B2B Contracts in England

Business-to-Business (B2B)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 284 355 392
Rank change year-on-year +71 +37 -36
Contract jobs citing B2B 264 317 444
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.73% 0.65% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 0.73% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 199 300
10th Percentile £223 £371 £400
25th Percentile £413 £429 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -6.52% +15.00%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £688
90th Percentile £675 £790 £739
UK median daily rate £513 £538 £568
% change year-on-year -4.65% -5.42% +13.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 6
10th Percentile £12.87 £29.30 £25.38
25th Percentile £15.23 £38.75 £41.50
Median hourly rate £30.50 £44.00 £48.56
Median % change year-on-year -30.68% -9.38% +37.74%
75th Percentile £48.75 £46.00 £58.97
90th Percentile £68.75 £49.60 £64.63
UK median hourly rate £29.25 £44.00 £48.56
% change year-on-year -33.52% -9.38% +37.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,426 43,648 64,496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.34% 90.08% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,611 30,630 45,872
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,247 1,533 1,757
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.13 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

B2B
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing B2B as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for B2B in England

B2B
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing B2B in England.

Daily rate trend for B2B in England

B2B
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing B2B in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for B2B in England

B2B
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing B2B in England.

Hourly rate trend for B2B in England

B2B
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing B2B in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for B2B in England

B2B
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing B2B within the England region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
London +74 151 £536 -2.50% 460
South East +9 59 £513 -8.89% 198
North of England +18 20 £400 -20.00% 169
East of England +24 16 £500 +25.94% 52
North West +5 13 £538 +7.50% 102
West Midlands +17 4 £238 -46.63% 41
Midlands +11 4 £238 -53.43% 62
North East - 4 £190 - 14
Yorkshire +14 3 £432 -13.60% 56
South West 0 3 - - 46
B2B
UK

B2B
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 5 (1.89%) CMS
2 3 (1.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (1.14%) Confluence
2 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.14%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.76%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.38%) Appian
4 1 (0.38%) SAS
Applications
1 11 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.52%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 3 (1.14%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.76%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.76%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.76%) Sketch
7 1 (0.38%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.38%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.38%) Final Cut Pro
7 1 (0.38%) InDesign
7 1 (0.38%) InVision
7 1 (0.38%) Trello
Business Applications
1 27 (10.23%) Shopify
2 14 (5.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (4.17%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (1.89%) SAP CO
4 5 (1.89%) SAP FI
4 5 (1.89%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.76%) Magento
5 2 (0.76%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.76%) SAP Hybris
5 2 (0.76%) WebTrends
6 1 (0.38%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.38%) SAP CAR
6 1 (0.38%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 32 (12.12%) Azure
2 29 (10.98%) SaaS
3 27 (10.23%) BigCommerce
4 19 (7.20%) AWS
5 14 (5.30%) Power Platform
6 13 (4.92%) Figma
7 10 (3.79%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (3.79%) Dynamics 365
7 10 (3.79%) GCP
8 9 (3.41%) Entra ID
8 9 (3.41%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (3.03%) PaaS
10 6 (2.27%) GitHub
10 6 (2.27%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
10 6 (2.27%) Serverless
11 5 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (1.89%) IaaS
11 5 (1.89%) Mimecast
11 5 (1.89%) Snowflake
12 4 (1.52%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 25 (9.47%) DMZ
2 9 (3.41%) Firewall
3 6 (2.27%) Radio Access Network
4 5 (1.89%) 5G
4 5 (1.89%) SMS
5 4 (1.52%) 3G
5 4 (1.52%) 4G
6 3 (1.14%) VoIP
6 3 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.76%) FTP
8 1 (0.38%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.41%) Power BI
2 8 (3.03%) MySQL
3 6 (2.27%) Relational Database
4 5 (1.89%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.14%) Big Data
5 3 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.76%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.76%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.76%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.76%) Tableau
7 1 (0.38%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.38%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.38%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.38%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.38%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 8 (3.03%) Git
2 6 (2.27%) Maven
3 5 (1.89%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.52%) JIRA
5 2 (0.76%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.76%) Gradle
6 1 (0.38%) gulp
6 1 (0.38%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 78 (29.55%) Marketing
2 65 (24.62%) Social Skills
3 43 (16.29%) Finance
4 40 (15.15%) Retail
5 32 (12.12%) Banking
6 23 (8.71%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (3.79%) Telecoms
10 9 (3.41%) German Language
11 8 (3.03%) French Language
11 8 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (3.03%) Manufacturing
12 6 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (1.52%) Advertising
14 4 (1.52%) Legal
15 3 (1.14%) Automotive
15 3 (1.14%) Brand Awareness
15 3 (1.14%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 46 (17.42%) Senior
2 36 (13.64%) Analyst
3 29 (10.98%) Architect
4 28 (10.61%) Network Engineer
5 25 (9.47%) Senior Network Engineer
6 23 (8.71%) Developer
7 16 (6.06%) Business Analyst
7 16 (6.06%) Designer
8 15 (5.68%) Product Manager
9 14 (5.30%) Consultant
10 13 (4.92%) Lead
11 12 (4.55%) Project Manager
12 11 (4.17%) Salesforce Architect
13 10 (3.79%) Senior Manager
13 10 (3.79%) UX Designer
14 8 (3.03%) Marketing Manager
14 8 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
15 6 (2.27%) Programme Manager
15 6 (2.27%) Technical Analyst
15 6 (2.27%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (8.33%) VML
2 11 (4.17%) React
3 9 (3.41%) AngularJS
4 8 (3.03%) CSS
4 8 (3.03%) Lightning Web Components
4 8 (3.03%) REST
4 8 (3.03%) Web Services
5 7 (2.65%) RESTful
6 6 (2.27%) HTML
6 6 (2.27%) Node.js
7 5 (1.89%) jQuery
7 5 (1.89%) Spring
8 4 (1.52%) IDoc
8 4 (1.52%) Sass
8 4 (1.52%) XML
9 3 (1.14%) J2EE
9 3 (1.14%) OAuth
9 3 (1.14%) OpenID
9 3 (1.14%) Spring MVC
9 3 (1.14%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.55%) Product Ownership
1 12 (4.55%) Social Media
2 10 (3.79%) Data Centre
3 8 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (2.65%) FMCG
4 7 (2.65%) IoT
4 7 (2.65%) Management Information System
5 6 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (1.89%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.52%) Driving Licence
7 4 (1.52%) EPoS
7 4 (1.52%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.14%) Graphic Design
8 3 (1.14%) Marketing Technology
9 2 (0.76%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.76%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.76%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.38%) Biopharmaceutical
10 1 (0.38%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.68%) Windows
2 4 (1.52%) Android
2 4 (1.52%) Linux
2 4 (1.52%) Unix
3 3 (1.14%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.76%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (16.29%) Agile
2 42 (15.91%) Migration
3 35 (13.26%) Problem-Solving
4 32 (12.12%) E-Commerce
5 31 (11.74%) User Experience
6 30 (11.36%) B2C
7 29 (10.98%) CRM
8 28 (10.61%) Customer Acquisition
9 24 (9.09%) Analytics
10 22 (8.33%) DevOps
10 22 (8.33%) Roadmaps
11 21 (7.95%) Project Delivery
11 21 (7.95%) Project Management
12 20 (7.58%) Technology Strategy
13 19 (7.20%) Customer Experience
14 17 (6.44%) UX Design
15 16 (6.06%) ERP
15 16 (6.06%) Product Management
15 16 (6.06%) Stakeholder Management
15 16 (6.06%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (6.44%) TypeScript
2 16 (6.06%) SQL
3 12 (4.55%) Python
4 11 (4.17%) Java
4 11 (4.17%) JavaScript
5 6 (2.27%) C#
6 5 (1.89%) Apex Code
6 5 (1.89%) PHP
7 4 (1.52%) VBA
8 3 (1.14%) Bash
8 3 (1.14%) Objective-C
8 3 (1.14%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.76%) C
9 2 (0.76%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.76%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.76%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.76%) Swift
10 1 (0.38%) Bicep
10 1 (0.38%) C++
10 1 (0.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (10.23%) Cisco Certification
2 20 (7.58%) Degree
3 7 (2.65%) SC Cleared
3 7 (2.65%) Security Cleared
4 5 (1.89%) Azure Certification
5 4 (1.52%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (1.14%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.76%) CCNA
7 2 (0.76%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.76%) MBA
8 1 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.38%) CBAP
8 1 (0.38%) CSPO
8 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.38%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.79%) QA
2 9 (3.41%) SLA
3 3 (1.14%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.14%) GDPR
4 2 (0.76%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.76%) PMO
5 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.38%) GxP
System Software
1 10 (3.79%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.14%) zsh
3 1 (0.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
1 5 (1.89%) Terraform
2 2 (0.76%) Ansible
3 1 (0.38%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 53 (20.08%) Salesforce
2 49 (18.56%) SAP
3 37 (14.02%) Microsoft
4 30 (11.36%) CheckPoint
4 30 (11.36%) Cisco
5 29 (10.98%) Adobe
6 27 (10.23%) Arista
6 27 (10.23%) Sitecore
7 12 (4.55%) Dell
7 12 (4.55%) Intel
8 11 (4.17%) Google
9 4 (1.52%) Apple
9 4 (1.52%) Databricks
9 4 (1.52%) FIS
9 4 (1.52%) Pardot
10 3 (1.14%) Aruba
10 3 (1.14%) F5
10 3 (1.14%) Meraki
10 3 (1.14%) MuleSoft
10 3 (1.14%) Optimizely