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Aug 27, 2026
Duration not stated
Project Manager / Doc Controller – Capital Projects, Engineering at Smart Sourcer Limited, Central London, £Contract Rate
Outside Spy Central London, London WC2N 5DU, UK
Project Manager (Document Controller) – Capital Projects / Construction / HV Electrical / AI Data Centre builds Outstanding opportunity for a Project Manager with document controlling experience on major capital projects. The is a standout chance to join the data centre construction revolution to support the future of AI. You’ll drive information governance across major Grid Connection Works, HV substations and large-scale electrical infrastructure projects . If you thrive in technical environments and bring a project-management mindset to controlling complex engineering deliverables, this role is for you. What you’ll lead: Full lifecycle document control across design, procurement, construction, commissioning and handover High-volume HV engineering deliverables: SLDs, schematics, protection & control docs, cable schedules, layouts, calculations, testing/commissioning packs and as-builts MDRs, SDRs, design registers and procurement trackers...
Outside Spy
Aug 28, 2026
up to 6 Months
Data Engineering Lead at Atrium Workforce Solutions UK Limited, London, 4 Months, £650-£700 per day
£650 - £700 per day
Outside Spy London, UK
Data Engineering Lead DURATION: Until 31 December 2026, with potential to extend for a further 6 months LOCATION: London ONSITE REQUIREMENTS: Hybrid - 2 days per week onsite in London ENGAGEMENT TYPE: Outside IR35 DAY RATE: £700 per day (DoE) LEGAL RIGHT TO WORK: Candidates must have the legal right to work in the UK. Sponsorship is not available for this role. GIBBS CONSULTING SUMMARY We are growing, and as part of that journey Gibbs Consulting is expanding our Data Product Feature Team to support a major client project within the banking industry. We are looking for an experienced Data Engineering Lead to lead a team of six Senior Data Engineers delivering for our end-customer. JOB OVERVIEW We are looking for a hands-on Data Engineering Lead who can combine strong technical data engineering expertise with leadership and delivery ownership. You will lead a team of six Senior Data Engineers, providing technical direction, setting engineering standards and ensuring the team...
Outside Spy
Aug 25, 2026
Duration not stated
Head of Data Engineering - Microsoft Fabric at Careerwise, London, £Contract Rate
Outside Spy London, UK
Head of Data Engineering - Microsoft Fabric Contract & Location: 9 month contract - 2 days per week in London office . Rate: £675/day Outside IR35 Role: Leadership & Strategy: Lead the Data Engineering function and own the enterprise data engineering strategy, architecture roadmap, standards, and delivery across a Microsoft Fabric-led data estate. Microsoft Fabric Expertise: Provide senior technical leadership across Microsoft Fabric, including OneLake, Lakehouses, Warehouses, Data Pipelines, Dataflows Gen2, Spark Notebooks, KQL and Real Time Intelligence. Data Architecture & Migration: Design and oversee modern cloud-first data architectures, including Delta Lake and Bronze/Silver/Gold medallion patterns, with experience migrating Legacy platforms such as Oracle or Azure Synapse. Enterprise Data Integration: Lead the integration and data engineering strategy across key enterprise platforms including Salesforce, Certinia, Workday, Dynamics 365...
Outside Spy
Aug 28, 2026
Duration not stated
Software Engineering Consultant at Henderson Scott, Edinburgh, £Contract Rate
Outside Spy Edinburgh, UK
Software Development Consultant - Coaching - AI Adoption - 12 month contract - Edinburgh - outside IR35 I am looking for a hands-on Software Engineering Consultant to coach multiple software teams for our client in Edinburgh. You will help modernise engineering practices and embed responsible AI-assisted development. This is a hands-on role working with product and enablement teams to strengthen delivery, reduce risk and improve developer experience across a wide range of digital services. I am therefore keen to speak with candidates who have Strong enthusiasm for software engineering and for helping teams build secure, resilient and maintainable services. Significant hands-on software engineering and technical leadership in modern, cloud-based delivery environments. Proven experience coaching and mentoring multiple agile delivery teams with different levels of maturity. Track record of improving developer experience, productivity and delivery quality through standards,...
Outside Spy
Aug 28, 2026
6 Months or more
Software Engineering Consultant at Henderson Scott, Edinburgh, 12 Months, £Contract Rate
Outside Spy Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Software Development Consultant - Coaching - AI Adoption - 12 month contract - Edinburgh - outside IR35 I am looking for a hands-on Software Engineering Consultant to coach multiple software teams for our client in Edinburgh. You will help modernise engineering practices and embed responsible AI-assisted development. This is a hands-on role working with product and enablement teams to strengthen delivery, reduce risk and improve developer experience across a wide range of digital services. I am therefore keen to speak with candidates who have Strong enthusiasm for software engineering and for helping teams build secure, resilient and maintainable services. Significant hands-on software engineering and technical leadership in modern, cloud-based delivery environments. Proven experience coaching and mentoring multiple agile delivery teams with different levels of maturity. Track record of improving developer experience, productivity and delivery quality through standards,...
Outside Spy
Aug 28, 2026
Duration not stated
DevOps Engineer at Morson Edge, Manchester, £600 per day
£600 per day
Outside Spy Manchester, England, United Kingdom
AWS DevOps Engineers - Outside IR35 - 6 Months - Manchester/Hybrid Looking to speak with AWS Engineers within the contract space, as we have an new outside IR35 contacts roles with a client of ours within the retail space. This will be to work on some major projects within AWS and the adoption of AI into the SDL and fixing a lot of issues within AWS. AWS DevOps Engineer x4 Manchester office/Hybrid (few times per month) Up to £600 p/d - Outside IR35 6 months AWS, Serverless, Terraform & GitHub actions Apply today, interviews slots ASAP! AWS DevOps Engineers - Outside IR35 - 6 Months - Manchester/Hybrid
Outside Spy
Aug 28, 2026
Duration not stated
Programme Delivery Manager | Contract at hedgehog lab, Manchester, £Contract Rate
Outside Spy Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Contract | Outside IR35 | Mid-September to mid-January | Flexible, within 50 miles of an office The opportunity A fast-growing healthcare software company is building the platform that thousands of clinicians use every day to run their practices and care for patients. A complex, multi-team programme is heading towards launch, and it needs a delivery leader to bring it together and land it. This is a contract role for someone who's at their best when the picture is complicated and the stakes are real. You'll take full ownership of delivery across the client, our engineers, QA and a third-party supplier: several teams building across OutSystems and Workato, with a live launch date and heavy cross-team dependencies. Your job is to turn that into one delivery team, one plan and one path to launch. What You'll Own The integrated delivery plan and critical path to launch Daily cross-team stand-ups across client, engineering, QA and supplier Blockers and...
Outside Spy
Aug 28, 2026
Duration not stated
Senior Java Engineer at Morson Edge (Technology), Manchester, £500 per day
£500 per day
Outside Spy Manchester, UK
Opportunity for a Senior Java Engineer to join a software consultancy and play an important role delivering a greenfield project for a large client in the iGaming industry.   You’d join a product-based team with a you build it, you run it mentality, owning all aspects of the systems you work on, from design through to deployment and supporting them in production.   Skills:   Java and Spring Boot REST APIs and Kafka event-driven systems AWS (including S3, Lambda, ECS, EKS, MSK) TDD, CI/CD and IaC Observability AI assisted engineering   In return they're offering a remote-first 6-month contract outside IR35 that's paying up to £500pd.   To be suitable for this role you must be UK based and have prior experience in the iGaming, betting or FS industries.   If you're interested and would like to know more, please apply through this advert and I'll be in touch.
Outside Spy
Aug 28, 2026
Duration not stated
CONTRACT BACK-END ENGINEER - .Net / C# / Claude (OUTSIDE IR35) at Searchability (UK) Ltd, Manchester, £Contract Rate
Outside Spy Manchester, UK
CONTRACT AI BACKEND ENGINEER (OUTSIDE IR35) C# / .NET Claude Code Agentic AI TDD CI/CD Hybrid - 2 Days Onsite in Greater Manchester £4500 - £550 Per Day Outside IR35 Initial 3 Months CONTRACT AI BACKEND ENGINEER We're looking for an experienced Backend Engineer to join a forward-thinking engineering team where AI-assisted development is becoming part of everyday software delivery. This is a hands-on development role . You'll work within the sprint team, writing and shipping production C#/.NET code whilst using Claude Code as part of your daily engineering workflow. We're looking for someone who is already comfortable using AI to accelerate development - prompting, reviewing and iterating outputs whilst remaining fully accountable for the quality of their code. WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING? Build and ship backend applications and REST APIs using C# and .NET Use Claude Code as part of your day-to-day development workflow Own features through design,...
Outside Spy
Aug 28, 2026
Duration not stated
Java Tech Lead - Contract (Gaming or Finance) at Morson Edge, Manchester, £Contract Rate
Outside Spy Manchester, UK
Java Tech Lead – Contract (Gaming or Finance) - Remote Location: UK-based, fully remote Contract: Initial contract Rate: Up to £600 per day IR35: Outside IR35 We’re looking for an experienced Java Tech Lead to join a high-performing engineering team on an exciting contract programme. This is a hands-on technical leadership role, combining strong software engineering expertise with the ability to guide engineers, shape technical direction and drive projects through to successful delivery. The Role You’ll take technical ownership across key projects, providing leadership to development teams while remaining close to the code and architecture. You’ll work closely with engineering, product and other technical stakeholders to make sound technical decisions and deliver robust, scalable solutions. Key Skills & Experience Strong commercial experience with Core Java Extensive experience with Spring Boot Strong AWS cloud experience Proven experience as a...
Outside Spy
Aug 28, 2026
6 Months or more
Senior Java Engineer, £500pd (Outside IR35) at Morson Edge, Manchester, 6 Months, £400-£500 per day
£400 - £500 per day
Outside Spy Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK
Opportunity for a Senior Java Engineer to join a software consultancy and play an important role delivering a greenfield project for a large client in the iGaming industry. You'd join a product-based team with a "you build it, you run it" mentality, owning all aspects of the systems you work on, from design through to deployment and supporting them in production. Skills: Java and Spring Boot REST APIs and Kafka event-driven systems AWS (including S3, Lambda, ECS, EKS, MSK) TDD, CI/CD and IaC Observability AI assisted engineering In return they're offering a remote-first 6-month contract outside IR35 that's paying up to £500pd. To be suitable for this role you must be UK based have prior experience in the iGaming, betting or FS industries. If you're interested and would like to know more, please apply through this advert and I'll be in touch.
Outside Spy
Aug 27, 2026
Duration not stated
Java Tech Lead, £600pd (Outside IR35) at Manchester Digital, Manchester, £600 per day
£600 per day
Outside Spy Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Opportunity for a Java Tech Lead to join a software consultancy and play an important role delivering a greenfield project for a large client in the iGaming industry. You’d lead a product-based team with a you build it, you run it mentality, owning all aspects of the systems you work on, from design through to deployment and supporting them in production. Skills Java and Spring Boot REST APIs and Kafka event-driven systems AWS (including S3, Lambda, ECS, EKS, MSK) TDD, CI/CD and IaC Observability AI assisted engineering In return they're offering an initial 6-month outside IR35 contract paying up to £600pd. To be suitable for this role you must have prior experience in the iGaming, betting or FS industries. If you're interested and would like to know more, please apply through this advert and I'll be in touch.
Outside Spy
Aug 27, 2026
Duration not stated
Java Tech Lead, £600pd (Outside IR35) at Morson Edge, Manchester, £Contract Rate
Outside Spy Manchester, UK
Opportunity for a Java Tech Lead to join a software consultancy and play an important role delivering a greenfield project for a large client in the iGaming industry. You’d lead a product-based team with a "you build it, you run it" mentality, owning all aspects of the systems you work on, from design through to deployment and supporting them in production. Skills: • Java and Spring Boot • REST APIs and Kafka event-driven systems • AWS (including S3, Lambda, ECS, EKS, MSK) • TDD, CI/CD and IaC • Observability • AI assisted engineering In return theyre offering an initial 6-month outside IR35 contract paying up to £600pd. To be suitable for this role you must have prior experience in the iGaming, betting or FS industries. If you're interested and would like to know more, please apply through this advert and Ill be in touch.
Outside Spy
Aug 27, 2026
Duration not stated
Ruby Developer at Morson Edge, Manchester, £Contract Rate
Outside Spy Manchester, UK
Contract Ruby Developer Up to £425 per day Outside IR35 6 Months Remote I’m currently looking for an experienced Ruby Developer to join a growing engineering team on an initial 6-month contract, with the potential for extension. This is a hands-on role where youll be working on the development and enhancement of modern software applications, collaborating closely with a wider engineering and product team. What youll be doing Designing, developing and maintaining scalable applications using Ruby Building clean, maintainable and well-tested code Developing and integrating APIs and backend services Collaborating with engineers, product and other stakeholders to deliver new features Contributing to technical discussions and improving engineering practices Supporting the maintenance and evolution of existing systems What were looking for Strong commercial experience with Ruby Experience with Ruby on Rails or similar frameworks...
Outside Spy
Aug 27, 2026
6 Months or more
AI Engineer at Robert Walters, Manchester, 6 Months, £550-£600 per day
£550 - £600 per day
Outside Spy Manchester, UK
AI Engineer Day Rate: £550 - £600 per day Contract Length: 6 months Outside IR35 Location Manchester (2 days onsite per week) We are recruiting on behalf of a leading global organisation seeking an AI Engineer to act as a hands-on, technical point of contact for AI capability. You will unblock staff at every level of AI fluency-from everyday users to programmers-turning ad-hoc AI usage into reusable, well-governed capability. This role provides the technical depth behind the AI Adoption team's training programme. It also gives the business critical visibility into how AI tools are actually being utilised across the organisation. Scope of Work Helpdesk & Technical Unblocking Act as the first port of call for staff stuck on AI builds. Configure Custom GPTs and debug SQL/formula logic with Claude. Structure new AI use cases from scratch. Support everyday business users needing low-jargon help. Support technical programmers needing deep engineering, prompting, and...
Outside Spy
Aug 26, 2026
Duration not stated
Microsoft Fabric Data Architect / Lead at Aivion, Manchester, £Contract Rate
Outside Spy Manchester, UK
We are currently looking for an experienced Microsoft Fabric Data Architect / Lead for an Outside IR35 contract opportunity. Location: Manchester.   Working arrangement: Hybrid – two days per week in the Manchester office Contract : Outside IR35   The client requires a senior Microsoft Fabric specialist who can assess the current environment, strengthen its architecture and governance, implement practical improvements, and build a well-controlled and sustainable internal capability.   The successful individual will evaluate what is currently in place, define the target environment, implement the necessary improvements and support the development of the internal team. The anticipated scope includes: • Reviewing the existing Microsoft Fabric environment, data lake and associated datasets • Assessing the current architecture and identifying technical, governance and control gaps • Reviewing how data is acquired,...
Outside Spy
Aug 26, 2026
Duration not stated
Cloud Engineer at IO Associates, Manchester, £Contract Rate
Outside Spy Manchester, UK
Cloud Engineer 6-month contract - likelihood of extension £500 - £525 per day, Outside IR35 London - Hybrid One of our clients, a successful and well-respected AI consultancy is looking for a Cloud Engineer They are a specialist data and AI consultancy that helps businesses maximize value using the Databricks platform click apply for full job details
Outside Spy
Aug 25, 2026
Duration not stated
Senior Java Engineer at Manchester Digital, Manchester, £500 per day
£500 per day
Outside Spy Manchester, UK
Opportunity for Senior Java Engineers to join a software consultancy and play an important role delivering a greenfield project for a large client in the iGaming industry. You’d join a product-based team within a large engineering department and would be responsible for owning all aspects of the systems you work on, from design through to deployment and supporting them in production. You must have prior experience in the iGaming, betting or FS industries. Skills Java, Spring, REST APIs, AWS Microservices and Distributed Systems Kafka or RabbitMQ TDD and CI/CD Observability In return they're offering an initial 6-month outside IR35 contract paying up to £500pd. If you're interested and would like to know more, please apply through this advert and I'll be in touch.
Outside Spy
Aug 24, 2026
Duration not stated
Senior Network Architect - Rail / Infrastructure Architecture at Morson Edge, Manchester, £Contract Rate
Outside Spy Manchester, UK
Senior Network Architect - £700 per day - Outside IR35- Remote with occasional on site requirement - 6 months initial contract. We are looking for a highly experienced Senior Network Architect to support the review and development of the architecture for a critical rail technology environment. This is a senior-level architecture role focused primarily on network, infrastructure, hosting and communications architecture. You will be responsible for understanding the current end-to-end architecture, assessing key dependencies and identifying opportunities to improve resilience, availability and overall system performance. Experience within rail or other complex, safety-critical environments is highly desirable. Familiarity with SCADA, OT and rail-related systems would be advantageous, but the core requirement is strong network and infrastructure architecture expertise. Key Responsibilities - Review the existing architecture, including server infrastructure. Assess...
Outside Spy
Aug 24, 2026
Duration not stated
Cloud Engineer at IO Associates, Manchester, £Contract Rate
Outside Spy Manchester, UK
Cloud Engineer 6-month contract - likelihood of extension £500 - £525 per day, Outside IR35 London - Hybrid One of our clients, a successful and well-respected AI consultancy is looking for a Cloud Engineer They are a specialist data and AI consultancy that helps businesses maximize value using the Databricks platform click apply for full job details
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