B2B Contracts in Central London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with 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 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 103 154 165
Rank change year-on-year +51 +11 -33
Contract jobs citing B2B 29 29 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.18% 0.74% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.30% 0.81% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 14 32
10th Percentile £421 £300 £357
25th Percentile £469 £439 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £568 £588
Median % change year-on-year +1.32% -3.40% +30.56%
75th Percentile £639 £675 £650
90th Percentile £698 £805 £804
London median daily rate £575 £563 £600
% change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 advertised in Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,225 3,591 4,220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.23% 91.58% 91.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,579 2,423 3,243
10th Percentile £350 £325 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 32 40
10th Percentile £19.52 £15.61 £18.30
25th Percentile £22.25 £20.81 £23.44
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%
75th Percentile £36.50 £58.75 £52.00
90th Percentile £56.15 £87.84 £62.83
London median hourly rate £30.00 £38.88 £36.21
% change year-on-year -22.83% +7.37% +13.14%

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 18 April 2024.

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 18 April 2024. 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 +40 27 £575 +1.32% 16
West End of London +3 1 - - 1
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (10.34%) CMS
3 2 (6.90%) Apache Solr
3 2 (6.90%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (13.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (6.90%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (6.90%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (24.14%) Azure
2 6 (20.69%) Power Platform
3 5 (17.24%) Entra ID
3 5 (17.24%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (17.24%) Mimecast
4 4 (13.79%) IaaS
4 4 (13.79%) PaaS
5 3 (10.34%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 2 (6.90%) AWS
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon S3
7 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.45%) CloudFront
7 1 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (3.45%) Figma
7 1 (3.45%) GCP
7 1 (3.45%) SaaS
7 1 (3.45%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.24%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) Data Hub
1 1 (3.45%) Data Lake
1 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (3.45%) Power BI
1 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
General
1 7 (24.14%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.69%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (13.79%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (13.79%) Marketing
4 3 (10.34%) Finance
5 2 (6.90%) Banking
5 2 (6.90%) Publishing
6 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.45%) Front Office
6 1 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.45%) Law
6 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.45%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 9 (31.03%) Architect
2 6 (20.69%) Developer
3 4 (13.79%) Angular Developer
4 3 (10.34%) Analyst
4 3 (10.34%) Data Manager
4 3 (10.34%) Designer
4 3 (10.34%) Full Stack Developer
4 3 (10.34%) Integration Architect
4 3 (10.34%) Node.js Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 2 (6.90%) Lead Designer
5 2 (6.90%) Market Data Manager
5 2 (6.90%) Product Owner
5 2 (6.90%) Project Manager
5 2 (6.90%) Salesforce Architect
5 2 (6.90%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.90%) UI Designer
5 2 (6.90%) UI/UX Designer
5 2 (6.90%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.79%) AngularJS
2 2 (6.90%) Node.js
3 1 (3.45%) Ajax
3 1 (3.45%) HTML
3 1 (3.45%) J2EE
3 1 (3.45%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (3.45%) NestJS
3 1 (3.45%) React
3 1 (3.45%) React Native
3 1 (3.45%) REST
3 1 (3.45%) SOAP
3 1 (3.45%) Spring
3 1 (3.45%) Web Services
3 1 (3.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (24.14%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.90%) Mobile Payment
2 2 (6.90%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.90%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (3.45%) IoT
3 1 (3.45%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.45%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.24%) Windows
2 1 (3.45%) Android
2 1 (3.45%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (24.14%) Change Management
2 6 (20.69%) B2C
2 6 (20.69%) Migration
3 5 (17.24%) Agile
3 5 (17.24%) Data Migration
3 5 (17.24%) Fintech
3 5 (17.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (17.24%) ITIL
4 4 (13.79%) CRM
4 4 (13.79%) TOGAF
5 3 (10.34%) E-Commerce
5 3 (10.34%) Front End Development
5 3 (10.34%) Full Stack Development
5 3 (10.34%) Product Management
5 3 (10.34%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (6.90%) Cloud Security
6 2 (6.90%) Service Catalogue
6 2 (6.90%) Target Operating Model
6 2 (6.90%) User Research
6 2 (6.90%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.24%) TypeScript
2 2 (6.90%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.45%) Apex Code
3 1 (3.45%) Java
3 1 (3.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (17.24%) Azure Certification
2 4 (13.79%) TOGAF Certification
3 2 (6.90%) CCNA
3 2 (6.90%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (6.90%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) SEPA
2 1 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 5 (17.24%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (17.24%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (31.03%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.79%) Citrix
2 4 (13.79%) SAP
3 3 (10.34%) Salesforce
4 2 (6.90%) Arista
4 2 (6.90%) Bloomberg
4 2 (6.90%) BT
4 2 (6.90%) Cisco
4 2 (6.90%) Radianz
4 2 (6.90%) Refinitiv
4 2 (6.90%) Reuters
4 2 (6.90%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.45%) Google
5 1 (3.45%) Pardot