ContractorUK is home to the UK’s contracting community. Online since 1999, the site is a trusted source of information and news for contractors. For 20 years, ContractorUK has set the news agenda for the IT contracting industry, kept contractors informed on tax issues, market demand, jobs, IR35, new legislation and much more.

Learn more at www.contractoruk.com

The Liquidation Centre, part of the Exigen group of companies is an award-winning restructuring practice , specialising in both Members’ Voluntary Liquidations (MVLs) and Creditors’ Voluntary Liquidations (CVLs).

Our fully licensed and regulated Insolvency Practitioners have for over 20 years helped thousands of contractors successfully close their companies with clear, straightforward, and reliable support. 

As one of the fastest growing liquidations practices in the UK, come see why the Liquidation Centre is the number 1 choice for your contractor clients. 

Cleerly supports contractors across specialist professions, navigating them through the property market and broader financial landscape. Beyond expert assistance with first-time purchases, remortgages, and property investments, Cleerly provides comprehensive financial reviews, including vital protection advice to secure contractors' futures. They possess a deep understanding of umbrella and limited company structures, working with lenders who prioritise contract value over tax mechanisms. Covering sectors from IT and Engineering to Medical and Financial Services, their Consultants offer decades of expertise. Founded by a pioneer in specialist contractor underwriting, Cleerly remains dedicated to providing the multi-category financial support that modern contractors require to thrive.

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FreeAgent is award-winning UK-based accounting software used by over 200,000 small businesses, landlords and their accountants and bookkeepers. Easy for clients to use, with a handy mobile app, hassle-free expense tracking, invoicing and bank feeds, FreeAgent offers MTD-compliant VAT filing, Self Assessment, Final Accounts, Corporation Tax and much more.

The contracting and umbrella sector doesn’t stand still - and neither do the people building it.

CMR connects the people powering payroll, accountancy and finance. We work with ambitious umbrella companies, forward-thinking accountancy practices and the suppliers shaping the future of the industry.

In a market where compliance matters, margins matter and reputation matters even more, hiring the right people isn’t optional - it’s everything.

We don’t believe in transactional recruitment. We believe in proper partnerships. In challenging briefs. In finding leaders, builders and operators who raise standards, not just fill seats.

For CEOs, that means growth with control. For candidates, it means real opportunity in businesses that are going somewhere.

We’re proud to support the contracting sector - not just as recruiters, but as advocates for the people behind it.

You sort the numbers. We’ll sort the people.

Finity is payroll software built for umbrella companies, agencies, and high-volume payroll teams, trusted to keep over 150,000 UK workers paid every month.

Payday shouldn’t be a mission. Disconnected tools and manual processes cost payroll teams up to 11 hours every week. We replace chaos with one platform to onboard, pay, and reward, supporting everything from complex, timesheet-based payroll to salaried staff. Built for growth, Finity can process 10,000 payslips in under 5 seconds.

Only Finity lets you earn Rewards on every payslip, spendable anywhere Mastercard is accepted.

Move faster, reduce admin and tool-hopping, strengthen compliance confidence, and deliver a next-level experience for clients and workers. With core features included as standard, fortnightly releases, and Labs for pre-release feedback, Finity keeps evolving without making innovation an add-on.

That’s financial unity.

Freelancer Financials has gone beyond simply understanding how mortgages work for contractors; we’ve helped reshape them.

Since 2004, we've devoted ourselves to changing lenders’ attitudes towards the flexible labour workforce. Through relentless lobbying, education and our unwavering commitment to improving the industry, we’ve helped level the once-biased playing field.

Never has that been truer. Whilst many brokers stick to the safe path of umbrella and limited company contractors, we've gone all in. From seafarers to NHS contractors, from zero-hours to day-1 contractors, we accommodate everyone.

With over 30 diverse contractor-friendly mortgage lenders, we cover every angle, assessing mortgage affordability for all flexible workers using their contract day rate.

To date, we've secured over 35,000 mortgages for day rate, fixed-term and zero-hours contractors, umbrella employees, company directors, locums, CIS subcontractors, agency workers, and more. With our recent rebrand and broader scope, we have the capacity to do so much more for the UK's incredible flexible workforce.

IMS Decimal is an Outsourced Accounting & Financial Back-office services organisation dedicated to empowering businesses in the UK, US, EU, Canada and APAC regions. Established in 2006 as a part of the IMS Group, with a workforce of 3,000+ professionals and 260+ global clients, we embed into your existing operational environment to deliver accurate accounting & payroll solutions, compliant reporting, and governed financial processes. Our operations are supported by globally recognised compliance standards, including GDPR, ISO, SOC 2 and HIPAA. Guided by Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) for each service, our team of exceptional talent working across diverse industries, we tailor our services to meet your unique business needs, ensuring confidence at scale.

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With over 14 years of expertise and a reputation for world-class client retention, Kintec is a trusted leader in cloud-based payroll and accountancy solutions. Our dedicated support team is known for delivering exceptional customer service, ensuring your business runs smoothly and stress-free. From compliance to efficiency, we manage the complexities—making sure your employees are paid accurately and on time, every time.

Our tailored, reliable solutions, backed by top-tier support, give you the freedom to focus on growing your business while we take care of the rest. It’s no surprise our clients stay with us long-term.

Markel UK is an award-winning provider of specialist insurance, tax and legal services for contractors, SMEs and professional advisers.

Through Markel Direct and Markel Tax, they support over 200,000 customers and 2,500 accountancy practices nationwide. Markel Direct offers business insurance and 24/7 legal support for contractors and small businesses, backed by more than 25 years’ experience.

Markel Tax delivers fee protection insurance and expert tax consultancy, empowering accountants to drive growth. Their team, with over 20 years’ experience, provides guidance on complex contracting issues and a strong defence in disputes, having set industry standards by being the first to win IR35 at Tribunal level.

My Digital is a cloud-based payroll software platform built specifically for umbrella companies and payroll bureaus, trusted by over 90 businesses and used to pay more than 300,000 contractors every month. Used by 1 in 2 SafeRec-accredited umbrellas and 1 in 3 FCSA members, it has been developed over ten years to deliver fast, accurate and compliant payroll processing, with AI-driven features that simplify the entire gross-to-net journey across the assignment-based supply chain. Known for its gold-standard customer service and reliability in the real world, My Digital is the only payroll software provider to have won Best Payroll Software at the Contracting Awards three years in a row (2022, 2023 and 2024), offering clients a genuinely future-proof solution in a constantly evolving payroll landscape.

The PHA Group is a PR and integrated communications agency offering 21 years of expertise in PR, Creative, Reputation Management, Digital and Social. Our consumer, corporate, “Future of Work” and reputation specialists deliver results for clients, including household brands, international corporations, ambitious start-ups and individuals with a story to tell. Our offices are located in London, Manchester, Leeds, New York & Boston, where we are perfectly placed to deliver game-changing regional, national, and international campaigns. Our network integrates top-level media and influencer contacts with strategic, creative, digital, and social insigh

SafeRec is a compliance technology platform bringing greater transparency and accountability to the UK umbrella company market. By combining independent legal investigation from with real-time payroll verification, SafeRec provides a framework for assessing umbrella company tax, legal, and operational compliance.

Alongside certification, the SafeRec platform gives recruitment agencies visibility of compliant providers and tools to support effective supply chain oversight.