in the capital is hottest for IT contractors.

The upturn in contract IT hires is no longer limited to financial services.

"You have a contract for the provision of your services to a client. It is not certain that it is a contract for services, but nor is it certain that it is a contract of service. Like many, perhaps most contracts, it may be more likely to be one than the other but you cannot be absolutely sure of its status. You don't want to assume that it is a contract of service because that means paying more tax, perhaps unnecessarily. But on the other hand you don't want to assume that it is a contract for services, and pay less tax, if that means running the risk of the Inland Revenue later demanding back tax, interest, and even, perhaps, penalties."