THE LOWEST NUMBER OF AVAILABLE CONTRACTORS IN SEVEN MONTHS HAS CREATED A WEALTH OF OPPORTUNITIES.

If the recruitment and employment confederation (rec) and kpmg report on jobs for may 2015 is anything to go by, then self-employed professionals who use sail’s financial planning services and who weren’t distracted by the political headlines that dominated last month will likely have discovered plenty of opportunities for work in their respective contracting disciplines. This is the case, at least, if the report on jobs for may 2015 is anything to go by. During the month of the general election, the regular survey found that the midlands and London were especially good sources of contracts. Contractor agency billings and rates rose, and all contracting disciplines saw healthy levels of opportunity. On the other hand, the availability of contractors hit a seven-month low. A partner at kpmg named Bernard Brown said that there was a “slight pause” in the employment market in the United Kingdom during the course of the month, “as those on boards had time to process the election outcome and sort out the repercussions for their firm.” Having said that, he went on to say that “this hiatus did not diminish temporary personnel placements,” and that “temp billings grew for a twenty-fifth straight month.” It was found that essential contracting disciplines, such as accounting and finance, had excellent levels of demand, moving them up to fourth position in the overall “league table” from ninth place the previous year. The field of information technology and computers came in sixth, while engineering and construction also made an appearance in the top 10, earning the eighth and ninth spots, respectively. It is hypothesized that the growing workloads of client companies are to blame for the rise in the number of placements made by independent contractors. Even while there has been consistent development in company and, as a result, order volumes, businesses are having trouble finding trained employees to fulfill the orders, which is creating chances for contractors to fill the gap. The news was published on the website of contractorcalculator, where the CEO Dave Chaplin made the following observation in response to the news: “contractor demand increase is in the uk centers of engineering and financial excellence – london and the midlands.” Nevertheless, despite the fact that many of the survey’s numbers provided contractors who use sail’s financial planning services with some welcome news, there were also some less encouraging developments, such as the growth in demand for it contractors slowing to a pace that has not been seen since July of 2013. Despite this, there was a lack of java and development contractors, which suggests that in specific skill areas, technology contractors still have many reasons to be cheered despite the current climate.

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