B2C Contracts in the South East

B2C (Business-to-Consumer)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 173 190 213
Rank change year-on-year +17 +23 -25
Contract jobs citing B2C 30 31 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.54% 0.53% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.60% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 24 25
10th Percentile £413 £521 £403
25th Percentile £500 £525 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% +9.09%
75th Percentile £581 £685 £625
90th Percentile £663 £750 £650
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,709 5,189 6,947
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.80% 89.30% 89.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,741 3,601 4,704
10th Percentile £243 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £405 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £623 £619 £588
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 432 219 286
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.25 £12.21
25th Percentile £18.20 £23.83 £15.53
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.45
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +122.72% -18.36%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.83 £63.50
England median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
% change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%

B2C
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing B2C as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for B2C in the South East

B2C
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing B2C in the South East.

Daily rate trend for B2C in the South East

B2C
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing B2C in the South East over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for B2C in the South East

B2C
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing B2C in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for B2C in the South East

B2C
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing B2C within the South East region over the 6 months to 29 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
Thames Valley +14 26 £525 -12.50% 7
Berkshire -7 20 £538 -10.42% 2
Buckinghamshire - 6 £308 - 5
Surrey +13 2 £425 -22.73% 5
Hampshire +1 1 £650 +9.24% 7
East Sussex - 1 - -
B2C
England

B2C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Applications
1 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 7 (23.33%) Azure
2 6 (20.00%) Azure API Management
2 6 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 6 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 6 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 6 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
3 5 (16.67%) Azure Functions
3 5 (16.67%) Serverless
3 5 (16.67%) SuccessFactors
4 1 (3.33%) AWS
4 1 (3.33%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (3.33%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.33%) GCP
4 1 (3.33%) PaaS
4 1 (3.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) DNS
1 1 (3.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 5 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 3 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (16.67%) Visual Studio
2 2 (6.67%) JIRA
3 1 (3.33%) Git
General
1 11 (36.67%) Marketing
1 11 (36.67%) Social Skills
2 7 (23.33%) Retail
3 6 (20.00%) Law
3 6 (20.00%) Legal
4 3 (10.00%) Manufacturing
4 3 (10.00%) Telecoms
5 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.67%) Automotive
5 2 (6.67%) Billing
6 1 (3.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (16.67%) Analyst
1 5 (16.67%) Developer
1 5 (16.67%) Integration Developer
2 4 (13.33%) Business Analyst
2 4 (13.33%) Coordinator
2 4 (13.33%) Technical Coordinator
2 4 (13.33%) Technical Support
3 3 (10.00%) Azure Developer
4 2 (6.67%) Business IT Analyst
4 2 (6.67%) Consultant
4 2 (6.67%) Data Analyst
4 2 (6.67%) Data Business Analyst
4 2 (6.67%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (6.67%) Governance Analyst
4 2 (6.67%) IT Analyst
4 2 (6.67%) IT Business Analyst
4 2 (6.67%) IT Governance Analyst
4 2 (6.67%) Project Manager
5 1 (3.33%) Digital Analyst
5 1 (3.33%) Digital Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.00%) ARM Templates
2 3 (10.00%) .NET
2 3 (10.00%) JSON
2 3 (10.00%) OAuth
2 3 (10.00%) OpenID
2 3 (10.00%) REST
2 3 (10.00%) SOAP
2 3 (10.00%) XML
3 1 (3.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.33%) Over-the-Top Content
3 1 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.33%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (23.33%) Data Protection
2 6 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
2 6 (20.00%) Data Management
2 6 (20.00%) Data Privacy
2 6 (20.00%) Data Sharing
2 6 (20.00%) DevOps
2 6 (20.00%) Impact Assessments
2 6 (20.00%) Information Security
2 6 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (16.67%) Agile
3 5 (16.67%) Application Security
3 5 (16.67%) B2B
3 5 (16.67%) Break/Fix
3 5 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 5 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (16.67%) Process Improvement
3 5 (16.67%) Security Testing
3 5 (16.67%) Service Delivery
4 4 (13.33%) Defect Management
4 4 (13.33%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (10.00%) C#
2 3 (10.00%) SQL
3 1 (3.33%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 6 (20.00%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (30.00%) GDPR
2 1 (3.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.33%) BMC
2 1 (3.33%) Databricks
2 1 (3.33%) Remedy
2 1 (3.33%) SAP
2 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow