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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 336 352 377
Rank change year-on-year +16 +25 -12
Contract jobs citing B2C 56 94 129
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.41% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.46% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 76 81
10th Percentile £363 £409 £406
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £514
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +7.00% +2.80%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £594
90th Percentile £650 £706 £638
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £62.92
25th Percentile - - £64.58
Median hourly rate - - £67.36
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 £67.36
% change year-on-year - -48.04% +49.69%

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 17,285 20,362 27,188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.51% 89.30% 89.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,280 13,968 18,972
10th Percentile £250 £260 £238
25th Percentile £375 £400 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £486
Median % change year-on-year - +2.87% +9.23%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £690 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,123 1,246 1,358
10th Percentile £12.40 £10.63 £12.39
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.40
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.25 £62.33
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £37.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year -1.35% +44.08% +7.00%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -5 31 £525 -10.64% 18
North of England +15 12 £500 +5.26% 36
North West +12 7 £525 +10.53% 25
East of England +11 6 £485 +12.79% 4
Yorkshire +10 5 £400 -36.00% 9
Scotland +35 4 £650 - 2
Midlands +22 3 £448 +5.29% 15
West Midlands +16 2 £400 -5.88% 7
South West -9 1 £575 -11.54% 7
East Midlands - 1 £495 - 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 2 (3.57%) Umbraco
1 2 (3.57%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (8.93%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Shopify
2 1 (1.79%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 12 (21.43%) Azure
2 5 (8.93%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (8.93%) Azure Logic Apps
2 5 (8.93%) Azure Monitor
2 5 (8.93%) SuccessFactors
3 4 (7.14%) Azure API Management
3 4 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (7.14%) Azure Functions
3 4 (7.14%) Azure Key Vault
3 4 (7.14%) GCP
3 4 (7.14%) GitHub
3 4 (7.14%) SaaS
3 4 (7.14%) Serverless
4 3 (5.36%) Entra ID
5 2 (3.57%) AWS
5 2 (3.57%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (3.57%) Google Analytics
5 2 (3.57%) PaaS
5 2 (3.57%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.57%) HTTP
1 2 (3.57%) Internet
1 2 (3.57%) IP Telephony
1 2 (3.57%) PBX
1 2 (3.57%) TCP/IP
1 2 (3.57%) Unified Communications
1 2 (3.57%) VoIP
2 1 (1.79%) DNS
2 1 (1.79%) Firewall
2 1 (1.79%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.93%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (5.36%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.79%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.79%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.79%) Power BI
3 1 (1.79%) Redis
3 1 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (7.14%) Git
1 4 (7.14%) JIRA
2 3 (5.36%) Jenkins
2 3 (5.36%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.79%) Hudson
3 1 (1.79%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 22 (39.29%) Social Skills
2 16 (28.57%) Marketing
3 11 (19.64%) Retail
4 8 (14.29%) Manufacturing
5 7 (12.50%) Legal
6 6 (10.71%) Law
7 5 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (8.93%) Telecoms
8 3 (5.36%) Automotive
9 2 (3.57%) Billing
9 2 (3.57%) Finance
9 2 (3.57%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.79%) German Language
10 1 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (25.00%) Developer
2 8 (14.29%) Analyst
3 6 (10.71%) Business Analyst
4 5 (8.93%) Architect
5 4 (7.14%) Coordinator
5 4 (7.14%) E-Commerce Developer
5 4 (7.14%) Integration Developer
5 4 (7.14%) Project Manager
5 4 (7.14%) Technical Coordinator
5 4 (7.14%) Technical Support
6 3 (5.36%) Azure Developer
6 3 (5.36%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) Consultant
6 3 (5.36%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 3 (5.36%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 3 (5.36%) Senior
6 3 (5.36%) Software Developer
6 3 (5.36%) Software Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Shopify Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.14%) ARM Templates
2 3 (5.36%) .NET
2 3 (5.36%) OAuth
2 3 (5.36%) OpenID
2 3 (5.36%) React
2 3 (5.36%) REST
2 3 (5.36%) SOAP
3 2 (3.57%) JSON
3 2 (3.57%) SAML
4 1 (1.79%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.79%) CSS
4 1 (1.79%) Entity Framework
4 1 (1.79%) HTML
4 1 (1.79%) Ruby on Rails
4 1 (1.79%) XML
4 1 (1.79%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.36%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.79%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.79%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.79%) Over-the-Top Content
4 1 (1.79%) Replication
4 1 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.79%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (1.79%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.79%) Windows
1 1 (1.79%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (19.64%) B2B
1 11 (19.64%) E-Commerce
2 9 (16.07%) Data Protection
3 8 (14.29%) Agile
3 8 (14.29%) Data Privacy
4 7 (12.50%) DevOps
4 7 (12.50%) Impact Assessments
4 7 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (10.71%) Collaborative Working
5 6 (10.71%) Data Management
5 6 (10.71%) Data Sharing
5 6 (10.71%) Information Security
5 6 (10.71%) Scrum
5 6 (10.71%) Software Engineering
6 5 (8.93%) CI/CD
6 5 (8.93%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (8.93%) CRM
6 5 (8.93%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (8.93%) Process Improvement
6 5 (8.93%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (10.71%) PowerShell
2 4 (7.14%) JavaScript
2 4 (7.14%) SQL
3 3 (5.36%) Bash
3 3 (5.36%) Bicep
3 3 (5.36%) C#
3 3 (5.36%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.79%) Java
4 1 (1.79%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 7 (12.50%) ISEB
2 1 (1.79%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.79%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (17.86%) GDPR
2 2 (3.57%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.79%) QA
3 1 (1.79%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (5.36%) zsh
2 2 (3.57%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (1.79%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (16.07%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.93%) Google
3 3 (5.36%) SAP
4 2 (3.57%) Cisco
4 2 (3.57%) Mitel
5 1 (1.79%) BMC
5 1 (1.79%) Databricks
5 1 (1.79%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (1.79%) Remedy
5 1 (1.79%) ServiceNow