B2C Contract Job Trends in the North West

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring B2C skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 119 130
Rank change year-on-year -19 +11 +35
Contract jobs citing B2C 9 1 10
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.36% 0.047% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.054% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 10
10th Percentile £316 - £361
25th Percentile £360 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year -13.28% -12.20% +2.50%
75th Percentile £406 £475 £538
90th Percentile £450 - £541
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,206 1,851 2,336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.24% 86.62% 89.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,434 1,041 1,601
10th Percentile £213 £266 £302
25th Percentile £358 £390 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £564 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £656 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 102 156
10th Percentile £16.79 £16.00 £15.88
25th Percentile £20.96 £21.05 £18.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.95 £36.73
Median % change year-on-year +5.01% -15.72% +42.29%
75th Percentile £55.00 £51.91 £49.25
90th Percentile £69.72 £69.59 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +22.57%

B2C
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing B2C relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

B2C job vacancy trend in the North West

B2C
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing B2C.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing B2C

B2C
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing B2C in the North West over the 6 months to 22 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for B2C in the North West

B2C
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 22 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
Manchester - 5 £390 - 24
Cheshire -9 4 £388 -13.89% 3
B2C
England

B2C
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) Azure
2 6 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (66.67%) Figma
2 6 (66.67%) GitHub
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) Gradle
1 6 (66.67%) Storybook
1 6 (66.67%) Xcode
2 1 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Developer
1 6 (66.67%) React Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Administrator
2 1 (11.11%) Engineering Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) D3.js
1 6 (66.67%) OAuth
1 6 (66.67%) React Native
1 6 (66.67%) SVG
2 1 (11.11%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Mobile App
2 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Android
1 6 (66.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Biometrics
1 6 (66.67%) Data Visualisation
1 6 (66.67%) DevOps
1 6 (66.67%) Mobile Application Development
1 6 (66.67%) Visualisation
2 2 (22.22%) Agile
2 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
2 2 (22.22%) Coaching
2 2 (22.22%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
2 2 (22.22%) User Experience
3 1 (11.11%) B2B
3 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
3 1 (11.11%) Kanban
3 1 (11.11%) OO
3 1 (11.11%) Scrum
3 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (11.11%) TDD
3 1 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 1 (11.11%) C#
2 1 (11.11%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (66.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft