B2C Contracts in the UK excluding London

B2C (Business-to-Consumer)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with 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 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 340 348 377
Rank change year-on-year +8 +29 -5
Contract jobs citing B2C 54 98 124
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.42% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.47% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 78 76
10th Percentile £363 £406 £406
25th Percentile £467 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £550 £511
Median % change year-on-year -5.68% +7.58% +2.25%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £595
90th Percentile £650 £706 £644
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £62.92
25th Percentile - - £64.58
Median hourly rate - - £67.36
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 £67.36
% change year-on-year - -48.04% +49.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,076 20,688 27,368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.26% 89.44% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,209 14,247 19,122
10th Percentile £250 £258 £235
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,062 1,260 1,365
10th Percentile £12.34 £10.63 £12.30
25th Percentile £15.31 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.71 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

B2C
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing B2C as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for B2C in the UK excluding London

B2C
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing B2C in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for B2C in the UK excluding London

B2C
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing B2C in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for B2C in the UK excluding London

B2C
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing B2C in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for B2C in the UK excluding London

B2C
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 B2C within the UK excluding London 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
South East +12 32 £525 -12.50% 50
North of England +8 9 £500 +5.26% 37
North West +5 8 £500 +5.26% 25
East of England +14 6 £485 +12.79% 7
Scotland +43 4 £650 - 3
Midlands +20 3 £448 +5.29% 12
West Midlands +22 2 £400 -5.88% 5
Yorkshire +8 1 - - 10
South West -9 1 £575 -11.54% 7
East Midlands - 1 £495 - 7
B2C
UK

B2C
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 2 (3.70%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (9.26%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Shopify
2 1 (1.85%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 12 (22.22%) Azure
2 7 (12.96%) Azure DevOps
2 7 (12.96%) Azure Logic Apps
2 7 (12.96%) Azure Monitor
3 6 (11.11%) Azure API Management
3 6 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (11.11%) Azure Functions
3 6 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
3 6 (11.11%) Serverless
4 5 (9.26%) SuccessFactors
5 4 (7.41%) GCP
5 4 (7.41%) GitHub
6 3 (5.56%) AWS
6 3 (5.56%) Entra ID
6 3 (5.56%) PaaS
6 3 (5.56%) SaaS
7 2 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (3.70%) Google Analytics
7 2 (3.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.70%) HTTP
1 2 (3.70%) Internet
2 1 (1.85%) DNS
2 1 (1.85%) Firewall
2 1 (1.85%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.96%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (9.26%) SQL Server
3 3 (5.56%) NoSQL
3 3 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.85%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.85%) Power BI
4 1 (1.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (9.26%) Visual Studio
2 4 (7.41%) Git
2 4 (7.41%) JIRA
3 3 (5.56%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.85%) Hudson
4 1 (1.85%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 20 (37.04%) Social Skills
2 16 (29.63%) Marketing
3 8 (14.81%) Manufacturing
3 8 (14.81%) Retail
4 7 (12.96%) Legal
5 6 (11.11%) Law
6 4 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (5.56%) Telecoms
8 2 (3.70%) Automotive
8 2 (3.70%) Billing
8 2 (3.70%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.85%) Finance
9 1 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (25.93%) Developer
2 7 (12.96%) Analyst
3 6 (11.11%) Business Analyst
4 5 (9.26%) Integration Developer
5 4 (7.41%) Architect
5 4 (7.41%) Coordinator
5 4 (7.41%) E-Commerce Developer
5 4 (7.41%) Project Manager
5 4 (7.41%) Technical Coordinator
5 4 (7.41%) Technical Support
6 3 (5.56%) Azure Developer
6 3 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Consultant
6 3 (5.56%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 3 (5.56%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 3 (5.56%) Senior
6 3 (5.56%) Software Developer
6 3 (5.56%) Software Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) Shopify Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.11%) ARM Templates
1 6 (11.11%) REST
2 5 (9.26%) .NET
2 5 (9.26%) OAuth
2 5 (9.26%) OpenID
2 5 (9.26%) SOAP
3 4 (7.41%) JSON
4 3 (5.56%) React
4 3 (5.56%) XML
5 2 (3.70%) Ruby on Rails
5 2 (3.70%) SAML
6 1 (1.85%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.85%) CSS
6 1 (1.85%) Entity Framework
6 1 (1.85%) HTML
6 1 (1.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.96%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (7.41%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.70%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.85%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.85%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.85%) Over-the-Top Content
4 1 (1.85%) Replication
4 1 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (1.85%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.85%) Windows
1 1 (1.85%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (20.37%) B2B
1 11 (20.37%) E-Commerce
2 10 (18.52%) Data Protection
2 10 (18.52%) DevOps
3 8 (14.81%) Agile
3 8 (14.81%) CI/CD
3 8 (14.81%) Data Privacy
4 7 (12.96%) Impact Assessments
4 7 (12.96%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
5 6 (11.11%) Data Management
5 6 (11.11%) Data Sharing
5 6 (11.11%) Information Security
5 6 (11.11%) Scrum
5 6 (11.11%) Software Engineering
6 5 (9.26%) Break/Fix
6 5 (9.26%) CRM
6 5 (9.26%) Security Testing
6 5 (9.26%) Service Delivery
6 5 (9.26%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (14.81%) PowerShell
2 6 (11.11%) SQL
3 5 (9.26%) C#
4 4 (7.41%) JavaScript
5 3 (5.56%) Bash
5 3 (5.56%) Bicep
5 3 (5.56%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.70%) Ruby
7 1 (1.85%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (12.96%) ISEB
2 1 (1.85%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (18.52%) GDPR
2 2 (3.70%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.85%) QA
3 1 (1.85%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (5.56%) zsh
2 2 (3.70%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (1.85%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.26%) Google
3 2 (3.70%) SAP
4 1 (1.85%) BMC
4 1 (1.85%) Databricks
4 1 (1.85%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (1.85%) Remedy
4 1 (1.85%) ServiceNow