B2C Contracts with Work from Home Options

B2C (Business-to-Consumer)
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 B2C skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited B2C over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 256 343 423
Rank change year-on-year +87 +80 -45
Contract jobs citing B2C 85 125 201
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.56% 0.50% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.56% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 83 143
10th Percentile £408 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £453 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £676
90th Percentile £725 £699 £838
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 £65.49
% change year-on-year - -46.55% +45.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,268 22,513 39,948
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.01% 89.73% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,896 15,904 28,997
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 573 519 530
10th Percentile £15.03 £18.63 £13.73
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.06
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.63
90th Percentile £75.20 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

B2C
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing B2C as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

B2C trend for jobs with a WFH option

B2C
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 B2C.

B2C daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

B2C
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing B2C over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

B2C daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

B2C
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 B2C.

B2C hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

B2C
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 9 (10.59%) CMS
2 6 (7.06%) Confluence
3 1 (1.18%) Drupal
3 1 (1.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (4.71%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (4.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (4.71%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (4.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.35%) SAP Hybris
2 2 (2.35%) Shopify
3 1 (1.18%) Magento
3 1 (1.18%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 39 (45.88%) Azure
2 30 (35.29%) Entra ID
3 29 (34.12%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (11.76%) PaaS
5 8 (9.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 7 (8.24%) IaaS
7 6 (7.06%) Azure API Management
7 6 (7.06%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (7.06%) Azure Key Vault
7 6 (7.06%) Azure Logic Apps
7 6 (7.06%) Azure Monitor
7 6 (7.06%) Azure Service Bus
7 6 (7.06%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (7.06%) Serverless
8 5 (5.88%) Azure Functions
8 5 (5.88%) SaaS
9 3 (3.53%) GCP
9 3 (3.53%) GitHub
10 2 (2.35%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
10 2 (2.35%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.71%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (1.18%) DNS
2 1 (1.18%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (28.24%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (5.88%) Redis
3 4 (4.71%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.18%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.18%) MySQL
5 1 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (12.94%) JIRA
2 9 (10.59%) Visual Studio
3 6 (7.06%) Git
4 4 (4.71%) Jenkins
4 4 (4.71%) Selenium
4 4 (4.71%) SpecFlow
4 4 (4.71%) TeamCity
4 4 (4.71%) WebDriver
5 1 (1.18%) WiX
General
1 23 (27.06%) Social Skills
2 18 (21.18%) Marketing
3 7 (8.24%) Retail
4 5 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.71%) French Language
5 4 (4.71%) Front Office
5 4 (4.71%) German Language
6 3 (3.53%) Finance
6 3 (3.53%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.35%) Back Office
7 2 (2.35%) Billing
7 2 (2.35%) Health Technology
7 2 (2.35%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.35%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.18%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 29 (34.12%) Developer
2 19 (22.35%) Senior
3 14 (16.47%) Analyst
3 14 (16.47%) Azure Developer
3 14 (16.47%) Senior Developer
4 11 (12.94%) Backend Developer
5 10 (11.76%) Architect
6 9 (10.59%) Senior Backend Developer
7 8 (9.41%) Business Analyst
7 8 (9.41%) Software Developer
8 7 (8.24%) C# Developer
8 7 (8.24%) Project Manager
9 6 (7.06%) Consultant
10 5 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (5.88%) Technical Architect
11 4 (4.71%) Credit Analyst
11 4 (4.71%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
11 4 (4.71%) Senior Analyst
11 4 (4.71%) Senior C# Developer
11 4 (4.71%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (35.29%) .NET
2 27 (31.76%) XML
3 14 (16.47%) AngularJS
4 13 (15.29%) REST
5 12 (14.12%) .NET Core
6 9 (10.59%) OAuth
6 9 (10.59%) OpenID
7 8 (9.41%) .NET Framework
7 8 (9.41%) ARM Templates
7 8 (9.41%) React
8 6 (7.06%) CSS
8 6 (7.06%) HTML
8 6 (7.06%) Microsoft Graph
8 6 (7.06%) SAML
9 5 (5.88%) SOAP
10 4 (4.71%) ASP.NET
10 4 (4.71%) ASP.NET Core
10 4 (4.71%) FIX Protocol
10 4 (4.71%) JSON
11 3 (3.53%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.94%) Mobile App
1 11 (12.94%) Video\Live Streaming
2 10 (11.76%) Product Ownership
3 8 (9.41%) Over-the-Top Content
4 4 (4.71%) Derivative
4 4 (4.71%) Fixed Income
5 3 (3.53%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.35%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.18%) Contactless
7 1 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.18%) Mobile Payment
7 1 (1.18%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (42.35%) Agile
2 32 (37.65%) Scrum
3 29 (34.12%) DevOps
4 27 (31.76%) CI/CD
5 16 (18.82%) B2B
6 14 (16.47%) User Experience
7 13 (15.29%) SDLC
8 11 (12.94%) E-Commerce
8 11 (12.94%) Project Management
9 9 (10.59%) Test Automation
10 8 (9.41%) Business Analysis
10 8 (9.41%) Content Management
10 8 (9.41%) Digital Marketing
10 8 (9.41%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (9.41%) Performance Metrics
10 8 (9.41%) Project Delivery
11 7 (8.24%) CRM
11 7 (8.24%) Software Engineering
12 5 (5.88%) SEO
12 5 (5.88%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 27 (31.76%) C#
2 26 (30.59%) PowerShell
3 17 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 14 (16.47%) SQL
5 13 (15.29%) Bicep
6 7 (8.24%) Java
6 7 (8.24%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.53%) Bash
8 1 (1.18%) C++
8 1 (1.18%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (5.88%) Degree
2 2 (2.35%) SC Cleared
2 2 (2.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.71%) PMO
1 4 (4.71%) QA
2 3 (3.53%) GDPR
3 1 (1.18%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 23 (27.06%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.53%) zsh
3 2 (2.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.71%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (2.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (2.35%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.18%) Ansible
3 1 (1.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.06%) MuleSoft
3 4 (4.71%) Bloomberg
3 4 (4.71%) ION Trading
3 4 (4.71%) MarketAxess
3 4 (4.71%) Tradeweb
4 3 (3.53%) Google
4 3 (3.53%) SAP
5 2 (2.35%) Okta
5 2 (2.35%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.18%) BMC
6 1 (1.18%) CA
6 1 (1.18%) Databricks
6 1 (1.18%) IBM
6 1 (1.18%) Novell
6 1 (1.18%) OneTrust
6 1 (1.18%) Remedy
6 1 (1.18%) ServiceNow