B2B Contracts in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 100 153
Rank change year-on-year -7 +53 +7
Contract jobs citing B2B 15 25 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.85% 1.15% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 1.27% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 15 10
10th Percentile £210 £418 £354
25th Percentile £286 £456 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £305 £533 £531
Median % change year-on-year -42.72% +0.24% -1.16%
75th Percentile £675 £631 £652
90th Percentile £713 £661 £678
Central London median daily rate £478 £531 £531
% change year-on-year -10.12% - -7.61%
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 - - -
Central London median hourly rate £42.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,638 1,975 3,332
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.28% 90.51% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,036 1,399 2,240
10th Percentile £363 £361 £356
25th Percentile £463 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £568 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.32% -5.42% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £813 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 25
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.35
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -13.58%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -13.58%

B2B
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for B2B in the City of London

B2B
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing B2B in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for B2B in the City of London

B2B
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing B2B in the City of London over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for B2B in the City of London

B2B
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing B2B in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for B2B in the City of London

B2B
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (6.67%) SPSS
2 1 (6.67%) Stata
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) SaaS
2 2 (13.33%) GCP
3 1 (6.67%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Tableau
General
1 6 (40.00%) Marketing
2 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Telecoms
4 2 (13.33%) Finance
4 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (6.67%) Advertising
5 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (6.67%) French Language
5 1 (6.67%) Games
5 1 (6.67%) German Language
5 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (13.33%) Analyst
1 2 (13.33%) Data Analyst
1 2 (13.33%) Digital Analyst
2 1 (6.67%) Applications Developer
2 1 (6.67%) Architect
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Specialist
2 1 (6.67%) Data Product Analyst
2 1 (6.67%) Developer
2 1 (6.67%) Digital Product Owner
2 1 (6.67%) Head of Marketing
2 1 (6.67%) Junior
2 1 (6.67%) Junior Developer
2 1 (6.67%) Pensions Analyst
2 1 (6.67%) Product Analyst
2 1 (6.67%) Product Designer
2 1 (6.67%) Salesforce Solution Architect
2 1 (6.67%) Senior
2 1 (6.67%) Senior Manager
2 1 (6.67%) Senior Marketing Manager
2 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (6.67%) Unity (Game Engine)
1 1 (6.67%) Unreal Engine
1 1 (6.67%) Visualforce
1 1 (6.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Digital Media
1 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
1 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
1 1 (6.67%) Social Media
1 1 (6.67%) Virtual Reality
1 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) B2C
1 5 (33.33%) User Experience
2 4 (26.67%) Agile
2 4 (26.67%) CRM
2 4 (26.67%) User Research
2 4 (26.67%) UX Design
3 3 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 3 (20.00%) Analytics
3 3 (20.00%) Backlog Refinement
3 3 (20.00%) Business Development
3 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (20.00%) Customer Engagement
3 3 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
3 3 (20.00%) Product Strategy
3 3 (20.00%) Product Vision
3 3 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
3 3 (20.00%) Sprint Retrospective
3 3 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 3 (20.00%) User Stories
3 3 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) Apex Code
1 1 (6.67%) R
1 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
1 1 (6.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Actionable Recommendations
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Salesforce
2 2 (13.33%) Adobe
2 2 (13.33%) Google
3 1 (6.67%) Axway
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) webMethods