B2B Contracts in the South East

Business-to-Business (B2B)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 134 144 162
Rank change year-on-year +10 +18 +52
Contract jobs citing B2B 25 61 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.83% 1.10% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 1.29% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 36 37
10th Percentile £196 £121 £406
25th Percentile £350 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £513 £563
Median % change year-on-year -1.76% -8.89% -6.25%
75th Percentile £675 £519 £600
90th Percentile £688 - £750
England median daily rate £475 £513 £538
% change year-on-year -7.32% -4.65% -8.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £29.00 - -
England median hourly rate £42.50 £29.25 £44.00
% change year-on-year +45.30% -33.52% -13.06%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

B2B
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing B2B as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for B2B in the South East

B2B
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing B2B in the South East.

Daily rate trend for B2B in the South East

B2B
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for B2B in the South East

B2B
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing B2B in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for B2B in the South East

B2B
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing B2B within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley +16 19 £504 -1.76% 148
Berkshire +9 16 £504 -1.76% 75
Hampshire +25 3 £913 +151.72% 84
Surrey +10 2 - - 55
Buckinghamshire +10 2 £550 - 47
Kent - 2 £425 - 43
Oxfordshire - 1 £500 - 37
B2B
England

B2B
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (8.00%) Appian
2 1 (4.00%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (4.00%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (24.00%) Azure
1 6 (24.00%) SaaS
2 5 (20.00%) Azure API Management
2 5 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
2 5 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (4.00%) AWS
3 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.00%) GCP
3 1 (4.00%) Lucidchart
3 1 (4.00%) OCI
3 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) FTP
1 1 (4.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (16.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (12.00%) SSDT
4 1 (4.00%) Power BI
4 1 (4.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Balsamiq
1 2 (8.00%) JIRA
General
1 11 (44.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (36.00%) Telecoms
3 8 (32.00%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (24.00%) Billing
5 4 (16.00%) Dutch Language
6 2 (8.00%) Finance
6 2 (8.00%) Retail
7 1 (4.00%) Back Office
7 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (4.00%) Electronics
7 1 (4.00%) Legal
7 1 (4.00%) Marketing
7 1 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (24.00%) Product Owner
2 5 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Lead
3 2 (8.00%) Lead DevOps
3 2 (8.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Service Design Manager
3 2 (8.00%) Service Manager
4 1 (4.00%) Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) BizTalk Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Business Process Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) Consultant
4 1 (4.00%) Delivery Director
4 1 (4.00%) Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Operations Director
4 1 (4.00%) Process Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) Project Manager
4 1 (4.00%) Service Desk Consultant
4 1 (4.00%) Services Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.00%) OAuth
2 3 (12.00%) YAML
3 1 (4.00%) .NET
3 1 (4.00%) EDI
3 1 (4.00%) JSON
3 1 (4.00%) MSMQ
3 1 (4.00%) REST
3 1 (4.00%) SOAP
3 1 (4.00%) WCF
3 1 (4.00%) XML
3 1 (4.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (12.00%) IoT
3 2 (8.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (4.00%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (4.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Windows
1 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (36.00%) Roadmaps
3 8 (32.00%) B2C
4 7 (28.00%) CI/CD
5 5 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 5 (20.00%) Customer Retention
5 5 (20.00%) DevOps
5 5 (20.00%) ETL
5 5 (20.00%) Identity Management
5 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (20.00%) RBAC
5 5 (20.00%) Release Management
5 5 (20.00%) Service Delivery
6 4 (16.00%) Agile
6 4 (16.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 4 (16.00%) Epics
6 4 (16.00%) Performance Metrics
6 4 (16.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 4 (16.00%) Scrum
6 4 (16.00%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 6 (24.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (8.00%) SQL
3 1 (4.00%) ActionScript
3 1 (4.00%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 3 (12.00%) Degree
3 2 (8.00%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (4.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (4.00%) Master's Degree
4 1 (4.00%) MBA
4 1 (4.00%) PMI Certification
4 1 (4.00%) PMP
4 1 (4.00%) Six Sigma Black Belt
4 1 (4.00%) Six Sigma Green Belt
4 1 (4.00%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) QA
2 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.00%) NIST
2 1 (4.00%) NIST 800
2 1 (4.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 5 (20.00%) Terraform
2 3 (12.00%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (4.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 1 (4.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 7 (28.00%) SAP
2 6 (24.00%) Salesforce
3 3 (12.00%) UiPath
4 2 (8.00%) Blue Prism
4 2 (8.00%) Cisco
4 2 (8.00%) Nokia
4 2 (8.00%) Rakuten
5 1 (4.00%) Dynatrace
5 1 (4.00%) IBM
5 1 (4.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow