B2B Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Business-to-Business (B2B)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring B2B skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 197 156 184
Rank change year-on-year -41 +28 +40
Contract jobs citing B2B 6 9 7
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.13% 0.25% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.29% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 4
10th Percentile £436 £358 £374
25th Percentile £490 £361 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £375 £400
Median % change year-on-year +54.67% -6.25% -17.95%
75th Percentile £640 £419 -
90th Percentile £676 £483 -
England median daily rate £488 £425 £575
% change year-on-year +14.71% -26.09% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,181 3,087 4,106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.47% 86.76% 88.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,776 1,756 2,724
10th Percentile £215 £263 £291
25th Percentile £363 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.53% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £667 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 151 189
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £15.68
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.16 £17.75
Median hourly rate £29.00 £27.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.45% -8.33% +33.33%
75th Percentile £52.50 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £68.79 £67.50 £62.35
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.85%

B2B
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing B2B relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

B2B job vacancy trend in the North of England

B2B
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing B2B.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing B2B

B2B
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing B2B in the North of England over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for B2B in the North of England

B2B
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing B2B.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing B2B

B2B
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing B2B within the North of England region over the 6 months to 21 December 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
North West -35 3 £580 +54.67% 54
Yorkshire - 3 £550 - 23
B2B
England

B2B
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (16.67%) GCP
1 1 (16.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Marketing
2 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Consultant
1 1 (16.67%) Developer
1 1 (16.67%) Engineering Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Head of Operations
1 1 (16.67%) IAM Specialist
1 1 (16.67%) Salesforce Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Salesforce Business Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Snowflake Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
1 1 (16.67%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Agile
1 2 (33.33%) B2C
1 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (16.67%) Coaching
2 1 (16.67%) Data Extraction
2 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
2 1 (16.67%) Data Management
2 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
2 1 (16.67%) Journey Map
2 1 (16.67%) Kanban
2 1 (16.67%) Logistics
2 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
2 1 (16.67%) Microservices
2 1 (16.67%) OO
2 1 (16.67%) SOA
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) TDD
2 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (16.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C#
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Salesforce
2 1 (16.67%) CyberArk
2 1 (16.67%) ForgeRock