B2C Contracts in the North West

B2C (Business-to-Consumer)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 17 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 130 144 173
Rank change year-on-year +14 +29 -
Contract jobs citing B2C 7 16 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.25% 0.49% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.54% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 13 5
10th Percentile - £415 £248
25th Percentile £350 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £538 £538
90th Percentile - - £545
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,376 2,961 3,498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.53% 91.02% 87.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,535 2,118 2,594
10th Percentile £306 £313 £229
25th Percentile £406 £406 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £563
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 146 166
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.64
25th Percentile £13.06 £21.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +19.40%
75th Percentile £45.00 £49.24 £43.75
90th Percentile £52.78 £65.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £34.25 £36.65 £23.96
% change year-on-year -6.55% +53.01% -0.19%

B2C
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing B2C as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for B2C 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 B2C in the North West.

Daily rate trend for B2C in the North West

B2C
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing B2C in the North West over the 6 months to 17 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for B2C in the North West

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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 B2C within the North West region over the 6 months to 17 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 +12 3 £563 +18.42% 21
Merseyside +16 2 £350 -46.15% 2
B2C
England

B2C
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 2 (28.57%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Google Analytics
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (14.29%) PaaS
2 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
2 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Digital Product Owner
1 2 (28.57%) Product Owner
1 2 (28.57%) Ruby on Rails Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
2 1 (14.29%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Ruby on Rails
2 1 (14.29%) Node.js
2 1 (14.29%) React
2 1 (14.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
2 2 (28.57%) Analytics
2 2 (28.57%) E-Commerce
2 2 (28.57%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (14.29%) B2B
3 1 (14.29%) BPR
3 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) Coaching
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
3 1 (14.29%) Product Management
3 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) Requirements Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) TDD
3 1 (14.29%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Ruby
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft