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Freelancers show positive outlook

Freelance professionals are moderately confident that opportunities for contractors will improve over the next 12 months.

A survey of freelancers by FPS and contractjobs.com, found the majority of respondents were “fairly confident” that opportunities would improve.

Contractors from across a number of sectors took part in the survey, and IT freelancers were in the majority.

35.3% of all respondents stated they would be happy to travel over 100 miles for a contract, with a further 16.9% stating they would travel between 50-100 miles to carry out a contract.

Nearly 20% of respondents said they believed they could sustain their current lifestyle for more than a year if they became unemployed, and stated their preferred saving method was relying on existing savings.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Tom Keighley .