B2B Contracts

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 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 323 378 392
Rank change year-on-year +55 +14 -12
Contract jobs citing B2B 292 344 558
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.67% 0.62% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 0.69% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 204 366
10th Percentile £248 £366 £363
25th Percentile £416 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -6.67% +12.50%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £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 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 37,078 50,015 79,966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.30% 89.70% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,703 34,589 56,207
10th Percentile £300 £325 £349
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £646
90th Percentile £750 £750 £741
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,565 1,687 1,878
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.70 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +10.45%
75th Percentile £61.25 £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%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 +57 269 £513 -4.65% 713
London +76 161 £525 -2.33% 294
Work from Home +76 110 £504 -6.19% 363
UK excluding London +22 105 £513 -2.38% 423
South East -9 61 £513 -10.87% 107
North of England +12 22 £400 -20.00% 144
North West +14 15 £538 +7.50% 89
East of England +18 12 £550 +38.54% 36
North East - 4 £190 - 16
Scotland +43 3 £575 - 17
Midlands +13 3 £238 -46.63% 73
Yorkshire +9 3 £432 -13.60% 42
West Midlands +9 3 £238 -46.63% 46
South West +7 3 - - 41
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 (2.05%) CMS
2 5 (1.71%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.03%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.03%) Confluence
3 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.68%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.34%) Appian
5 1 (0.34%) Drupal
5 1 (0.34%) SAS
5 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (4.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.74%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (2.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.71%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.37%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (1.03%) Sketch
7 2 (0.68%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.68%) InVision
7 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.68%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.34%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.34%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.34%) Final Cut Pro
8 1 (0.34%) InDesign
8 1 (0.34%) Trello
Business Applications
1 29 (9.93%) Shopify
2 16 (5.48%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (3.77%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (1.71%) SAP CO
4 5 (1.71%) SAP FI
4 5 (1.71%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.68%) Adobe Campaign
5 2 (0.68%) Magento
5 2 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.68%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.34%) Maximo
6 1 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.34%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.34%) WebTrends
6 1 (0.34%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.34%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 43 (14.73%) Azure
2 33 (11.30%) SaaS
3 27 (9.25%) BigCommerce
4 23 (7.88%) AWS
5 16 (5.48%) Figma
5 16 (5.48%) Power Platform
6 14 (4.79%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (3.77%) GCP
8 10 (3.42%) Dynamics 365
8 10 (3.42%) Serverless
9 9 (3.08%) Entra ID
9 9 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (2.74%) PaaS
10 8 (2.74%) Snowflake
11 6 (2.05%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.05%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
12 5 (1.71%) GitHub
12 5 (1.71%) Google Analytics
12 5 (1.71%) IaaS
12 5 (1.71%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 25 (8.56%) DMZ
2 9 (3.08%) Firewall
3 6 (2.05%) Radio Access Network
4 5 (1.71%) 5G
4 5 (1.71%) SMS
5 4 (1.37%) 3G
5 4 (1.37%) 4G
6 3 (1.03%) FTP
6 3 (1.03%) VoIP
6 3 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.34%) HTTP
7 1 (0.34%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.34%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.08%) Power BI
2 8 (2.74%) MySQL
3 7 (2.40%) Data Lake
4 6 (2.05%) Relational Database
5 5 (1.71%) Big Data
6 4 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.03%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.68%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.68%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.34%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.34%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.34%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.34%) Metadata
9 1 (0.34%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.34%) NonStop SQL
9 1 (0.34%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (2.40%) Git
2 6 (2.05%) Jenkins
2 6 (2.05%) Maven
3 5 (1.71%) JIRA
4 2 (0.68%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.68%) GitLab
4 2 (0.68%) Gradle
4 2 (0.68%) MLflow
4 2 (0.68%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (0.68%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.34%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.34%) gulp
5 1 (0.34%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 83 (28.42%) Marketing
2 74 (25.34%) Social Skills
3 44 (15.07%) Finance
4 39 (13.36%) Retail
5 33 (11.30%) Banking
6 25 (8.56%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (4.11%) Organisational Skills
7 12 (4.11%) Telecoms
8 11 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (3.08%) German Language
9 9 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (2.74%) French Language
10 8 (2.74%) Manufacturing
11 7 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (2.40%) Legal
12 5 (1.71%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (1.71%) Publishing
13 4 (1.37%) Advertising
14 3 (1.03%) Automotive
14 3 (1.03%) Brand Awareness
Job Titles
1 54 (18.49%) Senior
2 37 (12.67%) Analyst
3 35 (11.99%) Architect
4 28 (9.59%) Network Engineer
5 25 (8.56%) Developer
5 25 (8.56%) Senior Network Engineer
6 22 (7.53%) Designer
7 18 (6.16%) Business Analyst
7 18 (6.16%) Consultant
8 16 (5.48%) Product Manager
9 14 (4.79%) Lead
10 12 (4.11%) UX Designer
11 11 (3.77%) Project Manager
11 11 (3.77%) Salesforce Architect
11 11 (3.77%) Senior Manager
11 11 (3.77%) Solutions Architect
12 8 (2.74%) Marketing Manager
13 6 (2.05%) Data Analyst
13 6 (2.05%) Desktop Support
13 6 (2.05%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (7.88%) VML
2 10 (3.42%) AngularJS
2 10 (3.42%) CSS
2 10 (3.42%) React
3 9 (3.08%) REST
3 9 (3.08%) RESTful
4 8 (2.74%) HTML
4 8 (2.74%) Lightning Web Components
4 8 (2.74%) Web Services
5 6 (2.05%) Middleware
5 6 (2.05%) Node.js
6 5 (1.71%) jQuery
6 5 (1.71%) Spring
7 4 (1.37%) .NET
7 4 (1.37%) IDoc
7 4 (1.37%) Sass
7 4 (1.37%) XML
8 3 (1.03%) OAuth
8 3 (1.03%) Spring MVC
8 3 (1.03%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.14%) Social Media
2 12 (4.11%) Product Ownership
3 10 (3.42%) Data Centre
3 10 (3.42%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (2.40%) FMCG
4 7 (2.40%) IoT
4 7 (2.40%) Management Information System
5 6 (2.05%) Mobile App
5 6 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.37%) Driving Licence
6 4 (1.37%) EPoS
7 3 (1.03%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.03%) Graphic Design
7 3 (1.03%) Marketing Technology
7 3 (1.03%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.03%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (0.68%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.68%) Contactless
8 2 (0.68%) Digital Wallet
8 2 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.82%) Windows
2 4 (1.37%) Linux
2 4 (1.37%) Unix
3 3 (1.03%) Android
4 2 (0.68%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (18.49%) Agile
2 41 (14.04%) Migration
3 36 (12.33%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (12.33%) User Experience
4 33 (11.30%) Analytics
4 33 (11.30%) E-Commerce
5 32 (10.96%) B2C
6 31 (10.62%) DevOps
7 29 (9.93%) CRM
8 28 (9.59%) Customer Acquisition
9 25 (8.56%) Project Management
10 24 (8.22%) Roadmaps
11 22 (7.53%) UX Design
12 21 (7.19%) Customer Experience
13 20 (6.85%) Project Delivery
14 19 (6.51%) Stakeholder Management
14 19 (6.51%) Technology Strategy
15 16 (5.48%) Time Management
16 15 (5.14%) Digital Marketing
16 15 (5.14%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 19 (6.51%) SQL
2 16 (5.48%) Python
3 15 (5.14%) TypeScript
4 11 (3.77%) Java
5 10 (3.42%) JavaScript
6 8 (2.74%) C#
7 6 (2.05%) PHP
8 5 (1.71%) Apex Code
9 4 (1.37%) VBA
10 3 (1.03%) Go
10 3 (1.03%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.68%) Bash
11 2 (0.68%) C
11 2 (0.68%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.68%) Objective-C
11 2 (0.68%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.68%) R
11 2 (0.68%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.68%) Swift
12 1 (0.34%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 27 (9.25%) Cisco Certification
2 21 (7.19%) Degree
3 11 (3.77%) Security Cleared
4 9 (3.08%) SC Cleared
5 5 (1.71%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.37%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.37%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.68%) CCNA
8 2 (0.68%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.68%) MBA
8 2 (0.68%) SAP Certification
9 1 (0.34%) CBAP
9 1 (0.34%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.34%) CSPO
9 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.45%) QA
2 9 (3.08%) SLA
3 7 (2.40%) GDPR
4 5 (1.71%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.37%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.37%) PSD2
6 3 (1.03%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.68%) PMO
8 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.34%) GxP
System Software
1 10 (3.42%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.68%) Docker
2 2 (0.68%) zsh
Systems Management
1 7 (2.40%) Terraform
2 5 (1.71%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.03%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.68%) Ansible
5 1 (0.34%) CASB
5 1 (0.34%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 53 (18.15%) Salesforce
1 53 (18.15%) SAP
2 42 (14.38%) Microsoft
3 32 (10.96%) Adobe
4 30 (10.27%) CheckPoint
4 30 (10.27%) Cisco
5 27 (9.25%) Arista
5 27 (9.25%) Sitecore
6 13 (4.45%) Google
7 12 (4.11%) Dell
7 12 (4.11%) Intel
8 5 (1.71%) Databricks
9 4 (1.37%) Apple
9 4 (1.37%) FIS
10 3 (1.03%) Aruba
10 3 (1.03%) Citrix
10 3 (1.03%) F5
10 3 (1.03%) IBM
10 3 (1.03%) Informatica
10 3 (1.03%) Meraki