B2B Contract Job Trends in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring B2B skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 112 110
Rank change year-on-year +12 -2 +42
Contract jobs citing B2B 19 7 25
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.03% 0.34% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 0.37% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 4 15
10th Percentile £313 £339 £403
25th Percentile £432 £394 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £494 £513
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% -3.66% -14.58%
75th Percentile £677 £595 £620
90th Percentile £737 £643 £710
Central London median daily rate £525 £425 £504
% change year-on-year +23.53% -15.63% -16.25%
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 - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £46.50

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 1,663 1,899 2,229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.48% 92.18% 89.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,170 1,159 1,591
10th Percentile £340 £363 £363
25th Percentile £419 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% - -0.92%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £760 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 15 10
10th Percentile £19.98 £15.80 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.66 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £27.75 £42.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.71% +61.90% -38.95%
75th Percentile £41.80 £102.25 £44.56
90th Percentile £50.63 £127.30 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -25.40% +30.84% -35.93%

B2B
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

B2B job vacancy trend in the City of London

B2B
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing B2B.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing B2B

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 25 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for B2B in the City of London

B2B
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing B2B.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing B2B

B2B
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 (10.53%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.26%) CMS
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.26%) Smallworld
Business Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) AWS
2 2 (10.53%) Amazon EventBridge
2 2 (10.53%) Amazon S3
2 2 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (10.53%) AWS Step Functions
2 2 (10.53%) Azure
2 2 (10.53%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (10.53%) Entra ID
2 2 (10.53%) GCP
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (10.53%) Serverless
2 2 (10.53%) Textract
3 1 (5.26%) Figma
3 1 (5.26%) Google Analytics
3 1 (5.26%) OneDrive
3 1 (5.26%) Power Automate
3 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.26%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) Extranet
1 1 (5.26%) IP Telephony
1 1 (5.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (10.53%) CockroachDB
1 2 (10.53%) DynamoDB
1 2 (10.53%) Metadata
2 1 (5.26%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) JIRA
General
1 6 (31.58%) Finance
2 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 4 (21.05%) Marketing
4 2 (10.53%) Banking
5 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (21.05%) Developer
1 4 (21.05%) Senior
1 4 (21.05%) Senior Manager
2 3 (15.79%) Delivery Manager
2 3 (15.79%) webMethods Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Administrator
3 2 (10.53%) CRM Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Data Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Marketing Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Senior Delivery Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Senior Marketing Manager
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Data Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Designer
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) Product Designer
4 1 (5.26%) Sales Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Site Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) REST
2 3 (15.79%) Web Services
3 2 (10.53%) boto
3 2 (10.53%) HTML
3 2 (10.53%) NumPy
3 2 (10.53%) Pandas
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (5.26%) OAuth
4 1 (5.26%) OpenID
4 1 (5.26%) PySpark
4 1 (5.26%) RESTful
4 1 (5.26%) SAML
4 1 (5.26%) SOAP
4 1 (5.26%) SPFx
4 1 (5.26%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Data Structures
1 2 (10.53%) Onboarding
1 2 (10.53%) Web Conferencing
2 1 (5.26%) Derivative
2 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.26%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (5.26%) Video Editing
2 1 (5.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Mac OS X
1 1 (5.26%) Windows
1 1 (5.26%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (21.05%) Business Case
1 4 (21.05%) CRM
1 4 (21.05%) Integration Patterns
1 4 (21.05%) Migration
2 3 (15.79%) API Management
2 3 (15.79%) Data Integration
2 3 (15.79%) E-Commerce
2 3 (15.79%) Lead Generation
2 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (15.79%) Project Management
2 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (15.79%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (10.53%) B2B Marketing
3 2 (10.53%) Business Strategy
3 2 (10.53%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (10.53%) Decision-Making
3 2 (10.53%) Event-Driven
3 2 (10.53%) Integrated Marketing
3 2 (10.53%) Semantic Search
3 2 (10.53%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.79%) Python
1 3 (15.79%) SQL
2 1 (5.26%) Java
2 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
1 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Data Quality
1 2 (10.53%) QA
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.79%) Adobe
2 3 (15.79%) Axway
2 3 (15.79%) Google
2 3 (15.79%) webMethods
3 2 (10.53%) Salesforce
3 2 (10.53%) SAP
4 1 (5.26%) Bloomberg
4 1 (5.26%) IBM
4 1 (5.26%) ION Trading
4 1 (5.26%) Tradeweb