Business-to-Business (B2B)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 324 379 414
Rank change year-on-year +55 +35 -23
Contract jobs citing B2B 282 356 521
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.66% 0.62% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 0.69% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 220 352
10th Percentile £229 £363 £380
25th Percentile £423 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -6.52% +15.00%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £676
90th Percentile £675 £776 £736
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 5
10th Percentile £13.09 £31.40 £24.40
25th Percentile £15.27 - £45.25
Median hourly rate £29.25 £44.00 £50.61
Median % change year-on-year -33.52% -13.06% +43.57%
75th Percentile £44.50 - £61.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £48.80 £65.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £14.27 - £11.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,094 51,920 79,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.82% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,889 35,981 55,625
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,716 1,886
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.24 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

B2B
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for B2B in the UK

B2B
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for B2B in the UK

B2B
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing B2B over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for B2B in the UK

B2B
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for B2B in the UK

B2B
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing B2B over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for B2B in the UK

B2B
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 11 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
England +63 262 £513 -4.65% 713
London +70 149 £533 -5.33% 305
UK excluding London +30 107 £513 +2.50% 420
Work from Home +52 100 £539 +2.62% 356
South East +6 59 £513 -8.89% 118
North of England +23 21 £400 -20.00% 137
East of England +26 16 £500 +25.94% 36
North West +6 14 £538 +7.50% 88
Midlands +24 4 £238 -45.71% 70
West Midlands +14 4 £238 -44.77% 49
North East - 4 £190 - 8
Scotland +43 3 £475 +80.95% 16
Yorkshire +13 3 £432 -13.60% 42
South West +3 3 - - 49
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2

B2B
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (1.77%) CMS
2 4 (1.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.06%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.06%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.71%) Anypoint
4 2 (0.71%) Confluence
5 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.35%) Appian
5 1 (0.35%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (4.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.84%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.77%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.42%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 3 (1.06%) Photoshop
5 3 (1.06%) Sketch
6 2 (0.71%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.71%) InVision
6 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.35%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.35%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.35%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.35%) Final Cut Pro
7 1 (0.35%) InDesign
7 1 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 28 (9.93%) Shopify
2 15 (5.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (3.90%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (1.77%) SAP CO
4 5 (1.77%) SAP FI
4 5 (1.77%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (1.06%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.71%) Magento
6 2 (0.71%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.71%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.71%) SAP Hybris
6 2 (0.71%) WebTrends
7 1 (0.35%) SAP CAR
Cloud Services
1 37 (13.12%) Azure
2 30 (10.64%) SaaS
3 26 (9.22%) BigCommerce
4 22 (7.80%) AWS
5 15 (5.32%) Power Platform
6 14 (4.96%) Figma
7 13 (4.61%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (3.90%) GCP
9 10 (3.55%) Dynamics 365
9 10 (3.55%) Entra ID
9 10 (3.55%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (3.19%) PaaS
11 8 (2.84%) Serverless
12 6 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (2.13%) GitHub
12 6 (2.13%) IaaS
12 6 (2.13%) Mimecast
12 6 (2.13%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
12 6 (2.13%) Snowflake
13 4 (1.42%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 25 (8.87%) DMZ
2 10 (3.55%) Firewall
3 6 (2.13%) Radio Access Network
4 5 (1.77%) 5G
4 5 (1.77%) SMS
5 4 (1.42%) 3G
5 4 (1.42%) 4G
6 3 (1.06%) VoIP
6 3 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.71%) FTP
8 1 (0.35%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.84%) MySQL
2 7 (2.48%) Power BI
3 6 (2.13%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.06%) Big Data
4 3 (1.06%) Data Lake
4 3 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.06%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.06%) Tableau
5 2 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.71%) DynamoDB
5 2 (0.71%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.35%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.35%) Metadata
6 1 (0.35%) NonStop SQL
6 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (2.84%) Git
2 6 (2.13%) Jenkins
2 6 (2.13%) Maven
3 3 (1.06%) JIRA
4 2 (0.71%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.71%) Gradle
4 2 (0.71%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (0.71%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.35%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.35%) Dreamweaver
5 1 (0.35%) GitLab
5 1 (0.35%) gulp
5 1 (0.35%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 75 (26.60%) Marketing
2 73 (25.89%) Social Skills
3 44 (15.60%) Finance
4 39 (13.83%) Retail
5 34 (12.06%) Banking
6 23 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (4.61%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (3.90%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (3.55%) Telecoms
10 9 (3.19%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (3.19%) German Language
10 9 (3.19%) Manufacturing
11 8 (2.84%) French Language
11 8 (2.84%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.77%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (1.42%) Advertising
13 4 (1.42%) Legal
14 3 (1.06%) Automotive
14 3 (1.06%) Brand Awareness
15 2 (0.71%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 51 (18.09%) Senior
2 38 (13.48%) Analyst
3 34 (12.06%) Architect
4 28 (9.93%) Network Engineer
5 27 (9.57%) Developer
6 25 (8.87%) Senior Network Engineer
7 19 (6.74%) Business Analyst
8 18 (6.38%) Designer
9 15 (5.32%) Product Manager
10 14 (4.96%) Consultant
10 14 (4.96%) Project Manager
11 13 (4.61%) Lead
12 11 (3.90%) Salesforce Architect
12 11 (3.90%) Senior Manager
12 11 (3.90%) UX Designer
13 10 (3.55%) Solutions Architect
14 7 (2.48%) Marketing Manager
14 7 (2.48%) Technical Analyst
14 7 (2.48%) Technical Business Analyst
15 6 (2.13%) UI Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (7.45%) VML
2 12 (4.26%) React
3 9 (3.19%) RESTful
4 8 (2.84%) AngularJS
4 8 (2.84%) Lightning Web Components
4 8 (2.84%) REST
4 8 (2.84%) Web Services
5 7 (2.48%) CSS
5 7 (2.48%) Node.js
6 5 (1.77%) HTML
6 5 (1.77%) jQuery
6 5 (1.77%) Spring
7 4 (1.42%) .NET
7 4 (1.42%) IDoc
7 4 (1.42%) Sass
7 4 (1.42%) XML
8 3 (1.06%) J2EE
8 3 (1.06%) Middleware
8 3 (1.06%) NestJS
8 3 (1.06%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.26%) Social Media
2 11 (3.90%) Data Centre
2 11 (3.90%) Product Ownership
3 8 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (2.48%) FMCG
4 7 (2.48%) IoT
4 7 (2.48%) Management Information System
5 6 (2.13%) Mobile App
5 6 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.42%) Driving Licence
6 4 (1.42%) EPoS
6 4 (1.42%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (1.06%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.06%) Graphic Design
7 3 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.06%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (0.71%) Contactless
8 2 (0.71%) Digital Wallet
8 2 (0.71%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.71%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (6.38%) Windows
2 4 (1.42%) Android
2 4 (1.42%) Linux
2 4 (1.42%) Unix
3 3 (1.06%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.71%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (16.31%) Agile
2 41 (14.54%) Migration
3 35 (12.41%) E-Commerce
3 35 (12.41%) Problem-Solving
4 33 (11.70%) User Experience
5 30 (10.64%) B2C
6 29 (10.28%) CRM
7 27 (9.57%) Customer Acquisition
7 27 (9.57%) DevOps
8 25 (8.87%) Roadmaps
9 24 (8.51%) Analytics
9 24 (8.51%) Project Management
10 22 (7.80%) Stakeholder Management
11 21 (7.45%) Project Delivery
11 21 (7.45%) Technology Strategy
12 20 (7.09%) Customer Experience
13 19 (6.74%) UX Design
14 16 (5.67%) ERP
14 16 (5.67%) Product Management
14 16 (5.67%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (6.38%) TypeScript
2 17 (6.03%) SQL
3 12 (4.26%) JavaScript
3 12 (4.26%) Python
4 10 (3.55%) Java
5 8 (2.84%) C#
6 6 (2.13%) PHP
7 5 (1.77%) Apex Code
8 4 (1.42%) VBA
9 3 (1.06%) Bash
9 3 (1.06%) Objective-C
9 3 (1.06%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.71%) C
10 2 (0.71%) Go
10 2 (0.71%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.71%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.71%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.71%) Swift
11 1 (0.35%) C++
11 1 (0.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (9.57%) Cisco Certification
2 18 (6.38%) Degree
3 6 (2.13%) Azure Certification
3 6 (2.13%) SC Cleared
3 6 (2.13%) Security Cleared
4 5 (1.77%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (0.71%) CCNA
5 2 (0.71%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.71%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.71%) MBA
6 1 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.35%) CBAP
6 1 (0.35%) CSPO
6 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.35%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.90%) QA
2 9 (3.19%) SLA
3 7 (2.48%) GDPR
4 4 (1.42%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.42%) PSD2
5 3 (1.06%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.06%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.71%) PMO
7 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.35%) GxP
System Software
1 11 (3.90%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.06%) zsh
3 2 (0.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (1.77%) Terraform
3 2 (0.71%) Ansible
3 2 (0.71%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.35%) CASB
4 1 (0.35%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 53 (18.79%) Salesforce
2 50 (17.73%) SAP
3 39 (13.83%) Microsoft
4 30 (10.64%) Adobe
4 30 (10.64%) CheckPoint
4 30 (10.64%) Cisco
5 27 (9.57%) Arista
6 26 (9.22%) Sitecore
7 12 (4.26%) Dell
7 12 (4.26%) Google
7 12 (4.26%) Intel
8 4 (1.42%) Apple
8 4 (1.42%) Citrix
8 4 (1.42%) FIS
8 4 (1.42%) Pardot
9 3 (1.06%) Aruba
9 3 (1.06%) F5
9 3 (1.06%) Meraki
9 3 (1.06%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.06%) Optimizely