B2B Contract Job Trends in Central London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring B2B skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 122 107
Rank change year-on-year +8 -15 +56
Contract jobs citing B2B 20 9 38
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.99% 0.38% 1.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 0.42% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 5 28
10th Percentile £313 £279 £411
25th Percentile £448 £303 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £504
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -15.63% -16.25%
75th Percentile £699 £569 £688
90th Percentile £770 £633 -
London median daily rate £445 £430 £575
% change year-on-year +3.49% -25.22% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.25
Median hourly rate - - £46.50
75th Percentile - - £46.75
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £37.50 £31.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +20.97% -31.11% +10.43%

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 1,827 2,157 2,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.54% 92.22% 89.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,276 1,351 1,714
10th Percentile £343 £363 £357
25th Percentile £425 £465 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £676 £688
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
London median daily rate £527 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.18% -2.22% -4.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 27 16
10th Percentile £19.90 £18.34 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.31 £28.32 £18.93
Median hourly rate £26.31 £35.00 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year -24.84% +30.84% -35.93%
75th Percentile £37.44 £52.50 £51.31
90th Percentile £51.88 £112.00 £69.38
London median hourly rate £30.25 £36.50 £33.35
% change year-on-year -17.12% +9.46% -13.52%

B2B
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing B2B relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

B2B job vacancy trend in Central London

B2B
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing B2B.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing B2B

B2B
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing B2B in Central London over the 6 months to 24 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for B2B in Central London

B2B
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing B2B.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing B2B

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 24 December 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 +8 19 £513 +3.80% 158
West End of London - 1 £773 - 7
City of Westminster - 1 £773 - 2
B2B
London

B2B
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.00%) Appian
2 1 (5.00%) CMS
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.00%) Smallworld
Business Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (20.00%) AWS
2 2 (10.00%) Amazon EventBridge
2 2 (10.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (10.00%) AWS Step Functions
2 2 (10.00%) Azure
2 2 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (10.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (10.00%) GCP
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (10.00%) Serverless
2 2 (10.00%) Textract
3 1 (5.00%) Figma
3 1 (5.00%) Google Analytics
3 1 (5.00%) OneDrive
3 1 (5.00%) Power Automate
3 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.00%) PowerApps
3 1 (5.00%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Extranet
1 1 (5.00%) IP Telephony
1 1 (5.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (10.00%) CockroachDB
1 2 (10.00%) DynamoDB
1 2 (10.00%) Metadata
2 1 (5.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (5.00%) GitLab
2 1 (5.00%) Robot Framework
2 1 (5.00%) Selenium
2 1 (5.00%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (30.00%) Finance
2 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (20.00%) Marketing
4 2 (10.00%) Banking
5 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Developer
1 4 (20.00%) Senior
1 4 (20.00%) Senior Manager
2 3 (15.00%) Delivery Manager
2 3 (15.00%) webMethods Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Administrator
3 2 (10.00%) CRM Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Marketing Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Delivery Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Marketing Manager
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Designer
4 1 (5.00%) Head of Engineering
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Product Designer
4 1 (5.00%) Sales Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Site Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) REST
2 3 (15.00%) Web Services
3 2 (10.00%) boto
3 2 (10.00%) HTML
3 2 (10.00%) NumPy
3 2 (10.00%) Pandas
4 1 (5.00%) Jinja
4 1 (5.00%) JSON
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (5.00%) NETCONF
4 1 (5.00%) OAuth
4 1 (5.00%) OpenID
4 1 (5.00%) PySpark
4 1 (5.00%) RESTful
4 1 (5.00%) SAML
4 1 (5.00%) SOAP
4 1 (5.00%) SPFx
4 1 (5.00%) Spring
4 1 (5.00%) XML
4 1 (5.00%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (10.00%) Onboarding
1 2 (10.00%) Web Conferencing
2 1 (5.00%) Derivative
2 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.00%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (5.00%) Video Editing
2 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Mac OS X
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
1 1 (5.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (20.00%) Business Case
1 4 (20.00%) CRM
1 4 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
1 4 (20.00%) Migration
1 4 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 3 (15.00%) API Management
2 3 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (15.00%) Data Integration
2 3 (15.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (15.00%) E-Commerce
2 3 (15.00%) Lead Generation
2 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (15.00%) Project Management
2 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (10.00%) B2B Marketing
3 2 (10.00%) Fintech
3 2 (10.00%) Integrated Marketing
3 2 (10.00%) Semantic Search
3 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) Python
2 3 (15.00%) SQL
3 1 (5.00%) Java
3 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.00%) Adobe
2 3 (15.00%) Axway
2 3 (15.00%) Google
2 3 (15.00%) webMethods
3 2 (10.00%) Salesforce
3 2 (10.00%) SAP
4 1 (5.00%) Bloomberg
4 1 (5.00%) Cisco
4 1 (5.00%) IBM
4 1 (5.00%) ION Trading
4 1 (5.00%) Tradeweb
4 1 (5.00%) Veracode