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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 76 40
Rank change year-on-year +15 -36 +40
DemandTrendContract jobs citing B2B 3 13 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.51% 1.17% 4.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 1.36% 5.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 36
10th Percentile £194 - £488
25th Percentile £196 £121 £555
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £123 £650
Median % change year-on-year +63.27% -81.15% +11.27%
75th Percentile £486 £686 £690
90th Percentile £657 £694 £750
Berkshire median daily rate £398 £174 £650
% change year-on-year +128.78% -73.27% +14.38%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 539 954 977
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 91.82% 85.95% 88.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 345 518 646
10th Percentile £355 £350 £319
25th Percentile £450 £467 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £584 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.82% +6.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £715 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £516 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.18% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 32 21
10th Percentile - £14.50 £18.50
25th Percentile £14.75 £51.93 £53.50
Median hourly rate £20.38 £61.60 £65.13
Median % change year-on-year -66.92% -5.41% +150.48%
75th Percentile £38.42 £75.40 £74.00
90th Percentile £59.13 £87.46 £75.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.05 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -47.97% +2.67% +130.77%

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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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Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing B2B.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing B2B

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing B2B in Reading over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for B2B in Reading

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Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing B2B.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing B2B

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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 1 (33.33%) Appian
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
1 1 (33.33%) Tricentis Tosca
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Robot Framework
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
1 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Billing
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Head of Development
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Jinja
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) NETCONF
1 1 (33.33%) XML
1 1 (33.33%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
1 1 (33.33%) Customer Retention
1 1 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
1 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
1 1 (33.33%) Microservices
1 1 (33.33%) Open Source
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
1 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
1 1 (33.33%) Scrum
1 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
1 1 (33.33%) Telematics
1 1 (33.33%) Thought Leadership
1 1 (33.33%) Time Management
1 1 (33.33%) Use Case
1 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) Python
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Salesforce
1 2 (66.67%) SAP
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) Veracode