B2B Contracts in Sheffield

Business-to-Business (B2B)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 44 - 55
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing B2B 6 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 1.88% - 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.97% - 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £370 - -
25th Percentile £400 - £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £250
75th Percentile £501 - £275
90th Percentile £532 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £450 - £250

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 305 351 434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.61% 92.61% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 203 302
10th Percentile £232 £375 £364
25th Percentile £388 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £551
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.30% +10.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £675
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 3
10th Percentile - £10.90 £11.05
25th Percentile £18.10 £11.33 £11.13
Median hourly rate £18.21 £22.00 £11.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.25% +91.30% -28.13%
75th Percentile £18.41 £23.75 £25.88
90th Percentile £18.47 - £34.35
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £17.62 £10.63
% change year-on-year +3.35% +65.71% -36.54%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for B2B in Sheffield

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for B2B in Sheffield

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Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

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

Daily rate histogram for B2B in Sheffield

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Hourly rate trend for B2B in Sheffield

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) HTTPS
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) SSH
2 1 (16.67%) SSL
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
1 1 (16.67%) Marketing
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Administrator
1 1 (16.67%) Architect
1 1 (16.67%) Marketing Manager
1 1 (16.67%) NetBackup Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Senior
1 1 (16.67%) Senior Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Senior Marketing Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Transformation Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Unix Administrator
1 1 (16.67%) Veritas Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
1 1 (16.67%) RESTful
1 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Unix
2 2 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (16.67%) AIX
3 1 (16.67%) Solaris
3 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Budget Management
1 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps
1 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (33.33%) High Availability
1 2 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (16.67%) API Integration
2 1 (16.67%) B2B Marketing
2 1 (16.67%) Business Case
2 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
2 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (16.67%) Key Management
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
2 1 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
2 1 (16.67%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) ActionScript
1 3 (50.00%) ActionScript 2.0
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) C
2 1 (16.67%) Korn
2 1 (16.67%) Perl
2 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) IBM Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (33.33%) Puppet
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Nagios
2 1 (16.67%) NetBackup
2 1 (16.67%) Progress Chef
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) IBM
1 2 (33.33%) IBM Sterling
2 1 (16.67%) Commvault
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk
2 1 (16.67%) Veritas