Business-to-Business (B2B)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 336 393 415
Rank change year-on-year +57 +22 -24
Contract jobs citing B2B 281 360 530
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.65% 0.60% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 0.67% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 216 355
10th Percentile £229 £319 £396
25th Percentile £416 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £531 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.53% -7.61% +15.00%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £675
90th Percentile £675 £800 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £500 £548
% change year-on-year +2.50% -8.68% +4.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 6
10th Percentile £13.09 £31.40 £27.88
25th Percentile £14.26 - £45.25
Median hourly rate £21.69 £44.00 £48.56
Median % change year-on-year -50.70% -9.38% +12.92%
75th Percentile £31.75 - £58.97
90th Percentile £68.75 £48.80 £64.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £13.94 - £11.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

B2B
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing B2B as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for B2B in the UK

B2B
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for B2B in the UK

B2B
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing B2B over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for B2B in the UK

B2B
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for B2B in the UK

B2B
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing B2B over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for B2B in the UK

B2B
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing B2B within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England +72 260 £513 -4.65% 798
London +55 150 £530 -3.64% 352
UK excluding London +49 105 £513 +2.50% 469
Work from Home +69 101 £539 +2.62% 382
South East +29 60 £513 -8.89% 123
North of England +21 20 £400 -20.00% 148
North West +4 13 £600 +20.00% 91
East of England +23 12 £543 +5.85% 36
West Midlands +27 4 £238 -44.77% 52
Midlands +16 4 £238 -45.71% 76
South West +16 4 - - 65
North East - 4 £190 - 15
Scotland +32 3 £475 +72.73% 25
Yorkshire +16 3 £432 -12.51% 44
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 6

B2B
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (2.14%) CMS
2 4 (1.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.07%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.07%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.71%) Anypoint
4 2 (0.71%) Confluence
5 1 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.36%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.36%) Appian
5 1 (0.36%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (4.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.85%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.78%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.42%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 4 (1.42%) Sketch
5 3 (1.07%) InVision
5 3 (1.07%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.71%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.36%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.36%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.36%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.36%) Final Cut Pro
7 1 (0.36%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 28 (9.96%) Shopify
2 11 (3.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (3.56%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (1.07%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (1.07%) SAP Hybris
5 2 (0.71%) Magento
5 2 (0.71%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.71%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.71%) WebTrends
6 1 (0.36%) SAP CAR
6 1 (0.36%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.36%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.36%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 38 (13.52%) Azure
2 26 (9.25%) BigCommerce
3 25 (8.90%) SaaS
4 24 (8.54%) AWS
5 16 (5.69%) Power Platform
6 15 (5.34%) Figma
7 13 (4.63%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (4.63%) GCP
8 10 (3.56%) Dynamics 365
8 10 (3.56%) Entra ID
8 10 (3.56%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (3.20%) PaaS
10 8 (2.85%) Serverless
11 6 (2.14%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.14%) GitHub
11 6 (2.14%) Mimecast
11 6 (2.14%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
11 6 (2.14%) Snowflake
12 5 (1.78%) IaaS
13 4 (1.42%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 25 (8.90%) DMZ
2 11 (3.91%) Firewall
3 6 (2.14%) Radio Access Network
4 5 (1.78%) 5G
5 4 (1.42%) 3G
5 4 (1.42%) 4G
5 4 (1.42%) SMS
5 4 (1.42%) VoIP
5 4 (1.42%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.71%) FTP
7 1 (0.36%) Broadband
7 1 (0.36%) RTP
7 1 (0.36%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.85%) MySQL
1 8 (2.85%) Power BI
2 6 (2.14%) Relational Database
3 4 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (1.42%) Tableau
4 3 (1.07%) Big Data
4 3 (1.07%) Data Lake
4 3 (1.07%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.07%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.71%) DynamoDB
5 2 (0.71%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.36%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.36%) Data Hub
6 1 (0.36%) Metadata
6 1 (0.36%) NonStop SQL
6 1 (0.36%) QlikView
6 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (2.85%) Git
2 6 (2.14%) Jenkins
2 6 (2.14%) Maven
3 2 (0.71%) Bitbucket
3 2 (0.71%) Gradle
3 2 (0.71%) JIRA
3 2 (0.71%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (0.71%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.36%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.36%) Dreamweaver
4 1 (0.36%) GitLab
4 1 (0.36%) gulp
4 1 (0.36%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 75 (26.69%) Marketing
2 73 (25.98%) Social Skills
3 42 (14.95%) Finance
4 41 (14.59%) Retail
5 30 (10.68%) Banking
6 23 (8.19%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (5.34%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (3.91%) Telecoms
9 9 (3.20%) German Language
10 8 (2.85%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (2.85%) Manufacturing
11 7 (2.49%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (2.49%) French Language
11 7 (2.49%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.42%) Advertising
12 4 (1.42%) Publishing
13 3 (1.07%) Brand Awareness
13 3 (1.07%) Legal
13 3 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.71%) Games
Job Titles
1 46 (16.37%) Senior
2 36 (12.81%) Analyst
2 36 (12.81%) Architect
3 29 (10.32%) Network Engineer
4 27 (9.61%) Developer
5 25 (8.90%) Senior Network Engineer
6 22 (7.83%) Designer
7 20 (7.12%) Business Analyst
8 13 (4.63%) Consultant
8 13 (4.63%) Lead
8 13 (4.63%) Product Manager
8 13 (4.63%) Project Manager
8 13 (4.63%) UX Designer
9 11 (3.91%) Salesforce Architect
9 11 (3.91%) Solutions Architect
10 9 (3.20%) Senior Manager
11 8 (2.85%) UI Designer
12 7 (2.49%) Marketing Manager
12 7 (2.49%) Technical Analyst
12 7 (2.49%) UI/UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.76%) VML
2 11 (3.91%) React
3 9 (3.20%) REST
3 9 (3.20%) RESTful
3 9 (3.20%) Web Services
4 8 (2.85%) AngularJS
4 8 (2.85%) CSS
4 8 (2.85%) Lightning Web Components
4 8 (2.85%) Node.js
5 6 (2.14%) HTML
5 6 (2.14%) Spring
6 5 (1.78%) jQuery
7 4 (1.42%) .NET
7 4 (1.42%) J2EE
7 4 (1.42%) Sass
8 3 (1.07%) .NET Framework
8 3 (1.07%) Middleware
8 3 (1.07%) OAuth
8 3 (1.07%) Spring MVC
8 3 (1.07%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.27%) Data Centre
1 12 (4.27%) Social Media
2 11 (3.91%) Product Ownership
3 9 (3.20%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (2.49%) FMCG
4 7 (2.49%) IoT
4 7 (2.49%) Management Information System
5 6 (2.14%) Mobile App
5 6 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (1.78%) Renewable Energy
7 4 (1.42%) Driving Licence
7 4 (1.42%) EPoS
8 3 (1.07%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.07%) Graphic Design
8 3 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.07%) Marketing Technology
9 2 (0.71%) Contactless
9 2 (0.71%) Digital Wallet
9 2 (0.71%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.71%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (6.41%) Windows
2 5 (1.78%) Android
3 4 (1.42%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.42%) Linux
3 4 (1.42%) Unix
4 2 (0.71%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (15.66%) Agile
2 39 (13.88%) Migration
3 37 (13.17%) E-Commerce
3 37 (13.17%) User Experience
4 35 (12.46%) Problem-Solving
5 33 (11.74%) B2C
6 30 (10.68%) CRM
7 27 (9.61%) DevOps
8 26 (9.25%) Customer Acquisition
9 25 (8.90%) Analytics
9 25 (8.90%) Roadmaps
10 23 (8.19%) Technology Strategy
10 23 (8.19%) UX Design
11 22 (7.83%) Stakeholder Management
12 21 (7.47%) Customer Experience
13 20 (7.12%) Project Management
14 18 (6.41%) Project Delivery
15 16 (5.69%) Product Management
16 15 (5.34%) B2B Sales
16 15 (5.34%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (6.41%) TypeScript
2 16 (5.69%) SQL
3 13 (4.63%) JavaScript
4 12 (4.27%) Python
5 11 (3.91%) Java
6 8 (2.85%) C#
7 5 (1.78%) Apex Code
7 5 (1.78%) PHP
8 4 (1.42%) VBA
9 3 (1.07%) Bash
9 3 (1.07%) Objective-C
9 3 (1.07%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.71%) C
10 2 (0.71%) Go
10 2 (0.71%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.71%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.71%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.71%) Swift
11 1 (0.36%) Bicep
11 1 (0.36%) C++
Qualifications
1 27 (9.61%) Cisco Certification
2 18 (6.41%) Degree
3 6 (2.14%) Azure Certification
3 6 (2.14%) SC Cleared
3 6 (2.14%) Security Cleared
4 5 (1.78%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (0.71%) CCNA
5 2 (0.71%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.71%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.71%) MBA
6 1 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.36%) CBAP
6 1 (0.36%) CSPO
6 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.56%) QA
2 9 (3.20%) SLA
3 7 (2.49%) GDPR
4 4 (1.42%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.42%) PSD2
5 3 (1.07%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.07%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.71%) PMO
7 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.36%) SEPA
System Software
1 11 (3.91%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.07%) zsh
3 1 (0.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (2.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (1.78%) Terraform
3 2 (0.71%) Ansible
4 1 (0.36%) CASB
4 1 (0.36%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.36%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 55 (19.57%) Salesforce
2 46 (16.37%) SAP
3 39 (13.88%) Microsoft
4 31 (11.03%) CheckPoint
4 31 (11.03%) Cisco
5 30 (10.68%) Adobe
6 27 (9.61%) Arista
7 26 (9.25%) Sitecore
8 13 (4.63%) Google
9 12 (4.27%) Dell
9 12 (4.27%) Intel
10 4 (1.42%) Apple
10 4 (1.42%) Aruba
10 4 (1.42%) Citrix
10 4 (1.42%) F5
10 4 (1.42%) Meraki
10 4 (1.42%) Pardot
11 3 (1.07%) IBM
11 3 (1.07%) Informatica
11 3 (1.07%) MuleSoft