B2G Contract Job Trends

Business-to-Government (B2G)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring B2G skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 657 - 567
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing B2G 2 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.004% - 0.008%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.004% - 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £400
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

B2G 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 45,557 29,755 33,330
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.99% 90.46% 85.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,078 18,625 21,348
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.11%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £726 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,814 1,660 1,859
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.22 £17.32 £18.22
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -37.90% -4.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £64.25
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.00 £74.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.10 £41.25
% change year-on-year +90.30% -44.00% +7.56%

B2G
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing B2G relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

B2G job vacancy trend in the UK

B2G
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing B2G.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing B2G

B2G
Top 3 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing B2G within the UK over the 6 months to 8 August 2026. 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
Work from Home - 1 - - 2
London - 1 £575 - 1
England - 1 £575 - 2

B2G
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) OpenText VIM for SAP
1 1 (50.00%) SAP S/4HANA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Legal
2 1 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) IDoc
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Accounts Payable
1 2 (100.00%) Accounts Receivable
1 2 (100.00%) B2B
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Project Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Regulatory Change
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) SAP