There's a massive skills shortage in London, to make matters worse the government penalised the self-employed and IT contractors were particularly hit hard beca

There's a massive skills shortage in London, to make matters worse the government penalised the self-employed and IT contractors were particularly hit hard because alot of them choose to work this way. Ironic because I know a few recruitment agents that have said IR35 have made things increasingly difficult in an already scarce market, alot of the clients they recruit for are in public and government sectors. With the changes you'll be less tax efficient and paying almost the same as you're permanent counterparts. You can avoid IR35 if you're conniving enough to work through a specially setup PSC however these are so difficult and costly, for the fat cats and not the general populous.