B2C Contracts in the Thames Valley

B2C (Business-to-Consumer)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 123 130
Rank change year-on-year +16 +7 0
Contract jobs citing B2C 27 27 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.02% 0.93% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.17% 1.01% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 20 13
10th Percentile £439 £524 -
25th Percentile £502 £539 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +31.58% -17.39%
75th Percentile £570 £717 £575
90th Percentile £653 £750 £620
South East median daily rate £525 £618 £525
% change year-on-year -14.98% +17.62% -1.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,314 2,662 3,133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.03% 91.76% 89.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,304 1,857 2,108
10th Percentile £213 £322 £225
25th Percentile £370 £413 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £601 £580
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 63 87
10th Percentile £14.25 £18.50 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £23.75 £12.15
Median hourly rate £45.00 £52.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +200.00% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £25.36
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £66.75
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.99
% change year-on-year -5.00% +127.43% -20.05%

B2C
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing B2C as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for B2C in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing B2C in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for B2C in the Thames Valley

B2C
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing B2C in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for B2C in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing B2C in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for B2C in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing B2C within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 4 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
Berkshire -6 21 £538 -10.42% 5
Buckinghamshire - 6 £308 - 4
B2C
South East

B2C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (18.52%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.93%) Azure
2 6 (22.22%) Azure API Management
2 6 (22.22%) Azure Data Factory
2 6 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (22.22%) Azure Key Vault
2 6 (22.22%) Azure Logic Apps
2 6 (22.22%) Azure Monitor
3 5 (18.52%) Azure Functions
3 5 (18.52%) Serverless
4 4 (14.81%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (3.70%) AWS
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (3.70%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.70%) GCP
5 1 (3.70%) PaaS
5 1 (3.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) DNS
1 1 (3.70%) Firewall
1 1 (3.70%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) Azure SQL Database
1 5 (18.52%) SQL Server
2 3 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 3 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (18.52%) Visual Studio
2 2 (7.41%) JIRA
3 1 (3.70%) Git
General
1 11 (40.74%) Social Skills
2 10 (37.04%) Marketing
3 7 (25.93%) Legal
4 6 (22.22%) Law
5 5 (18.52%) Retail
6 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (11.11%) Manufacturing
6 3 (11.11%) Telecoms
7 2 (7.41%) Automotive
7 2 (7.41%) Billing
8 1 (3.70%) Finance
8 1 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (18.52%) Analyst
1 5 (18.52%) Developer
1 5 (18.52%) Integration Developer
2 4 (14.81%) Business Analyst
2 4 (14.81%) Coordinator
2 4 (14.81%) Technical Coordinator
2 4 (14.81%) Technical Support
3 3 (11.11%) Azure Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Business IT Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Data Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Data Business Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (7.41%) Governance Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) IT Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) IT Business Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) IT Governance Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) .NET Architect
5 1 (3.70%) Applications Architect
5 1 (3.70%) Applications Manager
5 1 (3.70%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (22.22%) ARM Templates
2 3 (11.11%) .NET
2 3 (11.11%) JSON
2 3 (11.11%) OAuth
2 3 (11.11%) OpenID
2 3 (11.11%) REST
2 3 (11.11%) SOAP
2 3 (11.11%) XML
3 1 (3.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (7.41%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.41%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (29.63%) Data Protection
2 6 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
2 6 (22.22%) Data Management
2 6 (22.22%) Data Privacy
2 6 (22.22%) Data Sharing
2 6 (22.22%) DevOps
2 6 (22.22%) Impact Assessments
2 6 (22.22%) Information Security
2 6 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (18.52%) Application Security
3 5 (18.52%) Break/Fix
3 5 (18.52%) CI/CD
3 5 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (18.52%) Security Testing
3 5 (18.52%) Service Delivery
4 4 (14.81%) B2B
4 4 (14.81%) Defect Management
4 4 (14.81%) Incident Management
4 4 (14.81%) Process Improvement
4 4 (14.81%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 6 (22.22%) PowerShell
2 3 (11.11%) C#
2 3 (11.11%) SQL
3 1 (3.70%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 6 (22.22%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (37.04%) GDPR
2 1 (3.70%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.70%) BMC
2 1 (3.70%) Databricks
2 1 (3.70%) Remedy
2 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow