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Aug 20, 2026
Duration not stated
Data Engineer at FYRE Global, Manchester Area, £Contract Rate
Outside Spy Manchester Area, United Kingdom
Contract Data Engineer - Snowflake to Fabric Migration - Outside IR35 Not another maintain what's there contract. A Manchester business is migrating a live, client-facing analytics platform off Snowflake and onto Microsoft Fabric - and they need someone who's actually done a migration before, not just read about Fabric. Exact contract duration tbc, but expected to be between 6-9 months (you'll know for sure after the initial scoping phase). This is a hybrid position, once a week in Manchester What you'll be doing Starting with a proper scoping phase - the first month is about uncovering the real shape of the work, and contract length will follow from what you find Owning the migration approach - schema mapping, reconciliation, cutover planning Working with Fabric's Lakehouse/OneLake setup, not just theorising about it Handling API-based ingestion where native connectors don't cut it Making real architecture calls, largely unsupervised Working...
Outside Spy
Aug 20, 2026
Duration not stated
Contract Data Analyst at Burns Sheehan, London Area, £Contract Rate
Outside Spy London Area, United Kingdom
Contract Product Analyst - £500 outside IR35 - SQL/Python Role: Contract product analyst Determination: Outside IR35 Technologies: SQL / Python Industry: Healthcare Additional factors: Product Mindset Bonus points for: DBT / Modelling / Consumer Products Location: London - hybrid We are looking for a Contract Product Analyst to join one of our start-up clients for an initial outside IR35 contract. We want someone who comes from a Consumer background (at some point in their career) and is strong across working on Products directly. Outside of this for the Contract Product Analyst role - we are looking for SQL, Python and strong analytical capabilities. For immediate consideration please apply to learn more. Contract Product Analyst - £500 outside IR35 - SQL/Python
Outside Spy
Aug 20, 2026
Duration not stated
Elastic Consultant at identifi Global Resources, England, £Contract Rate
Outside Spy England, United Kingdom
Elastic Consultant – multiple opportunities Predominantly remote | Occasional client travel Excellent salary + bonus + support in development and funded certifications SC Clearance (or higher) required We have multiple opportunities available, including permanent positions and Outside IR35 contract roles. We’re supporting one of the UK’s leading specialist technology consultancies as they continue to expand their Elastic consulting practice. This is an opportunity to join an experienced consulting team delivering complex Search, Security and Observability solutions across Government and enterprise environments using the latest Elastic technologies. Rather than working in a traditional engineering or operational support role, you’ll gain exposure to a broad range of customer projects – spanning consulting, architecture, implementation, migration and managed services across the Elastic ecosystem. If you’re an experienced Elastic professional who enjoys...
Outside Spy
Aug 20, 2026
Duration not stated
Business Analyst at HartleyCo, London Area, £Contract Rate
Outside Spy London Area, United Kingdom
Business Analyst About the role We're supporting a search for a Business Analyst to join a client of ours in the financial industry. The team is small, sharp, and focused - you'll be working closely with the Snowflake data engineering team already in place, helping shape the Equity Derivatives side of the build. This isn't a role where you'll be handed a rigid playbook - the team is lean and expects people to take real ownership, from shaping the backlog to thinking through trade-offs and solution design. What you'll be doing Getting stuck into requirements gathering, stakeholder engagement, and process definition for the Equity Derivatives workstream Writing and prioritising tickets, user stories, and backlog items Supporting testing and QA throughout delivery Taking ownership of governance, backlog creation, and solution design decisions Making sure everything you deliver fits cleanly into the TradeAgent platform and operating model Working with a fair...
Outside Spy
Aug 20, 2026
Duration not stated
Solution Architect at Ceox, Guildford/Remote, £Contract Rate (Outside IR35)
Outside Spy Hybrid (Guildford, UK)
Location Guildford, Surrey (Remote) Employment Type Contractor Minimum Experience Experienced OVERViEW We are looking for an experienced Solution Architect to support the delivery of a UK Public Sector project. The role will focus on assessing existing systems, defining target architecture, and recommending scalable technology solutions across a mixed technology estate, including Power Platform, Dynamics 365, legacy, and bespoke systems.   Key Responsibilities Assess current systems and define solution recommendations Design end-to-end solution architecture aligned to business and technical requirements Produce HLDs, architecture options, and technical recommendations Evaluate build vs buy vs extend approaches Ensure alignment to security, scalability, and performance standards Work closely with business stakeholders, SMEs, and delivery teams Provide architecture governance...
Outside Spy
Aug 20, 2026
Duration not stated
Contract Principal Software Architect at Spectrum IT Recruitment, Hillingdon, £Contract Rate
Outside Spy London Borough of Hillingdon, UK
Spectrum IT are working with an enterprise digital platform to recruit a Contract Principal Software Architect to support their widely used, real-world consumer technology platform. This is an OUTSIDE IR35 role, for an initial 6 months contract and will be hybrid working: 2 days onsite in Uxbridge per week. This is a brownfield architecture environment. The successful architect will not be designing a new platform from scratch. Instead, they will be working within a live production estate, balancing existing technology, legacy decisions, technical debt, team structures and commercial priorities against the need to improve scalability, resilience, maintainability and customer experience. The role therefore requires a pragmatic, delivery-focused architect who can understand where the platform is today, identify the areas that genuinely need to change, and work with engineering teams to make those improvements incrementally. The Role You will play a key role in defining and...
Outside Spy
Aug 20, 2026
Duration not stated
Software & Controls Systems contract role - Bucks/Remote at Morgan McKinley (South West), Buckinghamshire, £50 to £60 per Hour
£50 - £60 per day
Outside Spy Remote (Buckinghamshire, UK)
Software & Control Systems Engineer - Contract - Outside IR35 - Bucks/Remote I am currently supporting a client of mine to seek a software & control systems engineer to join the business on an initial 6 month contract, with the opportunity for the position to be extended beyond this. The company are an industry leader in safety critical electrification applications and have just won a big project, on which they require the support. Job Role: Contract Location: Bucks/Remote IR35: Outside Rate: £50-60 p/h Skills needed: * Highly experience with control theory * Expert using simulink * Embedded coder and code generation * Full understanding of end to end embedded software development If you are interested in this position please send across your CV and we can set up a call to discuss further.
Outside Spy
Aug 20, 2026
Duration not stated
BI Consultant at Sanderson Recruitment, Multiple Locations, £Contract Rate
Outside Spy United Kingdom
BI Consultant £500-600/day outside IR35 Remote working with flexibility 4-month initial contract with likely extensions This is a hands-on analytics role with a single, clear mandate: to lift the quality of reporting from functional to genuinely excellent. With an initial rationalisation of the existing BI estate, this role will be pivotal in an enterprise BI/data transformation. The role requires a consultant mindset with strong technical expertise, capable of reviewing the end-to-end BI landscape, from data extracts and transformation processes through to semantic models and visualisation layers. You will identify opportunities to simplify, modernise, and improve the BI platform, while advising stakeholders on best practices and future-state solutions. Tech stack: Snowflake, Tableau, Power BI, DBT BI Consultant, key responsibilities: Rationalise the existing Tableau estate - establish what exists, what is actually used, and what can be retired - and...
Outside Spy
Aug 20, 2026
Duration not stated
Programme Manager at Morson Edge, The City, London, £Contract Rate
Outside Spy City of London, London, UK
IAM Programme Manager - CONTRACT £900 - £950 p/d OUTSIDE IR35 6 months initial A global private markets business is looking for an experienced IAM / PAM Programme Manager to lead a genuinely greenfield identity programme. This is an initial six month contract with strong likelihood of extension, based in London with two days a week on site. The organisation is around 7,000 people and the identity function is at an early stage of maturity. There is no roadmap, no established policies and no agreed target state. SailPoint and Okta are already in the estate but neither has been implemented to anywhere near its potential, so part of the remit is helping the business get real value out of what it already owns. Running alongside this is a wider compliance programme, including a move toward SOC 2, which the identity workstreams feed directly into. You would be working closely with a newly appointed senior security leader and, because the internal technical team is still building its...
Outside Spy
Aug 20, 2026
Duration not stated
Project Manager DRS project at Sanderson Recruitment, Suffolk, £Contract Rate
Outside Spy Suffolk, UK
Project Manager - £550 Outside IR35 - Hybrid Suffolk - Contract We're supporting a leading UK business in the search for an experienced Project Manager to deliver a major operational change programme across a large multi-site estate. We're looking for candidates with a strong background in retail or hospitality, who can drive cross-functional projects, manage key stakeholders, and deliver operational change at pace. Key Requirements: Proven Project Management experience within retail OR hospitality. Experience working across large, multi-site operations. Strong stakeholder management and communication skills. Track record of delivering complex change and transformation projects. Understanding of operational compliance and process implementation. Proven experience within Supply chain / logistics projects. Experience with Deposit Return Schemes (DRS) or similar regulatory/change programmes would be a significant advantage. Reasonable Adjustments: Respect and equality are core...
Outside Spy
Aug 20, 2026
Duration not stated
Research officer at ASA INTERNATIONAL LIMITED T/A ASA RECRUITMENT, Edinburgh & Lothians, £Contract Rate
Outside Spy Edinburgh, UK
ASA Recruitment’s client, a Public Sector organisation in Edinburgh, is currently looking to recruit a Research Officer on a hybrid basis, on a 23-month contract (with potential extensions) on a rate of c.£194.38/day outside of IR35 (based on experience). The Role: To support the successful achievement of its work, the organisation is looking to recruit a Research Officer. The successful candidate will be responsible for their own projects, working under the supervision of the Head of Policy and Research. Primary responsibilities will include data input, production of research reviews, and analysis of qualitative and quantitative information gathered by the organisation. This role is critical to ensure that research produced by the organisation is of the highest quality and contributes to the specific aspects of the organisation’s Terms of Reference. This post offers an excellent opportunity for a highly conscientious individual to gain further experience in a dynamic,...
Outside Spy
Aug 20, 2026
Duration not stated
Data Engineer at Fyre Global Limited, Manchester, £Contract Rate
Outside Spy Manchester, UK
Contract Data Engineer - Snowflake to Fabric Migration - Outside IR35 Not another "maintain what's there" contract. A Manchester business is migrating a live, client-facing analytics platform off Snowflake and onto Microsoft Fabric - and they need someone who's actually done a migration before, not just read about Fabric. Exact contract duration tbc, but expected to be between 6-9 months (you'll know for sure after the initial scoping phase).  This is a hybrid position, once a week in Manchester What you'll be doing Starting with a proper scoping phase - the first month is about uncovering the real shape of the work, and contract length will follow from what you find Owning the migration approach - schema mapping, reconciliation, cutover planning Working with Fabric's Lakehouse/OneLake setup, not just theorising about it Handling API-based ingestion where native connectors don't cut it Making real architecture calls, largely unsupervised...
Outside Spy
Aug 20, 2026
Duration not stated
Java Developer - Core Banking at Xcede, Multiple Locations, £Contract Rate
Outside Spy United Kingdom
Senior Java Engineer – Core Banking 6-month contract Fully Remote Outside IR35 £400 per day We are looking for a Senior Java Engineer to join a major Core Banking team delivering the development, modernisation and support of mission-critical banking services. You will work across several strategic initiatives, including core banking transformation, legacy-system modernisation, regulatory enhancements and integrations between core banking platforms and surrounding services. This is a hands-on engineering position requiring strong Java expertise and recent experience delivering highly available systems within banking, payments or financial services. Key responsibilities Design, develop and maintain Java and Spring Boot services supporting core banking operations. Modernise legacy banking applications into scalable microservices. Build APIs and event-driven integrations between core banking platforms, payment systems and third-party services. Develop services covering areas...
Outside Spy
Aug 20, 2026
Duration not stated
Contract Principal Software Architect at Spectrum It Recruitment Limited, Uxbridge, London, £Contract Rate
Outside Spy Uxbridge, UK
Spectrum IT are working with an enterprise digital platform to recruit a Contract Principal Software Architect to support their widely used, real-world consumer technology platform. This is an O UTSIDE IR35 role, for an initial 6 months contract and will be hybrid working: 2 days onsite in Uxbridge per week. This is a brownfield architecture environment . The successful architect will not be designing a new platform from scratch. Instead, they will be working within a live production estate, balancing existing technology, legacy decisions, technical debt, team structures and commercial priorities against the need to improve scalability, resilience, maintainability and customer experience. The role therefore requires a pragmatic, delivery-focused architect who can understand where the platform is today, identify the areas that genuinely need to change, and work with engineering teams to make those improvements incrementally. The Role You will play a key role in...
Outside Spy
Aug 20, 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. They design data strategies, build modern cloud data lakehouses, deploy autonomous AI and generative agents, and create governance frameworks to turn raw data into commercial assets Due to ongoing demand from existing clients and winning a number of new projects, they are looking for a number of experienced Data professionals to join them Essential Skills & Experience 5+ years' experience in Data Engineering Extensive experience with both Terraform and Terragrunt deploying data platforms (preferably Databricks Experience designing scalable data pipelines for machine learning workloads Experience implementing orchestration tools such as...
Outside Spy
Aug 20, 2026
Duration not stated
Senior Cloud Engineer - SC Cleared at VIQU IT Recruitment, Multiple Locations, £Contract Rate
Outside Spy United Kingdom
Contract £400 - £500 per day Remote (UK) Must have active SC clearance Client name shared on request, once we have spoken. Morela is supporting this search directly. THE SHORT VERSION A UK technology business building AI systems for regulated, security-sensitive environments is standing up a new data platform, and needs someone to own the ground it runs on. Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, CI/CD and observability, on a deliberately open-source stack with no managed-service shortcuts. You run it yourself rather than consuming managed equivalents. The interesting part is the topology: an edge cluster and a central cluster with replication between them, putting real weight on networking, inter-cluster connectivity and security posture. THE ENGINEERING PROBLEM Split topology. An edge cluster and a central cluster with replication between them. Getting that right is the defining challenge of the role. Constrained environments. Deployments into...
Outside Spy
Aug 20, 2026
Duration not stated
Senior Solutions Architect (GCP) at hedgehog lab, Newcastle upon Tyne, £Contract Rate Outside IR35
Outside Spy Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Senior Solutions Architect (GCP) Contract, outside IR35. Starting as soon as possible. The engagement You’ll own the data architecture for a high-volume online marketplace, leading a major, multi-year technology transformation. The current stack runs entirely on Google Cloud Platform: BigQuery for storage and consumption, DBT for transformations, and Data Stream. Reporting is on Looker today, and moving the business toward a self-service reporting model is a core goal. There is deep architecture work in front of you. The business doesn’t yet have a defined data strategy, and BigQuery consumption costs are climbing rapidly. Optimising data models and building in aggressive cost-management structures is a live, day-one priority, not a future consideration. You will have full ownership to step in, define direction, and implement immediate optimisation across our GCP estate. You’ll also shape structural change. The data team currently sits under...
Outside Spy
Aug 20, 2026
up to 6 Months
Backend Engineer at Synapri, Remote, 3 Months, £Contract Rate Outside IR35
Outside Spy Remote
Synapri are working with a LegalTech business looking to hire a Backend Engineer to support on an initial 3-6 month contract project. The contractor hired will help design and build a high volume, scalable backend platform which interfaces with an exciting new AI product. Core technology covers C#, API Integration, SQL within an AWS environment. This is an exciting role for someone contribute to approach in addition to build and delivery. Rate:  Outside IR35 Location:  London, remote with Adhoc travel into the office Duration:  Initial 3 months Experience required: Experience Backend developer with at least 5 years of commercial C# / .NET experience Experience with distributed systems, queues, asynchronous processing and background workers Good knowledge PostgreSQL or SQL Server. Comfortable designing and consuming REST APIs Desirable experience: eDiscovery or legal technology experience Experienced with Nuix,...
Outside Spy
Aug 20, 2026
6 Months or more
Retail Business Analyst at Square One Resources, London, 6 Months, £Contract Rate
Outside Spy London, UK
Job Title: Retail Business Analyst Location: London Start Date: September Job Type: Contract - Outside IR35 We are looking for an experienced Retail Business Analyst to join a consultancy-led retail transformation programme. You will work closely with client stakeholders and delivery teams to define requirements, shape functional solutions and support the implementation of Oracle Retail applications. Responsibilities Lead business analysis across merchandising, inventory, supply chain and finance processes. Run workshops, capture requirements and translate them into clear functional designs. Work with architects and technical teams to ensure solutions meet business needs while keeping customisation to a minimum. Support testing, cutover, business readiness and post-go-live activities. Manage relationships across client teams, programme leadership and third-party suppliers. Experience Required Strong Oracle Retail implementation experience, ideally across RMS, ReSA...
Outside Spy
Aug 20, 2026
Duration not stated
User Researcher at Stealth IT Consulting Limited, United Kingdom, £Contract Rate
Outside Spy United Kingdom
Key Details: £400 per day (Outside IR35) 12-month initial contract Remote working Immediate start Requirements: Proven experience as a User Researcher Strong qualitative and quantitative research skills Experience with interviews, usability testing, workshops, and surveys Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills Previous experience in agile environments Government background is essential click apply for full job details
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