B2B Contracts in the North of England

Business-to-Business (B2B)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for B2B skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited B2B over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 163 181 233
Rank change year-on-year +18 +52 -54
Contract jobs citing B2B 21 32 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.45% 0.56% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.62% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 30 13
10th Percentile - £285 £391
25th Percentile £190 £416 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -4.76% +15.01%
75th Percentile £544 £525 £550
90th Percentile £680 £539 £838
England median daily rate £513 £538 £583
% change year-on-year -4.65% -7.73% +16.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £13.50 - -
25th Percentile £13.79 - -
Median hourly rate £14.27 - -
75th Percentile £14.75 - -
90th Percentile £15.04 - -
England median hourly rate £30.50 £44.00 £50.61
% change year-on-year -30.68% -13.06% +43.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

B2B 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 the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,023 5,182 6,316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.72% 90.78% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,447 3,599 4,626
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.21%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 363 202 253
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.86 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.15 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.21% +57.57% +0.87%
75th Percentile £45.00 £46.51 £31.00
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £52.40
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

B2B
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing B2B as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for B2B in the North of England

B2B
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing B2B in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for B2B in the North of England

B2B
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing B2B in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for B2B in the North of England

B2B
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing B2B in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for B2B in the North of England

B2B
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing B2B within the North of England region over the 6 months to 8 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
North West +13 14 £538 +7.50% 95
North East - 4 £190 - 9
Yorkshire +23 3 £432 -12.51% 44
B2B
England

B2B
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (14.29%) Azure
2 3 (14.29%) SaaS
3 2 (9.52%) Entra ID
3 2 (9.52%) GitHub
4 1 (4.76%) Apigee
4 1 (4.76%) AWS
4 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) MySQL
1 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.76%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (4.76%) gulp
2 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.76%) Maven
General
1 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Finance
2 1 (4.76%) Marketing
2 1 (4.76%) Retail
2 1 (4.76%) Tech for Good
2 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (47.62%) Analyst
2 5 (23.81%) Business Analyst
3 4 (19.05%) Architect
3 4 (19.05%) Deskside Analyst
3 4 (19.05%) Deskside Support
3 4 (19.05%) Deskside Support Analyst
3 4 (19.05%) Desktop Support
3 4 (19.05%) Developer
3 4 (19.05%) Support Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) C# Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Security Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Technical Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Technical Business Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Administrator
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Data Administrator
5 1 (4.76%) Data Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Designer
5 1 (4.76%) Python Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) Node.js
1 3 (14.29%) RESTful
1 3 (14.29%) Web Services
2 2 (9.52%) .NET
2 2 (9.52%) CSS
2 2 (9.52%) HTML
2 2 (9.52%) React
3 1 (4.76%) .NET Core
3 1 (4.76%) .NET Framework
3 1 (4.76%) AngularJS
3 1 (4.76%) ASP.NET Web Forms
3 1 (4.76%) Entity Framework
3 1 (4.76%) Laravel
3 1 (4.76%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (4.76%) Middleware
3 1 (4.76%) OAuth
3 1 (4.76%) OpenID
3 1 (4.76%) REST
3 1 (4.76%) SAML
3 1 (4.76%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Driving Licence
1 4 (19.05%) EPoS
2 1 (4.76%) CCTV
2 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.76%) IoT
2 1 (4.76%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (19.05%) Windows
2 1 (4.76%) Android
2 1 (4.76%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (23.81%) Requirements Gathering
2 4 (19.05%) E-Commerce
3 3 (14.29%) BPR
3 3 (14.29%) Data Analysis
3 3 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (14.29%) Product Management
3 3 (14.29%) Project Delivery
3 3 (14.29%) Requirements Engineering
3 3 (14.29%) TDD
3 3 (14.29%) Waterfall
4 2 (9.52%) Agile
4 2 (9.52%) B2C
4 2 (9.52%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (9.52%) DevOps
4 2 (9.52%) Feasibility Study
4 2 (9.52%) Full Stack Development
4 2 (9.52%) Information Management
4 2 (9.52%) Product Information Management
4 2 (9.52%) RBAC
4 2 (9.52%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (14.29%) C#
1 3 (14.29%) JavaScript
1 3 (14.29%) PHP
1 3 (14.29%) SQL
2 2 (9.52%) Python
3 1 (4.76%) Apex Code
3 1 (4.76%) Bicep
3 1 (4.76%) Java
3 1 (4.76%) T-SQL
3 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.76%) CBAP
2 1 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) QA
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Ansible
1 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.76%) Cognizant
2 1 (4.76%) Google
2 1 (4.76%) HubSpot
2 1 (4.76%) MuleSoft
2 1 (4.76%) Salesforce