B2B Contracts in Berkshire

Business-to-Business (B2B)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring B2B skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited B2B over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 86 77
Rank change year-on-year +9 -9 +28
Contract jobs citing B2B 16 38 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.36% 1.92% 2.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.46% 2.15% 2.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 27 26
10th Percentile £193 £121 £406
25th Percentile £200 £313 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £513 £563
Median % change year-on-year -1.76% -8.89% +3.21%
75th Percentile £675 £519 £675
90th Percentile £688 - £750
South East median daily rate £504 £513 £563
% change year-on-year -1.76% -8.89% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £29.00 - -
South East median hourly rate £29.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

B2B falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,096 1,764 1,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.44% 88.91% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 918 1,053
10th Percentile £313 £213 £341
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £615 £608 £626
90th Percentile £675 £675 £711
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 101 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £20.17 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.75 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

B2B
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for B2B in Berkshire

B2B
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for B2B in Berkshire

B2B
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing B2B in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for B2B in Berkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for B2B in Berkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing B2B within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Reading +22 15 £504 -1.76% 43
B2B
South East

B2B
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 2 (12.50%) Appian
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) Azure
1 5 (31.25%) Azure API Management
1 5 (31.25%) Azure Monitor
1 5 (31.25%) Entra ID
2 4 (25.00%) SaaS
3 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
2 3 (18.75%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 6 (37.50%) Billing
2 5 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Telecoms
3 4 (25.00%) Dutch Language
4 1 (6.25%) Back Office
4 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Product Owner
3 2 (12.50%) Lead
3 2 (12.50%) Lead DevOps
3 2 (12.50%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Supply Chain Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Supply Chain Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) OAuth
2 3 (18.75%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (18.75%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) CI/CD
2 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (31.25%) B2C
3 5 (31.25%) Containerisation
3 5 (31.25%) Customer Retention
3 5 (31.25%) DevOps
3 5 (31.25%) ETL
3 5 (31.25%) Identity Management
3 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (31.25%) RBAC
3 5 (31.25%) Release Management
4 4 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
4 4 (25.00%) Roadmaps
5 3 (18.75%) Secure Coding
5 3 (18.75%) Time Management
6 2 (12.50%) Lean Six Sigma
6 2 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (12.50%) Telematics
6 2 (12.50%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Azure Certification
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Terraform
2 3 (18.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Salesforce
1 5 (31.25%) SAP
2 3 (18.75%) UiPath
3 2 (12.50%) Blue Prism
3 2 (12.50%) Cisco
3 2 (12.50%) Nokia
3 2 (12.50%) Rakuten