B2C Contracts in Reading

B2C (Business-to-Consumer)
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for B2C skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited B2C over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 81 66 83
Rank change year-on-year -15 +17 -22
Contract jobs citing B2C 16 22 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.34% 2.14% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% 2.38% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 16 2
10th Percentile £500 £519 £605
25th Percentile £505 £525 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -13.54% -4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £581 £717 £638
90th Percentile £623 £750 £645
Berkshire median daily rate £538 £600 £538
% change year-on-year -10.42% +11.63% -6.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

B2C is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,072 926 1,233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 90.08% 89.99% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 581 615 825
10th Percentile £213 £363 £253
25th Percentile £413 £456 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £664 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £511 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.71% +5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 23 8
10th Percentile £27.58 £45.50 £12.73
25th Percentile £53.74 £53.00 £19.44
Median hourly rate £62.07 £65.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% +132.14% -32.93%
75th Percentile £82.55 £74.40 £33.13
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.19 £40.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.30 £57.82 £21.05
% change year-on-year +6.02% +174.67% -1.06%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing B2C in Reading over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) Azure
2 6 (37.50%) Azure API Management
2 6 (37.50%) Azure Data Factory
2 6 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (37.50%) Azure Key Vault
2 6 (37.50%) Azure Logic Apps
2 6 (37.50%) Azure Monitor
3 5 (31.25%) Azure Functions
3 5 (31.25%) Serverless
4 1 (6.25%) AWS
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
4 1 (6.25%) GCP
4 1 (6.25%) PaaS
4 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) DNS
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) Azure SQL Database
1 5 (31.25%) SQL Server
2 3 (18.75%) NoSQL
2 3 (18.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Visual Studio
2 2 (12.50%) JIRA
3 1 (6.25%) Git
General
1 6 (37.50%) Law
1 6 (37.50%) Legal
1 6 (37.50%) Marketing
1 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Telecoms
3 2 (12.50%) Billing
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Developer
1 5 (31.25%) Integration Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Azure Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (6.25%) .NET Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Applications Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Applications Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Applications Support
4 1 (6.25%) Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Data Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Data Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Officer
4 1 (6.25%) Digital Delivery Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Scrum Master
4 1 (6.25%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) ARM Templates
2 3 (18.75%) .NET
2 3 (18.75%) JSON
2 3 (18.75%) OAuth
2 3 (18.75%) OpenID
2 3 (18.75%) REST
2 3 (18.75%) SOAP
2 3 (18.75%) XML
3 1 (6.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Data Protection
2 6 (37.50%) Collaborative Working
2 6 (37.50%) Data Management
2 6 (37.50%) Data Privacy
2 6 (37.50%) Data Sharing
2 6 (37.50%) DevOps
2 6 (37.50%) Impact Assessments
2 6 (37.50%) Information Security
2 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (31.25%) Application Security
3 5 (31.25%) Break/Fix
3 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
3 5 (31.25%) Security Testing
4 3 (18.75%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (18.75%) Incident Management
4 3 (18.75%) OO
4 3 (18.75%) SOLID
5 2 (12.50%) Proactive Maintenance
5 2 (12.50%) Project Delivery
5 2 (12.50%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 3 (18.75%) C#
2 3 (18.75%) SQL
3 1 (6.25%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (37.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) BMC
2 1 (6.25%) Databricks
2 1 (6.25%) Remedy
2 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow