B2B Contract Job Trends in West End of London

Business-to-Business (B2B)
Central London > West End of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West End of London requiring B2B skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 - 5
Rank change year-on-year - - +16
Contract jobs citing B2B 1 0 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West End of London 2.38% - 17.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.70% - 20.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 15
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £761 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £773 - £495
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.91%
75th Percentile £784 - £688
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £500 £544 £495
% change year-on-year -8.05% +9.85% -5.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West End of London

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 in West End of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37 48 73
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West End of London 88.10% 92.31% 82.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 33 48
10th Percentile £235 £175 £214
25th Percentile £447 £356 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £487 £498
Median % change year-on-year +12.94% -2.11% -7.87%
75th Percentile £750 £540 £628
90th Percentile £794 £619 £688
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £595
% change year-on-year -4.35% -3.28% +3.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 1
10th Percentile - £29.24 -
25th Percentile £48.25 - -
Median hourly rate £49.50 £35.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.43% +34.62% -37.35%
75th Percentile £51.46 £41.75 -
90th Percentile £51.88 £42.05 -
Central London median hourly rate £28.33 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -19.07% +30.84% -35.54%

B2B
Job Vacancy Trend in West End of London

Job postings citing B2B as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West End of London.

Job vacancy trend for B2B in West End of London

B2B
Daily Rate Trend in West End of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West End of London citing B2B.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West End of London citing B2B

B2B
Contract Job Locations in West End of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing B2B within the West End of London region over the 6 months to 24 September 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
Westminster - 1 £773 - 1
B2B
Central London

B2B
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West End of London 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 1 (100.00%) Appian
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Tricentis Tosca
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Robot Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Head of Engineering
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Jinja
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) NETCONF
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) YANG
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Thought Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Veracode