B2C Contracts in Reading

B2C (Business-to-Consumer)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 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 75 67
Rank change year-on-year +30 -8 +15
Contract jobs citing B2C 15 16 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.51% 1.34% 1.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.70% 1.49% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 15
10th Percentile - £500 £518
25th Percentile £625 £505 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £519 £600
Median % change year-on-year +25.30% -13.54% -4.00%
75th Percentile £688 £581 £728
90th Percentile - £623 £750
Berkshire median daily rate £650 £538 £600
% change year-on-year +20.93% -10.42% +11.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 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%

B2C
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing B2C as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for B2C in Reading

B2C
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing B2C in Reading.

Daily rate trend for B2C in Reading

B2C
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:

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 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (20.00%) SSDT
General
1 9 (60.00%) Marketing
1 9 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (53.33%) Legal
3 7 (46.67%) Telecoms
4 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (20.00%) Law
5 1 (6.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Data Protection Officer
1 5 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Communications Specialist
3 2 (13.33%) Lead
3 2 (13.33%) Lead DevOps
3 2 (13.33%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) E-Commerce Manager
4 1 (6.67%) E-Commerce Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) OAuth
2 3 (20.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Data Privacy
1 6 (40.00%) Data Protection
1 6 (40.00%) Impact Assessments
2 5 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 5 (33.33%) B2B
2 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 5 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
2 5 (33.33%) DevOps
2 5 (33.33%) ETL
2 5 (33.33%) Identity Management
2 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (33.33%) RBAC
2 5 (33.33%) Release Management
3 3 (20.00%) Copywriting
3 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (20.00%) Secure Coding
4 2 (13.33%) Customer Experience
4 2 (13.33%) Innovative Thinking
4 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) ISEB
2 5 (33.33%) Azure Certification
3 2 (13.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Terraform
2 3 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) UiPath