B2C Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

B2C (Business-to-Consumer)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring B2C skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 68 60
Rank change year-on-year -10 -8 -
Contract jobs citing B2C 9 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.72% 0.13% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 0.15% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 3
10th Percentile £506 - -
25th Percentile £560 £538 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +22.22% -
75th Percentile £588 £563 £538
90th Percentile £595 - £560
England median daily rate £550 £510 £500
% change year-on-year +7.84% +2.00% -16.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

B2C 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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 932 646 610
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 74.50% 85.34% 81.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 454 446 411
10th Percentile £253 £240 £270
25th Percentile £400 £333 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £405 £450
Median % change year-on-year +19.26% -10.00% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £575
90th Percentile £654 £625 £625
England median daily rate £525 £511 £525
% change year-on-year +2.74% -2.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 59 36
10th Percentile £13.04 £15.12 £12.75
25th Percentile £14.33 £17.87 £14.91
Median hourly rate £17.87 £18.87 £19.16
Median % change year-on-year -5.30% -1.51% -39.67%
75th Percentile £27.18 £25.15 £44.19
90th Percentile £36.99 - £50.36
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

B2C
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing B2C relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

B2C job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

B2C
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing B2C.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing B2C

B2C
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing B2C in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 25 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for B2C in the East Midlands

B2C
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing B2C within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 August 2026. 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
Nottinghamshire -12 7 £575 +4.55%
Derbyshire - 1 £413 - 1
Lincolnshire - 1 £538 - 1
B2C
England

B2C
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
1 2 (22.22%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure API Management
2 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Functions
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
2 1 (11.11%) Power Automate
2 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Git
General
1 2 (22.22%) Retail
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Architect
1 8 (88.89%) Salesforce Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Functional Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Backend Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Node.js
1 2 (22.22%) REST
2 1 (11.11%) .NET
2 1 (11.11%) ARM Templates
2 1 (11.11%) OAuth
2 1 (11.11%) OAuth2
2 1 (11.11%) OpenID
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Roadmaps
1 6 (66.67%) Workshop Facilitation
2 5 (55.56%) Agile
2 5 (55.56%) Enterprise Architecture
2 5 (55.56%) Order Management
2 5 (55.56%) Product Vision
2 5 (55.56%) User Experience
3 3 (33.33%) Architecture Governance
3 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 3 (33.33%) UX Design
4 2 (22.22%) Architecture Roadmap
4 2 (22.22%) High Availability
4 2 (22.22%) Logistics
4 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
4 2 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (22.22%) Secure Coding
4 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (22.22%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
2 1 (11.11%) Apex Code
2 1 (11.11%) Bicep
2 1 (11.11%) C#
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) GDPR
1 2 (22.22%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Salesforce
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud