B2B Contracts in South Yorkshire

Business-to-Business (B2B)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 42 - 56
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing B2B 6 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 1.61% - 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.69% - 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £370 - -
25th Percentile £400 - £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £250
75th Percentile £501 - £275
90th Percentile £532 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £432 £494
% change year-on-year +4.17% -12.51% -5.95%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 356 409 494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.44% 89.50% 93.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 245 322
10th Percentile £219 £316 £300
25th Percentile £385 £411 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £663
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 14 38
10th Percentile - £10.90 -
25th Percentile £18.10 £12.64 £9.80
Median hourly rate £18.21 £17.62 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +3.35% +65.71% -36.54%
75th Percentile £18.41 £23.75 -
90th Percentile £18.47 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
% change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%

B2B
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for B2B in South Yorkshire

B2B
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for B2B in South Yorkshire

B2B
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing B2B in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for B2B in South Yorkshire

B2B
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for B2B in South Yorkshire

B2B
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
Sheffield - 6 £450 - 26
B2B
Yorkshire

B2B
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) HTTPS
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) SSH
2 1 (16.67%) SSL
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
1 1 (16.67%) Marketing
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Administrator
1 1 (16.67%) Architect
1 1 (16.67%) Marketing Manager
1 1 (16.67%) NetBackup Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Senior
1 1 (16.67%) Senior Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Senior Marketing Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Transformation Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Unix Administrator
1 1 (16.67%) Veritas Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
1 1 (16.67%) RESTful
1 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Unix
2 2 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (16.67%) AIX
3 1 (16.67%) Solaris
3 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Budget Management
1 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps
1 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (33.33%) High Availability
1 2 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (16.67%) API Integration
2 1 (16.67%) B2B Marketing
2 1 (16.67%) Business Case
2 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
2 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (16.67%) Key Management
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
2 1 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
2 1 (16.67%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) ActionScript
1 3 (50.00%) ActionScript 2.0
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) C
2 1 (16.67%) Korn
2 1 (16.67%) Perl
2 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) IBM Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (33.33%) Puppet
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Nagios
2 1 (16.67%) NetBackup
2 1 (16.67%) Progress Chef
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) IBM
1 2 (33.33%) IBM Sterling
2 1 (16.67%) Commvault
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk
2 1 (16.67%) Veritas