Depends on the contractor and the team. If the contractor is a senior developer with actual experience who genuinely knows how to code, people will treat them w

Depends on the contractor and the team. If the contractor is a senior developer with actual experience who genuinely knows how to code, people will treat them well. However, for every one of those, there seem to be about ten terrible developers working on a contract or freelance basis. People whose knowledge of web development has mostly frozen in the mid 00s, who end up causing more bugs than they fix, who leave security holes everywhere and end up causing untold amounts of grief as clients rightfully get hacked off and yell down the phone at the people working with them. These types of people are who a decent percentage of UK developers and companies think of, and they don't exactly paint a rosy picture of the work style.