B2C Contracts in the South East

B2C (Business-to-Consumer)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 132 175 191
Rank change year-on-year +43 +16 +23
Contract jobs citing B2C 27 30 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.90% 0.54% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 0.64% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 16 24
10th Percentile £176 £413 £521
25th Percentile £550 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £675 £581 £685
90th Percentile £688 £663 £750
England median daily rate £550 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +7.32% -6.82% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 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%

B2C
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing B2C as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for B2C in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing B2C in the South East.

Daily rate trend for B2C in the South East

B2C
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing B2C in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for B2C in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing B2C in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for B2C in the South East

B2C
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 B2C 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 +38 21 £650 +23.81% 19
Berkshire +28 17 £650 +20.93% 11
Hampshire +30 5 £638 -1.92% 9
Buckinghamshire +13 3 £177 -42.60% 5
Surrey +17 2 - - 5
Oxfordshire - 1 £550 - 4
B2C
England

B2C
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 (7.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 5 (18.52%) Azure
1 5 (18.52%) Azure API Management
1 5 (18.52%) Azure Monitor
1 5 (18.52%) Entra ID
2 2 (7.41%) SaaS
3 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.11%) SMS
2 2 (7.41%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 3 (11.11%) SSDT
3 1 (3.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Balsamiq
1 2 (7.41%) JIRA
General
1 12 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 11 (40.74%) Marketing
3 8 (29.63%) Legal
4 7 (25.93%) Telecoms
5 5 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (11.11%) Finance
6 3 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (11.11%) Law
7 2 (7.41%) Automotive
7 2 (7.41%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (18.52%) Data Protection Officer
1 5 (18.52%) DevOps Engineer
1 5 (18.52%) Project Manager
2 3 (11.11%) Analyst
2 3 (11.11%) Communications Specialist
2 3 (11.11%) Senior
3 2 (7.41%) Lead
3 2 (7.41%) Lead DevOps
3 2 (7.41%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 2 (7.41%) Product Owner
3 2 (7.41%) Service Analyst
3 2 (7.41%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (3.70%) Consultant
4 1 (3.70%) Delivery Project Manager
4 1 (3.70%) E-Commerce Manager
4 1 (3.70%) E-Commerce Project Manager
4 1 (3.70%) Implementation Manager
4 1 (3.70%) Implementation Project Manager
4 1 (3.70%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (3.70%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (18.52%) OAuth
2 3 (11.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.93%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (7.41%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 8 (29.63%) B2B
3 6 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence
3 6 (22.22%) Data Privacy
3 6 (22.22%) Impact Assessments
4 5 (18.52%) CI/CD
4 5 (18.52%) Containerisation
4 5 (18.52%) Data Loss Prevention
4 5 (18.52%) DevOps
4 5 (18.52%) ETL
4 5 (18.52%) Identity Management
4 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (18.52%) RBAC
4 5 (18.52%) Release Management
5 4 (14.81%) Agile
5 4 (14.81%) E-Commerce
5 4 (14.81%) User Experience
6 3 (11.11%) SDLC
6 3 (11.11%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 5 (18.52%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (22.22%) ISEB
2 5 (18.52%) Azure Certification
3 4 (14.81%) Degree
4 1 (3.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) GDPR
2 2 (7.41%) QA
2 2 (7.41%) SLA
3 1 (3.70%) PMO
Systems Management
1 5 (18.52%) Terraform
2 3 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (11.11%) UiPath
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.70%) Adobe