Good news for those umbrella company workers who live across the border, as Global Energy Group announced new plans to hire an additional 400 staff in 2013.
The contractor and freelancer market north of the border is burgeoning, according to a recent temporary working report published by the Bank of Scotland.
With the Office of National Statistics stating that the employment sector is still turbulent, contractors could be in demand for quite some time to come.
Firms looking to grow and meet their production targets have come to rely upon contract workers as a way to do so while controlling costs, it's been reported.
According to a recently released research study, the information technology sector's interim worker growth is being driven by high demand for technical jobs.
The last three months has seen an increase of three per cent in recruitment for temporary workers across almost the entirety of the UK, a new survey shows.
The chief executive of the Recruitment & Employment Confederation has put dodgy recruiters and agencies on notice, vowing to root them out and expose them.