Not at present when the market is a little depressed. Leave Contracting and become a permanent employee. Create a complex working relationship with umbrella companies but there is no previous evidence that this would work. Demonstrate that the working relationship is genuine self-employment not disguised employment. This is the best option and we believe it can be done for many of the contract assignments.
Many people do work as self employed people and have done so for many years.
This document was a conference given by an expert in defending self employed people. Please read this in full but the theme of the document is that in many cases you should be able to change the way you are working and change your contracts to ensure that you are working on a self employed basis. If the agency is not willing to change their contract to avoid the impact of IR35 then find an agency that will. At Good Business Practices we have already created a contract for those that wish to work as self employed consultants. We would be pleased to work with you for any assignment.