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Matched on what’s in your wallet, not your CV.

Trades: free for ever, and nothing comes out of your day rate. Contractors: see who holds the right cards and is free on your dates, then book them direct for a flat fee, not a margin.

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Trades never pay, not even for checks.

Free Workforce Check

Nothing is charged during pilot access. The Free Workforce Check is not a legal audit.

Contractors: start your Free Workforce Check
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Site rules

Every trade is welcome
If you work on site, sign up free and get found.
Workers never pay
Not for a check, not for a booking, not for anything.
No cut
The contractor pays you directly, and your day rate stays yours.
Your number stays private
Until a contractor confirms a booking.

What you get straight away

For trades

Two answers. Then the work near you.

Tell us your trade and your postcode. You see the jobs near you and how many contractors are looking, before you add anything else. Add your cards next, so you can be offered the work. We only ask for your mobile when you say you’re interested in a job.

9 jobs for electricians near B3014 contractors looking

Example data.

For contractors

Know where your freelancers stand. Today.

Paste your list or upload a spreadsheet. See whose right-to-work check you’ve recorded, which cards are in date, what ends in the next 90 days and who hasn’t answered. Export the pack in one go. That is the Free Workforce Check. It is not a legal audit.

  • 12 imported
  • 9 cards in date
  • 2 end in 90 days
  • 1 not answered

Example data.

Every trade

If you work on site, there’s a place for you.

Labourer or electrician, plasterer or scaffolder. Pick your trade, add your cards and get found by contractors who need it. Don’t see yours below? Type it in your own words.

Some of the trades on Skillmatch · there are more

  • ElectriciansSparks, testers, installers
  • PlumbersCommercial and industrial
  • LabourersGeneral and site labourers
  • PlasterersSolid plaster and render
  • BricklayersBrick and block
  • ScaffoldersTube and fittings
  • Painters and decoratorsInterior and exterior
  • Carpenters and joinersFirst and second fix
  • GroundworkersDrainage and foundations
  • Pipefitters and H&V fittersPipework, heating, ventilation
  • RoofersFlat roofing
  • TilersWall and floor
  • Plant operators360, telehandler, dumper, forklift
  • Welders and fabricatorsSite and workshop
  • DemolitionSoft strip
  • GlaziersCurtain wall and commercial
  • DrylinersFixers, boarders, finishers
  • Steel fixers and erectorsRebar, steelwork, decking
Something else?Name it when you set up your passport, for example “kerb layer” or “fencer”.Create your free passport

We match what you type to a trade, including local names for it. If we can’t, a person looks at it, and we tell you when you’re added. Signing up is free whatever your trade.

How matching works

Fixed rules will show who fits. You decide.

Every match rests on a passport: cards and tickets, and a calendar the tradesperson keeps. No passport, no match. Right to work is each contractor’s own check, at booking. Skillmatch shows who fits. It never promises anyone work.

One job, two views
Cards
Checked, and dated
The contractor checks a card at booking, or Skillmatch checks it later. The date of each check is kept.
Right to work
Checked by the contractor, at booking
Each contractor that books you checks it itself before you start: a share code, or your documents. It’s recorded on the booking, with a reminder before it ends.
Who sees what
Your passport: firms you choose
Other verified firms will see a first name, an initial, your trade and that you qualify. Never a card number, ID photo or home address.
Cost to trades
Free, for ever
Contractors will pay a monthly price. Nothing from your pay.

These are the rules matching runs on.

  1. The contractor describes the job

    If you take on trades

    You'll write it the way you'd text it. Skillmatch will read it into roles and places, ask for anything missing, and never guess. Nothing will be published until you confirm.

    If you're in the trades

    Nothing for you to do yet. A job will reach you only once its trade, dates and day rate are confirmed.

  2. Fixed rules will check who qualifies

    If you take on trades

    You'll see your own workforce first, then checked trades from the network. Each person will come with the reasons, built from verified facts. Never from a photo, an age or a name.

    If you're in the trades

    You'll only be shown a job you fully qualify for and are free for. Not a list to scroll.

    1. Cards valid to the job's last day
    2. Free on every day of the job
    3. Inside the travel limit the tradesperson set
    4. At or above the day rate they set

  3. The trade will answer

    If you take on trades

    You'll see who is interested. You won't see why anyone passed.

    If you're in the trades

    You'll see the trade, the area, the dates and the day rate first. Then “I'm interested” or “Not this one”. Your reason will stay private. Ignoring a job will cost you nothing.

  4. Held first, then confirmed

    If you take on trades

    A place will be held while you decide. Until you confirm, a network tradesperson will be a first name and an initial, no photo, no number. Nothing will be booked for you.

    If you're in the trades

    Names, numbers and the exact site will be exchanged only at a confirmed booking. The contractor will take you on and pay you directly. Nothing from your day rate.

Text alerts are sent only if you ask for them.

For trades

Build your passport now. Free.

Free for ever. No cut, no umbrella, no payroll. Your contractor pays you directly. Cards take time to check, so build it now and be ready on day one.

What you hold
Your free days

  1. Say what you do

    Your trade, your grade and where you’ll travel.

  2. Add your cards

    A photo of the front. We read what we can.

  3. Checked and dated

    By a contractor at booking, or by Skillmatch later.

  4. Share it. Be ready.

    With the contractors you already work for.

The invitation you get
Who sees what

A firm you share your passport with sees your name, your verified trade and grade, your cards and tickets with when each ends. Each firm that books you checks your right to work itself.

In matching, a verified firm you haven’t chosen will see only your first name, the initial of your surname, your trade and that you qualify. You can turn that off on your passport.

No firm ever sees a card number, an ID photo or your home address. Your identity is checked with Stripe when you first show interest in a job.

Create your free passportFree for workers, for ever.

We remind you 60, 31 and 14 days before a card ends. One invitation text per number, ever.

Your passport works with the contractors you already work for. Matching uses the same passport.

See how matching works

For contractors

Matching will start with your own people.

Since 1 October 2026, right-to-work checks apply to many self-employed people you take on. Up to £45,000 per worker, £60,000 for a repeat. It covers arrangements starting on or after 1 October. See where each of your freelancers stands.

Sources: Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act 2025, section 48; SI 2026/683. Penalty figures as set out by Walker Morris, Harper James and Clark Hill.

Get them checked first. In matching, your jobs go to these people first.

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What a contractor sees today

  1. Bring your own freelancers

    Paste a list or upload a spreadsheet. No limit on how many people, in files of up to 500 lines each. One invitation each, in your name, with up to two email reminders (day 3 and day 10) where there is an email, and one text per number, ever.

  2. Who can work, by date

    Pick a date. See whose right to work you’ve checked, and whose cards are valid, on that day.

  3. Know before something ends

    What ends in 90 days. Alerts in a card's last 31 days and when it ends.

  4. Export the compliance pack

    Two PDFs and a CSV: a list, a page for each person, and the data. Right to work: your own check, with its date, who did it, how, its reference, its end date and the evidence files listed. Cards: the status and, where a register was checked, the date. Every export is logged.

Free Workforce Check

Free Workforce Check

Free Workforce Check

Paste your list or upload a spreadsheet. See whose right-to-work check you’ve recorded, which cards are in date, what ends in the next 90 days and who hasn’t answered. Export the pack. Free during pilot access, and it is not a legal audit.

Import and save your list straight away. A new workspace is checked before anything is sent: a director’s company on Companies House, usually within 1 working day. After that, nobody is contacted until you press send. Results fill in as your people accept and we check their cards.

Start your Free Workforce Check

Pilot access: every compliance tool is free while billing is closed. 30 days' notice before billing opens.

See a sample compliance packThe list, as a PDF

Five example freelancers, from demo data. The list as a PDF and the data as a CSV, as you would export them.

Site or contracts manager: start a workspace, verify yourself. Until a director confirms the company, trades see it as a business that isn’t verified yet.

Now, and with Skillmatch

Phone calls and photos, or one checked record.

Phone calls and photos, or one checked record.
NowWith Skillmatch
Short on site. You ring round until someone says yes.You'll describe the crew and see who qualifies and is free.
A margin is added to every day someone works.A monthly plan and a fee for each confirmed network booking. Nothing from anyone’s pay.
Card photos sit in a WhatsApp thread on someone's phone.One passport. Each card checked and dated, by the contractor at booking or by Skillmatch later.
Right to work is a photocopy in a drawer.Your own check on record, with its evidence and end date, and a reminder before it ends.

Agency or Skillmatch?

Your numbers, your answer

A job you'd normally fill through an agency

The agency's cut: £60 a day
Plan

Each month

The agency's cut £2,400 a month. Skillmatch £259 a month. You'd keep £2,141 a month. That's £25,692 over a year, on these numbers.

The agency's cut£2,400£60 a day × 10 days × 4 bookings
Skillmatch£259£99 plan + £40 × 4 bookings
You'd keep £2,141 a monthThat's £25,692 over a year, on these numbers.

Skillmatch pays off from about 2 days per booking at 4 bookings a month.

What an agency does that we don't

An agency pays the trade, deducts tax, and sends someone else if a person doesn’t turn up. With Skillmatch you pay the trade yourself, as you do your own freelancers. Booking your own workforce never has a fee.

An estimate from the numbers you enter. Not advice.

Pricing

Trades never pay. Contractors pay for the network, not their own people.

Your own workforce is free on every plan. Pro and Business add the network: trades outside your workforce who qualify for your job. You pay a monthly price, and a fee only when you confirm one of them.

Trades · every one

Free, for ever

No fee, no cut, nothing from your day rate. Workers never pay for a check.

Create your free passport
  • Your passport. Trade, grade, postcode and travel, in one place you keep.
  • Your cards and tickets. Each with its expiry, and who checked it and when.
  • Work near you. Offered only jobs you qualify for and are free for.
  • Reminders. At 60, 31 and 14 days before a card ends.

Contractors

Contractor plans
Contractor plansEach row says what it is. Ticks line up across plans.Free£0Your own workforce, free for ever.Pro£99 a monthor £990 a year, 2 months freeAdds the network.Business£249 a monthor £2,490 a year, 2 months freeLower fee, every report, no team limits.
Your own workforceThe freelancers you already use. Booking them never has a fee.
Import and invitePaste a list or upload a spreadsheet, up to 500 lines a file. One invitation each, in your name.No limit on peopleNo limit on peopleNo limit on people
Each person’s statusThe right-to-work check you recorded, each card’s status and end date, and who hasn’t answered.IncludedIncludedIncluded
Compliance pack, when you want itTwo PDFs and a CSV: a list, a page per person, and the data. Every export is logged.IncludedIncludedIncluded
Live jobsJobs published and not yet finished, at one time. Your people see them first; you hold and confirm.1 at a timeNo limitNo limit
Who can work, by datePick a day. See whose right to work and cards are in date for it.Not includedNot includedIncluded
90-day viewEverything ending in the next 90 days.IncludedIncludedIncluded
Expiry alertsAlerts by email and in the app as a card nears its end.Not includedNot includedIncluded
Weekly pack by emailThe compliance pack sent to you every week, without asking.Not includedNot includedIncluded
The networkTrades on Skillmatch outside your workforce, who hold the cards and are free on your dates.
See who qualifiesThe people who fit your job, with the reasons. A first name and initial until you confirm.A count onlyEveryone, and invite themEveryone, and invite them
Fee per confirmed network bookingCharged once, when you confirm. Taken back if the booking ends before the first shift.No network, no fee£40£25
Your teamPeople in your business who use Skillmatch with you.
Team membersPeople who can post jobs, invite and confirm. Anyone over the limit can still read.2 (you and one more)Up to 3No limit
Site teamsA separate workspace for a site or contracts team, under your company, that can publish jobs.11No limit
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Free

£0

Your own workforce, free for ever.

Your own workforceThe freelancers you already use. Booking them never has a fee.
  • Import and inviteNo limit on people
  • Each person’s status
  • Compliance pack, when you want it
  • Live jobs1 at a time
  • 90-day view

Not included: who can work, by date; expiry alerts; weekly pack by email.

The networkTrades on Skillmatch outside your workforce, who hold the cards and are free on your dates.
  • See who qualifiesA count only

Not included: fee per confirmed network booking.

Your teamPeople in your business who use Skillmatch with you.
  • Team members2 (you and one more)
  • Site teams1
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Pro

£99 a month

or £990 a year, 2 months free

Adds the network.

Your own workforceThe freelancers you already use. Booking them never has a fee.
  • Import and inviteNo limit on people
  • Each person’s status
  • Compliance pack, when you want it
  • Live jobsNo limit
  • 90-day view

Not included: who can work, by date; expiry alerts; weekly pack by email.

The networkTrades on Skillmatch outside your workforce, who hold the cards and are free on your dates.
  • See who qualifiesEveryone, and invite them
  • Fee per confirmed network booking£40
Your teamPeople in your business who use Skillmatch with you.
  • Team membersUp to 3
  • Site teams1
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Business

£249 a month

or £2,490 a year, 2 months free

Lower fee, every report, no team limits.

Your own workforceThe freelancers you already use. Booking them never has a fee.
  • Import and inviteNo limit on people
  • Each person’s status
  • Compliance pack, when you want it
  • Live jobsNo limit
  • Who can work, by date
  • 90-day view
  • Expiry alerts
  • Weekly pack by email
The networkTrades on Skillmatch outside your workforce, who hold the cards and are free on your dates.
  • See who qualifiesEveryone, and invite them
  • Fee per confirmed network booking£25
Your teamPeople in your business who use Skillmatch with you.
  • Team membersNo limit
  • Site teamsNo limit
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During pilot access every plan has every tool, and nothing is charged. Billing opens with 30 days’ notice. No VAT is added. Pay never passes through Skillmatch: you pay your trades directly, with no margin and no percentage of their pay. If you first booked someone through the network, the fee applies to them for 12 months, even after they join your workforce.

Record each right-to-work check, with its evidence, and know before one ends. You check with a share code on the Home Office service, which is free, or with the original documents. Workers never pay.

Founding contractors

The first 50 contractors who bring 10 of their own freelancers: your first 3 network bookings with no fee, and today’s prices held for 12 months.

Bring them in with the Free Workforce Check.

Straight answers, both sides.

If you're in the trades

Is there work near me?

Give your trade and postcode and you'll see the jobs and contractors near you. We can't promise work. You'll only be offered jobs you qualify for, and nobody takes a cut.

Does Skillmatch take a cut of my pay?

No. We don't employ you and we don't pay you. Nothing comes out of your day rate. There is no umbrella and no payroll. The contractor pays you directly. Contractors pay a monthly price and a fee for each confirmed booking from the network. Nothing comes from your pay.

Why build a passport before there are jobs?

A person checks each card, and that takes time. Do it now and you'll be ready on day one. It costs nothing and commits you to nothing. And it works today: contractors you already work for can see your cards are checked.

What do you do with my cards and ID?

A contractor checks your cards at booking, or Skillmatch checks them later. Your identity is checked with Stripe when you first show interest in a job. The firms you choose see your trade, your cards’ status and when they end, and each firm that books you checks your right to work itself. In matching, a verified firm you haven’t chosen will see only your first name, the initial of your surname, your trade and that you qualify, and you can turn that off. No firm sees a card number, an ID photo or your home address. One invitation text per number, ever.

What if you can't confirm my card?

The contractor who books you checks it, or Skillmatch checks it later. If a card can't be confirmed, you're told what to fix.

If you take on trades

How many workers have you got?

We won't give a number. We're new, so today it would be small, and a made-up one would be worse. That is why matching will show your own workforce first. It will be useful from day one, whatever the size of the network.

Will other contractors be matched with my freelancers?

Your list is not published. Your people will be offered your jobs first. Another contractor would see a first name and an initial until a booking is confirmed. But the passport is theirs. We won't lock them in.

Why not just use the free card-check apps?

Use them. CSCS Smart Check and ECS Check are the official way to confirm a card at the gate, and they are free. Skillmatch adds a record of your own right-to-work checks, what ends next across your whole list and who is free.

I'm not a director. Can I start?

Yes. A site or contracts manager can start a workspace for their team. We check who you are and a card in your name. Then you invite your own freelancers. Until a director confirms the company, trades from the network see it as a business that isn’t verified yet, and only those who chose to be found by any business are matched with you.

Does Skillmatch do my right-to-work duty for me?

No. You check right to work yourself, with a share code on the Home Office service or the original documents, and record it on the booking: what you checked, how and when, with your evidence. Skillmatch doesn’t check it. The duty stays with you. It is not a legal audit and not legal advice. Ask your adviser how this record fits your own process.