B2C Contracts in the West Midlands

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 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 107 137 155
Rank change year-on-year +30 +18 -27
Contract jobs citing B2C 2 2 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.10% 0.084% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.095% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 14
10th Percentile - - £471
25th Percentile £375 £413 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £545
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -22.02% -
75th Percentile £425 £438 £575
90th Percentile - - £588
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,617 2,107 3,207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.00% 88.53% 90.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,066 1,446 2,363
10th Percentile £275 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £406 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% +17.47%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £694 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 45 71
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.20 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.81
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +4.24% +1.07%
75th Percentile £41.13 £23.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £57.75 £51.25 £22.25
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

B2C
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for B2C in the West Midlands

B2C
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing B2C in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for B2C in the West Midlands

B2C
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing B2C in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for B2C in the West Midlands

B2C
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing B2C within the West Midlands region 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
Birmingham +9 1 £400 -5.88% 5
Coventry - 1 - -
B2C
England

B2C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (50.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) IaaS
1 1 (50.00%) PaaS
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Hudson
1 1 (50.00%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Senior SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) API Management
1 1 (50.00%) B2B
1 1 (50.00%) BPMN
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Cost Management
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Order to Cash
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Bicep
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) LogicMonitor
2 1 (50.00%) SAP