B2C Contracts

B2C (Business-to-Consumer)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 399 407 462
Rank change year-on-year +8 +55 +52
Contract jobs citing B2C 120 195 256
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.45% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.52% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 123 169
10th Percentile £360 £400 £400
25th Percentile £455 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £675 £600 £638
90th Percentile £723 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £519 £550
% change year-on-year +6.02% -5.68% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Median hourly rate - £13.94 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - -60.17% -46.55%
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £13.94 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,551 37,621 53,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.82% 86.30% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,137 24,254 37,244
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,437 1,746
10th Percentile £14.70 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%
75th Percentile £62.00 £59.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.45% +1.39% +80.00%

B2C
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing B2C as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for B2C in the UK

B2C
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing B2C.

Daily rate trend for B2C in the UK

B2C
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing B2C over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for B2C in the UK

B2C
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing B2C.

Hourly rate trend for B2C in the UK

B2C
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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 -7 109 £550 +7.32% 267
London -20 71 £550 +6.28% 159
Work from Home +9 41 £550 +8.64% 147
UK excluding London +40 37 £550 +6.02% 110
South East +39 26 £650 +23.81% 25
Scotland +10 4 £475 -29.63% 3
Midlands +24 3 £550 +22.91% 15
North of England +23 3 £514 +14.22% 55
East Midlands +12 3 £550 +11.11% 7
North West +7 3 £514 +14.22% 36
East of England +28 1 £463 -4.64% 1

B2C
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 7 (5.83%) CMS
2 4 (3.33%) Confluence
3 3 (2.50%) Headless CMS
4 2 (1.67%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.83%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.83%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (2.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (1.67%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (1.67%) Adobe Premiere
2 2 (1.67%) InDesign
2 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.67%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.83%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.83%) Fusion 360
3 1 (0.83%) Sketch
3 1 (0.83%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 5 (4.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.67%) Magento
3 1 (0.83%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.83%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 30 (25.00%) Azure
2 23 (19.17%) Entra ID
3 7 (5.83%) Dynamics 365
3 7 (5.83%) Figma
3 7 (5.83%) SaaS
4 6 (5.00%) Azure API Management
4 6 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (5.00%) Google Analytics
5 5 (4.17%) AWS
5 5 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
5 5 (4.17%) Power Platform
6 4 (3.33%) Contentful
6 4 (3.33%) Power Automate
6 4 (3.33%) PowerApps
7 3 (2.50%) Contentstack
7 3 (2.50%) prismic.io
8 2 (1.67%) Apple Pay
8 2 (1.67%) Azure AKS
8 2 (1.67%) PaaS
9 1 (0.83%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.50%) SMS
2 2 (1.67%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.83%) DNS
3 1 (0.83%) Firewall
3 1 (0.83%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.50%) MongoDB
3 3 (2.50%) SSDT
4 1 (0.83%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.83%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.83%) Power BI
4 1 (0.83%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (5.00%) Git
2 3 (2.50%) JIRA
3 2 (1.67%) Balsamiq
3 2 (1.67%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.83%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.83%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.83%) Postman
4 1 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 53 (44.17%) Social Skills
2 37 (30.83%) Marketing
3 18 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (13.33%) Finance
5 13 (10.83%) Retail
6 12 (10.00%) Legal
7 7 (5.83%) Telecoms
8 5 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (4.17%) Public Sector
9 4 (3.33%) Banking
9 4 (3.33%) Law
10 3 (2.50%) Automotive
10 3 (2.50%) French Language
10 3 (2.50%) German Language
10 3 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.83%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.83%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.83%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (16.67%) Developer
2 11 (9.17%) Architect
3 10 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
4 9 (7.50%) Analyst
4 9 (7.50%) Lead
4 9 (7.50%) Product Manager
4 9 (7.50%) Senior
5 8 (6.67%) Designer
6 7 (5.83%) Project Manager
7 6 (5.00%) Backend Developer
7 6 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (4.17%) Data Protection Officer
8 5 (4.17%) Product Designer
9 4 (3.33%) Analytics Manager
9 4 (3.33%) Android Developer
9 4 (3.33%) Consultant
9 4 (3.33%) Data Analyst
9 4 (3.33%) E-Commerce Manager
9 4 (3.33%) Product Owner
10 3 (2.50%) IAM Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.33%) React
2 7 (5.83%) HTML
2 7 (5.83%) OAuth
3 6 (5.00%) FastAPI
3 6 (5.00%) REST
4 5 (4.17%) .NET
4 5 (4.17%) AngularJS
4 5 (4.17%) CSS
5 4 (3.33%) ASP.NET
5 4 (3.33%) GraphQL
5 4 (3.33%) YAML
6 3 (2.50%) .NET Framework
6 3 (2.50%) ASP.NET MVC
6 3 (2.50%) ASP.NET MVC 5
6 3 (2.50%) ASP.NET Web API
6 3 (2.50%) Blazor
7 2 (1.67%) Android Jetpack
7 2 (1.67%) Next.js
7 2 (1.67%) RESTful
7 2 (1.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (13.33%) Product Ownership
2 10 (8.33%) Mobile App
3 9 (7.50%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (5.83%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (4.17%) Social Media
6 4 (3.33%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.50%) Acoustics
8 2 (1.67%) Animation
8 2 (1.67%) Digital Wallet
8 2 (1.67%) Motion Graphics
8 2 (1.67%) Photography
9 1 (0.83%) Augmented Reality
9 1 (0.83%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.83%) EPoS
9 1 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.83%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.83%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.83%) Video Editing
9 1 (0.83%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.83%) Android
2 4 (3.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (38.33%) B2B
2 29 (24.17%) User Experience
3 28 (23.33%) Agile
4 27 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (16.67%) E-Commerce
6 17 (14.17%) Analytics
6 17 (14.17%) RBAC
6 17 (14.17%) Stakeholder Management
7 16 (13.33%) DevOps
8 15 (12.50%) Identity Management
9 14 (11.67%) CI/CD
9 14 (11.67%) Customer Experience
10 13 (10.83%) Artificial Intelligence
10 13 (10.83%) Roadmaps
11 12 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
11 12 (10.00%) Scrum
12 11 (9.17%) CRM
12 11 (9.17%) Data Protection
12 11 (9.17%) Project Management
13 9 (7.50%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 17 (14.17%) SQL
2 14 (11.67%) JavaScript
3 13 (10.83%) Python
4 9 (7.50%) C#
5 6 (5.00%) PowerShell
6 5 (4.17%) Kotlin
7 4 (3.33%) R
8 2 (1.67%) Swift
8 2 (1.67%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.83%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.83%) Java
Qualifications
1 16 (13.33%) Degree
2 9 (7.50%) Azure Certification
3 6 (5.00%) ISEB
4 4 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.83%) CISM
6 1 (0.83%) CISSP
6 1 (0.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.83%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.00%) GDPR
2 4 (3.33%) QA
3 2 (1.67%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.67%) PMO
3 2 (1.67%) PSD2
3 2 (1.67%) SLA
4 1 (0.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.83%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.83%) NIST
4 1 (0.83%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (14.17%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (4.17%) Terraform
3 2 (1.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (1.67%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.83%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 19 (15.83%) Microsoft
2 13 (10.83%) Adobe
3 4 (3.33%) Salesforce
3 4 (3.33%) Workday
4 3 (2.50%) UiPath
5 2 (1.67%) Apple
5 2 (1.67%) Ceridian
5 2 (1.67%) Google
5 2 (1.67%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.67%) SAP
6 1 (0.83%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.83%) CyberArk
6 1 (0.83%) Dell
6 1 (0.83%) Okta
6 1 (0.83%) OneTrust
6 1 (0.83%) Optimizely