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 16 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 111 107 138
Rank change year-on-year -4 +31 -6
Contract jobs citing B2C 26 40 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.97% 1.39% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% 1.53% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 33 14
10th Percentile £221 £525 £374
25th Percentile £483 £544 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £601 £413
Median % change year-on-year -12.65% +45.70% -17.50%
75th Percentile £566 £699 £561
90th Percentile £668 £750 £618
South East median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £67.36
South East median hourly rate - - £67.36

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 2,291 2,607 3,200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.42% 90.62% 89.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,259 1,771 2,166
10th Percentile £224 £313 £250
25th Percentile £375 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +4.62% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £588
90th Percentile £675 £699 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.79% +1.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 67 89
10th Percentile £14.50 £17.00 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £25.23 £12.31
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £17.42
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +201.38% -17.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.59 £24.42
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £67.39
South East median hourly rate £49.50 £52.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.71% +133.33% -10.00%

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

B2C
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 16 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for B2C in the Thames Valley

B2C
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 16 June 2024. 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 -30 19 £555 -7.65% 3
Buckinghamshire - 7 £200 - 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 5 (19.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (15.38%) Azure
1 4 (15.38%) SuccessFactors
2 3 (11.54%) Azure API Management
2 3 (11.54%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (11.54%) Azure Key Vault
2 3 (11.54%) Azure Logic Apps
2 3 (11.54%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (7.69%) Azure Functions
3 2 (7.69%) Serverless
4 1 (3.85%) AWS
4 1 (3.85%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (3.85%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.85%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) DNS
1 1 (3.85%) Firewall
1 1 (3.85%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) JIRA
1 2 (7.69%) Visual Studio
2 1 (3.85%) Git
General
1 12 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 11 (42.31%) Marketing
3 7 (26.92%) Legal
4 6 (23.08%) Law
4 6 (23.08%) Retail
5 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (11.54%) Automotive
6 3 (11.54%) Manufacturing
6 3 (11.54%) Telecoms
7 2 (7.69%) Billing
7 2 (7.69%) Finance
8 1 (3.85%) German Language
8 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (23.08%) Analyst
2 4 (15.38%) Business Analyst
2 4 (15.38%) Coordinator
2 4 (15.38%) Technical Coordinator
2 4 (15.38%) Technical Support
3 3 (11.54%) Developer
3 3 (11.54%) Integration Developer
4 2 (7.69%) Azure Developer
4 2 (7.69%) Business IT Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Data Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Data Business Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (7.69%) Governance Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) IT Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) IT Business Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) IT Governance Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Officer
5 1 (3.85%) E-Commerce Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.54%) ARM Templates
2 1 (3.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (30.77%) Data Protection
2 7 (26.92%) Data Privacy
2 7 (26.92%) Impact Assessments
3 6 (23.08%) Collaborative Working
3 6 (23.08%) Data Management
3 6 (23.08%) Data Sharing
3 6 (23.08%) Information Security
4 5 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (19.23%) Service Delivery
5 4 (15.38%) B2B
5 4 (15.38%) Defect Management
5 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (15.38%) Process Improvement
5 4 (15.38%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (11.54%) Agile
6 3 (11.54%) DevOps
6 3 (11.54%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (11.54%) Project Management
6 3 (11.54%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.54%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.85%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 7 (26.92%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (38.46%) GDPR
2 1 (3.85%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.85%) BMC
2 1 (3.85%) Databricks
2 1 (3.85%) Remedy
2 1 (3.85%) SAP
2 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow