B2B Contracts in the Midlands

Business-to-Business (B2B)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 97 129 156
Rank change year-on-year +32 +27 +46
Contract jobs citing B2B 14 4 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.73% 0.15% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 0.18% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 4
10th Percentile £400 - -
25th Percentile £405 £231 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £238 £438
Median % change year-on-year +84.21% -45.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £527 £244 £498
90th Percentile £556 - £552
England median daily rate £475 £513 £538
% change year-on-year -7.32% -4.65% -8.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £11.75 -
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
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
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 the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for B2B in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for B2B in the Midlands

B2B
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for B2B in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for B2B in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing B2B within the Midlands 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
West Midlands +21 11 £419 +76.32% 85
East Midlands - 3 £550 - 54
B2B
England

B2B
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (7.14%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) Adobe Analytics
1 4 (28.57%) AWS
1 4 (28.57%) Azure
1 4 (28.57%) GCP
1 4 (28.57%) Google Analytics
1 4 (28.57%) Power Automate
1 4 (28.57%) Power Platform
1 4 (28.57%) PowerApps
2 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Data Lake
General
1 10 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 6 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (35.71%) Finance
3 5 (35.71%) Marketing
4 4 (28.57%) Brand Awareness
4 4 (28.57%) Public Sector
5 3 (21.43%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (21.43%) Retail
6 1 (7.14%) Automotive
6 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Architect
2 4 (28.57%) Campaign Manager
2 4 (28.57%) Junior
2 4 (28.57%) Junior Architect
2 4 (28.57%) Junior Solutions Architect
2 4 (28.57%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Integration Developer
3 2 (14.29%) SAP Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Data Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) E-Commerce Manager
4 1 (7.14%) E-Commerce Programme Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Integration Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Product Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Programme Manager
4 1 (7.14%) SAP Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) Middleware
2 3 (21.43%) EDI
2 3 (21.43%) IDoc
2 3 (21.43%) J2EE
2 3 (21.43%) JDBC
2 3 (21.43%) REST
2 3 (21.43%) SOAP
2 3 (21.43%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Social Media
2 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Data Governance
1 5 (35.71%) Data Integration
1 5 (35.71%) DevOps
1 5 (35.71%) Migration
1 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (35.71%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (28.57%) Analytics
2 4 (28.57%) Campaign Management
2 4 (28.57%) Content Development
2 4 (28.57%) Data Analytics
2 4 (28.57%) Data Extraction
2 4 (28.57%) Demand Generation
2 4 (28.57%) ERP
2 4 (28.57%) Marketing Automation
2 4 (28.57%) Performance Measurement
2 4 (28.57%) Performance Metrics
2 4 (28.57%) Procure-to-Pay
2 4 (28.57%) Software Engineering
2 4 (28.57%) Strategic Planning
2 4 (28.57%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) ABAP
1 3 (21.43%) Groovy
1 3 (21.43%) Java
1 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.14%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) TOGAF Certification
2 3 (21.43%) SAP Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 4 (28.57%) Adobe
2 4 (28.57%) Google
3 3 (21.43%) SAP