B2C Contracts in the Thames Valley

B2C (Business-to-Consumer)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring B2C skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited B2C 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 81 119 128
Rank change year-on-year +38 +9 +4
Contract jobs citing B2C 21 26 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.39% 0.97% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.50% 1.11% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 14 17
10th Percentile £176 £439 £520
25th Percentile £456 £502 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -12.50% +26.32%
75th Percentile £678 £570 £706
90th Percentile £688 £653 £750
South East median daily rate £650 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +23.81% -12.50% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 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%

B2C
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing B2C as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for B2C in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing B2C in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for B2C in the Thames Valley

B2C
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing B2C in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for B2C in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing B2C in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for B2C in the Thames Valley

B2C
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 B2C 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 +28 17 £650 +20.93% 9
Buckinghamshire +13 3 £177 -42.60% 2
Oxfordshire - 1 £550 - 3
B2C
South East

B2C
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:

Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 5 (23.81%) Azure
1 5 (23.81%) Azure API Management
1 5 (23.81%) Azure Monitor
1 5 (23.81%) Entra ID
2 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) SMS
2 2 (9.52%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 3 (14.29%) SSDT
General
1 10 (47.62%) Marketing
1 10 (47.62%) Social Skills
2 8 (38.10%) Legal
3 7 (33.33%) Telecoms
4 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (14.29%) Finance
4 3 (14.29%) Law
5 2 (9.52%) Automotive
5 2 (9.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) Data Protection Officer
1 5 (23.81%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) Communications Specialist
3 2 (9.52%) Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) Lead
3 2 (9.52%) Lead DevOps
3 2 (9.52%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Project Manager
3 2 (9.52%) Senior
3 2 (9.52%) Service Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Consultant
4 1 (4.76%) E-Commerce Manager
4 1 (4.76%) E-Commerce Project Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Implementation Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Implementation Project Manager
4 1 (4.76%) ITSM Consultant
4 1 (4.76%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (23.81%) OAuth
2 3 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) Data Protection
2 6 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
2 6 (28.57%) B2B
2 6 (28.57%) Data Privacy
2 6 (28.57%) Impact Assessments
3 5 (23.81%) CI/CD
3 5 (23.81%) Containerisation
3 5 (23.81%) Data Loss Prevention
3 5 (23.81%) DevOps
3 5 (23.81%) ETL
3 5 (23.81%) Identity Management
3 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (23.81%) RBAC
3 5 (23.81%) Release Management
4 3 (14.29%) Copywriting
4 3 (14.29%) Customer Experience
4 3 (14.29%) ITIL
4 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (14.29%) Secure Coding
4 3 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (23.81%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (28.57%) ISEB
2 5 (23.81%) Azure Certification
3 2 (9.52%) Degree
4 1 (4.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) GDPR
2 2 (9.52%) SLA
3 1 (4.76%) PMO
Systems Management
1 5 (23.81%) Terraform
2 3 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) UiPath
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.76%) Adobe