B2B Contracts in the Thames Valley

Business-to-Business (B2B)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 83 99 111
Rank change year-on-year +16 +12 +25
Contract jobs citing B2B 19 46 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.26% 1.71% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 1.97% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 27 27
10th Percentile £194 £121 £406
25th Percentile £200 £313 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £513 £563
Median % change year-on-year -1.76% -8.89% +1.05%
75th Percentile £675 £519 £690
90th Percentile £685 - £750
South East median daily rate £504 £513 £563
% change year-on-year -1.76% -8.89% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £29.00 - -
South East median hourly rate £29.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

B2B
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing B2B as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for B2B in the Thames Valley

B2B
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing B2B in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for B2B in the Thames Valley

B2B
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for B2B in the Thames Valley

B2B
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing B2B in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for B2B in the Thames Valley

B2B
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing B2B within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +9 16 £504 -1.76% 72
Buckinghamshire +10 2 £550 - 44
Oxfordshire - 1 £500 - 35
B2B
South East

B2B
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (10.53%) Appian
2 1 (5.26%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (5.26%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.26%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (26.32%) Azure
1 5 (26.32%) Azure API Management
1 5 (26.32%) Azure Monitor
1 5 (26.32%) Entra ID
2 4 (21.05%) SaaS
3 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.26%) Lucidchart
3 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) FTP
1 1 (5.26%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (21.05%) SQL Server
3 3 (15.79%) SSDT
4 1 (5.26%) Power BI
4 1 (5.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) JIRA
General
1 8 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 6 (31.58%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (31.58%) Billing
3 5 (26.32%) Telecoms
4 4 (21.05%) Dutch Language
5 2 (10.53%) Retail
6 1 (5.26%) Back Office
6 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (5.26%) Electronics
6 1 (5.26%) Marketing
6 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Product Owner
3 2 (10.53%) Lead
3 2 (10.53%) Lead DevOps
3 2 (10.53%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) BizTalk Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Business Process Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) Developer
4 1 (5.26%) ITSM Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) Process Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Project Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Service Desk Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) Supply Chain Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Supply Chain Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) OAuth
2 3 (15.79%) YAML
3 1 (5.26%) .NET
3 1 (5.26%) EDI
3 1 (5.26%) JSON
3 1 (5.26%) MSMQ
3 1 (5.26%) REST
3 1 (5.26%) SOAP
3 1 (5.26%) WCF
3 1 (5.26%) XML
3 1 (5.26%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Product Ownership
2 3 (15.79%) IoT
3 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Windows
1 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (36.84%) CI/CD
3 6 (31.58%) B2C
4 5 (26.32%) Containerisation
4 5 (26.32%) Customer Retention
4 5 (26.32%) DevOps
4 5 (26.32%) ETL
4 5 (26.32%) Identity Management
4 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (26.32%) RBAC
4 5 (26.32%) Release Management
4 5 (26.32%) Roadmaps
5 4 (21.05%) Performance Metrics
6 3 (15.79%) Lean Six Sigma
6 3 (15.79%) Secure Coding
6 3 (15.79%) Six Sigma
6 3 (15.79%) Time Management
7 2 (10.53%) PLM
7 2 (10.53%) Scrum
7 2 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) PowerShell
2 2 (10.53%) SQL
3 1 (5.26%) ActionScript
3 1 (5.26%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.26%) Degree
2 1 (5.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (5.26%) Master's Degree
2 1 (5.26%) MBA
2 1 (5.26%) PMI Certification
2 1 (5.26%) PMP
2 1 (5.26%) Six Sigma Black Belt
2 1 (5.26%) Six Sigma Green Belt
2 1 (5.26%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) Terraform
2 3 (15.79%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (5.26%) SCOM
Vendors
1 7 (36.84%) SAP
2 6 (31.58%) Salesforce
3 3 (15.79%) UiPath
4 2 (10.53%) Blue Prism
4 2 (10.53%) Cisco
4 2 (10.53%) Nokia
4 2 (10.53%) Rakuten
5 1 (5.26%) Dynatrace
5 1 (5.26%) IBM
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
5 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow