B2B Contract Job Trends in the South West

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring B2B skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 118 121
Rank change year-on-year -12 +3 +54
Contract jobs citing B2B 2 10 25
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.080% 0.51% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.098% 0.58% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 19
10th Percentile £387 £409 £528
25th Percentile £418 £413 £660
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £425 £675
Median % change year-on-year +15.47% -37.04% -1.82%
75th Percentile £568 £488 £688
90th Percentile £602 - £700
England median daily rate £488 £436 £575
% change year-on-year +11.75% -24.13% -

All Process & 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 2,034 1,726 2,528
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 81.75% 88.33% 84.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,178 1,052 1,656
10th Percentile £263 £244 £275
25th Percentile £413 £412 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £706 £725
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 332 107 284
10th Percentile £15.74 £18.51 £15.16
25th Percentile £21.87 £41.25 £36.19
Median hourly rate £44.00 £65.00 £57.33
Median % change year-on-year -32.31% +13.38% -6.78%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile - £72.35 £82.13
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -12.50% +14.29%

B2B
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing B2B relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West.

B2B job vacancy trend in the South West

B2B
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing B2B.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing B2B

B2B
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing B2B in the South West over the 6 months to 18 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for B2B in the South West

B2B
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing B2B.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing B2B

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 18 January 2026. 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
Bristol - 2 £491 - 46
B2B
England

B2B
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) Figma
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Chief Technology Officer
1 1 (50.00%) Designer
1 1 (50.00%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (50.00%) Rapid Prototyping
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Thought Leadership
1 1 (50.00%) User Experience
1 1 (50.00%) UX Design