B2B Contracts in the UK excluding London

Business-to-Business (B2B)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 279 317 406
Rank change year-on-year +38 +89 -47
Contract jobs citing B2B 106 130 99
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.52% 0.57% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.63% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 93 65
10th Percentile £190 £363 £257
25th Percentile £413 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £545
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -8.26% +3.81%
75th Percentile £519 £600 £625
90th Percentile £620 £696 £745
UK median daily rate £513 £531 £575
% change year-on-year -3.53% -7.61% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £11.78 - -
25th Percentile £12.77 - £10.50
Median hourly rate £14.27 - £11.00
75th Percentile £15.27 - £11.50
90th Percentile £15.34 - -
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
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,140 20,557 27,119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.34% 89.47% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,220 14,177 18,943
10th Percentile £250 £256 £238
25th Percentile £381 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.43%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £655
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,064 1,258 1,350
10th Percentile £12.35 £10.63 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.72 £61.52
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%

B2B
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing B2B as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for B2B in the UK excluding London

B2B
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing B2B in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for B2B in the UK excluding London

B2B
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing B2B in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for B2B in the UK excluding London

B2B
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing B2B in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for B2B in the UK excluding London

B2B
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 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
South East +4 59 £513 -8.89% 135
North of England +16 20 £400 -20.00% 145
East of England +23 16 £500 +25.94% 43
North West +6 13 £538 +7.50% 90
Midlands +25 4 £238 -45.71% 66
West Midlands +23 4 £238 -44.77% 44
North East - 4 £190 - 14
Scotland +46 3 £475 +72.73% 18
Yorkshire +9 3 £432 -13.60% 44
South West -7 3 - - 40
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 3
B2B
UK

B2B
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 (0.94%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (6.60%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (5.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.94%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.94%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (4.72%) Shopify
2 4 (3.77%) SAP CO
2 4 (3.77%) SAP FI
2 4 (3.77%) SAP FI/CO
2 4 (3.77%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (4.72%) BigCommerce
1 5 (4.72%) GitHub
2 4 (3.77%) Figma
2 4 (3.77%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (3.77%) Power Platform
2 4 (3.77%) SuccessFactors
3 3 (2.83%) Azure
3 3 (2.83%) GCP
3 3 (2.83%) SaaS
4 2 (1.89%) ChatGPT
4 2 (1.89%) Entra ID
4 2 (1.89%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
5 1 (0.94%) Apigee
5 1 (0.94%) AWS
5 1 (0.94%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.94%) Miro
5 1 (0.94%) OCI
5 1 (0.94%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 25 (23.58%) DMZ
2 6 (5.66%) Radio Access Network
3 5 (4.72%) 5G
4 4 (3.77%) 3G
4 4 (3.77%) 4G
5 3 (2.83%) Firewall
5 3 (2.83%) VoIP
5 3 (2.83%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.94%) SMS
6 1 (0.94%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.77%) Power BI
2 2 (1.89%) MySQL
2 2 (1.89%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.94%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.94%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (5.66%) Git
2 4 (3.77%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.94%) gulp
3 1 (0.94%) JIRA
3 1 (0.94%) Maven
General
1 30 (28.30%) Banking
2 28 (26.42%) Finance
3 21 (19.81%) Social Skills
4 16 (15.09%) Marketing
5 14 (13.21%) Retail
6 10 (9.43%) Telecoms
7 5 (4.72%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (3.77%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.83%) German Language
9 3 (2.83%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.94%) Advertising
11 1 (0.94%) Arabic Language
11 1 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.94%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 30 (28.30%) Senior
2 28 (26.42%) Network Engineer
3 25 (23.58%) Senior Network Engineer
4 18 (16.98%) Analyst
5 13 (12.26%) Architect
6 7 (6.60%) Designer
6 7 (6.60%) Developer
7 6 (5.66%) Consultant
7 6 (5.66%) Desktop Support
7 6 (5.66%) UX Designer
8 5 (4.72%) Account Executive
8 5 (4.72%) Salesforce Architect
9 4 (3.77%) Cloud Architect
9 4 (3.77%) Deskside Support
9 4 (3.77%) Pricing Analyst
9 4 (3.77%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (3.77%) Support Analyst
9 4 (3.77%) Technical Support
9 4 (3.77%) UI Designer
9 4 (3.77%) UI/UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.72%) React
1 5 (4.72%) VML
2 4 (3.77%) IDoc
2 4 (3.77%) Lightning Web Components
2 4 (3.77%) XML
3 3 (2.83%) Node.js
3 3 (2.83%) RESTful
3 3 (2.83%) Web Services
4 2 (1.89%) .NET
4 2 (1.89%) CSS
4 2 (1.89%) HTML
5 1 (0.94%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.94%) Entity Framework
5 1 (0.94%) Laravel
5 1 (0.94%) Middleware
5 1 (0.94%) OAuth
5 1 (0.94%) OpenID
5 1 (0.94%) REST
5 1 (0.94%) SAML
5 1 (0.94%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.60%) Social Media
2 4 (3.77%) Driving Licence
2 4 (3.77%) EPoS
3 3 (2.83%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.89%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.89%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.94%) Blog
5 1 (0.94%) CCTV
5 1 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.94%) IoT
5 1 (0.94%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.66%) Windows
2 2 (1.89%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.94%) Android
3 1 (0.94%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (27.36%) Migration
2 11 (10.38%) B2C
3 9 (8.49%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (8.49%) Project Delivery
3 9 (8.49%) User Experience
3 9 (8.49%) UX Design
4 8 (7.55%) Process Improvement
5 7 (6.60%) Project Management
6 6 (5.66%) Agile
6 6 (5.66%) Capacity Planning
6 6 (5.66%) E-Commerce
6 6 (5.66%) TDD
7 5 (4.72%) Business Development
7 5 (4.72%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (4.72%) Customer Acquisition
7 5 (4.72%) ERP
7 5 (4.72%) Lead Generation
7 5 (4.72%) Order to Cash
7 5 (4.72%) Service Delivery
7 5 (4.72%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 8 (7.55%) SQL
2 6 (5.66%) JavaScript
3 4 (3.77%) Python
3 4 (3.77%) TypeScript
3 4 (3.77%) VBA
4 3 (2.83%) Bash
4 3 (2.83%) C#
4 3 (2.83%) PHP
5 2 (1.89%) Java
5 2 (1.89%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.94%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.94%) Bicep
6 1 (0.94%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (23.58%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (2.83%) SC Cleared
2 3 (2.83%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.89%) Degree
4 1 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.94%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.89%) QA
System Software
1 4 (3.77%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.83%) zsh
Systems Management
1 1 (0.94%) Ansible
1 1 (0.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 30 (28.30%) CheckPoint
2 28 (26.42%) Cisco
3 25 (23.58%) Arista
4 15 (14.15%) Microsoft
5 14 (13.21%) Salesforce
6 11 (10.38%) SAP
7 5 (4.72%) Adobe
7 5 (4.72%) Sitecore
8 4 (3.77%) FIS
8 4 (3.77%) Google
9 3 (2.83%) Aruba
9 3 (2.83%) Dell
9 3 (2.83%) F5
9 3 (2.83%) Intel
9 3 (2.83%) Meraki
10 2 (1.89%) Apple
10 2 (1.89%) Sophos
11 1 (0.94%) Ariba
11 1 (0.94%) Cognizant
11 1 (0.94%) Pardot