B2B Contracts in the UK excluding London

Business-to-Business (B2B)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 26 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 285 290 314
Rank change year-on-year +5 +24 +88
Contract jobs citing B2B 67 109 131
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.49% 0.51% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.62% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 60 88
10th Percentile £335 £190 £396
25th Percentile £377 £361 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.29% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £551 £519 £641
90th Percentile £681 £631 £699
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £15.23 -
UK median hourly rate £39.25 £30.25 £48.00
% change year-on-year +29.75% -36.98% -1.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,335 17,544 20,345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.49% 82.74% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,545 10,293 13,900
10th Percentile £235 £250 £263
25th Percentile £366 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.29% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,015 2,178 1,270
10th Percentile £13.81 £12.50 £11.80
25th Percentile £16.88 £15.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £24.59 £38.12 £32.40
Median % change year-on-year -35.51% +17.65% +54.29%
75th Percentile £54.38 £61.90 £63.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +34.62%

B2B
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing B2B as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for B2B in the UK excluding London

B2B
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing B2B in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for B2B in the UK excluding London

B2B
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing B2B in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for B2B in the UK excluding London

B2B
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing B2B in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for B2B in the UK excluding London

B2B
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing B2B within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 June 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
North of England +21 30 £469 +17.19% 557
North West +12 17 £400 -25.58% 339
South East -5 17 £504 -1.76% 519
Midlands +21 14 £382 +60.95% 320
Yorkshire +10 10 £493 +14.00% 178
East Midlands - 9 £382 - 133
West Midlands +11 5 - - 174
South West +46 4 £419 - 177
North East -2 3 £750 +294.74% 42
East of England +15 1 £650 +18.18% 242
Scotland +5 1 £388 -32.61% 90
B2B
UK

B2B
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 8 (11.94%) Mattermost
1 8 (11.94%) Skype for Business
2 4 (5.97%) SharePoint
3 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (2.99%) CMS
5 1 (1.49%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (1.49%) Confluence
5 1 (1.49%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.49%) InVision
1 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.49%) MS Visio
1 1 (1.49%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 1 (1.49%) SAP IBP
1 1 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (19.40%) Azure
2 10 (14.93%) SaaS
3 7 (10.45%) AWS
4 6 (8.96%) Entra ID
5 5 (7.46%) GCP
6 4 (5.97%) Adobe Analytics
6 4 (5.97%) Google Analytics
7 3 (4.48%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 3 (4.48%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (4.48%) OneDrive
8 2 (2.99%) Azure API Management
8 2 (2.99%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (2.99%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (2.99%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.49%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.49%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (1.49%) OCI
9 1 (1.49%) Rubrik
9 1 (1.49%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (16.42%) Skype
2 8 (11.94%) Softphone
2 8 (11.94%) Unified Communications
2 8 (11.94%) WebEx
3 5 (7.46%) Firewall
4 2 (2.99%) HTTPS
4 2 (2.99%) IPsec
4 2 (2.99%) Network Security
4 2 (2.99%) SSL
4 2 (2.99%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.99%) VPN
4 2 (2.99%) WAN
4 2 (2.99%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.49%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (1.49%) DMZ
5 1 (1.49%) Multicast
5 1 (1.49%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.49%) Spanning Tree
5 1 (1.49%) SSH
5 1 (1.49%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (2.99%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.49%) Power BI
2 1 (1.49%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 4 (5.97%) JIRA
2 3 (4.48%) Babel
2 3 (4.48%) webpack
3 2 (2.99%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.99%) Postman
4 1 (1.49%) Axure RP
General
1 29 (43.28%) Social Skills
2 14 (20.90%) Finance
3 13 (19.40%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (11.94%) Marketing
4 8 (11.94%) Retail
5 7 (10.45%) Public Sector
6 6 (8.96%) Brand Awareness
6 6 (8.96%) Telecoms
7 5 (7.46%) Banking
7 5 (7.46%) Legal
8 3 (4.48%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.99%) Billing
9 2 (2.99%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.99%) Social Housing
9 2 (2.99%) Swedish Language
10 1 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (13.43%) Analyst
2 8 (11.94%) Messaging Engineer
2 8 (11.94%) Messaging Support
2 8 (11.94%) Messaging Support Engineer
2 8 (11.94%) Operations Engineer
2 8 (11.94%) Operations Support Engineer
2 8 (11.94%) Support Engineer
3 7 (10.45%) Messaging Analyst
3 7 (10.45%) Messaging Support Analyst
3 7 (10.45%) Operational Support Analyst
3 7 (10.45%) Operations Analyst
3 7 (10.45%) Operations Support Analyst
3 7 (10.45%) Support Analyst
4 6 (8.96%) Developer
4 6 (8.96%) Product Manager
5 5 (7.46%) Product Owner
5 5 (7.46%) Senior
6 4 (5.97%) Campaign Manager
6 4 (5.97%) JavaScript Developer
7 3 (4.48%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.94%) XMPP
2 5 (7.46%) .NET
2 5 (7.46%) RESTful
3 4 (5.97%) CSS
3 4 (5.97%) HTML
3 4 (5.97%) React
3 4 (5.97%) REST
4 3 (4.48%) Flash
4 3 (4.48%) HTML5
5 2 (2.99%) EDI
5 2 (2.99%) Middleware
5 2 (2.99%) Node.js
5 2 (2.99%) OAuth
5 2 (2.99%) XML
6 1 (1.49%) JSON
6 1 (1.49%) MSMQ
6 1 (1.49%) SOAP
6 1 (1.49%) WCF
6 1 (1.49%) XSLT
6 1 (1.49%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.93%) Product Ownership
2 8 (11.94%) Management Information System
3 6 (8.96%) Social Media
4 2 (2.99%) Blog
4 2 (2.99%) Digital Media
4 2 (2.99%) Digital Signage
4 2 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.49%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.49%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (1.49%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.49%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.49%) Educational Technology
5 1 (1.49%) IoT
5 1 (1.49%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.49%) Replication
5 1 (1.49%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (16.42%) Linux
2 3 (4.48%) Unix
2 3 (4.48%) Windows
3 1 (1.49%) AIX
3 1 (1.49%) Android
3 1 (1.49%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.49%) Solaris
3 1 (1.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (26.87%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (22.39%) Roadmaps
2 15 (22.39%) Stakeholder Management
3 14 (20.90%) Agile
4 13 (19.40%) Procure-to-Pay
5 11 (16.42%) ITIL
6 9 (13.43%) Product Management
7 8 (11.94%) Problem Management
8 7 (10.45%) Analytics
8 7 (10.45%) B2C
8 7 (10.45%) Business Strategy
8 7 (10.45%) Customer-Centricity
8 7 (10.45%) Product Strategy
9 6 (8.96%) Development Roadmap
9 6 (8.96%) DevOps
9 6 (8.96%) Project Delivery
9 6 (8.96%) Strategic Planning
10 5 (7.46%) Microservices
10 5 (7.46%) Performance Metrics
10 5 (7.46%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 13 (19.40%) PowerShell
2 9 (13.43%) SQL
3 7 (10.45%) JavaScript
3 7 (10.45%) Python
4 4 (5.97%) ActionScript
4 4 (5.97%) ActionScript 2.0
5 2 (2.99%) Perl
5 2 (2.99%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.49%) Bash
6 1 (1.49%) C
6 1 (1.49%) Java
6 1 (1.49%) Korn
6 1 (1.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (14.93%) ITIL Certification
2 5 (7.46%) Degree
3 2 (2.99%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.99%) CCNP
3 2 (2.99%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (2.99%) IBM Certification
4 1 (1.49%) CCIE
4 1 (1.49%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.99%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.49%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.49%) GDPR
2 1 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.49%) NIST
2 1 (1.49%) NIST 800
System Software
1 11 (16.42%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.97%) Docker
3 2 (2.99%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 2 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (13.43%) SCOM
2 4 (5.97%) Ansible
2 4 (5.97%) Puppet
3 3 (4.48%) Kubernetes
3 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (4.48%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (4.48%) Terraform
4 2 (2.99%) NetBackup
4 2 (2.99%) PingFederate
5 1 (1.49%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (1.49%) Nagios
5 1 (1.49%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 18 (26.87%) Microsoft
2 10 (14.93%) Splunk
3 9 (13.43%) Cisco
3 9 (13.43%) Red Hat
4 5 (7.46%) Google
5 4 (5.97%) Adobe
5 4 (5.97%) IBM
5 4 (5.97%) SAP
6 3 (4.48%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.99%) Facebook
7 2 (2.99%) IBM Sterling
7 2 (2.99%) MuleSoft
7 2 (2.99%) VMware
8 1 (1.49%) Arista
8 1 (1.49%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (1.49%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.49%) Meraki
8 1 (1.49%) Nimble Storage
8 1 (1.49%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.49%) UiPath