B2B Sales Contracts

Business-to-Business (B2B) Sales
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring B2B Sales skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited B2B Sales over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 516 563 676
Rank change year-on-year +47 +113 +167
Contract jobs citing B2B Sales 6 13 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.020% 0.031% 0.014%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.022% 0.035% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 4
10th Percentile £317 £507 £498
25th Percentile £338 £508 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £519 £600
Median % change year-on-year -29.64% -13.54% -9.43%
75th Percentile £675 £533 £675
90th Percentile £683 £536 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £22.94 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £13.57 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

B2B Sales 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,772 36,679 51,168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.96% 86.19% 89.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,185 23,608 35,479
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,093 2,436 1,692
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £10.64
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.94 £16.10
Median hourly rate £28.00 £36.27 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year -22.81% +1.75% +38.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%

B2B Sales
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing B2B Sales as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for B2B Sales in the UK

B2B Sales
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing B2B Sales.

Daily rate trend for B2B Sales in the UK

B2B Sales
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing B2B Sales over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for B2B Sales in the UK

B2B Sales
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing B2B Sales.

Hourly rate trend for B2B Sales in the UK

B2B Sales
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing B2B Sales within the UK over the 6 months to 17 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
England +55 5 £365 -29.64% 418
London +31 5 £365 -29.64% 206
Work from Home - 1 £675 - 194

B2B Sales
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (16.67%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (50.00%) Marketing
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Retail
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Specialist
2 2 (33.33%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Salesforce Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (16.67%) CRM Manager
3 1 (16.67%) CRM Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Salesforce Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (16.67%) Digital Media
2 1 (16.67%) FMCG
2 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) B2B
2 5 (83.33%) Customer Experience
3 3 (50.00%) Customer Engagement
3 3 (50.00%) Decision-Making
3 3 (50.00%) Presales
3 3 (50.00%) Product Marketing
3 3 (50.00%) Value Proposition
4 2 (33.33%) ERP
5 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (16.67%) Business Strategy
5 1 (16.67%) CRM
5 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
5 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce
5 1 (16.67%) ETL
5 1 (16.67%) IT Strategy
5 1 (16.67%) Personalization
5 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
5 1 (16.67%) Project Management
5 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Apex Code
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Salesforce