B2B Contracts in Central London

Business-to-Business (B2B)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 115 105 148
Rank change year-on-year -10 +43 +11
Contract jobs citing B2B 14 28 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.70% 1.14% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 1.26% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 16 13
10th Percentile £217 £419 £291
25th Percentile £303 £448 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £531 £563
Median % change year-on-year +22.35% -5.56% -2.17%
75th Percentile £738 £628 £675
90th Percentile £985 £658 £695
London median daily rate £500 £528 £550
% change year-on-year -5.21% -4.09% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41.25 - -
Median hourly rate £42.50 - -
75th Percentile £43.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £45.50 £30.50 £44.00
% change year-on-year +49.18% -30.68% -20.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

B2B
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for B2B in Central London

B2B
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for B2B in Central London

B2B
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

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

Daily rate histogram for B2B in Central London

B2B
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for B2B in Central London

B2B
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing B2B within the Central London 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
City of London -5 13 £478 -10.33% 50
B2B
London

B2B
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) SaaS
2 1 (7.14%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Tableau
General
1 5 (35.71%) Marketing
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Telecoms
3 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.14%) Advertising
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Finance
4 1 (7.14%) French Language
4 1 (7.14%) German Language
4 1 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (14.29%) Analyst
1 2 (14.29%) Data Analyst
1 2 (14.29%) Digital Analyst
2 1 (7.14%) Applications Developer
2 1 (7.14%) Architect
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Specialist
2 1 (7.14%) Developer
2 1 (7.14%) Digital Product Owner
2 1 (7.14%) Head of Marketing
2 1 (7.14%) Junior
2 1 (7.14%) Junior Applications Developer
2 1 (7.14%) Junior Developer
2 1 (7.14%) Pensions Analyst
2 1 (7.14%) Product Analyst
2 1 (7.14%) Product Owner
2 1 (7.14%) Project Director
2 1 (7.14%) Project Leader
2 1 (7.14%) Salesforce Architect
2 1 (7.14%) Salesforce Solution Architect
2 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (7.14%) Visualforce
1 1 (7.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.14%) Digital Media
2 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.14%) Social Media
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) B2C
2 4 (28.57%) Agile
2 4 (28.57%) User Experience
2 4 (28.57%) User Research
2 4 (28.57%) UX Design
3 3 (21.43%) Acceptance Criteria
3 3 (21.43%) Analytics
3 3 (21.43%) Backlog Refinement
3 3 (21.43%) Business Development
3 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (21.43%) CRM
3 3 (21.43%) Customer Engagement
3 3 (21.43%) Product Strategy
3 3 (21.43%) Product Vision
3 3 (21.43%) Sprint Planning
3 3 (21.43%) Sprint Retrospective
3 3 (21.43%) User Stories
3 3 (21.43%) Validation
4 2 (14.29%) Campaign Management
4 2 (14.29%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Degree
1 1 (7.14%) TOGAF Certification
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Salesforce
2 1 (7.14%) Adobe
2 1 (7.14%) Axway
2 1 (7.14%) Google
2 1 (7.14%) webMethods