B2C (Business-to-Consumer)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 25 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 377 434 510
Rank change year-on-year +57 +76 -2
Contract jobs citing B2C 201 267 372
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.47% 0.47% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.53% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 184 260
10th Percentile £405 £403 £413
25th Percentile £456 £473 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £700 £826
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -4.55% +7.32% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £62.92
25th Percentile - - £64.58
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £67.36
Median % change year-on-year - -48.04% +49.69%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £67.36

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,593 50,587 79,345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.80% 89.68% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,580 35,017 55,732
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.09% +9.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,483 1,675 1,881
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.78 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £37.30 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% +45.25% +9.28%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -4.99%

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 25 May 2024.

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 14 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 25 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
England +45 190 £513 -6.82% 267
London +85 137 £513 -8.89% 149
Work from Home +72 84 £506 -11.18% 141
UK excluding London +14 53 £525 -4.55% 171
South East +2 30 £538 -8.51% 77
North of England +14 10 £500 +5.26% 49
North West +12 7 £525 +10.53% 38
East of England +12 6 £485 +12.79% 6
Scotland +34 4 £650 - 3
Midlands +34 3 £448 +5.29% 22
Yorkshire +4 3 £500 -20.00% 7
West Midlands +12 2 £400 -5.88% 9
South West -4 1 £575 -11.54% 11
East Midlands - 1 £495 - 13

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 12 (5.97%) CMS
2 6 (2.99%) Confluence
3 3 (1.49%) Headless CMS
4 2 (1.00%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (2.99%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.49%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (1.49%) InDesign
3 3 (1.49%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (1.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.00%) Magento
2 2 (1.00%) SAP Hybris
2 2 (1.00%) Shopify
3 1 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 95 (47.26%) Azure
2 75 (37.31%) Entra ID
3 74 (36.82%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (10.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 21 (10.45%) PaaS
5 20 (9.95%) Azure Service Bus
6 14 (6.97%) SaaS
7 13 (6.47%) Dynamics 365
8 10 (4.98%) Azure Monitor
8 10 (4.98%) IaaS
9 9 (4.48%) Serverless
10 8 (3.98%) Azure Functions
10 8 (3.98%) Azure Key Vault
10 8 (3.98%) Azure Logic Apps
11 7 (3.48%) AWS
12 5 (2.49%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (2.49%) GCP
12 5 (2.49%) Power Platform
12 5 (2.49%) SuccessFactors
13 4 (1.99%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.99%) FIX Connectivity
1 4 (1.99%) Internet
2 2 (1.00%) HTTP
2 2 (1.00%) IP Telephony
2 2 (1.00%) Kerberos
2 2 (1.00%) PBX
2 2 (1.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.00%) Unified Communications
2 2 (1.00%) VoIP
3 1 (0.50%) DNS
3 1 (0.50%) Firewall
3 1 (0.50%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (34.33%) SQL Server
2 17 (8.46%) Redis
3 8 (3.98%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (3.48%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.00%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.00%) MySQL
6 1 (0.50%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (0.50%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.50%) Power BI
6 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 17 (8.46%) JIRA
1 17 (8.46%) Visual Studio
2 11 (5.47%) Selenium
2 11 (5.47%) SpecFlow
2 11 (5.47%) WebDriver
3 6 (2.99%) Git
4 4 (1.99%) TeamCity
5 3 (1.49%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.50%) Hudson
6 1 (0.50%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 56 (27.86%) Social Skills
2 39 (19.40%) Marketing
3 17 (8.46%) Retail
4 16 (7.96%) Public Sector
5 15 (7.46%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (4.98%) Manufacturing
7 9 (4.48%) Finance
8 7 (3.48%) Legal
8 7 (3.48%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.99%) Health Technology
9 6 (2.99%) Law
10 5 (2.49%) Local Government
10 5 (2.49%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (1.99%) Billing
11 4 (1.99%) Front Office
11 4 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.49%) Advertising
12 3 (1.49%) Back Office
12 3 (1.49%) French Language
12 3 (1.49%) German Language
Job Titles
1 69 (34.33%) Senior
2 68 (33.83%) Developer
3 41 (20.40%) Senior Developer
4 30 (14.93%) Backend Developer
5 29 (14.43%) Analyst
6 26 (12.94%) Azure Developer
7 22 (10.95%) Architect
7 22 (10.95%) Senior Backend Developer
8 18 (8.96%) Software Developer
9 16 (7.96%) Business Analyst
10 14 (6.97%) Senior Software Developer
11 12 (5.97%) C# Developer
11 12 (5.97%) Project Manager
12 11 (5.47%) Senior Analyst
13 10 (4.98%) Senior Test Analyst
13 10 (4.98%) Solutions Architect
13 10 (4.98%) Test Analyst
14 9 (4.48%) Senior C# Developer
14 9 (4.48%) Software Engineer
15 8 (3.98%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (38.81%) .NET
2 72 (35.82%) XML
3 36 (17.91%) .NET Core
3 36 (17.91%) AngularJS
4 29 (14.43%) .NET Framework
5 24 (11.94%) React
6 22 (10.95%) HTML
7 20 (9.95%) CSS
8 18 (8.96%) REST
9 15 (7.46%) ASP.NET
9 15 (7.46%) ASP.NET Core
10 14 (6.97%) OAuth
10 14 (6.97%) OpenID
11 10 (4.98%) SAML
12 8 (3.98%) SOAP
13 7 (3.48%) ARM Templates
14 6 (2.99%) JSON
14 6 (2.99%) Microsoft Graph
15 4 (1.99%) FIX Protocol
16 3 (1.49%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (20.40%) Product Ownership
2 15 (7.46%) Mobile App
3 11 (5.47%) Video\Live Streaming
4 8 (3.98%) Over-the-Top Content
5 7 (3.48%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.99%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.99%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.99%) Derivative
8 4 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.99%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.99%) Mobile Payment
9 3 (1.49%) Acoustics
9 3 (1.49%) Animation
9 3 (1.49%) Digital Media
9 3 (1.49%) Graphic Design
9 3 (1.49%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.50%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.50%) Contactless
10 1 (0.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.99%) Linux
1 4 (1.99%) Unix
2 1 (0.50%) Android
2 1 (0.50%) Windows
2 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (47.26%) Agile
2 82 (40.80%) Scrum
3 77 (38.31%) DevOps
4 68 (33.83%) CI/CD
5 29 (14.43%) B2B
6 23 (11.44%) User Experience
7 21 (10.45%) E-Commerce
8 18 (8.96%) Test Automation
9 17 (8.46%) Digital Marketing
10 16 (7.96%) Project Delivery
10 16 (7.96%) Software Engineering
11 15 (7.46%) CRM
11 15 (7.46%) Roadmaps
11 15 (7.46%) SDLC
12 14 (6.97%) Project Management
13 12 (5.97%) Collaborative Working
14 11 (5.47%) Performance Testing
14 11 (5.47%) Stakeholder Management
15 10 (4.98%) Business Analysis
15 10 (4.98%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 75 (37.31%) C#
2 70 (34.83%) PowerShell
3 37 (18.41%) Bicep
4 31 (15.42%) JavaScript
5 20 (9.95%) TypeScript
6 18 (8.96%) SQL
7 6 (2.99%) Java
8 3 (1.49%) Bash
9 2 (1.00%) PHP
9 2 (1.00%) Python
10 1 (0.50%) C++
10 1 (0.50%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 12 (5.97%) Degree
2 7 (3.48%) ISEB
3 4 (1.99%) SC Cleared
3 4 (1.99%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.00%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.00%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.00%) MBA
5 1 (0.50%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.47%) GDPR
2 8 (3.98%) QA
3 4 (1.99%) PMO
4 2 (1.00%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (1.00%) WCAG
5 1 (0.50%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.50%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 68 (33.83%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.49%) zsh
3 1 (0.50%) Docker
3 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (5.47%) Single Sign-On
2 6 (2.99%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.49%) Terraform
Vendors
1 78 (38.81%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.98%) MuleSoft
3 5 (2.49%) Google
3 5 (2.49%) SAP
4 4 (1.99%) Bloomberg
4 4 (1.99%) ION Trading
4 4 (1.99%) MarketAxess
4 4 (1.99%) Tradeweb
5 3 (1.49%) Adobe
5 3 (1.49%) Databricks
5 3 (1.49%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.00%) Cisco
6 2 (1.00%) Mitel
6 2 (1.00%) Okta
6 2 (1.00%) Workday
7 1 (0.50%) BMC
7 1 (0.50%) IBM
7 1 (0.50%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (0.50%) OneTrust
7 1 (0.50%) ServiceNow