B2B Contracts in London

Business-to-Business (B2B)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring B2B skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited B2B over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 239 244 305
Rank change year-on-year +5 +61 +14
Contract jobs citing B2B 114 149 196
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.91% 0.84% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 0.94% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 74 112
10th Percentile £329 £333 £315
25th Percentile £363 £423 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £528 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% -4.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £680
90th Percentile £675 £675 £850
England median daily rate £475 £513 £538
% change year-on-year -7.32% -4.65% -8.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 5
10th Percentile £41.85 £27.60 £31.40
25th Percentile £42.75 £29.25 -
Median hourly rate £45.50 £30.50 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.18% -30.68% -20.80%
75th Percentile £48.25 £68.75 -
90th Percentile £49.15 - £48.80
England median hourly rate £42.50 £29.25 £44.00
% change year-on-year +45.30% -33.52% -13.06%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

B2B
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for B2B in London

B2B
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for B2B in London

B2B
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing B2B in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for B2B in London

B2B
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for B2B in London

B2B
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing B2B within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Central London -10 14 £650 +22.35% 65
West London - 3 - - 22
East London - 2 £650 - 13
South London - 2 £600 - 4
North London - 1 £350 - 2
B2B
England

B2B
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 6 (5.26%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.63%) CMS
3 1 (0.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.88%) Confluence
3 1 (0.88%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.88%) JBoss
3 1 (0.88%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (7.02%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 7 (6.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (5.26%) Adobe Illustrator
3 6 (5.26%) Adobe Premiere
3 6 (5.26%) InDesign
3 6 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (5.26%) Photoshop
4 2 (1.75%) Adobe After Effects
4 2 (1.75%) Blender
4 2 (1.75%) Chatbot
4 2 (1.75%) CINEMA 4D
4 2 (1.75%) Final Cut Pro
4 2 (1.75%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.88%) Fusion 360
5 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.88%) Sketch
5 1 (0.88%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 19 (16.67%) Shopify
2 2 (1.75%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.88%) Magento
3 1 (0.88%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.88%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.88%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.88%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.88%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 19 (16.67%) BigCommerce
2 15 (13.16%) Azure
3 12 (10.53%) Figma
4 9 (7.89%) SaaS
5 8 (7.02%) GCP
6 6 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (4.39%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 5 (4.39%) Serverless
8 4 (3.51%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (3.51%) Entra ID
8 4 (3.51%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
9 3 (2.63%) AWS
9 3 (2.63%) Azure Event Grid
9 3 (2.63%) Azure Functions
9 3 (2.63%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (2.63%) GitHub
10 2 (1.75%) Cloud Run
10 2 (1.75%) Contentful
10 2 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.26%) VPN
2 4 (3.51%) SSL
3 3 (2.63%) DNS
3 3 (2.63%) Firewall
3 3 (2.63%) Network Security
4 2 (1.75%) BGP
4 2 (1.75%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (1.75%) DMZ
4 2 (1.75%) DSL
4 2 (1.75%) DWDM
4 2 (1.75%) HTTPS
4 2 (1.75%) Internet
4 2 (1.75%) IPsec
4 2 (1.75%) L2TP
4 2 (1.75%) MPLS
4 2 (1.75%) Multicast
4 2 (1.75%) OSPF
4 2 (1.75%) WAN
4 2 (1.75%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (1.75%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.75%) Tableau
2 1 (0.88%) MySQL
2 1 (0.88%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.88%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (5.26%) Jenkins
2 4 (3.51%) Bitbucket
3 3 (2.63%) Git
4 2 (1.75%) CircleCI
4 2 (1.75%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.75%) Grunt
4 2 (1.75%) JIRA
4 2 (1.75%) JMeter
4 2 (1.75%) Terragrunt
4 2 (1.75%) webpack
5 1 (0.88%) ESLint
5 1 (0.88%) GitLab
5 1 (0.88%) Gradle
5 1 (0.88%) Maven
5 1 (0.88%) Subversion
General
1 48 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 29 (25.44%) Marketing
3 26 (22.81%) Retail
4 16 (14.04%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (11.40%) Finance
6 9 (7.89%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (7.02%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (6.14%) Public Sector
8 7 (6.14%) Telecoms
9 6 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (3.51%) Advertising
10 4 (3.51%) Brand Awareness
10 4 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (2.63%) Banking
11 3 (2.63%) Electronics
11 3 (2.63%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.75%) Games
13 1 (0.88%) Back Office
13 1 (0.88%) Billing
13 1 (0.88%) Legal
Job Titles
1 18 (15.79%) Architect
2 14 (12.28%) Senior
3 12 (10.53%) Designer
4 10 (8.77%) Project Manager
5 9 (7.89%) Analyst
5 9 (7.89%) Developer
5 9 (7.89%) Product Manager
6 8 (7.02%) Senior Designer
7 7 (6.14%) Salesforce Architect
8 6 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (4.39%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (4.39%) Lead
10 4 (3.51%) Cloud Specialist
10 4 (3.51%) Consultant
10 4 (3.51%) Product Owner
11 3 (2.63%) Business Analyst
11 3 (2.63%) E-Commerce Manager
11 3 (2.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 3 (2.63%) Product Analyst
11 3 (2.63%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (16.67%) VML
2 6 (5.26%) Node.js
3 5 (4.39%) Next.js
3 5 (4.39%) React
4 4 (3.51%) .NET
4 4 (3.51%) FastAPI
4 4 (3.51%) GraphQL
4 4 (3.51%) Middleware
5 3 (2.63%) .NET Framework
5 3 (2.63%) CSS
5 3 (2.63%) HTML
5 3 (2.63%) Sass
5 3 (2.63%) YAML
6 2 (1.75%) 802.1X
6 2 (1.75%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.75%) CSS3
6 2 (1.75%) Framer.js
6 2 (1.75%) LESS
6 2 (1.75%) REST
6 2 (1.75%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.65%) Product Ownership
2 8 (7.02%) Animation
2 8 (7.02%) Photography
3 6 (5.26%) Mobile App
3 6 (5.26%) Motion Graphics
3 6 (5.26%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.51%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (3.51%) Legacy Applications
4 4 (3.51%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.63%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.63%) Digital Media
5 3 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.63%) Social Media
6 2 (1.75%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.88%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.88%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.88%) Over-the-Top Content
7 1 (0.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.51%) Unix
2 3 (2.63%) Windows
3 2 (1.75%) Android
3 2 (1.75%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.75%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (23.68%) B2C
2 26 (22.81%) Agile
2 26 (22.81%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (16.67%) Customer Acquisition
4 17 (14.91%) Artificial Intelligence
4 17 (14.91%) DevOps
4 17 (14.91%) E-Commerce
5 15 (13.16%) Decision-Making
5 15 (13.16%) User Experience
6 14 (12.28%) Project Management
6 14 (12.28%) Stakeholder Management
7 13 (11.40%) CI/CD
7 13 (11.40%) Product Management
8 11 (9.65%) Customer Experience
8 11 (9.65%) Mentoring
8 11 (9.65%) User Stories
9 10 (8.77%) Roadmaps
10 9 (7.89%) Event-Driven
10 9 (7.89%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (7.89%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 9 (7.89%) JavaScript
1 9 (7.89%) Python
2 6 (5.26%) Java
2 6 (5.26%) TypeScript
3 5 (4.39%) C#
4 4 (3.51%) ActionScript
4 4 (3.51%) ActionScript 2.0
5 3 (2.63%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.63%) SQL
6 2 (1.75%) C
6 2 (1.75%) Perl
6 2 (1.75%) PHP
7 1 (0.88%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.88%) Groovy
7 1 (0.88%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.88%) Objective-C
7 1 (0.88%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.88%) Ruby
7 1 (0.88%) Rust
7 1 (0.88%) Swift
Qualifications
1 9 (7.89%) Degree
2 3 (2.63%) Azure Certification
2 3 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (1.75%) CCIE
3 2 (1.75%) CCNP
3 2 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.88%) CSPO
4 1 (0.88%) IBM Certification
4 1 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.26%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.51%) QA
3 1 (0.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.88%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.88%) GDPR
3 1 (0.88%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.88%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (3.51%) Active Directory
1 4 (3.51%) Docker
2 1 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (6.14%) Terraform
2 4 (3.51%) Ansible
2 4 (3.51%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.75%) Progress Chef
3 2 (1.75%) Puppet
3 2 (1.75%) Salt
4 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.88%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (0.88%) vRealize
4 1 (0.88%) VxRail
Vendors
1 36 (31.58%) Salesforce
2 30 (26.32%) Adobe
3 24 (21.05%) SAP
4 19 (16.67%) Sitecore
5 6 (5.26%) Microsoft
6 4 (3.51%) DocuSign
7 3 (2.63%) Cisco
7 3 (2.63%) CyberArk
7 3 (2.63%) Google
7 3 (2.63%) Splunk
8 2 (1.75%) Arista
8 2 (1.75%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.75%) IBM
8 2 (1.75%) IBM Sterling
8 2 (1.75%) McAfee
8 2 (1.75%) New Relic
8 2 (1.75%) Oracle
8 2 (1.75%) webMethods
9 1 (0.88%) Databricks
9 1 (0.88%) Optimizely