B2C Contract Job Trends in Reading

B2C (Business-to-Consumer)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring B2C skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 64 56
Rank change year-on-year +1 -8 +24
Contract jobs citing B2C 3 29 31
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.48% 2.67% 2.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 3.02% 3.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 11 24
10th Percentile - £538 £533
25th Percentile - £606 £591
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -21.54% - +7.26%
75th Percentile - £651 £688
90th Percentile - £653 £704
Berkshire median daily rate £515 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -20.77% - +7.26%

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 568 959 980
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 90.45% 88.14% 88.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 373 530 655
10th Percentile £350 £350 £250
25th Percentile £450 £474 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £540
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +6.48% +3.85%
75th Percentile £603 £650 £625
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £540 £523
% change year-on-year -7.41% +3.25% +4.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 21 14
10th Percentile - £14.50 £29.04
25th Percentile £14.75 £26.25 £59.32
Median hourly rate £37.28 £60.46 £63.40
Median % change year-on-year -38.33% -4.64% +15.26%
75th Percentile £58.00 £63.41 £67.42
90th Percentile £69.40 £74.87 £75.18
Berkshire median hourly rate £29.31 £58.49 £61.52
% change year-on-year -49.90% -4.93% +21.82%

B2C
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

B2C job vacancy trend in Reading

B2C
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing B2C.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing B2C

B2C
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Service Cloud
2 1 (33.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Salesforce Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Salesforce Solution Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) REST
1 2 (66.67%) SOAP
1 2 (66.67%) Web Services
2 1 (33.33%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (33.33%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Architectural Design
2 2 (66.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Apex Code
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Salesforce
2 1 (33.33%) SAP