B2C Contracts in Berkshire

B2C (Business-to-Consumer)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring B2C skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited B2C over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 99 77
Rank change year-on-year +22 -22 +36
Contract jobs citing B2C 15 22 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.30% 1.14% 1.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 1.28% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 25
10th Percentile - £501 -
25th Percentile £625 £506 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year +20.93% -10.42% +11.63%
75th Percentile £688 £581 £706
90th Percentile - £668 £750
South East median daily rate £625 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +19.05% -12.50% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

B2C 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 1,074 1,721 1,568
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 92.83% 88.89% 90.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 627 904 1,007
10th Percentile £304 £213 £350
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £509 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.77% -3.05% +5.00%
75th Percentile £610 £608 £625
90th Percentile £675 £675 £702
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £510
% change year-on-year -0.15% -1.81% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 101 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £18.50 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.25 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.00 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year +0.81% +5.50% +174.99%
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 £49.50
% change year-on-year -41.05% -4.04% +130.23%

B2C
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing B2C as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for B2C in Berkshire

B2C
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing B2C in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for B2C in Berkshire

B2C
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 B2C within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 12 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 +37 13 £650 +25.30% 6
B2C
South East

B2C
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) Azure
1 5 (33.33%) Azure API Management
1 5 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
1 5 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) SMS
2 2 (13.33%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (20.00%) SSDT
General
1 8 (53.33%) Marketing
1 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (46.67%) Legal
3 6 (40.00%) Telecoms
4 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (20.00%) Law
5 1 (6.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Data Protection Officer
3 3 (20.00%) Communications Specialist
4 2 (13.33%) Lead
4 2 (13.33%) Lead DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior
5 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) OAuth
2 3 (20.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Data Protection
2 5 (33.33%) B2B
2 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 5 (33.33%) Data Privacy
2 5 (33.33%) DevOps
2 5 (33.33%) ETL
2 5 (33.33%) Identity Management
2 5 (33.33%) Impact Assessments
2 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (33.33%) RBAC
2 5 (33.33%) Release Management
3 4 (26.67%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (26.67%) Data Loss Prevention
4 3 (20.00%) Copywriting
4 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (20.00%) Secure Coding
5 2 (13.33%) Customer Experience
5 2 (13.33%) Innovative Thinking
5 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 5 (33.33%) ISEB
2 2 (13.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Terraform
2 3 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) UiPath