B2B Contracts in Manchester

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 72 86 100
Rank change year-on-year +14 +14 +36
Contract jobs citing B2B 7 10 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.76% 0.66% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 0.76% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 18
10th Percentile £370 £380 £363
25th Percentile £388 £388 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -20.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile - £513 £506
90th Percentile - £565 £529
North West median daily rate £400 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -33.33% +20.00% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £13.31 -
North West median hourly rate - £13.31 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 830 1,321 1,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 87.08% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 898 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £319 £315
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 73 61
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.42 £14.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.19 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -35.15% +140.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

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
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

B2B
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 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
Stockport +1 5 £400 - 5
Wigan +1 1 £375 -6.25% 3
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) FTP
1 1 (14.29%) HTTP
1 1 (14.29%) IPsec
1 1 (14.29%) LAN
1 1 (14.29%) Network Security
1 1 (14.29%) SD-WAN
1 1 (14.29%) VPN
1 1 (14.29%) WAN
1 1 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Babel
1 5 (71.43%) webpack
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Developer
2 5 (71.43%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 5 (71.43%) JavaScript Developer
2 5 (71.43%) React Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Integration Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) .NET
1 5 (71.43%) CSS
1 5 (71.43%) HTML
1 5 (71.43%) HTML5
1 5 (71.43%) React
1 5 (71.43%) REST
1 5 (71.43%) RESTful
2 1 (14.29%) EDI
2 1 (14.29%) XML
2 1 (14.29%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
1 5 (71.43%) API Development
1 5 (71.43%) Code Quality
1 5 (71.43%) Front End Development
2 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Network Design
3 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) ActionScript
2 1 (14.29%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) CCNA
1 1 (14.29%) CCNP
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Meraki
2 1 (14.29%) SEEBURGER