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Contractor CV template for recruitment agencies
A contractor CV is the agency's version of a contractor's CV, sent to a client with a submission for a contract, interim or freelance role. This Word template sets it out on two to three pages in the agency's brand: the contractor's name and headline; availability and terms up front (availability, day rate, IR35 status, location, remote working and security clearance, only as the contractor confirmed them); a short profile; key skills; technical skills by category; then project-by-project engagements with the client and sector, role, dates and duration, the brief, deliverables and technologies; earlier career; certifications and education. Formatix writes it from the contractor's CV and your call notes.
Contract desks reformat CVs all day, and the client always asks the same three questions first: when can they start, what is the rate, and inside or outside IR35. This template answers them at the top of page one and then lays out the engagements the way contract clients read them, project by project. It never guesses a rate or a start date from the last contract.
10 free credits, no card needed. One credit fills one document.
An editable file with neutral branding and a fictional example candidate, to fill in by hand. Formatix fills it automatically from a CV.
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What's in the template
The agency CV format for contractors, interim and IT contractors: availability and terms up front, profile, key skills, technical skills by category, project-by-project engagements with client, role, dates, duration, deliverables and technologies, then earlier career, certifications and education.
- Name, headline and who is presenting the contractor
- Availability and terms: availability, day rate, IR35, location, remote, clearance (as confirmed)
- Profile and key skills
- Technical skills by category
- Engagements: client, sector, role, dates, duration, brief, deliverables, technologies
- Earlier career, certifications and education
What it's for: Submitting contractors to clients in one consistent agency format.
WordDelivered as an editable Word file, or saved as PDF.
Who uses it
IT and technology contract desks
Developer, DevOps, data and cloud contractors with their tech stack and engagements clearly laid out.
Interim and change recruiters
Programme, project and interim managers presented assignment by assignment.
Agencies submitting to frameworks and MSPs
A consistent agency CV format for every contractor you put forward.
Every page of the example
The example is in Formatix branding with fictional content. When you pick this template, it is rebuilt with your logo, colours and fonts before you use it.
How you use it
- 1
Pick the template
Open Formatix, choose this template in Studio, and give us your website. We pull your logo, colours and fonts and rebuild the template in your brand. You see a sample before you use it.
- 2
Drop the CV and your call notes
Upload the contractor's CV, in any layout, with your notes on the confirmed availability, day rate, IR35 status and clearance. One credit fills one document.
- 3
Check and send
The filled document appears beside the original for checking. Edit anything in place, then download the Word file, or save it as PDF.
Download or automate? The free download is a plain file you fill in by hand. In Formatix the template is rebuilt in your brand, with your logo, colours and fonts taken from your website, and filled from a CV or your notes in about a minute. What you keep is the finished document: an editable Word, PowerPoint or Excel file.
Ask for changes in plain words, such as "move the photo to the right" or "add a Languages section", and the template is updated with the rest of its formatting kept. If you already have a document you send clients, upload that instead and Formatix turns it into a template. How Studio builds templates
Questions about this template
- What should a contractor CV include?
- Availability, rate and working arrangements at the top; a short profile; skills and the technologies the contractor actually uses; and the engagements, most recent first, each with the client, role, dates, duration, what the contractor was brought in to do and what they delivered. Certifications and earlier permanent roles follow.
- Will it fill in a day rate or availability?
- Only when the contractor's CV or your notes state them. A rate is never inferred from the role or the market, availability is never taken from the end date of the last contract, and IR35 status and clearance appear only as confirmed. When nothing is confirmed the panel says so.
- Can the end client be kept confidential?
- Yes. When your notes say a previous client cannot be named, the engagement shows the description you give, such as "A UK high-street bank". The contractor's contact details are never printed.
- How is it different from the interim executive profile?
- The interim executive profile presents a senior interim leader with impact cards and the consultant's view. The contractor CV is the everyday agency format for contract roles, built around the tech stack and the engagements. For public-sector framework bids there is also the consultant framework CV.
- How are the technical skills shown?
- Grouped by category in a short table, such as cloud, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, data or languages, followed by key skills as tags. Each engagement then lists the technologies used on that project. Only technologies the CV or your notes tie to the contractor appear; nothing is added because it is typical for the role.
- Can I download this template?
- Yes. A free, editable Word version with neutral branding and three fictional example contractors is on this page, to fill in by hand. To have it rebuilt in your brand and written automatically from CVs, use it in Formatix; what you keep is an editable Word file.
Related templates and pages
WordInterim executive profileA two-page profile for interim and contract executive roles: availability and terms up front, the key interim assignments with their results, then career, expertise and qualifications.
WordConsultant framework CVThe consultant CV for UK and EU public-sector framework call-offs and consultancy bids: proposed role, day-rate band (left blank to complete), security clearance (BPSS, SC, DV, NPPV) when stated, SFIA skills and levels, sectors, key skills, three or four case studies, career history, qualifications and memberships.
Use the contractor cv in your brand
Give us your website, and the template is rebuilt with your logo, colours and fonts. Your first ten documents are free, with no card, valid for 14 days.
Formatix fills it from the CV for you: see our CV formatting software, or bulk CV formatting for a whole shortlist at once.