B2B Contracts

Business-to-Business (B2B)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring B2B skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited B2B over the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 306 327 377
Rank change year-on-year +21 +50 +20
Contract jobs citing B2B 260 286 327
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.79% 0.67% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 0.78% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 151 187
10th Percentile £327 £231 £310
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.04%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £607
90th Percentile £750 £675 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £485 £525
% change year-on-year -14.95% -7.62% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 10 7
10th Percentile - £15.04 £30.20
25th Percentile £25.25 £18.16 £39.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £30.25 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.01% -36.98% -1.14%
75th Percentile £46.75 £44.69 £53.25
90th Percentile £57.35 £68.75 £60.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £15.23 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

B2B 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 29,604 36,487 50,414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.43% 85.35% 89.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,633 23,275 34,708
10th Percentile £300 £304 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% +0.73%
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% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,516 2,444 1,698
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £13.17
25th Percentile £17.45 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% -4.70% +53.85%
75th Percentile £53.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £76.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.62 £38.12 £37.93
% change year-on-year -35.41% +0.51% +77.30%

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 13 July 2025.

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 13 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for B2B in the UK

B2B
Top 15 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 13 July 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 +5 223 £500 - 2,138
London +29 151 £500 -1.67% 1,261
Work from Home +26 93 £513 +5.67% 999
UK excluding London -17 66 £413 -14.95% 1,042
North of England +10 28 £500 +29.03% 292
South East +10 17 £504 -1.76% 300
North West +3 15 £488 +8.33% 167
Midlands +14 14 £382 +60.95% 168
Yorkshire +10 10 £493 +14.00% 96
East Midlands - 9 £382 - 61
West Midlands +10 5 - - 106
South West +38 4 £419 - 91
North East -5 3 £750 +294.74% 32
Northern Ireland -7 2 £350 - 13
Scotland -4 1 £388 -32.61% 56

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 10 (3.85%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.46%) Mattermost
2 9 (3.46%) Skype for Business
3 5 (1.92%) CMS
4 4 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.77%) Confluence
6 1 (0.38%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.38%) IIS
6 1 (0.38%) JBoss
6 1 (0.38%) Smallworld
Applications
1 9 (3.46%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (2.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 5 (1.92%) Adobe Illustrator
4 5 (1.92%) Adobe Premiere
4 5 (1.92%) InDesign
4 5 (1.92%) Photoshop
5 4 (1.54%) Chatbot
5 4 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
6 3 (1.15%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.38%) InVision
7 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.38%) Sketch
7 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.38%) SPSS
7 1 (0.38%) Stata
7 1 (0.38%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 17 (6.54%) Shopify
2 8 (3.08%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (2.31%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (1.92%) Oracle Retail
5 2 (0.77%) Magento
5 2 (0.77%) Workfront
6 1 (0.38%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.38%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.38%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 38 (14.62%) Azure
2 32 (12.31%) SaaS
3 26 (10.00%) AWS
4 19 (7.31%) GCP
5 17 (6.54%) BigCommerce
6 13 (5.00%) Entra ID
6 13 (5.00%) Figma
7 12 (4.62%) Dynamics 365
8 8 (3.08%) Power Platform
9 7 (2.69%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (2.69%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (2.69%) Serverless
10 6 (2.31%) Google Analytics
11 5 (1.92%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 4 (1.54%) Adobe Analytics
12 4 (1.54%) OneDrive
12 4 (1.54%) Power Automate
12 4 (1.54%) PowerApps
13 3 (1.15%) Azure Service Bus
13 3 (1.15%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.38%) Firewall
2 12 (4.62%) Skype
3 10 (3.85%) Unified Communications
4 9 (3.46%) Softphone
4 9 (3.46%) WebEx
5 8 (3.08%) VPN
6 7 (2.69%) Network Security
7 6 (2.31%) DNS
7 6 (2.31%) SSL
8 4 (1.54%) HTTPS
8 4 (1.54%) IPsec
8 4 (1.54%) WAN
8 4 (1.54%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (1.15%) Cisco IOS
9 3 (1.15%) DMZ
9 3 (1.15%) DWDM
9 3 (1.15%) Internet
9 3 (1.15%) L2TP
9 3 (1.15%) Multicast
9 3 (1.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (0.77%) Power BI
2 2 (0.77%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.77%) Tableau
3 1 (0.38%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.38%) GIS
3 1 (0.38%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.38%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 7 (2.69%) Jenkins
2 6 (2.31%) JIRA
3 4 (1.54%) Git
4 3 (1.15%) GitLab
4 3 (1.15%) Postman
4 3 (1.15%) webpack
5 2 (0.77%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.77%) CircleCI
5 2 (0.77%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.77%) Grunt
5 2 (0.77%) JMeter
5 2 (0.77%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.38%) Axure RP
6 1 (0.38%) Babel
6 1 (0.38%) ESLint
6 1 (0.38%) Gradle
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.38%) Subversion
General
1 102 (39.23%) Social Skills
2 61 (23.46%) Marketing
3 46 (17.69%) Finance
4 40 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (14.23%) Retail
6 16 (6.15%) Telecoms
7 13 (5.00%) Brand Awareness
7 13 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (4.62%) Public Sector
9 10 (3.85%) Banking
9 10 (3.85%) Manufacturing
10 9 (3.46%) Legal
11 7 (2.69%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (2.31%) Advertising
12 6 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (1.54%) Billing
14 4 (1.54%) French Language
14 4 (1.54%) German Language
15 3 (1.15%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 35 (13.46%) Architect
2 21 (8.08%) Analyst
2 21 (8.08%) Senior
3 18 (6.92%) Developer
4 14 (5.38%) Lead
4 14 (5.38%) Product Manager
5 13 (5.00%) Business Analyst
6 12 (4.62%) Project Manager
6 12 (4.62%) Support Engineer
7 11 (4.23%) Designer
8 10 (3.85%) Marketing Manager
8 10 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
9 9 (3.46%) Consultant
9 9 (3.46%) Messaging Engineer
9 9 (3.46%) Messaging Support
9 9 (3.46%) Messaging Support Engineer
9 9 (3.46%) Salesforce Architect
10 8 (3.08%) Operations Engineer
10 8 (3.08%) Operations Support Engineer
10 8 (3.08%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.54%) VML
2 14 (5.38%) React
3 11 (4.23%) Node.js
4 10 (3.85%) OAuth
4 10 (3.85%) REST
5 9 (3.46%) EDI
5 9 (3.46%) SAML
5 9 (3.46%) XMPP
6 8 (3.08%) OpenID
7 7 (2.69%) .NET
7 7 (2.69%) HTML
7 7 (2.69%) Middleware
7 7 (2.69%) OAuth2
8 5 (1.92%) CSS
8 5 (1.92%) LDAP
8 5 (1.92%) RESTful
9 4 (1.54%) FastAPI
9 4 (1.54%) GraphQL
9 4 (1.54%) SOAP
9 4 (1.54%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (9.23%) Product Ownership
2 16 (6.15%) Onboarding
3 11 (4.23%) Management Information System
3 11 (4.23%) Social Media
4 8 (3.08%) Cloud Native
4 8 (3.08%) Mobile App
5 7 (2.69%) Photography
6 6 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (1.92%) Animation
7 5 (1.92%) Digital Media
7 5 (1.92%) Educational Technology
7 5 (1.92%) Motion Graphics
7 5 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.54%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.15%) Blog
9 3 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.15%) Marketing Technology
9 3 (1.15%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.77%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.77%) Linux
2 7 (2.69%) Windows
3 6 (2.31%) Unix
4 4 (1.54%) Android
4 4 (1.54%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.15%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.77%) CentOS
6 2 (0.77%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.38%) AIX
7 1 (0.38%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (23.08%) B2C
1 60 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
2 46 (17.69%) Stakeholder Management
3 41 (15.77%) Agile
4 37 (14.23%) Roadmaps
5 32 (12.31%) E-Commerce
6 31 (11.92%) Project Management
7 29 (11.15%) DevOps
8 28 (10.77%) CI/CD
9 27 (10.38%) Artificial Intelligence
10 25 (9.62%) Analytics
11 22 (8.46%) CRM
11 22 (8.46%) Decision-Making
11 22 (8.46%) User Experience
12 21 (8.08%) Migration
13 19 (7.31%) Product Management
14 18 (6.92%) Microservices
15 17 (6.54%) B2B Marketing
15 17 (6.54%) Customer Acquisition
16 16 (6.15%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 20 (7.69%) JavaScript
1 20 (7.69%) PowerShell
2 19 (7.31%) Python
2 19 (7.31%) SQL
3 12 (4.62%) TypeScript
4 9 (3.46%) C#
5 8 (3.08%) ActionScript
5 8 (3.08%) ActionScript 2.0
5 8 (3.08%) Java
6 4 (1.54%) Perl
7 3 (1.15%) Bash
7 3 (1.15%) C
8 2 (0.77%) Apex Code
8 2 (0.77%) Korn
8 2 (0.77%) PHP
9 1 (0.38%) Groovy
9 1 (0.38%) Magik
9 1 (0.38%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.38%) Rust
9 1 (0.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (8.85%) Degree
2 11 (4.23%) ITIL Certification
3 6 (2.31%) Azure Certification
4 4 (1.54%) CCNP
4 4 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.15%) CCIE
5 3 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.15%) IBM Certification
6 1 (0.38%) CCNA
6 1 (0.38%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.38%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.38%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.08%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.54%) GDPR
2 4 (1.54%) QA
3 3 (1.15%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.77%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (0.77%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.38%) NIST
5 1 (0.38%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.38%) PMO
5 1 (0.38%) SOC 2
System Software
1 25 (9.62%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.46%) Docker
3 5 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.77%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.77%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
2 10 (3.85%) SCOM
2 10 (3.85%) Terraform
3 9 (3.46%) Kubernetes
4 8 (3.08%) Ansible
5 6 (2.31%) Puppet
6 4 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.15%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.77%) CASB
8 2 (0.77%) Grafana
8 2 (0.77%) NetBackup
8 2 (0.77%) PingFederate
8 2 (0.77%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.77%) Salt
8 2 (0.77%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.38%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (0.38%) Nagios
9 1 (0.38%) vRealize
9 1 (0.38%) VxRail
Vendors
1 50 (19.23%) Salesforce
2 34 (13.08%) Adobe
2 34 (13.08%) SAP
3 33 (12.69%) Microsoft
4 17 (6.54%) Google
4 17 (6.54%) Sitecore
5 16 (6.15%) Splunk
6 13 (5.00%) Cisco
7 12 (4.62%) Red Hat
8 10 (3.85%) Oracle
9 9 (3.46%) IBM
10 6 (2.31%) IBM Sterling
10 6 (2.31%) MuleSoft
11 5 (1.92%) ForgeRock
11 5 (1.92%) Fortinet
11 5 (1.92%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.92%) VMware
12 4 (1.54%) Facebook
12 4 (1.54%) Palo Alto
12 4 (1.54%) Workday