B2C Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 298 348 377
Rank change year-on-year +50 +29 +23
Contract jobs citing B2C 38 51 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.30% 0.25% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.29% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 30 64
10th Percentile £355 £361 £406
25th Percentile £459 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.02% -5.68% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £575 £638
90th Percentile £688 £653 £696
UK median daily rate £550 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +7.32% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £13.94 -
UK median hourly rate - £13.94 £35.00
% change year-on-year - -60.17% -46.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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 1 May 2025.

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 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
South East +43 27 £650 +23.81% 68
Scotland +14 4 £475 -29.63% 5
Midlands +22 3 £550 +22.91% 18
North of England +14 3 £514 +14.22% 52
North West +13 3 £514 +14.22% 34
East Midlands +12 3 £550 +11.11% 7
East of England +25 1 £463 -4.64% 8
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 4 (10.53%) Confluence
2 1 (2.63%) CMS
2 1 (2.63%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 11 (28.95%) Azure
2 8 (21.05%) Entra ID
3 6 (15.79%) Azure API Management
4 5 (13.16%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (5.26%) Azure AKS
5 2 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.26%) SaaS
6 1 (2.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (2.63%) Azure Functions
6 1 (2.63%) Cloudflare
6 1 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.63%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.63%) Serverless
6 1 (2.63%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.63%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.89%) SMS
2 2 (5.26%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.79%) SQL Server
2 5 (13.16%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (7.89%) SSDT
4 1 (2.63%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.63%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.63%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (7.89%) Git
1 3 (7.89%) JIRA
2 2 (5.26%) Balsamiq
3 1 (2.63%) Postman
General
1 19 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (31.58%) Marketing
3 8 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (21.05%) Legal
4 7 (18.42%) Telecoms
5 5 (13.16%) Finance
6 4 (10.53%) Retail
7 3 (7.89%) Automotive
7 3 (7.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (7.89%) Law
8 2 (5.26%) Public Sector
9 1 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (2.63%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (15.79%) Developer
2 5 (13.16%) Data Protection Officer
2 5 (13.16%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (13.16%) Project Manager
3 4 (10.53%) Analyst
3 4 (10.53%) Senior
4 3 (7.89%) .NET Developer
4 3 (7.89%) Communications Specialist
5 2 (5.26%) Backend Developer
5 2 (5.26%) Consultant
5 2 (5.26%) Lead
5 2 (5.26%) Lead DevOps
5 2 (5.26%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Product Manager
5 2 (5.26%) Product Owner
5 2 (5.26%) Service Analyst
5 2 (5.26%) Service Desk Analyst
6 1 (2.63%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.63%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
6 1 (2.63%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.16%) OAuth
2 4 (10.53%) .NET
2 4 (10.53%) ASP.NET
2 4 (10.53%) REST
3 3 (7.89%) .NET Framework
3 3 (7.89%) AngularJS
3 3 (7.89%) ASP.NET MVC
3 3 (7.89%) ASP.NET MVC 5
3 3 (7.89%) ASP.NET Web API
3 3 (7.89%) Blazor
3 3 (7.89%) React
3 3 (7.89%) YAML
4 2 (5.26%) FastAPI
5 1 (2.63%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (2.63%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.42%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (10.53%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.63%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.63%) EPoS
3 1 (2.63%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (28.95%) DevOps
2 10 (26.32%) B2B
3 9 (23.68%) Data Protection
3 9 (23.68%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (18.42%) Agile
4 7 (18.42%) CI/CD
4 7 (18.42%) Containerisation
5 6 (15.79%) Artificial Intelligence
5 6 (15.79%) Data Privacy
5 6 (15.79%) Impact Assessments
6 5 (13.16%) Customer Experience
6 5 (13.16%) Data Loss Prevention
6 5 (13.16%) E-Commerce
6 5 (13.16%) ETL
6 5 (13.16%) Identity Management
6 5 (13.16%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (13.16%) RBAC
6 5 (13.16%) Release Management
6 5 (13.16%) Roadmaps
6 5 (13.16%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.79%) SQL
2 5 (13.16%) PowerShell
3 4 (10.53%) C#
3 4 (10.53%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (15.79%) Degree
1 6 (15.79%) ISEB
2 5 (13.16%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) GDPR
2 3 (7.89%) QA
3 2 (5.26%) SLA
4 1 (2.63%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (7.89%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (13.16%) Terraform
2 3 (7.89%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.89%) UiPath
3 1 (2.63%) Adobe
3 1 (2.63%) Atlassian