B2B Contracts with Work from Home Options

Business-to-Business (B2B)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 247 300 357
Rank change year-on-year +53 +57 -39
Contract jobs citing B2B 100 169 288
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.66% 0.67% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 0.75% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 105 187
10th Percentile £190 £370 £370
25th Percentile £437 £425 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.62% -4.55% +14.58%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £675
90th Percentile £675 £754 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -4.65% -6.52% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £23.00 £50.61
Median % change year-on-year - -54.55% -
UK median hourly rate £29.25 £44.00 £50.61
% change year-on-year -33.52% -13.06% +43.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,282 22,550 40,272
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.98% 89.75% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,890 15,929 29,247
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 574 522 532
10th Percentile £15.05 £18.63 £13.75
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £69.31 £55.38
90th Percentile £75.18 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

B2B
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing B2B as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

B2B trend for jobs with a WFH option

B2B
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing B2B.

B2B daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

B2B
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing B2B over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

B2B daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

B2B
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing B2B.

B2B hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

B2B
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.00%) CMS
3 2 (2.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (2.00%) Confluence
4 1 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (3.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.00%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.00%) InVision
3 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.00%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 8 (8.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (7.00%) Shopify
3 3 (3.00%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (2.00%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (2.00%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (1.00%) Magento
5 1 (1.00%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 24 (24.00%) Azure
2 12 (12.00%) AWS
2 12 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
2 12 (12.00%) SaaS
3 8 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (7.00%) PaaS
5 6 (6.00%) Entra ID
5 6 (6.00%) Power Platform
6 5 (5.00%) BigCommerce
6 5 (5.00%) Figma
6 5 (5.00%) GCP
6 5 (5.00%) Serverless
7 4 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (4.00%) IaaS
7 4 (4.00%) Mimecast
7 4 (4.00%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 4 (4.00%) Snowflake
8 3 (3.00%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (3.00%) GitHub
9 2 (2.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.00%) Firewall
2 2 (2.00%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (1.00%) 5G
3 1 (1.00%) FTP
3 1 (1.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.00%) Relational Database
2 4 (4.00%) MySQL
3 3 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.00%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.00%) Big Data
5 1 (1.00%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.00%) Metadata
5 1 (1.00%) NonStop SQL
5 1 (1.00%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (5.00%) Git
1 5 (5.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.00%) Maven
3 2 (2.00%) JIRA
3 2 (2.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (2.00%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.00%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.00%) GitLab
4 1 (1.00%) gulp
General
1 24 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 19 (19.00%) Marketing
3 8 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (8.00%) Manufacturing
3 8 (8.00%) Retail
4 7 (7.00%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (6.00%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (6.00%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (5.00%) Finance
7 4 (4.00%) French Language
8 3 (3.00%) Banking
9 2 (2.00%) Automotive
9 2 (2.00%) German Language
9 2 (2.00%) Health Technology
9 2 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.00%) Advertising
10 1 (1.00%) Legal
10 1 (1.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (20.00%) Architect
2 14 (14.00%) Developer
3 12 (12.00%) Senior
4 11 (11.00%) Analyst
5 7 (7.00%) Business Analyst
5 7 (7.00%) Salesforce Architect
5 7 (7.00%) Senior Manager
5 7 (7.00%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (6.00%) Designer
6 6 (6.00%) Desktop Support
6 6 (6.00%) Project Manager
7 5 (5.00%) Account Executive
7 5 (5.00%) Software Engineer
8 4 (4.00%) Business IT Analyst
8 4 (4.00%) Deskside Analyst
8 4 (4.00%) Deskside Support
8 4 (4.00%) DevOps Architect
8 4 (4.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 4 (4.00%) Product Manager
8 4 (4.00%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.00%) React
2 7 (7.00%) REST
3 6 (6.00%) Lightning Web Components
4 5 (5.00%) VML
5 4 (4.00%) .NET
5 4 (4.00%) RESTful
5 4 (4.00%) Web Services
6 3 (3.00%) .NET Framework
6 3 (3.00%) AngularJS
6 3 (3.00%) CSS
6 3 (3.00%) jQuery
6 3 (3.00%) Middleware
6 3 (3.00%) Node.js
6 3 (3.00%) Sass
7 2 (2.00%) Django
7 2 (2.00%) J2EE
7 2 (2.00%) OAuth
7 2 (2.00%) Spring
7 2 (2.00%) Spring MVC
7 2 (2.00%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.00%) Social Media
2 7 (7.00%) IoT
3 6 (6.00%) FMCG
4 5 (5.00%) Mobile App
5 4 (4.00%) Data Centre
5 4 (4.00%) Driving Licence
5 4 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (4.00%) EPoS
5 4 (4.00%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.00%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.00%) Contactless
6 2 (2.00%) Digital Wallet
6 2 (2.00%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (2.00%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.00%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.00%) IBM Mainframe
7 1 (1.00%) Infotainment
7 1 (1.00%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 15 (15.00%) Windows
2 3 (3.00%) Linux
3 2 (2.00%) Android
3 2 (2.00%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.00%) Unix
3 2 (2.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (20.00%) Agile
2 18 (18.00%) DevOps
3 16 (16.00%) B2C
4 15 (15.00%) CRM
5 12 (12.00%) E-Commerce
6 11 (11.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 11 (11.00%) User Experience
7 10 (10.00%) Business Analysis
7 10 (10.00%) ERP
8 9 (9.00%) Analytics
8 9 (9.00%) Project Delivery
8 9 (9.00%) Project Management
8 9 (9.00%) Roadmaps
9 8 (8.00%) Business Case
9 8 (8.00%) Migration
9 8 (8.00%) Waterfall
10 7 (7.00%) Data Integration
10 7 (7.00%) Scrum
10 7 (7.00%) Test Automation
10 7 (7.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 10 (10.00%) TypeScript
2 9 (9.00%) Python
3 7 (7.00%) JavaScript
4 6 (6.00%) Java
4 6 (6.00%) SQL
5 5 (5.00%) C#
6 4 (4.00%) Apex Code
7 3 (3.00%) Bash
7 3 (3.00%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.00%) PHP
9 1 (1.00%) Bicep
9 1 (1.00%) C++
9 1 (1.00%) Go
9 1 (1.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (4.00%) Azure Certification
1 4 (4.00%) TOGAF Certification
2 1 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (1.00%) Degree
2 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (1.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.00%) QA
1 8 (8.00%) SLA
2 7 (7.00%) GDPR
3 4 (4.00%) PCI DSS
3 4 (4.00%) PSD2
4 3 (3.00%) Data Quality
5 2 (2.00%) PMO
System Software
1 9 (9.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.00%) zsh
Systems Management
1 4 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (3.00%) Terraform
3 2 (2.00%) Ansible
4 1 (1.00%) CASB
4 1 (1.00%) HP Fortify
4 1 (1.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (20.00%) SAP
2 16 (16.00%) Salesforce
3 12 (12.00%) Microsoft
4 7 (7.00%) Google
5 6 (6.00%) Adobe
6 5 (5.00%) Sitecore
7 4 (4.00%) Citrix
8 2 (2.00%) Apple
8 2 (2.00%) CheckPoint
8 2 (2.00%) Dell
8 2 (2.00%) IBM
8 2 (2.00%) Intel
8 2 (2.00%) PayPal
8 2 (2.00%) Sophos
9 1 (1.00%) Ariba
9 1 (1.00%) Cognizant
9 1 (1.00%) HP
9 1 (1.00%) IBM Sterling
9 1 (1.00%) Okta
9 1 (1.00%) Pardot