B2C Contracts in the UK excluding London

B2C (Business-to-Consumer)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for B2C skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited B2C over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 345 379 416
Rank change year-on-year +34 +37 -49
Contract jobs citing B2C 50 86 111
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.24% 0.35% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.39% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 66 68
10th Percentile £363 £406 £406
25th Percentile £485 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £638 £575
90th Percentile £700 £700 £641
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £62.36
25th Percentile - - £63.20
Median hourly rate £13.94 - £65.49
75th Percentile - - £66.88
90th Percentile - - £67.17
UK median hourly rate £13.94 £35.00 £65.49
% change year-on-year -60.17% -46.55% +45.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

B2C is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,670 21,826 27,870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.98% 89.54% 88.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,665 15,130 19,465
10th Percentile £248 £250 £230
25th Percentile £381 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,010 1,339 1,382
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.13 £16.20 £13.87
Median hourly rate £35.00 £36.00 £19.96
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +80.41% -7.83%
75th Percentile £59.99 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £71.80 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £36.31 £25.00
% change year-on-year -3.59% +45.22% -

B2C
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing B2C as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for B2C in the UK excluding London

B2C
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing B2C in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for B2C in the UK excluding London

B2C
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing B2C in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for B2C in the UK excluding London

B2C
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing B2C in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for B2C in the UK excluding London

B2C
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 B2C within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 April 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
South East +13 27 £525 -12.50% 29
North of England +17 8 £450 -5.26% 35
North West +14 7 £450 -5.26% 24
East of England +16 6 £485 -22.40% 10
Scotland +38 3 £675 +28.57% 8
Midlands +36 3 £448 +5.29% 18
South West +13 3 £700 +12.00% 9
West Midlands +27 2 £400 -5.88% 9
Yorkshire +9 1 - - 5
East Midlands - 1 £495 - 9
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1
B2C
UK

B2C
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 2 (4.00%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Shopify
2 1 (2.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 12 (24.00%) Azure
2 8 (16.00%) Azure Monitor
3 7 (14.00%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (14.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 6 (12.00%) Azure API Management
4 6 (12.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (12.00%) Azure Functions
4 6 (12.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 6 (12.00%) Serverless
5 5 (10.00%) SuccessFactors
6 4 (8.00%) GitHub
6 4 (8.00%) SaaS
7 3 (6.00%) AWS
7 3 (6.00%) Entra ID
7 3 (6.00%) GCP
7 3 (6.00%) PaaS
8 2 (4.00%) Google Analytics
9 1 (2.00%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (2.00%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (2.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.00%) HTTP
2 1 (2.00%) DNS
2 1 (2.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (6.00%) NoSQL
3 3 (6.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.00%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (10.00%) Visual Studio
2 4 (8.00%) Git
2 4 (8.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.00%) JIRA
4 1 (2.00%) Hudson
4 1 (2.00%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 17 (34.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (26.00%) Marketing
3 8 (16.00%) Retail
4 6 (12.00%) Law
4 6 (12.00%) Legal
4 6 (12.00%) Manufacturing
5 3 (6.00%) Telecoms
6 2 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.00%) Billing
6 2 (4.00%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.00%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 13 (26.00%) Developer
2 5 (10.00%) Analyst
2 5 (10.00%) Business Analyst
2 5 (10.00%) Integration Developer
3 4 (8.00%) Architect
3 4 (8.00%) Coordinator
3 4 (8.00%) E-Commerce Developer
3 4 (8.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 4 (8.00%) Technical Coordinator
3 4 (8.00%) Technical Support
4 3 (6.00%) Azure Developer
4 3 (6.00%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (6.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 3 (6.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 3 (6.00%) Project Manager
4 3 (6.00%) Senior
4 3 (6.00%) Software Developer
4 3 (6.00%) Software Engineer
5 2 (4.00%) E-Commerce Engineer
5 2 (4.00%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.00%) ARM Templates
1 6 (12.00%) OAuth
1 6 (12.00%) OpenID
1 6 (12.00%) REST
2 5 (10.00%) .NET
2 5 (10.00%) SOAP
3 4 (8.00%) JSON
3 4 (8.00%) React
4 3 (6.00%) SAML
4 3 (6.00%) XML
5 2 (4.00%) Ruby on Rails
6 1 (2.00%) .NET Framework
6 1 (2.00%) CSS
6 1 (2.00%) Entity Framework
6 1 (2.00%) HTML
6 1 (2.00%) LDAP
6 1 (2.00%) Node.js
6 1 (2.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.00%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (8.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.00%) Over-the-Top Content
4 1 (2.00%) Replication
4 1 (2.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.00%) Windows
1 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (26.00%) B2B
2 10 (20.00%) DevOps
2 10 (20.00%) E-Commerce
3 8 (16.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (16.00%) Data Protection
4 7 (14.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (12.00%) Collaborative Working
5 6 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (12.00%) Data Management
5 6 (12.00%) Data Privacy
5 6 (12.00%) Data Sharing
5 6 (12.00%) Impact Assessments
5 6 (12.00%) Information Security
5 6 (12.00%) Software Engineering
6 5 (10.00%) Agile
6 5 (10.00%) Application Security
6 5 (10.00%) Break/Fix
6 5 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
6 5 (10.00%) Security Testing
6 5 (10.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 9 (18.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (10.00%) C#
2 5 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (10.00%) SQL
3 3 (6.00%) Bash
3 3 (6.00%) Bicep
3 3 (6.00%) TypeScript
4 2 (4.00%) Java
4 2 (4.00%) Ruby
5 1 (2.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (12.00%) ISEB
2 1 (2.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.00%) Degree
2 1 (2.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (18.00%) GDPR
2 2 (4.00%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (6.00%) zsh
2 2 (4.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.00%) Docker
3 1 (2.00%) OpenAM
3 1 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (2.00%) Ansible
1 1 (2.00%) FreeIPA
1 1 (2.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.00%) Google
3 2 (4.00%) SAP
3 2 (4.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.00%) BMC
4 1 (2.00%) Databricks
4 1 (2.00%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (2.00%) Remedy