B2B Contracts in Reading

Business-to-Business (B2B)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 45 67 61
Rank change year-on-year +22 -6 +25
Contract jobs citing B2B 15 24 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.51% 2.01% 2.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.70% 2.23% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 16 19
10th Percentile £193 - £450
25th Percentile £200 £121 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £513 £563
Median % change year-on-year -1.76% -8.89% -1.02%
75th Percentile £675 £519 £728
90th Percentile £688 - £760
Berkshire median daily rate £504 £513 £563
% change year-on-year -1.76% -8.89% +3.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £29.00 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £29.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for B2B in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for B2B in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for B2B in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for B2B in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 2 (13.33%) Appian
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) Azure
1 5 (33.33%) Azure API Management
1 5 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
1 5 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 4 (26.67%) SaaS
3 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (20.00%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) JIRA
General
1 6 (40.00%) Billing
2 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 4 (26.67%) Dutch Language
3 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Back Office
4 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Product Owner
3 2 (13.33%) Lead
3 2 (13.33%) Lead DevOps
3 2 (13.33%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) OAuth
2 3 (20.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Product Ownership
2 3 (20.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) CI/CD
2 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (33.33%) B2C
3 5 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 5 (33.33%) Customer Retention
3 5 (33.33%) DevOps
3 5 (33.33%) ETL
3 5 (33.33%) Identity Management
3 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (33.33%) RBAC
3 5 (33.33%) Release Management
4 4 (26.67%) Performance Metrics
4 4 (26.67%) Roadmaps
5 3 (20.00%) Secure Coding
5 3 (20.00%) Time Management
6 2 (13.33%) Lean Six Sigma
6 2 (13.33%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (13.33%) Telematics
6 2 (13.33%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Azure Certification
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Terraform
2 3 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Salesforce
1 5 (33.33%) SAP
2 3 (20.00%) UiPath
3 2 (13.33%) Blue Prism
3 2 (13.33%) Cisco
3 2 (13.33%) Nokia
3 2 (13.33%) Rakuten