Are you ENIC-ready?
Helping you navigate the 2025 increase in Employer's National Insurance Contributions
April's Employer's National Insurance increase isn't just a permanent staffing cost - it poses added costs and risk across much of your temporary workforce.
Getting visibility to understand the cost impact and risk exposure before the change is vital.
Matchtech's sister company, Gattaca Solutions', independent ENIC impact audit can help you obtain workforce & supply chain visibility, assess the costs and risk across your current workforce and consult on next steps to mitigate the impact.
Let's take a look at what's changing and how a workforce audit can help!
What's changing?
The impact of the ENIC increase, alongside the Government's planned employment rights and umbrella company liability changes next financial year, are signalling a significant shift in the cost and risk profile of your temporary workforce and its supply chain.
Here's how...
ADDED COST
- ENIC represents a potential additional workforce cost of c.3% of total spend, depending on worker types and supply chain.
- Recruitment suppliers & payrollers are passing on price increases (sometimes up to 5%) due to their own increasing staff & service costs.
- National Living Wage for over 21s is also set to increase by 6.7% in April 2025, further affecting costs for eligible workers.
- 2026 will see the implementation of day one employment rights, further increasing costs by entitling PAYE workers to statutory sick pay, holiday and parental leave from day one.
INCREASED RISK
- Increasing employer taxes adds to the administrative and financial processes for anyone engaging PAYE workers and, therefore, the potential risk of non-compliance within the supply chain
- In 2026, liability for umbrella non-compliance will pass to employment agencies & their end clients. Ensuring this increase is correctly implemented will help mitigate this risk.
What does it mean for you?
Understanding the long term cost impact is vital for your financial planning, cost management and commercial bid activities in FY26.
Without knowing your current workforce spend, live workers, pay rates, suppliers and their contract types, you’ll have no visibility of the potential cost impact and - thereby - your ongoing operational costs and profitable price points.
Add to that the fact suppliers and umbrellas are taking varying approaches for different worker types (and a few might take no action at all!) and there’s too many variables to risk ignoring!
Organisations need to establish workforce, supplier and umbrella company visibility - fast!
How we can help
Matchtech's sister company, Gattaca Solutions, is our group's standalone, dedicated workforce solutions and talent consultancy provider.
Their expert team have spent months analysing the ENIC changes and their impact on our clients' workforce. They're already managing the change across thousands of workers to enable our clients to reduce the risk and control the costs.
Gattaca Solutions offer an independent ENIC impact audit to help you get the visibility needed to understand the cost and risk impact across your temporary workforce.
What's more, their workforce solutions experts can even identify steps you can take to offset increase costs and manage your risk through improved worker and supplier management.
Find out how Gattaca Solutions' ENIC impact audit can help you below.
Visibility & consultative guidance in
three simple steps...
1
Capture
We'll help you understand what current data you have available and identify the gaps.
From here, we can review Finance, HR and Legal records, interview hiring managers and issue supplier due diligence questions to gain a full view.
2
Calculate
We'll consolidate all these data sources into a single report to calculate your ENIC uplift impact based on your current PAYE worker exposure and supplier approaches.
We'll also identify workers eligible for National Living Wage increases.
3
Consult
Following analysis, we'll present all this data back to you.
Our report gives visibility of ENIC uplift implications and recommend steps to take before April.
We'll also identify potential risks in your workforce & supply chain and recommend (and calculate!) cost savings which could offset the ENIC impact.
Gattaca Solutions is the dedicated workforce talent solutions arm of Gattaca group,
which includes recruitment brands Matchtech and Barclay Meade.