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About Freelancer Supermarket

About

Who we are and how we're paid. We find self-employed contractors and connect them with the agencies and businesses that need them, and we run the business behind a contract workforce. The partners pay us — which is why we can tell you when you don't need us.

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Our story

Freelancer Supermarket exists because contract work needs two things to go right: the right people, and the business behind them. A contractor needs an agency that genuinely places their trade and a payroll route that fits the engagement. An agency needs those contractors paid, the wage run funded and the admin kept compliant. We connect the two sides and arrange the infrastructure behind them, as an introducer.

The partners we introduce pay us, never the agencies, businesses or contractors, so there is no fee riding on anyone saying yes. Our own recruitment depth is strongest in doctors and healthcare, where the group already operates. We work across the United Kingdom, Ireland and Europe, the USA and the UAE.

The model

An independent introducer, with nothing hidden behind it

There is one commercial fact to understand about us, and everything else follows from it: the partner pays us and you never do.

We are paid by the partners we introduce you to — the payroll provider, the funder, the agency — and never by the agency, business or contractor we introduce them to. There is no fee riding on you saying yes, so we can tell you when your current arrangement is fine, and when we simply do not have a good answer for you.

It also means we are not competing with the people we introduce. We do not run the payroll, we do not lend the money, and we do not give the regulated advice: we assess what fits, compare the routes that genuinely suit the work, introduce two or three partners we have already checked, and then step back.

Where a business has no hiring function at all we will run the recruitment for them. That is the exception rather than the shape of the thing — the usual answer is an introduction to agencies that genuinely place in that trade and that region, and a payroll route that fits the engagement, because the two decisions are connected.

Values

What we stand for

  1. 01

    Trusted

    Independent by construction: partners pay us, not you, and we say so openly.

  2. 02

    Plain-speaking

    A confusing, heavily regulated market explained without jargon or drama.

  3. 03

    Operational

    We do not just introduce and leave: payroll runs, invoices get funded, admin happens.

Partners

How we vet a partner

Four things, checked before anyone is introduced and re-checked while they stay on the panel. If a partner stops meeting the standard we stop introducing them.

  1. 01

    Compliance record

    Accreditations, filings and whether anything has gone wrong in public — and what they did about it when it did.

  2. 02

    Transparent pricing

    What it costs, written down, with the charges that usually only appear later named up front.

  3. 03

    Sector experience

    Whether they genuinely work in the trade and the region, or would be learning on you.

  4. 04

    Behaviour under strain

    What actually happens when a payment is late, a client disputes an invoice or a worker is left short.

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sectors
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markets
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service lines
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The company

The company behind the name

How we are paid and where we work.

Markets
  • United Kingdom — core
  • Ireland & Europe — growth
  • USA & UAE — international
How we are paid
By the partners we introduce. Free to the agencies, businesses and contractors we introduce them to.

The things people ask before they ring

Nothing. We are paid by the partners we introduce you to, not by you. That is also why we will tell you when we do not have a good answer — there is no fee riding on you saying yes.

No. We are an independent advisory that introduces you to the right agency for your sector, and arranges the business services behind it. Where a business has no hiring function at all, we can run the recruitment for them.

Compliance record, transparent pricing, sector experience and how they actually behave when something goes wrong. If a partner stops meeting that standard we stop introducing them.

No. We give you the information and the introductions; regulated advice comes from the regulated partner you choose to engage.

Fifteen minutes will tell you where you stand

Whether you're a contractor after your next job, an agency placing across Europe, or a business that needs people found, paid and funded — start with a conversation. It costs nothing and we'll tell you honestly if we can't help. No form to fill in first.

0203 026 7421Email us

info@freelancer-supermarket.co.uk