B2B Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Business-to-Business (B2B)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring B2B skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 83 104
Rank change year-on-year -17 +21 +23
Contract jobs citing B2B 5 6 9
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.32% 0.48% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.59% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 7
10th Percentile - £250 £313
25th Percentile £613 £254 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £260 £450
Median % change year-on-year +140.38% -42.22% +5.88%
75th Percentile £638 £349 £513
90th Percentile - £402 £563
England median daily rate £475 £435 £566
% change year-on-year +9.20% -23.18% -1.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,337 1,022 1,560
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 85.43% 82.42% 88.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 556 415 834
10th Percentile £185 £241 £239
25th Percentile £363 £325 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £454 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.13% -9.20% -
75th Percentile £580 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £708
England median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 402 214 366
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.51 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.28 £15.62 £14.54
Median hourly rate £21.50 £27.59 £21.39
Median % change year-on-year -22.06% +28.99% +1.83%
75th Percentile £63.94 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.00 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.85%

B2B
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

B2B job vacancy trend in the East of England

B2B
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing B2B.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing B2B

B2B
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing B2B.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing B2B

B2B
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing B2B within the East of England region over the 6 months to 3 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
Bedfordshire - 5 £625 - 4
B2B
England

B2B
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 5 (100.00%) Copilot Studio
1 5 (100.00%) GCP
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft Copilot
1 5 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 5 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 5 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 5 (100.00%) REST
1 5 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 5 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) AI
1 5 (100.00%) Analytics
1 5 (100.00%) API Development
1 5 (100.00%) B2C
1 5 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 5 (100.00%) Data Science
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Feature Engineering
1 5 (100.00%) LLM
1 5 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 5 (100.00%) Microservices
1 5 (100.00%) MLOps
1 5 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 5 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Foundry
1 5 (100.00%) Google
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (100.00%) OpenAI