B2C Contract Job Trends in the South East

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring B2C skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 174 112 178
Rank change year-on-year -62 +66 +35
Contract jobs citing B2C 13 60 27
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.30% 1.63% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 1.84% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 18 22
10th Percentile £347 £176 £501
25th Percentile £406 £365 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £630 £638
Median % change year-on-year -18.25% -1.18% +6.25%
75th Percentile £603 £651 £684
90th Percentile £624 £672 £793
England median daily rate £550 £550 £613
% change year-on-year - -10.20% +6.52%

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 3,713 3,258 4,478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 85.10% 88.29% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,428 2,030 2,900
10th Percentile £221 £250 £213
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.01% -1.88% +1.46%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £614
90th Percentile £675 £682 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 368 124 223
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.55 £18.59
25th Percentile £17.00 £26.00 £26.13
Median hourly rate £22.38 £47.51 £54.56
Median % change year-on-year -52.89% -12.92% +45.49%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.11 £66.13
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.53 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.85%

B2C
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

B2C job vacancy trend in the South East

B2C
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing B2C.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing B2C

B2C
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing B2C in the South East over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for B2C in the South East

B2C
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing B2C.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing B2C

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 21 December 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 -45 10 £413 -34.52% 3
Berkshire -32 9 £461 -29.04% 1
Hampshire -24 2 £600 -7.69%
Surrey 0 1 £650 - 4
Buckinghamshire -1 1 £209 +18.41% 1
B2C
England

B2C
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 (7.69%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (7.69%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) Azure
1 5 (38.46%) Entra ID
2 3 (23.08%) Azure API Management
2 3 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (23.08%) Azure Functions
2 3 (23.08%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (23.08%) GitHub
2 3 (23.08%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (23.08%) Serverless
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle Service Cloud
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (7.69%) SaaS
4 1 (7.69%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 2 (15.38%) JIRA
General
1 7 (53.85%) Retail
2 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Billing
4 2 (15.38%) Finance
5 1 (7.69%) Automotive
5 1 (7.69%) German Language
5 1 (7.69%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Active Directory Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) Azure Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Architect
2 3 (23.08%) Senior
2 3 (23.08%) Senior Active Directory Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Senior DevOps
2 3 (23.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Agile Delivery Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Business Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) CRM Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Salesforce Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Salesforce Solution Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) REST
2 3 (23.08%) .NET
2 3 (23.08%) .NET Core
2 3 (23.08%) ARM Templates
2 3 (23.08%) GraphQL
2 3 (23.08%) OAuth
2 3 (23.08%) OAuth2
2 3 (23.08%) OpenID
2 3 (23.08%) SAML
3 2 (15.38%) .NET Framework
3 2 (15.38%) ASP.NET
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (15.38%) SOAP
3 2 (15.38%) Web Services
4 1 (7.69%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (7.69%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (7.69%) IoT
2 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Mobile App
2 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
1 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Agile
1 5 (38.46%) User Experience
2 4 (30.77%) CRM
2 4 (30.77%) DevOps
3 3 (23.08%) AI
3 3 (23.08%) Analytics
3 3 (23.08%) API Management
3 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
3 3 (23.08%) Data Governance
3 3 (23.08%) Data Modelling
3 3 (23.08%) DevSecOps
3 3 (23.08%) Identity Management
3 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (23.08%) Log Analytics
3 3 (23.08%) MLOps
3 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (23.08%) RBAC
3 3 (23.08%) Scrum
4 2 (15.38%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (15.38%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) Bash
1 3 (23.08%) C#
1 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
1 3 (23.08%) PHP
1 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
1 3 (23.08%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) Java
2 2 (15.38%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) Apex Code
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle
2 2 (15.38%) Salesforce
2 2 (15.38%) SAP