B2B Contracts

Business-to-Business (B2B)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring B2B skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited B2B 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 313 389 396
Rank change year-on-year +76 +7 -15
Contract jobs citing B2B 283 337 551
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.65% 0.61% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 0.68% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 198 362
10th Percentile £235 £351 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £564
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -6.87% +12.75%
75th Percentile £600 £634 £675
90th Percentile £675 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - +5.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 6
10th Percentile £13.31 £35.60 £25.38
25th Percentile £15.31 £44.00 £41.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £48.00 £48.56
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% -1.14% +76.56%
75th Percentile £40.63 £53.25 £58.97
90th Percentile £68.75 £60.20 £64.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £14.27 - £11.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

B2B 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 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
England +57 261 £513 -4.65% 682
London +76 153 £525 -2.33% 296
Work from Home +68 107 £500 -5.88% 356
UK excluding London -5 105 £513 -2.38% 400
South East -8 60 £513 -10.87% 100
North of England +10 22 £400 -20.00% 137
North West +10 15 £538 +7.50% 85
East of England +14 12 £550 +38.54% 38
West Midlands +14 4 £238 -46.63% 42
Midlands +11 4 £238 -46.63% 65
North East - 4 £190 - 13
Scotland +51 3 £575 - 18
Yorkshire +8 3 £432 -13.60% 41
South West -5 3 - - 43
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1

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 6 (2.12%) CMS
2 5 (1.77%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.06%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.06%) Confluence
3 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.71%) Anypoint
4 2 (0.71%) Appian
5 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.35%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.35%) Drupal
5 1 (0.35%) SAS
5 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (4.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.83%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.77%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.41%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (1.06%) Sketch
7 2 (0.71%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.71%) InVision
7 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.71%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.35%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.35%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.35%) Final Cut Pro
8 1 (0.35%) InDesign
8 1 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 29 (10.25%) Shopify
2 16 (5.65%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (2.47%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (1.77%) SAP CO
4 5 (1.77%) SAP FI
4 5 (1.77%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.71%) Adobe Campaign
5 2 (0.71%) Magento
5 2 (0.71%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.71%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.35%) Maximo
6 1 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.35%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.35%) WebTrends
6 1 (0.35%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.35%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 43 (15.19%) Azure
2 30 (10.60%) SaaS
3 27 (9.54%) BigCommerce
4 23 (8.13%) AWS
5 16 (5.65%) Power Platform
6 15 (5.30%) Figma
7 14 (4.95%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (3.89%) GCP
9 10 (3.53%) Serverless
10 9 (3.18%) Entra ID
10 9 (3.18%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (2.83%) PaaS
11 8 (2.83%) Snowflake
12 6 (2.12%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (2.12%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (2.12%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
13 5 (1.77%) GitHub
13 5 (1.77%) Google Analytics
13 5 (1.77%) IaaS
13 5 (1.77%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 25 (8.83%) DMZ
2 9 (3.18%) Firewall
3 6 (2.12%) Radio Access Network
4 5 (1.77%) 5G
4 5 (1.77%) SMS
5 4 (1.41%) 3G
5 4 (1.41%) 4G
6 3 (1.06%) FTP
6 3 (1.06%) VoIP
6 3 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.35%) HTTP
7 1 (0.35%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.35%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.18%) Power BI
2 8 (2.83%) MySQL
3 7 (2.47%) Data Lake
4 6 (2.12%) Relational Database
5 5 (1.77%) Big Data
6 4 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.06%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.71%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.71%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.35%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.35%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.35%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.35%) Metadata
9 1 (0.35%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.35%) NonStop SQL
9 1 (0.35%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (2.47%) Git
2 6 (2.12%) Jenkins
2 6 (2.12%) Maven
3 5 (1.77%) JIRA
4 2 (0.71%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.71%) GitLab
4 2 (0.71%) Gradle
4 2 (0.71%) MLflow
4 2 (0.71%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (0.71%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.35%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.35%) gulp
5 1 (0.35%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 77 (27.21%) Marketing
2 74 (26.15%) Social Skills
3 42 (14.84%) Finance
4 38 (13.43%) Retail
5 33 (11.66%) Banking
6 24 (8.48%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (4.24%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (3.89%) Telecoms
9 10 (3.53%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (3.18%) German Language
10 9 (3.18%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (2.83%) French Language
11 8 (2.83%) Manufacturing
12 7 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (2.47%) Legal
13 5 (1.77%) Publishing
14 4 (1.41%) Advertising
14 4 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (1.06%) Automotive
15 3 (1.06%) Brand Awareness
Job Titles
1 53 (18.73%) Senior
2 36 (12.72%) Architect
3 35 (12.37%) Analyst
4 28 (9.89%) Network Engineer
5 25 (8.83%) Developer
5 25 (8.83%) Senior Network Engineer
6 20 (7.07%) Designer
7 17 (6.01%) Business Analyst
7 17 (6.01%) Consultant
8 14 (4.95%) Product Manager
9 13 (4.59%) Lead
10 11 (3.89%) Project Manager
10 11 (3.89%) Salesforce Architect
10 11 (3.89%) Senior Manager
10 11 (3.89%) Solutions Architect
10 11 (3.89%) UX Designer
11 8 (2.83%) Marketing Manager
12 6 (2.12%) Desktop Support
12 6 (2.12%) Integration Architect
12 6 (2.12%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (8.13%) VML
2 10 (3.53%) AngularJS
2 10 (3.53%) CSS
2 10 (3.53%) React
3 9 (3.18%) REST
3 9 (3.18%) RESTful
4 8 (2.83%) HTML
4 8 (2.83%) Lightning Web Components
4 8 (2.83%) Web Services
5 6 (2.12%) Middleware
5 6 (2.12%) Node.js
6 5 (1.77%) jQuery
6 5 (1.77%) Spring
7 4 (1.41%) .NET
7 4 (1.41%) IDoc
7 4 (1.41%) Sass
7 4 (1.41%) XML
8 3 (1.06%) EDI
8 3 (1.06%) J2EE
8 3 (1.06%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 13 (4.59%) Product Ownership
1 13 (4.59%) Social Media
2 10 (3.53%) Data Centre
2 10 (3.53%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (2.47%) FMCG
3 7 (2.47%) IoT
3 7 (2.47%) Management Information System
4 6 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (1.77%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.41%) Driving Licence
6 4 (1.41%) EPoS
7 3 (1.06%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.06%) Graphic Design
7 3 (1.06%) Marketing Technology
7 3 (1.06%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.71%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.71%) Contactless
8 2 (0.71%) Digital Wallet
8 2 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.71%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (6.01%) Windows
2 4 (1.41%) Linux
2 4 (1.41%) Unix
3 3 (1.06%) Android
4 2 (0.71%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (19.08%) Agile
2 41 (14.49%) Migration
3 35 (12.37%) Problem-Solving
3 35 (12.37%) User Experience
4 33 (11.66%) E-Commerce
5 32 (11.31%) Analytics
6 31 (10.95%) DevOps
7 30 (10.60%) B2C
8 28 (9.89%) Customer Acquisition
9 25 (8.83%) CRM
9 25 (8.83%) Roadmaps
10 24 (8.48%) Project Management
11 21 (7.42%) Customer Experience
11 21 (7.42%) UX Design
12 20 (7.07%) Project Delivery
13 19 (6.71%) Technology Strategy
14 18 (6.36%) Stakeholder Management
15 16 (5.65%) Scrum
15 16 (5.65%) Time Management
16 15 (5.30%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 19 (6.71%) SQL
2 16 (5.65%) Python
3 15 (5.30%) TypeScript
4 11 (3.89%) Java
5 10 (3.53%) JavaScript
6 8 (2.83%) C#
7 6 (2.12%) PHP
8 5 (1.77%) Apex Code
9 4 (1.41%) VBA
10 3 (1.06%) Go
10 3 (1.06%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.71%) Bash
11 2 (0.71%) C
11 2 (0.71%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.71%) Objective-C
11 2 (0.71%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.71%) R
11 2 (0.71%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.71%) Swift
12 1 (0.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 27 (9.54%) Cisco Certification
2 21 (7.42%) Degree
3 11 (3.89%) Security Cleared
4 9 (3.18%) SC Cleared
5 5 (1.77%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.41%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.41%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.71%) CCNA
8 2 (0.71%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.71%) MBA
8 2 (0.71%) SAP Certification
9 1 (0.35%) CBAP
9 1 (0.35%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.35%) CSPO
9 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.59%) QA
2 9 (3.18%) SLA
3 7 (2.47%) GDPR
4 4 (1.41%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.41%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.41%) PSD2
5 3 (1.06%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.71%) PMO
7 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.35%) GxP
System Software
1 10 (3.53%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.71%) Docker
2 2 (0.71%) zsh
Systems Management
1 7 (2.47%) Terraform
2 5 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.06%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.71%) Ansible
5 1 (0.35%) CASB
5 1 (0.35%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 53 (18.73%) Salesforce
2 52 (18.37%) SAP
3 39 (13.78%) Microsoft
4 32 (11.31%) Adobe
5 31 (10.95%) Cisco
6 30 (10.60%) CheckPoint
7 27 (9.54%) Arista
7 27 (9.54%) Sitecore
8 13 (4.59%) Google
9 12 (4.24%) Dell
9 12 (4.24%) Intel
10 5 (1.77%) Databricks
11 4 (1.41%) Apple
11 4 (1.41%) FIS
11 4 (1.41%) ServiceNow
12 3 (1.06%) Aruba
12 3 (1.06%) Citrix
12 3 (1.06%) F5
12 3 (1.06%) IBM
12 3 (1.06%) Informatica