B2C Contract Job Trends in the South West

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

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

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 125 120
Rank change year-on-year -1 -5 +48
Contract jobs citing B2C 3 2 35
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.13% 0.090% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.10% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 25
10th Percentile - £408 £513
25th Percentile - £411 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £431 £675
Median % change year-on-year +27.54% -36.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile - £461 £700
90th Percentile - £469 £723
England median daily rate £550 £550 £625
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,956 1,930 2,660
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 84.93% 86.43% 86.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,160 1,167 1,788
10th Percentile £262 £300 £300
25th Percentile £406 £420 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £734 £725
England median daily rate £503 £525 £548
% change year-on-year -4.29% -4.11% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 284 138 270
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.62 £20.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £37.19 £45.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £59.84
Median % change year-on-year -61.31% +8.62% -7.94%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £75.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.90% +18.00%

B2C
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

B2C job vacancy trend in the South West

B2C
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

B2C
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 B2C within the South West region over the 6 months to 6 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
Devon - 2 - - 3
Somerset - 1 £550 - 2
B2C
England

B2C
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) Azure API Management
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
General
1 2 (66.67%) Military
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Site Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Architect
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Architect
2 1 (33.33%) MODAF Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Coaching
2 2 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (66.67%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) API Management
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Key Management
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) User Experience
3 1 (33.33%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NCSC
1 1 (33.33%) NIST