B2B Contracts in the West Midlands

Business-to-Business (B2B)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for B2B skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited B2B over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 110 135 158
Rank change year-on-year +25 +23 -38
Contract jobs citing B2B 4 7 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.21% 0.29% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.33% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - - £414
25th Percentile £231 £415 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £238 £430 £500
Median % change year-on-year -44.77% -14.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £244 £456 £531
90th Percentile - £463 £543
England median daily rate £513 £538 £583
% change year-on-year -4.65% -7.73% +16.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £11.13 - -
Median hourly rate £11.75 - -
75th Percentile £12.38 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £29.25 £44.00 £48.56
% change year-on-year -33.52% -9.38% +12.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

B2B 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 advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,621 2,126 3,201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.95% 88.55% 89.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,069 1,460 2,360
10th Percentile £275 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £484
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +5.43% +16.75%
75th Percentile £623 £600 £575
90th Percentile £738 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 46 72
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.25 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.70
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £16.66
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +6.35% -4.79%
75th Percentile £41.13 £23.62 £19.59
90th Percentile £57.75 £50.63 £21.85
England median hourly rate £35.25 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.00% +56.25% -

B2B
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing B2B as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for B2B in the West Midlands

B2B
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing B2B in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for B2B in the West Midlands

B2B
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing B2B in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for B2B in the West Midlands

B2B
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
Birmingham +12 2 £238 -44.77% 17
Coventry - 2 - - 5
B2B
England

B2B
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (25.00%) MS Visio
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Arabic Language
2 1 (25.00%) German Language
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Cabling Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Integration Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) SAP Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Senior SAP Consultant
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) B2B Sales
2 1 (25.00%) B2C
2 1 (25.00%) BPMN
2 1 (25.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Data Entry
2 1 (25.00%) Data Management
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) IT Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Market Research
2 1 (25.00%) OO
2 1 (25.00%) Order to Cash
2 1 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Strategic Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) SAP