B2C Contracts in the North of England

B2C (Business-to-Consumer)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring B2C skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited B2C over the 6 months leading up to 26 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 164 175 182
Rank change year-on-year +11 +7 +39
Contract jobs citing B2C 7 11 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.20% 0.23% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.27% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 22
10th Percentile £445 £388 £406
25th Percentile £503 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £536 £538 £538
90th Percentile £620 £563 £649
England median daily rate £543 £500 £563
% change year-on-year +8.50% -11.11% +2.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

B2C 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 3,170 4,068 4,909
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.93% 83.88% 89.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,048 2,421 3,348
10th Percentile £279 £300 £300
25th Percentile £380 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% - -
75th Percentile £550 £585 £600
90th Percentile £646 £663 £688
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 384 209
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.07 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.44 £12.55 £15.75
Median hourly rate £25.08 £21.50 £22.53
Median % change year-on-year +16.63% -4.57% +18.02%
75th Percentile £50.00 £46.18 £43.25
90th Percentile £77.25 £63.75 £55.88
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £35.03
% change year-on-year -34.02% +8.82% +36.41%

B2C
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing B2C as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for B2C in the North of England

B2C
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing B2C in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for B2C in the North of England

B2C
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing B2C in the North of England over the 6 months to 26 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for B2C in the North of England

B2C
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 B2C within the North of England region over the 6 months to 26 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 +12 6 £513 -6.68% 55
Yorkshire -1 1 £500 +25.00% 42
B2C
England

B2C
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Azure AKS
1 2 (28.57%) SaaS
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Retail
3 1 (14.29%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Product Manager
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC Developer
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Backend Developer
3 1 (14.29%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) C# ASP.NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) C# Developer
3 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce Manager
3 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Implementation Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Integration Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Project Implementation Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Python Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Web Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Web Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) FastAPI
2 1 (14.29%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
2 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (14.29%) CSS
2 1 (14.29%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Agile
1 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
1 3 (42.86%) Customer-Centricity
1 3 (42.86%) DevOps
1 3 (42.86%) E-Commerce
1 3 (42.86%) Project Management
2 2 (28.57%) B2B
2 2 (28.57%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) Customer Journey Map
2 2 (28.57%) Digital Strategy
2 2 (28.57%) Journey Map
2 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Product Strategy
2 2 (28.57%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (28.57%) Service Design
2 2 (28.57%) Sprint Planning
2 2 (28.57%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (28.57%) Strategic Thinking
2 2 (28.57%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes