B2C Contract Job Trends in the East of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring B2C skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 89 108
Rank change year-on-year -6 +19 +18
Contract jobs citing B2C 2 5 5
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.14% 0.36% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.44% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 5
10th Percentile £489 £250 £300
25th Percentile £509 £254 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £260 £430
Median % change year-on-year +116.35% -39.53% -4.44%
75th Percentile £609 £399 £488
90th Percentile £626 £482 £555
England median daily rate £511 £513 £625
% change year-on-year -0.24% -18.00% +8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,248 1,129 1,644
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.85% 80.76% 87.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 540 445 891
10th Percentile £198 £220 £225
25th Percentile £364 £315 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £563 £613
90th Percentile £682 £648 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 340 257 371
10th Percentile £14.23 £15.00 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.14 £27.67 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year -23.60% +39.68% -5.67%
75th Percentile £59.25 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £69.25 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -39.40% -6.74% +27.14%

B2C
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

B2C job vacancy trend in the East of England

B2C
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

B2C
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing B2C.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing B2C

B2C
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 B2C within the East of England region over the 6 months to 20 October 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
Hertfordshire -8 1 £500 -4.76%
Bedfordshire - 1 £625 - 2
B2C
England

B2C
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 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure AI
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Copilot Studio
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (50.00%) Blazor
1 1 (50.00%) Bootstrap
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) jQuery
1 1 (50.00%) KnockoutJS
1 1 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (50.00%) Tailwind CSS
1 1 (50.00%) TensorFlow
1 1 (50.00%) Vue
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) B2B
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Domain-Driven Design
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Feature Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) MLOps
2 1 (50.00%) MVVM
2 1 (50.00%) Prompt Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Foundry
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) OpenAI