B2B Contracts in England

Business-to-Business (B2B)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for B2B skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited B2B over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 298 360 407
Rank change year-on-year +62 +47 -44
Contract jobs citing B2B 262 318 433
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.71% 0.65% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 0.72% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 201 291
10th Percentile £219 £374 £400
25th Percentile £414 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -6.52% +15.00%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £700
90th Percentile £675 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -4.65% -6.52% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 6
10th Percentile £12.87 £31.40 £25.38
25th Percentile £15.23 - £41.50
Median hourly rate £30.50 £44.00 £48.56
Median % change year-on-year -30.68% -9.38% +37.74%
75th Percentile £48.75 - £58.97
90th Percentile £68.75 £48.80 £64.63
UK median hourly rate £29.25 £44.00 £48.56
% change year-on-year -33.52% -9.38% +37.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

B2B is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,802 44,352 63,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.49% 90.16% 90.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,831 31,133 45,414
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £446 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 1,562 1,738
10th Percentile £12.91 £10.64 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.18 £37.32 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% +49.28% +6.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

B2B
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing B2B as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for B2B in England

B2B
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing B2B in England.

Daily rate trend for B2B in England

B2B
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing B2B in England over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for B2B in England

B2B
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing B2B in England.

Hourly rate trend for B2B in England

B2B
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing B2B in England over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for B2B in England

B2B
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 12 May 2024. 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
London +68 149 £533 -5.33% 313
South East +7 59 £513 -8.89% 124
North of England +13 21 £400 -20.00% 142
East of England +21 16 £500 +25.94% 39
North West +11 14 £538 +7.50% 90
Midlands +25 4 £238 -45.71% 71
West Midlands +15 4 £238 -44.77% 51
North East - 4 £190 - 10
Yorkshire +17 3 £432 -13.60% 43
South West +4 3 - - 50
B2B
UK

B2B
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (1.91%) CMS
2 4 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.15%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.76%) Anypoint
4 2 (0.76%) Confluence
5 1 (0.38%) Appian
5 1 (0.38%) SAS
Applications
1 11 (4.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.05%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.53%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 3 (1.15%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.76%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.76%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.76%) Sketch
7 1 (0.38%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.38%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.38%) Final Cut Pro
7 1 (0.38%) InDesign
7 1 (0.38%) InVision
7 1 (0.38%) Trello
Business Applications
1 26 (9.92%) Shopify
2 14 (5.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (4.20%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (1.91%) SAP CO
4 5 (1.91%) SAP FI
4 5 (1.91%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (1.15%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.76%) Magento
6 2 (0.76%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.76%) SAP Hybris
6 2 (0.76%) WebTrends
7 1 (0.38%) SAP CAR
Cloud Services
1 30 (11.45%) Azure
1 30 (11.45%) SaaS
2 26 (9.92%) BigCommerce
3 19 (7.25%) AWS
4 13 (4.96%) Power Platform
5 12 (4.58%) Figma
6 10 (3.82%) Dynamics 365
6 10 (3.82%) Entra ID
6 10 (3.82%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (3.44%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (3.44%) GCP
7 9 (3.44%) PaaS
8 6 (2.29%) GitHub
8 6 (2.29%) IaaS
8 6 (2.29%) Mimecast
8 6 (2.29%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 6 (2.29%) Serverless
9 5 (1.91%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (1.53%) Snowflake
10 4 (1.53%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 25 (9.54%) DMZ
2 10 (3.82%) Firewall
3 6 (2.29%) Radio Access Network
4 5 (1.91%) 5G
4 5 (1.91%) SMS
5 4 (1.53%) 3G
5 4 (1.53%) 4G
6 3 (1.15%) VoIP
6 3 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.76%) FTP
8 1 (0.38%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.05%) MySQL
2 7 (2.67%) Power BI
3 6 (2.29%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.15%) Data Lake
4 3 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.15%) Tableau
5 2 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.76%) Big Data
5 2 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.76%) DynamoDB
5 2 (0.76%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.76%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.38%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.38%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 8 (3.05%) Git
2 6 (2.29%) Maven
3 5 (1.91%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.15%) JIRA
5 2 (0.76%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.76%) Gradle
6 1 (0.38%) gulp
6 1 (0.38%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 75 (28.63%) Marketing
2 66 (25.19%) Social Skills
3 43 (16.41%) Finance
4 39 (14.89%) Retail
5 32 (12.21%) Banking
6 23 (8.78%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (4.96%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (4.20%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (3.82%) Telecoms
10 9 (3.44%) German Language
11 8 (3.05%) French Language
11 8 (3.05%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (3.05%) Manufacturing
12 7 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.91%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (1.53%) Advertising
14 4 (1.53%) Legal
15 3 (1.15%) Automotive
15 3 (1.15%) Brand Awareness
16 2 (0.76%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 46 (17.56%) Senior
2 36 (13.74%) Analyst
3 30 (11.45%) Architect
4 28 (10.69%) Network Engineer
5 25 (9.54%) Senior Network Engineer
6 24 (9.16%) Developer
7 17 (6.49%) Business Analyst
8 15 (5.73%) Designer
8 15 (5.73%) Product Manager
9 13 (4.96%) Consultant
9 13 (4.96%) Lead
10 12 (4.58%) Project Manager
11 11 (4.20%) Salesforce Architect
12 10 (3.82%) Senior Manager
13 9 (3.44%) UX Designer
14 8 (3.05%) Solutions Architect
15 7 (2.67%) Marketing Manager
15 7 (2.67%) Technical Analyst
15 7 (2.67%) Technical Business Analyst
16 6 (2.29%) Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (8.02%) VML
2 12 (4.58%) React
3 8 (3.05%) AngularJS
3 8 (3.05%) Lightning Web Components
3 8 (3.05%) REST
3 8 (3.05%) Web Services
4 7 (2.67%) CSS
4 7 (2.67%) Node.js
4 7 (2.67%) RESTful
5 5 (1.91%) HTML
5 5 (1.91%) jQuery
5 5 (1.91%) Spring
6 4 (1.53%) IDoc
6 4 (1.53%) Sass
6 4 (1.53%) XML
7 3 (1.15%) NestJS
7 3 (1.15%) OAuth
7 3 (1.15%) OpenID
7 3 (1.15%) Spring MVC
7 3 (1.15%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.58%) Social Media
2 11 (4.20%) Data Centre
2 11 (4.20%) Product Ownership
3 8 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (2.67%) FMCG
4 7 (2.67%) IoT
4 7 (2.67%) Management Information System
5 6 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (1.91%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.53%) Driving Licence
7 4 (1.53%) EPoS
7 4 (1.53%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.15%) Graphic Design
8 3 (1.15%) Marketing Technology
9 2 (0.76%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.76%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.76%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.38%) Biopharmaceutical
10 1 (0.38%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 16 (6.11%) Windows
2 4 (1.53%) Android
2 4 (1.53%) Linux
2 4 (1.53%) Unix
3 3 (1.15%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.76%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (15.65%) Agile
1 41 (15.65%) Migration
2 35 (13.36%) Problem-Solving
3 33 (12.60%) E-Commerce
4 30 (11.45%) B2C
4 30 (11.45%) User Experience
5 29 (11.07%) CRM
6 27 (10.31%) Customer Acquisition
7 22 (8.40%) Analytics
7 22 (8.40%) Roadmaps
8 21 (8.02%) DevOps
8 21 (8.02%) Project Delivery
8 21 (8.02%) Project Management
9 20 (7.63%) Technology Strategy
10 18 (6.87%) Customer Experience
11 16 (6.11%) ERP
11 16 (6.11%) Product Management
11 16 (6.11%) Stakeholder Management
11 16 (6.11%) Time Management
11 16 (6.11%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 18 (6.87%) TypeScript
2 14 (5.34%) SQL
3 12 (4.58%) JavaScript
4 10 (3.82%) Java
4 10 (3.82%) Python
5 6 (2.29%) C#
6 5 (1.91%) Apex Code
6 5 (1.91%) PHP
7 4 (1.53%) VBA
8 3 (1.15%) Bash
8 3 (1.15%) Objective-C
8 3 (1.15%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.76%) C
9 2 (0.76%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.76%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.76%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.76%) Swift
10 1 (0.38%) ABAP
10 1 (0.38%) C++
10 1 (0.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (10.31%) Cisco Certification
2 18 (6.87%) Degree
3 6 (2.29%) Azure Certification
3 6 (2.29%) SC Cleared
3 6 (2.29%) Security Cleared
4 5 (1.91%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (0.76%) CCNA
5 2 (0.76%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.76%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.76%) MBA
6 1 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.38%) CBAP
6 1 (0.38%) CSPO
6 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.38%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.82%) QA
2 9 (3.44%) SLA
3 3 (1.15%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.15%) GDPR
4 2 (0.76%) PMO
5 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.38%) GxP
System Software
1 11 (4.20%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.15%) zsh
3 2 (0.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (2.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (1.53%) Terraform
3 2 (0.76%) Ansible
4 1 (0.38%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 53 (20.23%) Salesforce
2 48 (18.32%) SAP
3 37 (14.12%) Microsoft
4 30 (11.45%) CheckPoint
4 30 (11.45%) Cisco
5 28 (10.69%) Adobe
6 27 (10.31%) Arista
7 26 (9.92%) Sitecore
8 12 (4.58%) Dell
8 12 (4.58%) Intel
9 11 (4.20%) Google
10 4 (1.53%) Apple
10 4 (1.53%) Citrix
10 4 (1.53%) FIS
10 4 (1.53%) Pardot
11 3 (1.15%) Aruba
11 3 (1.15%) F5
11 3 (1.15%) Meraki
11 3 (1.15%) MuleSoft
11 3 (1.15%) Optimizely