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 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 241 275 326
Rank change year-on-year +34 +51 -12
DemandTrendContract jobs citing B2B 134 108 136
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.99% 0.67% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 0.75% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 58 76
10th Percentile £300 £293 £313
25th Percentile £400 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £531
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% -7.61%
75th Percentile £628 £588 £675
90th Percentile £801 £639 £850
England median daily rate £500 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 6
10th Percentile £23.50 £26.80 £29.00
25th Percentile £27.13 £27.25 £37.25
Median hourly rate £37.75 £30.50 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.77% -36.46% -13.90%
75th Percentile £43.00 £36.56 £53.88
90th Percentile £46.75 £43.88 £61.63
England median hourly rate £39.50 £30.00 £48.00
% change year-on-year +31.67% -37.50% +9.09%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,455 14,422 20,886
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.45% 88.90% 90.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,286 10,008 15,211
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £779 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 191 228
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.25 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.77 £22.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £29.75 £35.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.20% -11.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £48.44 £54.38 £64.63
90th Percentile £63.75 £71.88 £78.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.19
% change year-on-year -40.82% +0.73% +56.26%

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
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing B2B.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing B2B

B2B
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing B2B in London over the 6 months to 23 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for B2B in London

B2B
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing B2B.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing B2B

B2B
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing B2B in London over the 6 months to 23 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for B2B in London

B2B
DemandTrendContract 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 23 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +7 23 £500 -8.68% 156
West London - 8 £550 - 35
South London - 7 £600 - 9
North London - 1 £350 - 1
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 2 (1.49%) CMS
2 1 (0.75%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.75%) Mattermost
2 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.75%) Skype for Business
2 1 (0.75%) Smallworld
Applications
1 7 (5.22%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.49%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.49%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.75%) SPSS
4 1 (0.75%) Stata
Business Applications
1 14 (10.45%) Shopify
2 6 (4.48%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (3.73%) Oracle Retail
4 2 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.75%) Magento
5 1 (0.75%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.75%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.75%) SAP PS
5 1 (0.75%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 13 (9.70%) Azure
1 13 (9.70%) BigCommerce
2 12 (8.96%) AWS
2 12 (8.96%) GCP
2 12 (8.96%) SaaS
3 4 (2.99%) Figma
4 3 (2.24%) Datadog
4 3 (2.24%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (2.24%) GitHub
4 3 (2.24%) Google Ads
5 2 (1.49%) Cloud Run
5 2 (1.49%) Commercetools
5 2 (1.49%) Contentful
5 2 (1.49%) Entra ID
5 2 (1.49%) Facebook Ads
5 2 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (1.49%) Google Analytics
5 2 (1.49%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (1.49%) Power Platform
5 2 (1.49%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.22%) Firewall
2 5 (3.73%) DNS
3 4 (2.99%) VPN
4 2 (1.49%) BGP
4 2 (1.49%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (1.49%) DHCP
4 2 (1.49%) DMZ
4 2 (1.49%) DSL
4 2 (1.49%) DWDM
4 2 (1.49%) Internet
4 2 (1.49%) IPsec
4 2 (1.49%) L2TP
4 2 (1.49%) MPLS
4 2 (1.49%) Network Security
4 2 (1.49%) OSPF
4 2 (1.49%) SSL
4 2 (1.49%) Unified Communications
4 2 (1.49%) WAN
4 2 (1.49%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (1.49%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.49%) Tableau
2 1 (0.75%) BigQuery
2 1 (0.75%) GIS
2 1 (0.75%) Hadoop
2 1 (0.75%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (3.73%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.24%) Git
3 2 (1.49%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.49%) CircleCI
3 2 (1.49%) JMeter
3 2 (1.49%) Terragrunt
4 1 (0.75%) GitLab
4 1 (0.75%) Gradle
4 1 (0.75%) JIRA
4 1 (0.75%) Subversion
General
1 48 (35.82%) Social Skills
2 47 (35.07%) Marketing
3 25 (18.66%) Retail
4 24 (17.91%) Finance
5 18 (13.43%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (7.46%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (5.97%) Telecoms
8 6 (4.48%) Brand Awareness
8 6 (4.48%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (4.48%) Public Sector
9 5 (3.73%) Advertising
9 5 (3.73%) Banking
10 4 (2.99%) Legal
10 4 (2.99%) Manufacturing
11 3 (2.24%) Electronics
11 3 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.49%) Games
12 2 (1.49%) German Language
13 1 (0.75%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 18 (13.43%) Architect
2 13 (9.70%) Senior
3 12 (8.96%) Developer
4 10 (7.46%) Analyst
4 10 (7.46%) Business Analyst
5 9 (6.72%) Product Manager
6 8 (5.97%) Marketing Manager
7 7 (5.22%) Senior Manager
8 6 (4.48%) Lead
9 5 (3.73%) Enterprise Architect
9 5 (3.73%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (2.99%) Designer
10 4 (2.99%) Full-Stack Developer
10 4 (2.99%) Senior Marketing Manager
10 4 (2.99%) Web Business Analyst
10 4 (2.99%) webMethods Developer
11 3 (2.24%) E-Commerce Manager
11 3 (2.24%) Junior Applications Developer
11 3 (2.24%) Onboarding Specialist
11 3 (2.24%) Senior Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.70%) VML
2 7 (5.22%) OAuth
2 7 (5.22%) OpenID
3 6 (4.48%) SAML
4 5 (3.73%) OAuth2
4 5 (3.73%) Web Services
5 4 (2.99%) LDAP
5 4 (2.99%) REST
6 3 (2.24%) Next.js
6 3 (2.24%) Node.js
6 3 (2.24%) React
7 2 (1.49%) 802.1X
7 2 (1.49%) FastAPI
7 2 (1.49%) GraphQL
8 1 (0.75%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.75%) iOS SDK
8 1 (0.75%) Lightning Web Components
8 1 (0.75%) SwiftUI
8 1 (0.75%) UIKit
8 1 (0.75%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.72%) Product Ownership
2 8 (5.97%) Mobile App
3 7 (5.22%) Cloud Native
3 7 (5.22%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.73%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (3.73%) Social Media
5 4 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.24%) Digital Media
6 3 (2.24%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.24%) Marketing Technology
7 2 (1.49%) Blog
7 2 (1.49%) Educational Technology
7 2 (1.49%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.49%) Reinsurance
7 2 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.75%) DTCC
8 1 (0.75%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.75%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.75%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.99%) Android
1 4 (2.99%) Apple iOS
2 3 (2.24%) Linux
2 3 (2.24%) Windows
3 2 (1.49%) CentOS
3 2 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.49%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.49%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.75%) Mac OS X
4 1 (0.75%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (23.13%) Stakeholder Management
2 29 (21.64%) B2C
3 24 (17.91%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (17.16%) E-Commerce
5 21 (15.67%) Artificial Intelligence
5 21 (15.67%) CRM
6 20 (14.93%) Roadmaps
7 18 (13.43%) Project Management
8 16 (11.94%) Agile
8 16 (11.94%) B2B Marketing
9 15 (11.19%) Analytics
9 15 (11.19%) Marketing Strategy
10 14 (10.45%) Digital Marketing
11 13 (9.70%) Customer Acquisition
11 13 (9.70%) Decision-Making
12 12 (8.96%) Product Management
13 11 (8.21%) CI/CD
13 11 (8.21%) Marketing Automation
14 10 (7.46%) DevOps
15 9 (6.72%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (5.22%) PowerShell
1 7 (5.22%) SQL
2 5 (3.73%) Python
3 3 (2.24%) Java
3 3 (2.24%) JavaScript
3 3 (2.24%) TypeScript
4 2 (1.49%) Bash
4 2 (1.49%) Perl
5 1 (0.75%) Apex Code
5 1 (0.75%) Kotlin
5 1 (0.75%) Magik
5 1 (0.75%) Objective-C
5 1 (0.75%) R
5 1 (0.75%) Rust
5 1 (0.75%) Scala
5 1 (0.75%) Swift
Qualifications
1 11 (8.21%) Degree
2 4 (2.99%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.24%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.49%) CCIE
4 2 (1.49%) CCNP
4 2 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.75%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.75%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.73%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.24%) QA
3 2 (1.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (1.49%) GDPR
4 1 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.75%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (7.46%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.49%) Docker
2 2 (1.49%) Hyper-V
2 2 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (4.48%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (2.99%) Ansible
3 3 (2.24%) Terraform
4 2 (1.49%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.49%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.49%) Puppet
4 2 (1.49%) Salt
4 2 (1.49%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.75%) Grafana
5 1 (0.75%) SCOM
Vendors
1 34 (25.37%) Salesforce
2 21 (15.67%) Adobe
2 21 (15.67%) SAP
3 13 (9.70%) Sitecore
4 12 (8.96%) Google
4 12 (8.96%) Microsoft
5 8 (5.97%) Oracle
6 5 (3.73%) Axway
6 5 (3.73%) webMethods
7 4 (2.99%) ForgeRock
7 4 (2.99%) Fortinet
8 3 (2.24%) Cisco
8 3 (2.24%) Facebook
8 3 (2.24%) Red Hat
8 3 (2.24%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 3 (2.24%) Splunk
9 2 (1.49%) Juniper
9 2 (1.49%) McAfee
9 2 (1.49%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.49%) VMware