Does any other country have the same concept and size of contracting market as we have in the UK?
Here you go to a website such as Jobserve, type in eg “React Contract” and apply to one of thousands of daily rate contracts. (Inventory is a bit low today due to start of the year, but will be 1000+ in a few weeks.)
After a short interview process, typically you will start a contract for 3-6 months, but can often stay for years. The processes by which contractors are hired, onboarded, paid etc are very mature.
In London in particular, many developers will go down this route in order to earn higher rates. There used to be tax advantages but these have been eroded over time.
“Disguised employment” is absolutely rife so the model is under constant attack by the government with our terrible IR35 law.
This is a very common model in the UK. I have only met a handful of “freelancers” here winning their own B2B business, but have met thousands upon thousands of contractors using the above model.
To answer the OPs question. In England you simply start applying for contracts posted publically online. The hardest part is typically that permanent employees need to give 1 month notice, whereas people want contractors to start in 1-2 weeks so you may need to give notice before having a contract in hand. Pull this off once though and you are away.
Absolutely my own experience too. Are you implying that this sort of working arrangement isn't actually common outside of this country? I didn't know that, I presumed we just did what other countries did too.
The Netherlands also has something like this, contracting for higher rates and some tax advantages. Many 'freelancers' stay at a client for years.
I've recently starting working like this, I contacted a recruiter (who takes a percentage of my rate) and had a contract lined up within a week.
Never heard of similar in the US, although I’ve never used a real job site. When I was a contractor I just worked for a firm that hired me out to other firms.
Here you go to a website such as Jobserve, type in eg “React Contract” and apply to one of thousands of daily rate contracts. (Inventory is a bit low today due to start of the year, but will be 1000+ in a few weeks.)
After a short interview process, typically you will start a contract for 3-6 months, but can often stay for years. The processes by which contractors are hired, onboarded, paid etc are very mature.
In London in particular, many developers will go down this route in order to earn higher rates. There used to be tax advantages but these have been eroded over time.
“Disguised employment” is absolutely rife so the model is under constant attack by the government with our terrible IR35 law.
This is a very common model in the UK. I have only met a handful of “freelancers” here winning their own B2B business, but have met thousands upon thousands of contractors using the above model.
To answer the OPs question. In England you simply start applying for contracts posted publically online. The hardest part is typically that permanent employees need to give 1 month notice, whereas people want contractors to start in 1-2 weeks so you may need to give notice before having a contract in hand. Pull this off once though and you are away.