B2C Contracts with Work from Home Options

B2C (Business-to-Consumer)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 270 351 437
Rank change year-on-year +81 +86 -51
Contract jobs citing B2C 82 120 202
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.53% 0.46% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.52% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 76 140
10th Percentile £409 £400 £405
25th Percentile £450 £454 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -1.82% +12.24%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £676
90th Percentile £763 £663 £838
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK median hourly rate £13.94 £35.00 £65.49
% change year-on-year -60.17% -46.55% +45.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,505 23,232 40,651
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.83% 89.84% 91.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,015 16,421 29,503
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +9.03%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 532 547
10th Percentile £15.17 £19.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £24.25 £30.54 £19.96
Median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +57.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.23 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -

B2C
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing B2C as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

B2C trend for jobs with a WFH option

B2C
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing B2C.

B2C daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

B2C
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing B2C over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

B2C daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

B2C
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing B2C.

B2C hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

B2C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 10 (12.20%) CMS
2 6 (7.32%) Confluence
3 2 (2.44%) Drupal
3 2 (2.44%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (4.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (4.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (4.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.44%) SAP Hybris
2 2 (2.44%) Shopify
3 1 (1.22%) Magento
3 1 (1.22%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 35 (42.68%) Azure
2 26 (31.71%) Azure DevOps
2 26 (31.71%) Entra ID
3 9 (10.98%) PaaS
4 8 (9.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 6 (7.32%) Azure API Management
5 6 (7.32%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (7.32%) Azure Key Vault
5 6 (7.32%) Azure Logic Apps
5 6 (7.32%) Azure Monitor
5 6 (7.32%) IaaS
5 6 (7.32%) Serverless
6 5 (6.10%) Azure Functions
6 5 (6.10%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (6.10%) SaaS
7 3 (3.66%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (3.66%) GCP
7 3 (3.66%) GitHub
8 2 (2.44%) Azure Service Fabric
8 2 (2.44%) Squarespace
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.88%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (1.22%) DNS
2 1 (1.22%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (25.61%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.10%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (4.88%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (2.44%) Redis
6 1 (1.22%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.22%) MySQL
6 1 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (13.41%) JIRA
2 9 (10.98%) Visual Studio
3 6 (7.32%) Git
4 4 (4.88%) Jenkins
4 4 (4.88%) Selenium
4 4 (4.88%) SpecFlow
4 4 (4.88%) TeamCity
4 4 (4.88%) WebDriver
5 2 (2.44%) WiX
General
1 23 (28.05%) Social Skills
2 18 (21.95%) Marketing
3 7 (8.54%) Retail
4 5 (6.10%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.10%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.88%) French Language
5 4 (4.88%) Front Office
5 4 (4.88%) German Language
6 3 (3.66%) Finance
6 3 (3.66%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.44%) Back Office
7 2 (2.44%) Billing
7 2 (2.44%) Health Technology
7 2 (2.44%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.44%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.22%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 26 (31.71%) Developer
2 16 (19.51%) Senior
3 14 (17.07%) Analyst
4 12 (14.63%) Azure Developer
5 11 (13.41%) Senior Developer
6 9 (10.98%) Architect
7 8 (9.76%) Backend Developer
7 8 (9.76%) Business Analyst
7 8 (9.76%) Software Developer
8 7 (8.54%) Consultant
8 7 (8.54%) Project Manager
9 6 (7.32%) C# Developer
9 6 (7.32%) Senior Backend Developer
10 5 (6.10%) Solutions Architect
11 4 (4.88%) Credit Analyst
11 4 (4.88%) E-Commerce Developer
11 4 (4.88%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
11 4 (4.88%) Senior Analyst
11 4 (4.88%) Senior Software Developer
11 4 (4.88%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (31.71%) .NET
2 24 (29.27%) XML
3 13 (15.85%) AngularJS
4 12 (14.63%) REST
5 9 (10.98%) .NET Core
6 8 (9.76%) .NET Framework
6 8 (9.76%) ARM Templates
6 8 (9.76%) OAuth
6 8 (9.76%) OpenID
7 5 (6.10%) Microsoft Graph
7 5 (6.10%) React
7 5 (6.10%) SAML
7 5 (6.10%) SOAP
8 4 (4.88%) FIX Protocol
8 4 (4.88%) JSON
9 3 (3.66%) CSS
9 3 (3.66%) HTML
9 3 (3.66%) SailPoint
9 3 (3.66%) YAML
10 2 (2.44%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.41%) Video\Live Streaming
2 10 (12.20%) Mobile App
3 9 (10.98%) Product Ownership
4 8 (9.76%) Over-the-Top Content
5 4 (4.88%) Derivative
5 4 (4.88%) Fixed Income
6 3 (3.66%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.44%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.22%) Contactless
8 1 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.22%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (41.46%) Agile
2 30 (36.59%) Scrum
3 26 (31.71%) DevOps
4 24 (29.27%) CI/CD
5 16 (19.51%) B2B
6 14 (17.07%) User Experience
7 13 (15.85%) SDLC
8 12 (14.63%) E-Commerce
9 11 (13.41%) Project Management
10 9 (10.98%) Content Management
10 9 (10.98%) Test Automation
11 8 (9.76%) Business Analysis
11 8 (9.76%) Digital Marketing
11 8 (9.76%) Infrastructure as Code
11 8 (9.76%) Performance Metrics
11 8 (9.76%) Project Delivery
12 7 (8.54%) Software Engineering
13 6 (7.32%) CRM
14 5 (6.10%) Security Testing
14 5 (6.10%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 24 (29.27%) C#
2 23 (28.05%) PowerShell
3 14 (17.07%) SQL
4 13 (15.85%) JavaScript
5 10 (12.20%) Bicep
6 7 (8.54%) Java
7 4 (4.88%) TypeScript
8 3 (3.66%) Bash
9 1 (1.22%) C++
9 1 (1.22%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (6.10%) Degree
2 2 (2.44%) SC Cleared
2 2 (2.44%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.88%) PMO
1 4 (4.88%) QA
2 3 (3.66%) GDPR
3 1 (1.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 20 (24.39%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.66%) zsh
3 2 (2.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.66%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (2.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (2.44%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.22%) Ansible
3 1 (1.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (26.83%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.10%) MuleSoft
3 4 (4.88%) Bloomberg
3 4 (4.88%) ION Trading
3 4 (4.88%) MarketAxess
3 4 (4.88%) Tradeweb
4 3 (3.66%) Google
4 3 (3.66%) SAP
5 2 (2.44%) Okta
5 2 (2.44%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.22%) BMC
6 1 (1.22%) CA
6 1 (1.22%) Databricks
6 1 (1.22%) IBM
6 1 (1.22%) Novell
6 1 (1.22%) OneTrust
6 1 (1.22%) Remedy
6 1 (1.22%) ServiceNow