B2C Contract Job Trends in England

B2C (Business-to-Consumer)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring B2C skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 446 379 381
Rank change year-on-year -67 +2 +58
Contract jobs citing B2C 98 132 186
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.32% 0.45% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.51% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 65 132
10th Percentile £393 £248 £378
25th Percentile £463 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £613
Median % change year-on-year - -10.20% +6.52%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £704 £750 £701
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £22.50 £76.25
Median hourly rate - £25.00 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year - -67.74% +8.39%
75th Percentile - £27.50 £78.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £25.00 £77.50
% change year-on-year - -67.74% +8.39%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 27,657 25,687 33,367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.93% 88.34% 88.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,611 15,867 22,695
10th Percentile £300 £310 £313
25th Percentile £406 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £531
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.13% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,806 869 1,403
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.09
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%
75th Percentile £53.94 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.40 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.79
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.79% +25.12%

B2C
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

B2C job vacancy trend in England

B2C
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing B2C

B2C
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing B2C in England over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for B2C in England

B2C
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing B2C

B2C
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 B2C within the England region over the 6 months to 15 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
London -13 60 £588 +4.91% 33
North of England -30 13 £405 -10.00% 23
South East -53 13 £515 -17.60% 38
North West -16 8 £393 -12.67% 14
East of England -18 7 £625 +140.38% 13
Yorkshire - 5 £570 - 8
South West -6 3 £550 +27.54% 11
East Midlands -20 1 - - 8
Midlands -45 1 - - 19
B2C
UK

B2C
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (9.18%) CMS
2 3 (3.06%) Confluence
3 2 (2.04%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (2.04%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 3 (3.06%) Chatbot
2 2 (2.04%) Autodesk Smoke
3 1 (1.02%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (5.10%) Oracle Retail
2 4 (4.08%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (3.06%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (1.02%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (1.02%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (1.02%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 50 (51.02%) Azure
2 22 (22.45%) Entra ID
3 14 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (14.29%) Figma
4 12 (12.24%) AWS
4 12 (12.24%) GitHub
5 7 (7.14%) Azure API Management
5 7 (7.14%) GCP
5 7 (7.14%) Power Platform
5 7 (7.14%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
5 7 (7.14%) Serverless
6 6 (6.12%) Azure AI
6 6 (6.12%) Copilot Studio
6 6 (6.12%) Google Analytics
6 6 (6.12%) Microsoft Copilot
7 5 (5.10%) Contentful
7 5 (5.10%) SaaS
8 4 (4.08%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (4.08%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.04%) SSL
2 1 (1.02%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.02%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.12%) NoSQL
1 6 (6.12%) Power BI
2 2 (2.04%) MongoDB
2 2 (2.04%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.02%) MySQL
3 1 (1.02%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (11.22%) Storybook
2 7 (7.14%) Gradle
2 7 (7.14%) JIRA
2 7 (7.14%) Xcode
3 3 (3.06%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.02%) Git
General
1 33 (33.67%) Social Skills
2 21 (21.43%) Retail
3 18 (18.37%) Finance
3 18 (18.37%) Marketing
4 15 (15.31%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (4.08%) Legal
6 4 (4.08%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.06%) Billing
8 2 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.04%) Military
9 1 (1.02%) Automotive
9 1 (1.02%) Banking
9 1 (1.02%) Brand Awareness
9 1 (1.02%) German Language
9 1 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.02%) Law
9 1 (1.02%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (23.47%) Architect
2 15 (15.31%) Developer
3 9 (9.18%) Analyst
3 9 (9.18%) Business Analyst
3 9 (9.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (9.18%) Senior
3 9 (9.18%) Solutions Architect
4 8 (8.16%) Lead
5 7 (7.14%) React Developer
6 6 (6.12%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 6 (6.12%) Web Business Analyst
7 5 (5.10%) Active Directory Engineer
7 5 (5.10%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 5 (5.10%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (5.10%) Enterprise Architect
8 4 (4.08%) Cloud Architect
8 4 (4.08%) Salesforce Architect
8 4 (4.08%) Technical Leader
8 4 (4.08%) Web Analyst
9 3 (3.06%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (21.43%) OAuth
2 14 (14.29%) OpenID
2 14 (14.29%) REST
2 14 (14.29%) SAML
3 11 (11.22%) CSS
4 10 (10.20%) HTML
4 10 (10.20%) OAuth2
5 9 (9.18%) RESTful
6 7 (7.14%) D3.js
6 7 (7.14%) React Native
6 7 (7.14%) SVG
7 6 (6.12%) Next.js
7 6 (6.12%) Node.js
7 6 (6.12%) PyTorch
7 6 (6.12%) React
7 6 (6.12%) scikit-learn
7 6 (6.12%) TensorFlow
8 5 (5.10%) Bootstrap
8 5 (5.10%) GraphQL
8 5 (5.10%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.27%) Product Ownership
2 11 (11.22%) Mobile App
3 5 (5.10%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.10%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.06%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (3.06%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (3.06%) Low-Code
4 3 (3.06%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.06%) PMI
4 3 (3.06%) Social Media
5 2 (2.04%) Acoustics
5 2 (2.04%) BYOD
5 2 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.04%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.02%) IoT
6 1 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.02%) Video Editing
6 1 (1.02%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.14%) Android
1 7 (7.14%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.02%) Windows
2 1 (1.02%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (37.76%) B2B
2 33 (33.67%) DevOps
3 26 (26.53%) E-Commerce
4 24 (24.49%) Analytics
5 22 (22.45%) CI/CD
6 21 (21.43%) AI
7 20 (20.41%) Agile
8 19 (19.39%) User Experience
9 16 (16.33%) Identity Access Management
10 15 (15.31%) Identity Management
10 15 (15.31%) Microservices
11 13 (13.27%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (13.27%) Stakeholder Management
12 11 (11.22%) CRM
12 11 (11.22%) Multi-Factor Authentication
13 10 (10.20%) DevSecOps
13 10 (10.20%) Machine Learning
13 10 (10.20%) MLOps
13 10 (10.20%) RBAC
14 8 (8.16%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 14 (14.29%) Python
2 12 (12.24%) SQL
3 9 (9.18%) TypeScript
4 7 (7.14%) JavaScript
5 6 (6.12%) C#
5 6 (6.12%) Java
5 6 (6.12%) PowerShell
6 3 (3.06%) Bash
6 3 (3.06%) PHP
7 2 (2.04%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 5 (5.10%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.08%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.06%) PMI Certification
4 2 (2.04%) CISSP
4 2 (2.04%) Degree
4 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.22%) Accessibility
2 5 (5.10%) GDPR
3 4 (4.08%) Data Quality
4 3 (3.06%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (2.04%) HIPAA
5 2 (2.04%) PCI DSS
5 2 (2.04%) QA
5 2 (2.04%) SOC 2
6 1 (1.02%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.02%) NCSC
6 1 (1.02%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 6 (6.12%) Docker
3 1 (1.02%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (8.16%) Terraform
2 6 (6.12%) Kubernetes
2 6 (6.12%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (3.06%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (1.02%) Grafana
Vendors
1 33 (33.67%) Microsoft
2 13 (13.27%) Google
3 11 (11.22%) Salesforce
4 8 (8.16%) Oracle
4 8 (8.16%) SAP
5 6 (6.12%) Foundry
5 6 (6.12%) OpenAI
6 5 (5.10%) Optimizely
7 3 (3.06%) Adobe
7 3 (3.06%) ForgeRock
7 3 (3.06%) OneTrust
8 1 (1.02%) Adyen
8 1 (1.02%) Apple
8 1 (1.02%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.02%) Okta
8 1 (1.02%) Ping Identity
8 1 (1.02%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud