B2B Contracts in the North of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 12 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 160 182
Rank change year-on-year +18 +22 +47
Contract jobs citing B2B 30 22 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.88% 0.45% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 0.54% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 11 25
10th Percentile £355 - £273
25th Percentile - £190 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -20.00% -
75th Percentile £536 £544 £525
90th Percentile £675 £680 £538
England median daily rate £500 £513 £538
% change year-on-year -2.44% -4.65% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £14.27 -
England median hourly rate £42.50 £30.25 £48.00
% change year-on-year +40.50% -36.98% -1.14%

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 3,069 4,060 4,911
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.68% 83.80% 90.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,981 2,422 3,380
10th Percentile £275 £300 £300
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.80% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £645 £670 £688
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 399 204
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.10 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.05 £12.55 £15.54
Median hourly rate £25.15 £21.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.76% -16.00% +30.96%
75th Percentile £52.13 £46.18 £43.41
90th Percentile £76.88 £63.75 £56.38
England median hourly rate £27.53 £37.50 £35.25
% change year-on-year -26.59% +6.38% +37.27%

B2B
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for B2B in the North of England

B2B
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing B2B in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for B2B in the North of England

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 12 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for B2B in the North of England

B2B
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing B2B in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for B2B in the North of England

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 12 June 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 +10 18 £400 -25.58% 289
Yorkshire +19 9 £493 +14.00% 94
North East +3 3 £750 +294.74% 38
B2B
England

B2B
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 8 (26.67%) Mattermost
1 8 (26.67%) Skype for Business
2 1 (3.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) InVision
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.33%) MS Visio
1 1 (3.33%) UserZoom
Cloud Services
1 8 (26.67%) Azure
2 4 (13.33%) AWS
3 3 (10.00%) GCP
3 3 (10.00%) SaaS
4 1 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (26.67%) Skype
1 8 (26.67%) Softphone
1 8 (26.67%) Unified Communications
1 8 (26.67%) WebEx
2 5 (16.67%) Firewall
3 2 (6.67%) HTTPS
3 2 (6.67%) IPsec
3 2 (6.67%) Network Security
3 2 (6.67%) SSL
3 2 (6.67%) TCP/IP
3 2 (6.67%) VPN
3 2 (6.67%) WAN
3 2 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (3.33%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (3.33%) DMZ
4 1 (3.33%) DNS
4 1 (3.33%) Internet
4 1 (3.33%) LAN
4 1 (3.33%) SSH
4 1 (3.33%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 5 (16.67%) Babel
1 5 (16.67%) webpack
2 2 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.67%) Postman
3 1 (3.33%) Axure RP
3 1 (3.33%) JIRA
General
1 13 (43.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.33%) Finance
2 4 (13.33%) Marketing
2 4 (13.33%) Retail
3 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.67%) Brand Awareness
4 2 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Banking
5 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (26.67%) Messaging Engineer
1 8 (26.67%) Messaging Support
1 8 (26.67%) Messaging Support Engineer
1 8 (26.67%) Operations Engineer
1 8 (26.67%) Operations Support Engineer
1 8 (26.67%) Support Engineer
2 7 (23.33%) Analyst
2 7 (23.33%) Messaging Analyst
2 7 (23.33%) Messaging Support Analyst
2 7 (23.33%) Operational Support Analyst
2 7 (23.33%) Operations Analyst
2 7 (23.33%) Operations Support Analyst
2 7 (23.33%) Support Analyst
3 5 (16.67%) Developer
3 5 (16.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 5 (16.67%) JavaScript Developer
3 5 (16.67%) React Developer
4 3 (10.00%) Marketing Manager
4 3 (10.00%) Senior
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (26.67%) XMPP
2 6 (20.00%) CSS
2 6 (20.00%) HTML
2 6 (20.00%) React
2 6 (20.00%) RESTful
3 5 (16.67%) .NET
3 5 (16.67%) HTML5
3 5 (16.67%) REST
4 2 (6.67%) Middleware
5 1 (3.33%) 802.1X
5 1 (3.33%) EDI
5 1 (3.33%) Node.js
5 1 (3.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (26.67%) Management Information System
2 4 (13.33%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.67%) Blog
3 2 (6.67%) Digital Media
3 2 (6.67%) Digital Signage
3 2 (6.67%) Social Media
4 1 (3.33%) Educational Technology
4 1 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (36.67%) Linux
2 3 (10.00%) Unix
3 2 (6.67%) Windows
4 1 (3.33%) AIX
4 1 (3.33%) Android
4 1 (3.33%) Apple iOS
4 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.33%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (30.00%) ITIL
1 9 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (26.67%) Agile
2 8 (26.67%) Problem Management
2 8 (26.67%) Procure-to-Pay
3 5 (16.67%) API Development
3 5 (16.67%) Code Quality
3 5 (16.67%) Front End Development
4 4 (13.33%) DevOps
5 3 (10.00%) B2B Marketing
5 3 (10.00%) Brand Management
5 3 (10.00%) Customer-Centricity
5 3 (10.00%) Marketing Strategy
5 3 (10.00%) Product Management
5 3 (10.00%) Project Delivery
5 3 (10.00%) Project Management
5 3 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (10.00%) Roadmaps
5 3 (10.00%) User Experience
6 2 (6.67%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 8 (26.67%) SQL
3 7 (23.33%) JavaScript
4 6 (20.00%) Python
5 3 (10.00%) ActionScript
5 3 (10.00%) ActionScript 2.0
6 2 (6.67%) Perl
7 1 (3.33%) Bash
7 1 (3.33%) C
7 1 (3.33%) Korn
7 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (26.67%) ITIL Certification
2 5 (16.67%) Degree
3 2 (6.67%) CCNP
3 2 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (6.67%) IBM Certification
4 1 (3.33%) CCIE
4 1 (3.33%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.33%) GDPR
1 1 (3.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (26.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.67%) Docker
2 2 (6.67%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 2 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (26.67%) SCOM
2 4 (13.33%) Ansible
2 4 (13.33%) Puppet
3 2 (6.67%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (3.33%) Nagios
4 1 (3.33%) NetBackup
4 1 (3.33%) Progress Chef
4 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (53.33%) Microsoft
2 10 (33.33%) Splunk
3 9 (30.00%) Cisco
3 9 (30.00%) Red Hat
4 2 (6.67%) Facebook
4 2 (6.67%) IBM
4 2 (6.67%) IBM Sterling
4 2 (6.67%) MuleSoft
4 2 (6.67%) VMware
5 1 (3.33%) Arista
5 1 (3.33%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (3.33%) Commvault
5 1 (3.33%) Fortinet
5 1 (3.33%) Google
5 1 (3.33%) McAfee
5 1 (3.33%) Meraki
5 1 (3.33%) Veritas