B2C Contracts in England

B2C (Business-to-Consumer)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for B2C skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited B2C over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 355 431 487
Rank change year-on-year +76 +56 -5
Contract jobs citing B2C 190 233 307
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.52% 0.48% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.54% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 168 221
10th Percentile £400 £400 £419
25th Percentile £450 £463 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - +5.77%
75th Percentile £585 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £700 £838
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - - £62.36
25th Percentile - - £63.20
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £65.49
Median % change year-on-year - -46.55% +11.00%
75th Percentile - - £66.88
90th Percentile - - £67.17
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 £65.49
% change year-on-year - -46.55% +45.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

B2C is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,446 43,440 63,865
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.42% 90.15% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,588 30,513 45,420
10th Percentile £300 £325 £333
25th Percentile £413 £448 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £766 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,245 1,538 1,746
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.92 £16.23 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +7.71%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.00 £49.37
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%

B2C
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing B2C as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for B2C in England

B2C
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing B2C in England.

Daily rate trend for B2C in England

B2C
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing B2C in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for B2C in England

B2C
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing B2C in England.

Hourly rate trend for B2C in England

B2C
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing B2C within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +108 135 £513 -9.49% 90
South East +4 32 £525 -12.50% 25
North of England +5 9 £500 +5.26% 29
North West +9 8 £500 +5.26% 21
East of England +13 6 £485 +12.79% 5
Midlands +29 3 £448 +5.29% 11
West Midlands +27 2 £400 -5.88% 4
Yorkshire +3 1 - - 7
South West -3 1 £575 +4.55% 7
East Midlands - 1 £495 - 7
B2C
UK

B2C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (5.79%) CMS
2 6 (3.16%) Confluence
3 3 (1.58%) WordPress
4 2 (1.05%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.53%) Drupal
Applications
1 6 (3.16%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (3.16%) MS Visio
2 4 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.58%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (1.58%) InDesign
3 3 (1.58%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (2.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.05%) Magento
2 2 (1.05%) SAP Hybris
2 2 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.05%) Shopify
3 1 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.53%) SAP CAR
Cloud Services
1 91 (47.89%) Azure
2 74 (38.95%) Azure DevOps
3 72 (37.89%) Entra ID
4 21 (11.05%) PaaS
5 19 (10.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 17 (8.95%) Azure Service Bus
7 13 (6.84%) SaaS
8 11 (5.79%) Azure Monitor
8 11 (5.79%) Dynamics 365
9 10 (5.26%) Azure Functions
9 10 (5.26%) Azure Key Vault
9 10 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
9 10 (5.26%) Serverless
10 8 (4.21%) AWS
10 8 (4.21%) IaaS
11 7 (3.68%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (3.16%) Azure API Management
13 5 (2.63%) GCP
13 5 (2.63%) SuccessFactors
14 4 (2.11%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.11%) FIX Connectivity
1 4 (2.11%) Internet
2 1 (0.53%) DNS
2 1 (0.53%) Firewall
2 1 (0.53%) Intranet
2 1 (0.53%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (36.84%) SQL Server
2 16 (8.42%) Redis
3 9 (4.74%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (3.68%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.05%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.53%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.53%) MySQL
7 1 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (10.00%) Visual Studio
2 17 (8.95%) JIRA
3 11 (5.79%) Selenium
3 11 (5.79%) SpecFlow
3 11 (5.79%) WebDriver
4 6 (3.16%) Git
5 4 (2.11%) TeamCity
6 3 (1.58%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.53%) Hudson
7 1 (0.53%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.53%) WiX
General
1 51 (26.84%) Social Skills
2 37 (19.47%) Marketing
3 15 (7.89%) Public Sector
4 14 (7.37%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (7.37%) Retail
5 10 (5.26%) Manufacturing
6 7 (3.68%) Finance
6 7 (3.68%) Legal
7 6 (3.16%) Health Technology
7 6 (3.16%) Law
8 5 (2.63%) Local Government
8 5 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (2.11%) Front Office
9 4 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.58%) Advertising
10 3 (1.58%) Back Office
10 3 (1.58%) French Language
10 3 (1.58%) German Language
10 3 (1.58%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.05%) Billing
Job Titles
1 66 (34.74%) Developer
2 65 (34.21%) Senior
3 38 (20.00%) Senior Developer
4 30 (15.79%) Backend Developer
5 27 (14.21%) Analyst
6 25 (13.16%) Azure Developer
7 22 (11.58%) Senior Backend Developer
8 19 (10.00%) Architect
9 18 (9.47%) Software Developer
10 16 (8.42%) Business Analyst
11 14 (7.37%) Senior Software Developer
12 12 (6.32%) C# Developer
12 12 (6.32%) Project Manager
13 11 (5.79%) Senior Analyst
14 10 (5.26%) Senior Test Analyst
14 10 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
14 10 (5.26%) Test Analyst
15 9 (4.74%) Senior C# Developer
15 9 (4.74%) Software Engineer
16 8 (4.21%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (40.00%) .NET
2 72 (37.89%) XML
3 35 (18.42%) AngularJS
4 34 (17.89%) .NET Core
5 29 (15.26%) .NET Framework
6 22 (11.58%) React
7 20 (10.53%) HTML
8 18 (9.47%) CSS
9 17 (8.95%) REST
10 15 (7.89%) ASP.NET
10 15 (7.89%) ASP.NET Core
11 13 (6.84%) OAuth
11 13 (6.84%) OpenID
12 10 (5.26%) ARM Templates
13 7 (3.68%) JSON
13 7 (3.68%) SAML
13 7 (3.68%) SOAP
14 6 (3.16%) Microsoft Graph
15 4 (2.11%) FIX Protocol
16 3 (1.58%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 38 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 15 (7.89%) Mobile App
3 11 (5.79%) Video\Live Streaming
4 8 (4.21%) Over-the-Top Content
5 6 (3.16%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (3.16%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.63%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.11%) Derivative
7 4 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.11%) Fixed Income
7 4 (2.11%) Mobile Payment
8 3 (1.58%) Animation
8 3 (1.58%) Digital Media
8 3 (1.58%) Graphic Design
9 2 (1.05%) Acoustics
10 1 (0.53%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.53%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.53%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.53%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.11%) Linux
1 4 (2.11%) Unix
2 1 (0.53%) Android
2 1 (0.53%) Windows
2 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (48.95%) Agile
2 82 (43.16%) Scrum
3 78 (41.05%) DevOps
4 70 (36.84%) CI/CD
5 30 (15.79%) B2B
6 23 (12.11%) E-Commerce
7 22 (11.58%) User Experience
8 18 (9.47%) Test Automation
9 17 (8.95%) Digital Marketing
10 16 (8.42%) Project Delivery
11 15 (7.89%) SDLC
12 14 (7.37%) Project Management
13 13 (6.84%) CRM
13 13 (6.84%) Roadmaps
13 13 (6.84%) Software Engineering
14 12 (6.32%) Collaborative Working
15 11 (5.79%) Performance Testing
16 9 (4.74%) Data Protection
16 9 (4.74%) Infrastructure as Code
16 9 (4.74%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 74 (38.95%) C#
2 71 (37.37%) PowerShell
3 35 (18.42%) Bicep
4 28 (14.74%) JavaScript
5 19 (10.00%) TypeScript
6 18 (9.47%) SQL
7 5 (2.63%) Java
8 3 (1.58%) Bash
9 2 (1.05%) PHP
9 2 (1.05%) Python
9 2 (1.05%) Ruby
10 1 (0.53%) ABAP
10 1 (0.53%) C++
Qualifications
1 12 (6.32%) Degree
2 7 (3.68%) ISEB
3 5 (2.63%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.63%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.05%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.05%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.05%) MBA
5 1 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.84%) GDPR
2 8 (4.21%) QA
3 2 (1.05%) PMO
4 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.53%) SLA
4 1 (0.53%) WCAG
System Software
1 66 (34.74%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.58%) zsh
3 1 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (2.63%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.63%) Terraform
3 1 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 77 (40.53%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.68%) MuleSoft
3 6 (3.16%) SAP
4 5 (2.63%) Google
5 4 (2.11%) Bloomberg
5 4 (2.11%) ION Trading
5 4 (2.11%) MarketAxess
5 4 (2.11%) Tradeweb
6 3 (1.58%) Adobe
6 3 (1.58%) Databricks
6 3 (1.58%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.05%) Workday
8 1 (0.53%) BMC
8 1 (0.53%) CA
8 1 (0.53%) IBM
8 1 (0.53%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (0.53%) Novell
8 1 (0.53%) Okta
8 1 (0.53%) Remedy
8 1 (0.53%) ServiceNow