B2B Contracts in the South West

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 104 153 157
Rank change year-on-year +49 +4 +7
Contract jobs citing B2B 7 4 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.42% 0.13% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.15% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 6
10th Percentile £408 - £356
25th Percentile £411 - £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.32%
75th Percentile £450 - £650
90th Percentile £473 - £813
England median daily rate £475 £513 £538
% change year-on-year -7.32% -4.65% -8.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,516 2,656 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.35% 83.03% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 1,696 2,395
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 336 335
10th Percentile £18.33 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.48 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.36
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for B2B in the South West

B2B
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for B2B in the South West

B2B
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for B2B in the South West

B2B
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Dorset - 6 £425 - 29
Somerset 0 1 £475 - 22
B2B
England

B2B
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 6 (85.71%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (85.71%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) SaaS
2 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 6 (85.71%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 6 (85.71%) Entra ID
2 6 (85.71%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (85.71%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) Skype
General
1 7 (100.00%) Finance
2 6 (85.71%) Legal
3 2 (28.57%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior
4 1 (14.29%) Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) .NET
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Data Loss Prevention
1 6 (85.71%) E-Discovery
1 6 (85.71%) Migration
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (42.86%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft