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Contract Recruitment
Interim and contract specialists for defined projects
Interim and contract specialists for defined projects, capacity gaps and specialist skill drops — with the compliance handled.
One of the ways to work with Humand's specialist technology recruitment for employers.
Why clients engage us
What you get from working with Humand.
Fast turnaround
Humand can mobilise quickly for urgent specialist contractor requirements and has repeatedly delivered week-scale hiring outcomes.
Compliance handled
Structured IR35, right-to-work, onboarding, timesheet and engagement support.
Specialist depth
Access to contractors with genuine deep-tech domain experience, not generalists.
What you get
Deliverables at a glance.
Every engagement includes clear, written outputs, with no ambiguity about what "done" looks like.
- Specialist contractor shortlist matched to the brief
- IR35 status-determination / SDS support
- Right-to-work verification
- Contract & compliance pack
- Weekly timesheet approvals
- Extension & renewal management
Contract engagement
How the IR35 side actually works
Two routes, depending on how the engagement is assessed. The determination itself is the client's to make where the client is medium or large — the detail below is what happens around that decision.
Outside IR35
The contractor operates as a business, and the assessed working practices have to support that.
- Status assessment
- The engagement is assessed against the working practices as they will actually operate — control, substitution, mutuality — rather than against the wording of the contract alone.
- Status Determination Statement
- For medium and large clients the determination is yours to make, and it is issued as a written SDS with the reasoning behind it. Humand supports the assessment; it does not replace your decision.
- Passed down the chain
- The SDS is passed to the contractor and to every party in the supply chain, which is what moves the liability with it.
- Review and disagreement
- A contractor who disagrees can challenge the determination through the client's led disagreement process, and the outcome and reasons are given in writing.
- Contracting route
- An outside-IR35 engagement runs on a business-to-business basis with the contractor's own limited company or a consultancy, on terms that match the assessed working practices.
- Onboarding
- Right-to-work, references where agreed, and any site or client-specific checks are completed before the first day.
- Timesheets and invoicing
- Time is approved by the hiring manager, and invoicing follows the agreed schedule in the terms of business.
Inside IR35
Employment taxes apply to the assignment, normally delivered through an umbrella company.
- Umbrella employment
- An inside-IR35 engagement is normally delivered through an umbrella company, which employs the contractor and operates PAYE on the assignment.
- The contractor chooses
- The contractor chooses their umbrella. Humand can talk through what to look for — margin transparency, holiday pay handling, how the employment contract works — without directing the choice.
- Rate transparency
- The assignment rate and what reaches the contractor after employment costs are different figures, and both are set out before the assignment starts.
- Onboarding and payment
- Onboarding runs as it does for any assignment; payment runs through the umbrella's payroll on its stated cycle.
This is a description of how engagements are set up, not tax advice. Status depends on the facts of each assignment.
How it works
A structured process, every time.
A summary of the flow. For the full nine-stage resourcing process see the detailed walkthrough.
- 01
Brief
A short call to confirm scope, day rate, IR35 status and start date.
- 02
Shortlist
We introduce relevant, available contractors matched to the brief, with clear context on fit, availability and the proposed engagement route.
- 03
Onboard
Compliance pack, contract and timesheet system set up before day one.
- 04
Manage
Weekly timesheets, mid-assignment check-ins and extension management.
Get started
Ready to talk about contract recruitment?
A short call is usually enough to scope the engagement and agree next steps.