B2B Contracts in Chester

Business-to-Business (B2B)
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Chester 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 14 - 17
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing B2B 6 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Chester 8.82% - 4.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.96% - 5.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £268
25th Percentile - - £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £325
75th Percentile - - £450
90th Percentile - - £503
Cheshire median daily rate £457 £680 £425
% change year-on-year -32.87% +60.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Chester

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 Chester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 67 38 76
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester 98.53% 70.37% 89.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 18 43
10th Percentile £325 £266 £288
25th Percentile £405 £445 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £638 £400
Median % change year-on-year -13.73% +59.38% -7.51%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £525
90th Percentile £738 - £680
Cheshire median daily rate £455 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -9.05% +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 8 11
10th Percentile £19.00 - £23.15
25th Percentile £26.49 £41.25 £29.58
Median hourly rate £50.00 £42.50 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% +39.16% +77.48%
75th Percentile £86.00 £47.50 £35.00
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median hourly rate £35.20 £26.66 £30.54
% change year-on-year +32.03% -12.70% +29.96%

B2B
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

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

Job vacancy trend for B2B in Chester

B2B
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Chester

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

Daily rate trend for B2B in Chester

B2B
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Chester 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 5 (83.33%) Mattermost
1 5 (83.33%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (16.67%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) Skype
1 5 (83.33%) Softphone
1 5 (83.33%) Unified Communications
1 5 (83.33%) WebEx
2 1 (16.67%) BGP
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (16.67%) DMZ
2 1 (16.67%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) DWDM
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) Internet
2 1 (16.67%) IPsec
2 1 (16.67%) L2TP
2 1 (16.67%) MPLS
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security
2 1 (16.67%) SSL
2 1 (16.67%) VPN
2 1 (16.67%) WAN
2 1 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (16.67%) Wireless
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Messaging Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) Messaging Support
1 5 (83.33%) Messaging Support Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) Operations Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) Operations Support Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) Support Engineer
2 4 (66.67%) Analyst
2 4 (66.67%) Messaging Analyst
2 4 (66.67%) Messaging Support Analyst
2 4 (66.67%) Operational Support Analyst
2 4 (66.67%) Operations Analyst
2 4 (66.67%) Operations Support Analyst
2 4 (66.67%) Support Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Implementation Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Network Implementation Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) XMPP
2 1 (16.67%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) ITIL
1 5 (83.33%) Problem Management
1 5 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (83.33%) Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (16.67%) Architecture Roadmap
2 1 (16.67%) Change Management
2 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
2 1 (16.67%) Product Management
2 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
2 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
2 1 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (83.33%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Perl
3 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (16.67%) CCIE
2 1 (16.67%) CCNP
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) SCOM
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco
1 6 (100.00%) Splunk
2 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (83.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (16.67%) Arista
3 1 (16.67%) Fortinet
3 1 (16.67%) McAfee