B2C Contracts

B2C (Business-to-Consumer)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 379 430 512
Rank change year-on-year +51 +82 -4
Contract jobs citing B2C 203 271 367
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.47% 0.48% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.54% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 189 254
10th Percentile £400 £406 £414
25th Percentile £450 £488 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £593 £640 £650
90th Percentile £700 £700 £826
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £563 £525
% change year-on-year -8.89% +7.14% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £62.92
25th Percentile - - £64.58
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £67.36
Median % change year-on-year - -48.04% +49.69%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £67.36

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

B2C
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing B2C as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for B2C in the UK

B2C
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing B2C.

Daily rate trend for B2C in the UK

B2C
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing B2C over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for B2C in the UK

B2C
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing B2C.

Hourly rate trend for B2C in the UK

B2C
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 June 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 +38 194 £513 -6.82% 187
London +92 138 £513 -10.09% 95
Work from Home +70 86 £500 -13.04% 91
UK excluding London -7 54 £513 -8.89% 87
South East -5 31 £525 -12.50% 18
North of England +8 12 £500 +5.26% 39
North West +10 7 £525 +10.53% 27
East of England +8 6 £485 +12.79% 6
Yorkshire +14 5 £400 -36.00% 10
Midlands +25 3 £448 +5.29% 14
Scotland +37 2 £550 -
West Midlands +15 2 £400 -5.88% 6
South West -11 1 £575 -11.54% 8
East Midlands - 1 £495 - 8

B2C
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 13 (6.40%) CMS
2 6 (2.96%) Confluence
3 5 (2.46%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.99%) Umbraco
4 2 (0.99%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (2.96%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (2.96%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.48%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (1.48%) InDesign
3 3 (1.48%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (2.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.99%) Magento
2 2 (0.99%) SAP Hybris
2 2 (0.99%) Shopify
3 1 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 98 (48.28%) Azure
2 76 (37.44%) Entra ID
3 74 (36.45%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (10.84%) PaaS
5 21 (10.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 20 (9.85%) Azure Service Bus
7 14 (6.90%) Dynamics 365
8 13 (6.40%) SaaS
9 11 (5.42%) IaaS
10 10 (4.93%) Azure Monitor
11 9 (4.43%) Serverless
12 8 (3.94%) Azure Functions
12 8 (3.94%) Azure Key Vault
12 8 (3.94%) Azure Logic Apps
13 7 (3.45%) AWS
14 5 (2.46%) Azure Data Factory
14 5 (2.46%) GCP
14 5 (2.46%) Power Platform
14 5 (2.46%) SuccessFactors
15 4 (1.97%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.97%) FIX Connectivity
1 4 (1.97%) Internet
2 2 (0.99%) IP Telephony
2 2 (0.99%) Kerberos
2 2 (0.99%) PBX
2 2 (0.99%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.99%) Unified Communications
2 2 (0.99%) VoIP
3 1 (0.49%) DNS
3 1 (0.49%) Firewall
3 1 (0.49%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (33.99%) SQL Server
2 17 (8.37%) Redis
3 8 (3.94%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (3.45%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.99%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.99%) MySQL
6 1 (0.49%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (0.49%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.49%) Power BI
6 1 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 17 (8.37%) Visual Studio
2 16 (7.88%) JIRA
3 11 (5.42%) Selenium
3 11 (5.42%) SpecFlow
3 11 (5.42%) WebDriver
4 6 (2.96%) Git
5 4 (1.97%) TeamCity
6 3 (1.48%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.49%) Hudson
7 1 (0.49%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 55 (27.09%) Social Skills
2 38 (18.72%) Marketing
3 18 (8.87%) Retail
4 16 (7.88%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (6.90%) Public Sector
6 10 (4.93%) Finance
6 10 (4.93%) Manufacturing
7 7 (3.45%) Legal
7 7 (3.45%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.96%) Health Technology
8 6 (2.96%) Law
9 5 (2.46%) Local Government
9 5 (2.46%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (1.97%) Billing
10 4 (1.97%) Front Office
10 4 (1.97%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.48%) Advertising
11 3 (1.48%) Automotive
11 3 (1.48%) Back Office
11 3 (1.48%) German Language
Job Titles
1 72 (35.47%) Developer
2 68 (33.50%) Senior
3 41 (20.20%) Senior Developer
4 30 (14.78%) Analyst
4 30 (14.78%) Backend Developer
5 26 (12.81%) Azure Developer
6 22 (10.84%) Architect
6 22 (10.84%) Senior Backend Developer
7 18 (8.87%) Software Developer
8 16 (7.88%) Business Analyst
9 14 (6.90%) Senior Software Developer
10 12 (5.91%) C# Developer
10 12 (5.91%) Project Manager
11 11 (5.42%) Senior Analyst
12 10 (4.93%) Senior Test Analyst
12 10 (4.93%) Solutions Architect
12 10 (4.93%) Test Analyst
13 9 (4.43%) Senior C# Developer
13 9 (4.43%) Software Engineer
14 8 (3.94%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (38.92%) .NET
2 72 (35.47%) XML
3 37 (18.23%) AngularJS
4 36 (17.73%) .NET Core
5 29 (14.29%) .NET Framework
6 24 (11.82%) React
7 22 (10.84%) HTML
8 20 (9.85%) CSS
9 17 (8.37%) REST
10 15 (7.39%) ASP.NET
10 15 (7.39%) ASP.NET Core
11 13 (6.40%) OAuth
11 13 (6.40%) OpenID
12 9 (4.43%) SAML
13 7 (3.45%) ARM Templates
13 7 (3.45%) Microsoft Graph
14 6 (2.96%) JSON
14 6 (2.96%) SOAP
15 4 (1.97%) FIX Protocol
16 3 (1.48%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (21.18%) Product Ownership
2 15 (7.39%) Mobile App
3 11 (5.42%) Video\Live Streaming
4 8 (3.94%) Over-the-Top Content
5 7 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.96%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.46%) Acoustics
7 5 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.97%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.97%) Derivative
8 4 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.97%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.97%) Mobile Payment
9 3 (1.48%) Animation
9 3 (1.48%) Digital Media
9 3 (1.48%) Graphic Design
9 3 (1.48%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.49%) Contactless
10 1 (0.49%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.49%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.97%) Linux
1 4 (1.97%) Unix
2 1 (0.49%) Android
2 1 (0.49%) Windows
2 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (46.80%) Agile
2 82 (40.39%) Scrum
3 77 (37.93%) DevOps
4 68 (33.50%) CI/CD
5 29 (14.29%) B2B
6 25 (12.32%) User Experience
7 21 (10.34%) E-Commerce
8 18 (8.87%) Test Automation
9 17 (8.37%) Digital Marketing
10 16 (7.88%) CRM
10 16 (7.88%) Project Delivery
11 15 (7.39%) SDLC
12 14 (6.90%) Project Management
12 14 (6.90%) Software Engineering
13 13 (6.40%) Roadmaps
14 11 (5.42%) Collaborative Working
14 11 (5.42%) Performance Testing
14 11 (5.42%) Stakeholder Management
15 10 (4.93%) Business Analysis
15 10 (4.93%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 75 (36.95%) C#
2 70 (34.48%) PowerShell
3 37 (18.23%) Bicep
4 32 (15.76%) JavaScript
5 20 (9.85%) TypeScript
6 18 (8.87%) SQL
7 6 (2.96%) Java
8 3 (1.48%) Bash
9 2 (0.99%) PHP
10 1 (0.49%) C++
10 1 (0.49%) Python
10 1 (0.49%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 12 (5.91%) Degree
2 7 (3.45%) ISEB
3 4 (1.97%) SC Cleared
3 4 (1.97%) Security Cleared
4 2 (0.99%) Azure Certification
4 2 (0.99%) Master's Degree
4 2 (0.99%) MBA
5 1 (0.49%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.40%) GDPR
2 8 (3.94%) QA
3 4 (1.97%) PMO
4 2 (0.99%) WCAG
5 1 (0.49%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.49%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.49%) SLA
System Software
1 68 (33.50%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.48%) zsh
3 1 (0.49%) Docker
3 1 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (5.42%) Single Sign-On
2 6 (2.96%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.46%) Terraform
Vendors
1 78 (38.42%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.43%) MuleSoft
3 6 (2.96%) SAP
4 5 (2.46%) Google
5 4 (1.97%) Bloomberg
5 4 (1.97%) ION Trading
5 4 (1.97%) MarketAxess
5 4 (1.97%) Tradeweb
6 3 (1.48%) Adobe
6 3 (1.48%) Databricks
6 3 (1.48%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.99%) Cisco
7 2 (0.99%) Mitel
7 2 (0.99%) Okta
7 2 (0.99%) Workday
8 1 (0.49%) BMC
8 1 (0.49%) CA
8 1 (0.49%) IBM
8 1 (0.49%) Novell
8 1 (0.49%) Remedy