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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 419 396 424
Rank change year-on-year -23 +28 +114
Contract jobs citing B2C 111 198 276
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.37% 0.45% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.53% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 126 200
10th Percentile £362 £388 £406
25th Percentile £456 £450 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £506 £563
Median % change year-on-year +6.42% -10.00% +2.27%
75th Percentile £666 £589 £650
90th Percentile £725 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £532 £506 £575
% change year-on-year +5.09% -11.96% +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 27,473 37,081 49,734
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 91.06% 85.12% 89.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,374 23,644 34,319
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.85%
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% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,294 2,582 1,699
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.65 £11.45
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.06 £15.83
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £54.56 £61.30 £64.50
90th Percentile £70.92 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.83 £38.12 £32.50
% change year-on-year -34.86% +17.29% +54.76%

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 June 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 12 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 June 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 -16 96 £545 +9.00% 460
London -21 65 £533 +3.90% 280
Work from Home +19 47 £550 +10.00% 239
UK excluding London +24 31 £532 +5.09% 198
South East +29 16 £625 +20.48% 75
North of England +15 7 £513 +2.50% 77
North West +3 6 £513 -6.68% 42
Scotland +8 5 £438 -20.45% 4
Midlands +11 2 £506 +6.58% 23
East Midlands +7 2 £506 -7.95% 8
East of England +19 1 £463 -4.64% 4
Yorkshire +3 1 £500 +25.00% 29

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 9 (8.11%) CMS
2 4 (3.60%) Headless CMS
3 3 (2.70%) Confluence
3 3 (2.70%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.80%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (1.80%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (1.80%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (1.80%) Adobe Premiere
1 2 (1.80%) InDesign
1 2 (1.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.80%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.90%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (6.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.80%) Magento
3 1 (0.90%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.90%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 39 (35.14%) Azure
2 25 (22.52%) Entra ID
3 13 (11.71%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (11.71%) Dynamics 365
4 11 (9.91%) AWS
5 9 (8.11%) SaaS
6 6 (5.41%) Power Platform
7 5 (4.50%) Azure Service Bus
7 5 (4.50%) Power Automate
7 5 (4.50%) PowerApps
8 4 (3.60%) Contentful
8 4 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (3.60%) PaaS
9 3 (2.70%) Azure AKS
9 3 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (2.70%) Contentstack
9 3 (2.70%) Figma
9 3 (2.70%) Google Analytics
9 3 (2.70%) IaaS
9 3 (2.70%) prismic.io
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.80%) Firewall
1 2 (1.80%) NGFW
2 1 (0.90%) DNS
2 1 (0.90%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.11%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.60%) Redis
3 3 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.80%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.80%) Power BI
4 2 (1.80%) SSDT
5 1 (0.90%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (5.41%) Git
2 3 (2.70%) JIRA
3 2 (1.80%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.90%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.90%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.90%) JUnit
General
1 44 (39.64%) Social Skills
2 27 (24.32%) Marketing
3 19 (17.12%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (17.12%) Finance
4 18 (16.22%) Retail
5 5 (4.50%) German Language
5 5 (4.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.60%) Banking
6 4 (3.60%) Legal
6 4 (3.60%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.70%) French Language
7 3 (2.70%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.70%) Social Housing
8 2 (1.80%) Automotive
8 2 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.80%) Swedish Language
9 1 (0.90%) Advertising
9 1 (0.90%) Billing
9 1 (0.90%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.90%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 26 (23.42%) Developer
2 19 (17.12%) Architect
3 12 (10.81%) Solutions Architect
4 10 (9.01%) Analyst
5 9 (8.11%) Backend Developer
6 8 (7.21%) Lead
6 8 (7.21%) Product Manager
6 8 (7.21%) Project Manager
6 8 (7.21%) Senior
7 7 (6.31%) .NET Developer
8 5 (4.50%) Azure Developer
8 5 (4.50%) Designer
9 4 (3.60%) Android Developer
9 4 (3.60%) ASP.NET Developer
9 4 (3.60%) Business Analyst
9 4 (3.60%) C# .NET Developer
9 4 (3.60%) C# Developer
9 4 (3.60%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (3.60%) E-Commerce Manager
9 4 (3.60%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (13.51%) React
2 13 (11.71%) REST
3 10 (9.01%) .NET
3 10 (9.01%) HTML
3 10 (9.01%) OAuth
4 9 (8.11%) ASP.NET
5 8 (7.21%) CSS
6 7 (6.31%) SAML
7 6 (5.41%) FastAPI
7 6 (5.41%) OAuth2
7 6 (5.41%) OpenID
8 5 (4.50%) .NET Core
8 5 (4.50%) AngularJS
8 5 (4.50%) ASP.NET MVC
8 5 (4.50%) LDAP
9 4 (3.60%) ASP.NET Core
9 4 (3.60%) ASP.NET Web API
9 4 (3.60%) SOAP
9 4 (3.60%) XML
10 3 (2.70%) ASP.NET MVC 5
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.61%) Product Ownership
2 10 (9.01%) Mobile App
3 4 (3.60%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.70%) Acoustics
4 3 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.70%) Social Media
5 2 (1.80%) Animation
5 2 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.80%) Digital Wallet
5 2 (1.80%) Motion Graphics
5 2 (1.80%) Photography
6 1 (0.90%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.90%) EPoS
6 1 (0.90%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.90%) PMI
6 1 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.01%) Android
2 7 (6.31%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.80%) Debian
3 2 (1.80%) Linux
3 2 (1.80%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (46.85%) B2B
2 31 (27.93%) Agile
3 28 (25.23%) DevOps
4 25 (22.52%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (21.62%) CI/CD
6 21 (18.92%) E-Commerce
7 19 (17.12%) User Experience
8 15 (13.51%) Identity Access Management
9 14 (12.61%) API Integration
9 14 (12.61%) Customer Experience
9 14 (12.61%) Identity Management
9 14 (12.61%) Roadmaps
9 14 (12.61%) Scrum
9 14 (12.61%) Stakeholder Management
10 13 (11.71%) Project Management
11 12 (10.81%) RBAC
12 11 (9.91%) Customer-Centricity
13 10 (9.01%) Multi-Factor Authentication
13 10 (9.01%) Product Strategy
14 9 (8.11%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 16 (14.41%) JavaScript
2 14 (12.61%) C#
3 13 (11.71%) SQL
4 9 (8.11%) PowerShell
5 7 (6.31%) Python
5 7 (6.31%) TypeScript
6 4 (3.60%) Bicep
6 4 (3.60%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.90%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.90%) Swift
Qualifications
1 10 (9.01%) Degree
2 7 (6.31%) Azure Certification
3 4 (3.60%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.90%) CISM
5 1 (0.90%) CISSP
5 1 (0.90%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.90%) PMP
5 1 (0.90%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.70%) Accessibility
1 3 (2.70%) QA
2 2 (1.80%) GDPR
2 2 (1.80%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.80%) PMO
2 2 (1.80%) PSD2
3 1 (0.90%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (0.90%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.90%) NIST
System Software
1 25 (22.52%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (9.91%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (4.50%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.70%) Terraform
4 2 (1.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.90%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 21 (18.92%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.31%) Adobe
3 6 (5.41%) Salesforce
4 5 (4.50%) ForgeRock
4 5 (4.50%) SAP
5 4 (3.60%) MuleSoft
5 4 (3.60%) Workday
6 3 (2.70%) Dell
6 3 (2.70%) Google
7 2 (1.80%) Ceridian
7 2 (1.80%) UiPath
8 1 (0.90%) Apple
8 1 (0.90%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.90%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.90%) Okta
8 1 (0.90%) OneTrust
8 1 (0.90%) Optimizely
8 1 (0.90%) Oracle