B2B Contracts in the North West

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 132 174
Rank change year-on-year +9 +42 -32
Contract jobs citing B2B 13 24 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.47% 0.75% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.82% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 23 7
10th Percentile £385 £293 £293
25th Percentile £400 £394 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -2.91% +3.00%
75th Percentile £680 £516 £538
90th Percentile - £538 £543
England median daily rate £513 £538 £590
% change year-on-year -4.65% -8.90% +18.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £13.31 - -
England median hourly rate £29.25 £44.00 £48.56
% change year-on-year -33.52% -9.38% +12.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,393 2,921 3,542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.30% 90.71% 88.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,532 2,076 2,595
10th Percentile £306 £313 £230
25th Percentile £401 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £591 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 147 165
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.61 £10.64
25th Percentile £13.30 £20.74 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +66.67% +13.51%
75th Percentile £45.88 £48.38 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £59.50
England median hourly rate £35.65 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -4.93% +56.25% -

B2B
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for B2B in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for B2B in the North West

B2B
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing B2B in the North West over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for B2B in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for B2B in the North West

B2B
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
Manchester +7 10 £400 -20.00% 60
Cheshire +1 3 £680 +60.00% 18
B2B
England

B2B
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (7.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) Entra ID
2 2 (15.38%) GitHub
3 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) MySQL
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Git
General
1 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Marketing
2 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Analyst
1 5 (38.46%) Business Analyst
2 4 (30.77%) Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Architect
4 2 (15.38%) C# Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Security Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Technical Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Technical Business Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Administrator
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Data Administrator
5 1 (7.69%) Python Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Salesforce Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) Web Services
2 2 (15.38%) CSS
2 2 (15.38%) HTML
2 2 (15.38%) Node.js
2 2 (15.38%) RESTful
3 1 (7.69%) .NET
3 1 (7.69%) .NET Core
3 1 (7.69%) .NET Framework
3 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
3 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET Web Forms
3 1 (7.69%) Entity Framework
3 1 (7.69%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (7.69%) React
3 1 (7.69%) REST
3 1 (7.69%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) CCTV
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Requirements Gathering
2 4 (30.77%) E-Commerce
3 3 (23.08%) BPR
3 3 (23.08%) Data Analysis
3 3 (23.08%) Product Management
3 3 (23.08%) Project Delivery
3 3 (23.08%) Requirements Engineering
3 3 (23.08%) Waterfall
4 2 (15.38%) Agile
4 2 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (15.38%) DevOps
4 2 (15.38%) Feasibility Study
4 2 (15.38%) GAP Analysis
4 2 (15.38%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (15.38%) Information Management
4 2 (15.38%) Product Information Management
4 2 (15.38%) Project Management
4 2 (15.38%) RBAC
4 2 (15.38%) TDD
4 2 (15.38%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) C#
1 3 (23.08%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
2 2 (15.38%) PHP
3 1 (7.69%) Apex Code
3 1 (7.69%) Bicep
3 1 (7.69%) Python
3 1 (7.69%) T-SQL
3 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (7.69%) CBAP
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) HubSpot
2 1 (7.69%) MuleSoft
2 1 (7.69%) Salesforce