B2C Contracts in England

B2C (Business-to-Consumer)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring B2C skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited B2C over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 358 397 495
Rank change year-on-year +39 +98 -21
Contract jobs citing B2C 193 254 311
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.51% 0.54% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.60% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 186 227
10th Percentile £375 £406 £413
25th Percentile £439 £491 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £563 £563
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +7.66%
75th Percentile £586 £648 £650
90th Percentile £700 £700 £838
UK median daily rate £513 £556 £575
% change year-on-year -7.87% -3.26% +11.65%
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% -
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
England

B2C falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,030 42,283 63,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.40% 89.90% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,779 29,697 45,496
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £440 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,363 1,526 1,693
10th Percentile £12.79 £10.69 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.01 £15.75 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.59 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.71 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

B2C
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for B2C in England

B2C
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for B2C in England

B2C
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing B2C in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for B2C in England

B2C
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for B2C in England

B2C
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 B2C within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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
London +78 138 £513 -10.09% 85
South East -3 33 £525 -12.50% 16
North of England +4 12 £500 +5.26% 36
North West +6 7 £525 +10.53% 26
Yorkshire +10 5 £400 -36.00% 8
East of England +7 5 £485 +12.79% 4
West Midlands +19 2 £400 -5.88% 10
Midlands +18 2 £400 -5.88% 13
South West -17 1 £575 -11.54% 15
B2C
UK

B2C
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 12 (6.22%) CMS
2 6 (3.11%) Confluence
3 5 (2.59%) Headless CMS
4 2 (1.04%) Umbraco
4 2 (1.04%) WordPress
5 1 (0.52%) Drupal
Applications
1 6 (3.11%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (3.11%) MS Visio
2 4 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.55%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (1.55%) InDesign
3 3 (1.55%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (2.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.04%) Adobe Campaign
2 2 (1.04%) Magento
2 2 (1.04%) SAP Hybris
2 2 (1.04%) Shopify
3 1 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.52%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 93 (48.19%) Azure
2 72 (37.31%) Azure DevOps
2 72 (37.31%) Entra ID
3 20 (10.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 20 (10.36%) PaaS
4 18 (9.33%) Azure Service Bus
5 14 (7.25%) SaaS
6 12 (6.22%) Dynamics 365
7 9 (4.66%) Azure Monitor
7 9 (4.66%) IaaS
8 7 (3.63%) AWS
8 7 (3.63%) Azure Functions
8 7 (3.63%) Azure Key Vault
8 7 (3.63%) Azure Logic Apps
8 7 (3.63%) Serverless
9 5 (2.59%) SuccessFactors
10 4 (2.07%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (2.07%) Contentful
10 4 (2.07%) GCP
10 4 (2.07%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.07%) FIX Connectivity
1 4 (2.07%) Internet
2 2 (1.04%) IP Telephony
2 2 (1.04%) Kerberos
2 2 (1.04%) PBX
2 2 (1.04%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.04%) Unified Communications
2 2 (1.04%) VoIP
3 1 (0.52%) DNS
3 1 (0.52%) Firewall
3 1 (0.52%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (35.23%) SQL Server
2 16 (8.29%) Redis
3 6 (3.11%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (2.59%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.04%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.52%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (0.52%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.52%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 16 (8.29%) JIRA
1 16 (8.29%) Visual Studio
2 11 (5.70%) Selenium
2 11 (5.70%) SpecFlow
2 11 (5.70%) WebDriver
3 5 (2.59%) Git
4 4 (2.07%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.04%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.52%) Hudson
6 1 (0.52%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 53 (27.46%) Social Skills
2 39 (20.21%) Marketing
3 16 (8.29%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (8.29%) Retail
4 14 (7.25%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.66%) Manufacturing
6 7 (3.63%) Finance
6 7 (3.63%) Legal
7 6 (3.11%) Health Technology
7 6 (3.11%) Law
8 5 (2.59%) Local Government
8 5 (2.59%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (2.59%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.07%) Front Office
9 4 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.55%) Advertising
10 3 (1.55%) Automotive
10 3 (1.55%) Back Office
10 3 (1.55%) German Language
11 2 (1.04%) Billing
Job Titles
1 68 (35.23%) Developer
2 66 (34.20%) Senior
3 40 (20.73%) Senior Developer
4 30 (15.54%) Backend Developer
5 27 (13.99%) Analyst
6 25 (12.95%) Azure Developer
7 22 (11.40%) Architect
7 22 (11.40%) Senior Backend Developer
8 17 (8.81%) Software Developer
9 15 (7.77%) Business Analyst
10 14 (7.25%) Senior Software Developer
11 12 (6.22%) C# Developer
11 12 (6.22%) Project Manager
12 11 (5.70%) Solutions Architect
13 10 (5.18%) Senior Analyst
13 10 (5.18%) Senior Test Analyst
13 10 (5.18%) Test Analyst
14 9 (4.66%) Senior C# Developer
15 8 (4.15%) .NET Developer
15 8 (4.15%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (38.86%) .NET
2 70 (36.27%) XML
3 36 (18.65%) AngularJS
4 35 (18.13%) .NET Core
5 29 (15.03%) .NET Framework
6 23 (11.92%) React
7 21 (10.88%) HTML
8 19 (9.84%) CSS
9 15 (7.77%) ASP.NET
9 15 (7.77%) ASP.NET Core
9 15 (7.77%) REST
10 11 (5.70%) OAuth
10 11 (5.70%) OpenID
11 8 (4.15%) SAML
12 6 (3.11%) ARM Templates
12 6 (3.11%) Microsoft Graph
13 4 (2.07%) FIX Protocol
13 4 (2.07%) JSON
13 4 (2.07%) SOAP
14 3 (1.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (21.24%) Product Ownership
2 14 (7.25%) Mobile App
3 11 (5.70%) Video\Live Streaming
4 8 (4.15%) Over-the-Top Content
5 6 (3.11%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (3.11%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.59%) Acoustics
6 5 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.07%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.07%) Derivative
7 4 (2.07%) Fixed Income
7 4 (2.07%) Mobile Payment
8 3 (1.55%) Animation
8 3 (1.55%) Digital Media
8 3 (1.55%) Graphic Design
8 3 (1.55%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.52%) Contactless
9 1 (0.52%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.52%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.07%) Linux
1 4 (2.07%) Unix
2 1 (0.52%) Android
2 1 (0.52%) Windows
2 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (48.70%) Agile
2 83 (43.01%) Scrum
3 75 (38.86%) DevOps
4 66 (34.20%) CI/CD
5 30 (15.54%) B2B
6 25 (12.95%) User Experience
7 19 (9.84%) Digital Marketing
7 19 (9.84%) E-Commerce
8 18 (9.33%) Test Automation
9 17 (8.81%) Project Delivery
10 15 (7.77%) Project Management
10 15 (7.77%) SDLC
11 14 (7.25%) CRM
12 13 (6.74%) Roadmaps
13 12 (6.22%) Software Engineering
14 11 (5.70%) Collaborative Working
14 11 (5.70%) Performance Testing
15 10 (5.18%) Problem-Solving
15 10 (5.18%) Waterfall
16 9 (4.66%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 73 (37.82%) C#
2 68 (35.23%) PowerShell
3 36 (18.65%) Bicep
4 29 (15.03%) JavaScript
5 19 (9.84%) TypeScript
6 15 (7.77%) SQL
7 5 (2.59%) Java
8 2 (1.04%) Bash
8 2 (1.04%) PHP
8 2 (1.04%) Python
9 1 (0.52%) C++
9 1 (0.52%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 12 (6.22%) Degree
2 7 (3.63%) ISEB
3 4 (2.07%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.07%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.04%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.04%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.04%) MBA
5 1 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.74%) GDPR
2 8 (4.15%) QA
3 2 (1.04%) PMO
3 2 (1.04%) WCAG
4 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.52%) SLA
System Software
1 66 (34.20%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.04%) zsh
3 1 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (5.70%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (2.59%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.59%) Terraform
Vendors
1 76 (39.38%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.15%) MuleSoft
3 7 (3.63%) SAP
4 5 (2.59%) Adobe
5 4 (2.07%) Bloomberg
5 4 (2.07%) Databricks
5 4 (2.07%) Google
5 4 (2.07%) ION Trading
5 4 (2.07%) MarketAxess
5 4 (2.07%) Tradeweb
6 3 (1.55%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.04%) Cisco
7 2 (1.04%) Mitel
7 2 (1.04%) Workday
8 1 (0.52%) BMC
8 1 (0.52%) IBM
8 1 (0.52%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (0.52%) Okta
8 1 (0.52%) Remedy
8 1 (0.52%) ServiceNow