B2B Contracts in Manchester

Business-to-Business (B2B)
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 88 105 137
Rank change year-on-year +17 +32 -41
Contract jobs citing B2B 10 13 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.65% 0.68% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 0.74% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 13 5
10th Percentile £380 £363 £231
25th Percentile £388 £425 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £488 £438
Median % change year-on-year -17.95% +11.43% -12.50%
75th Percentile £513 £506 £523
90th Percentile £565 £521 £539
North West median daily rate £600 £488 £515
% change year-on-year +23.08% -5.34% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £13.31 - -
North West median hourly rate £13.31 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,332 1,752 2,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 87.12% 92.26% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 917 1,281 1,803
10th Percentile £313 £313 £258
25th Percentile £406 £413 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.94%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £575
90th Percentile £694 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 66 49
10th Percentile £12.40 £15.75 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £11.75
Median hourly rate £24.19 £36.15 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.08% +141.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £57.50 £46.89 £23.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £34.00
North West median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% +66.67% +15.21%

B2B
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for B2B in Manchester

B2B
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for B2B in Manchester

B2B
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing B2B in Manchester over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for B2B in Manchester

B2B
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for B2B in Manchester

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Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing B2B within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 23 April 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
Wigan - 2 £400 - 1
Salford - 1 - - 3
Stockport - 1 - - 1
B2B
North West

B2B
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) MySQL
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Git
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Marketing
2 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Analyst
1 5 (50.00%) Business Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Developer
3 2 (20.00%) C# Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Technical Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Technical Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Data Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) Python Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Salesforce Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) CSS
1 2 (20.00%) HTML
1 2 (20.00%) Node.js
1 2 (20.00%) RESTful
1 2 (20.00%) Web Services
2 1 (10.00%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (10.00%) React
2 1 (10.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) CCTV
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) E-Commerce
1 4 (40.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 3 (30.00%) BPR
2 3 (30.00%) Data Analysis
2 3 (30.00%) Product Management
2 3 (30.00%) Project Delivery
2 3 (30.00%) Requirements Engineering
2 3 (30.00%) Waterfall
3 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (20.00%) GAP Analysis
3 2 (20.00%) Information Management
3 2 (20.00%) Product Information Management
3 2 (20.00%) Project Management
3 2 (20.00%) TDD
3 2 (20.00%) Web Development
4 1 (10.00%) Agile
4 1 (10.00%) B2C
4 1 (10.00%) Business Analysis
4 1 (10.00%) Mathematics
4 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) C#
1 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (20.00%) PHP
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) Apex Code
2 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) CBAP
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) HubSpot
2 1 (10.00%) MuleSoft
2 1 (10.00%) Salesforce