Business-to-Business (B2B)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for B2B skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited B2B over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 320 372 418
Rank change year-on-year +52 +46 -39
Contract jobs citing B2B 285 361 533
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.65% 0.60% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 0.67% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 217 358
10th Percentile £231 £320 £400
25th Percentile £418 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -6.52% +15.00%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £675
90th Percentile £675 £800 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +2.50% -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 6
10th Percentile £13.09 £31.40 £27.88
25th Percentile £14.26 - £45.25
Median hourly rate £21.69 £44.00 £48.56
Median % change year-on-year -50.70% -9.38% +12.92%
75th Percentile £31.75 - £58.97
90th Percentile £68.75 £48.80 £64.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £13.94 - £11.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

B2B 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,600 53,916 80,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.32% 89.91% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,240 37,368 56,382
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,775 1,932
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -
75th Percentile £59.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +4.29% +75.00% -8.34%

B2B
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for B2B in the UK

B2B
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for B2B in the UK

B2B
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing B2B over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for B2B in the UK

B2B
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for B2B in the UK

B2B
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing B2B over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for B2B in the UK

B2B
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 26 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
England +62 264 £513 -4.65% 778
London +65 152 £533 -5.33% 341
UK excluding London +53 107 £513 +2.50% 468
Work from Home +63 102 £540 +2.86% 370
South East +28 60 £513 -8.89% 115
North of England +16 20 £400 -20.00% 153
North West +9 13 £600 +20.00% 93
East of England +19 12 £543 +5.85% 37
Midlands +22 5 £394 -10.00% 73
South West +18 5 - - 60
West Midlands +28 4 £238 -44.77% 49
North East - 4 £190 - 16
Scotland +32 3 £475 +72.73% 30
Yorkshire +16 3 £432 -12.51% 46
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 6
East Midlands +19 1 £550 -4.35% 24

B2B
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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (2.11%) CMS
2 4 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.05%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.05%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.70%) Anypoint
4 2 (0.70%) Confluence
5 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.35%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.35%) Appian
5 1 (0.35%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (4.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.81%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.75%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 4 (1.40%) Sketch
5 3 (1.05%) InVision
5 3 (1.05%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.70%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.35%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.35%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.35%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.35%) Final Cut Pro
7 1 (0.35%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 29 (10.18%) Shopify
2 11 (3.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (3.51%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (1.05%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (1.05%) SAP Hybris
5 2 (0.70%) Magento
5 2 (0.70%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.70%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.70%) WebTrends
6 1 (0.35%) SAP CAR
6 1 (0.35%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.35%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.35%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 38 (13.33%) Azure
2 27 (9.47%) BigCommerce
3 26 (9.12%) SaaS
4 25 (8.77%) AWS
5 16 (5.61%) Power Platform
6 15 (5.26%) Figma
7 13 (4.56%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (4.56%) GCP
8 10 (3.51%) Dynamics 365
8 10 (3.51%) Entra ID
8 10 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (3.16%) PaaS
10 8 (2.81%) Serverless
11 6 (2.11%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.11%) GitHub
11 6 (2.11%) Mimecast
11 6 (2.11%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
11 6 (2.11%) Snowflake
12 5 (1.75%) IaaS
13 4 (1.40%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 25 (8.77%) DMZ
2 12 (4.21%) Firewall
3 6 (2.11%) Radio Access Network
4 5 (1.75%) 5G
4 5 (1.75%) VoIP
4 5 (1.75%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (1.40%) 3G
5 4 (1.40%) 4G
5 4 (1.40%) SMS
6 2 (0.70%) FTP
7 1 (0.35%) Broadband
7 1 (0.35%) RTP
7 1 (0.35%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.16%) MySQL
2 8 (2.81%) Power BI
3 6 (2.11%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.40%) Tableau
5 3 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.05%) Big Data
5 3 (1.05%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.05%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.05%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.70%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.35%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.35%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.35%) Data Hub
7 1 (0.35%) Metadata
7 1 (0.35%) NonStop SQL
7 1 (0.35%) QlikView
7 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (2.81%) Git
2 6 (2.11%) Jenkins
2 6 (2.11%) Maven
3 2 (0.70%) Bitbucket
3 2 (0.70%) Gradle
3 2 (0.70%) JIRA
3 2 (0.70%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (0.70%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.35%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.35%) Dreamweaver
4 1 (0.35%) GitLab
4 1 (0.35%) gulp
4 1 (0.35%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 75 (26.32%) Marketing
2 74 (25.96%) Social Skills
3 42 (14.74%) Finance
3 42 (14.74%) Retail
4 32 (11.23%) Banking
5 23 (8.07%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (3.86%) Telecoms
8 9 (3.16%) German Language
9 8 (2.81%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (2.81%) Manufacturing
10 7 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (2.46%) French Language
10 7 (2.46%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.40%) Advertising
11 4 (1.40%) Publishing
12 3 (1.05%) Brand Awareness
12 3 (1.05%) Legal
12 3 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.70%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 46 (16.14%) Senior
2 37 (12.98%) Architect
3 36 (12.63%) Analyst
4 30 (10.53%) Network Engineer
5 27 (9.47%) Developer
6 25 (8.77%) Senior Network Engineer
7 22 (7.72%) Designer
8 20 (7.02%) Business Analyst
9 13 (4.56%) Consultant
9 13 (4.56%) Lead
9 13 (4.56%) Product Manager
9 13 (4.56%) Project Manager
9 13 (4.56%) UX Designer
10 12 (4.21%) Solutions Architect
11 11 (3.86%) Salesforce Architect
12 9 (3.16%) Senior Manager
13 8 (2.81%) UI Designer
14 7 (2.46%) Marketing Manager
14 7 (2.46%) Technical Analyst
14 7 (2.46%) UI/UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.67%) VML
2 11 (3.86%) React
3 9 (3.16%) REST
3 9 (3.16%) RESTful
3 9 (3.16%) Web Services
4 8 (2.81%) AngularJS
4 8 (2.81%) CSS
4 8 (2.81%) Lightning Web Components
4 8 (2.81%) Node.js
5 6 (2.11%) HTML
5 6 (2.11%) Spring
6 5 (1.75%) jQuery
7 4 (1.40%) .NET
7 4 (1.40%) J2EE
7 4 (1.40%) Sass
8 3 (1.05%) .NET Framework
8 3 (1.05%) OAuth
8 3 (1.05%) OpenID
8 3 (1.05%) Spring MVC
8 3 (1.05%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 13 (4.56%) Data Centre
2 12 (4.21%) Social Media
3 11 (3.86%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.46%) FMCG
5 7 (2.46%) IoT
5 7 (2.46%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.11%) Mobile App
6 6 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.75%) Renewable Energy
8 4 (1.40%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.40%) EPoS
9 3 (1.05%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.05%) Graphic Design
9 3 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.05%) Marketing Technology
9 3 (1.05%) Mobile Payment
9 3 (1.05%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 2 (0.70%) Digital Wallet
10 2 (0.70%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 18 (6.32%) Windows
2 5 (1.75%) Android
3 4 (1.40%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.40%) Linux
3 4 (1.40%) Unix
4 2 (0.70%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (15.44%) Agile
2 40 (14.04%) Migration
3 38 (13.33%) E-Commerce
4 37 (12.98%) User Experience
5 36 (12.63%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (11.58%) B2C
7 30 (10.53%) CRM
8 28 (9.82%) DevOps
9 27 (9.47%) Customer Acquisition
10 25 (8.77%) Analytics
10 25 (8.77%) Roadmaps
11 24 (8.42%) Technology Strategy
12 23 (8.07%) UX Design
13 22 (7.72%) Stakeholder Management
14 21 (7.37%) Customer Experience
15 20 (7.02%) Project Management
16 18 (6.32%) Project Delivery
17 16 (5.61%) Product Management
18 15 (5.26%) B2B Sales
18 15 (5.26%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (6.32%) TypeScript
2 16 (5.61%) SQL
3 13 (4.56%) JavaScript
4 12 (4.21%) Python
5 11 (3.86%) Java
6 8 (2.81%) C#
7 5 (1.75%) Apex Code
7 5 (1.75%) PHP
8 4 (1.40%) VBA
9 3 (1.05%) Bash
9 3 (1.05%) Objective-C
9 3 (1.05%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.70%) C
10 2 (0.70%) Go
10 2 (0.70%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.70%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.70%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.70%) Swift
11 1 (0.35%) C++
11 1 (0.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (9.47%) Cisco Certification
2 18 (6.32%) Degree
3 6 (2.11%) Azure Certification
3 6 (2.11%) SC Cleared
3 6 (2.11%) Security Cleared
4 5 (1.75%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (0.70%) CCNA
5 2 (0.70%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.70%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.70%) MBA
6 1 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.35%) CBAP
6 1 (0.35%) CSPO
6 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.51%) QA
2 9 (3.16%) SLA
3 7 (2.46%) GDPR
4 4 (1.40%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.40%) PSD2
5 3 (1.05%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.05%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.05%) SEPA
6 2 (0.70%) PMO
7 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 11 (3.86%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.05%) zsh
3 1 (0.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (2.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (1.75%) Terraform
3 2 (0.70%) Ansible
4 1 (0.35%) CASB
4 1 (0.35%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.35%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 56 (19.65%) Salesforce
2 47 (16.49%) SAP
3 39 (13.68%) Microsoft
4 32 (11.23%) CheckPoint
4 32 (11.23%) Cisco
5 31 (10.88%) Adobe
6 27 (9.47%) Arista
6 27 (9.47%) Sitecore
7 13 (4.56%) Google
8 12 (4.21%) Dell
8 12 (4.21%) Intel
9 5 (1.75%) Aruba
9 5 (1.75%) F5
9 5 (1.75%) Meraki
10 4 (1.40%) Apple
10 4 (1.40%) Citrix
10 4 (1.40%) Pardot
11 3 (1.05%) IBM
11 3 (1.05%) Informatica
11 3 (1.05%) MuleSoft