[FearNotDaniel]

> Recruiters? Is he sure he's a freelancer?

My experience in both UK and EU is that a heck a lot of "freelance" aka "B2B contract" style work does indeed come via recruiters. Either they charge the client an upfront "finders fee", or the invoicing goes via the recruiter who adds their margin to the monthly bill before passing it on to the end client. So yeah, perfectly valid for a freelancer to work via recruiters even if that's not your personal experience.

[tonyedgecombe]

Hasn’t IR35 killed that market in the UK?

[FearNotDaniel]

I'm no longer UK based, but from what I can observe at a distance, it's transformed the market rather than killed it. Listings for contract roles seem to be labelled either "inside" or "outside" IR35 depending on the requirements and conditions. So yes, whatever contracts are available are probably on average much less tax-favourable to the contractor than before the changeover, but whether that's affected the overall market volume I couldn't say.