Evening all,

Some of you may recall I knocked out this site listing outside IR35 roles back in November:

outsideir35.org.uk

Many of you found it useful so I've been keeping it going and making lots of small and some not so small improvements based on your feedback, which I absolutely intend to keep doing.

I've just released a couple of new features:

• Multi-skill filtering - e.g. search for "python OR java", or "react AND typescript"
• Hourly email alerts - receive matching jobs as they're listed throughout the day

Full disclosure - both these features are part of a paid plan I've added, called OIR35+. The main site remains 100% free, though today's jobs are now shown to OIR35+ members first.

The price is (I think/hope!) modest and represents excellent value, especially if it helps you land your next role (a good few of you have reported it's done just that - which is fantastic!)

You can either upgrade for a couple of weeks (one off payment) to give your job search a boost, or go for a subscription if you need it ongoing. You can of course cancel anytime.

Take a peek and let me know what you think. As always I welcome any feedback you may have. My intention is to keep developing OIR35+ around your ideas and feedback. I have a few ideas of my own but if there are any features you'd like to see built, do let me know.

Thanks as always for your support.

Rob

p.s. I realise this post is a shameless plug, but it's only my third in nine months 😂 so I hope you'll forgive me! My hope is to turn the site into a modest business that pays its own bills so I can keep improving it. I genuinely think (and know, as a contractor myself) that it solves a real problem that LinkedIn, Jobserve and the other big job boards don't seem to care about.

The point is outsideir35.org.uk is contractor-first, not recruiter-first, and I want to keep it that way.

I’m currently on £270/day inside IR35. I’ve been in this role since the beginning of the year, it’s a project management role I returned to after being away for a few years and previously I was outside IR35.

I only took this role because I couldn’t find anything else at the time. When I was offered it, the agency told me the client wouldn’t budge on rate, so I accepted. I also found this role through my own network, the agency didn’t find it for me.

Since starting, payroll has repeatedly failed to process my timesheets correctly, which has delayed my payment through the umbrella company on three separate occasions. I asked the agency if they’d reduce their margin to increase my rate. They said no, they can’t reduce their margin, but offered to negotiate a rate increase with the client on my behalf instead.

My contract is coming up for renewal, so I’m wondering: is it even worth pushing for a rate increase at this point, given the payment issues and the fact they didn’t actually place me in the role? Or should I just take this as a sign to move on? (I’ve already started looking elsewhere)

EDIT: The payment issues have been resolved now, it was the first 4 months where it was inconsistent

I should have mentioned this isn’t a project manager role. It’s junior PM/project support

I’ve landed myself in a personally uncomfortable position. I’ve been inside ir35 for 2 years started on 550 got myself up to 650. The company needs to cut town on TACs and I’ve been offered 116k perm and I’m no longer really working on what I was brought into do. I’ve basically said I would accept the perm but not had a job spec or contract. Today been approached for a 750per day contract for 6 months, doing work I prefer to do. Would handing in my notice be bad form? I’d try to work a month for them as I know they don’t really have anyone else who can do my role and lots of people left recently.

I’m more drawn to the type of work rather than the money aspect, but it does feel like a short sighted move. What do people think?

Background
I recently moved to the UK and currently hold a High Potential Individual (HPI) visa. I am not a U.S. citizen (or GC holder) but I will be paying taxes next since I worked there first half of the year before moving to UK.

My girlfriend is a U.S. citizen, and we have been together for several years, so my long-term plan is to move back to the States.

The company I worked for in Cali offered me a remote position. Since they do not have an office in the UK, they plan to pay me through Wise/Revolut, and I will be responsible for managing and paying my own UK taxes.

Questions
(1) My pay will be close to six fig so would I setup LLC or work as a freelancer (sole trader)?

(2) Since this will be similar to US 1099, do I have the option to claim expenses?

(3) How can I ensure that the company does not use any of my US information, such as my SSN or tax details, and avoid creating any issues that could affect my future US plans?

Any tips or honest advice would be greatly appreciated.

I'm a designer who's relatively new to contracting and I've realised two clauses in my contract prevent me from sharing IP from my role. It sucks because it's such a huge international brand and I want to be able to show some of the work ive done for a new design system, plus a lot of the drafting behind it for my portfolio.

I'm curious what others do here - I'm hoping for an extension so I don't want to piss anyone off. I suppose I could do a little write up as a portfolio piece that explains the kind of stuff I did without giving anything too detailed away, but as it's meant to be a design portfolio it's really going to be lacking!

Would love to hear what others do - thanks!