E-Commerce Contracts with Work from Home Options

E-Commerce (Electronic Commerce)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for E-Commerce skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited E-Commerce over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 159 134 96
Rank change year-on-year -25 -38 +9
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 207 472 1,231
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.37% 1.88% 2.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 2.09% 3.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 302 857
10th Percentile £300 £350 £363
25th Percentile £400 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.77% +2.38% +16.67%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £650
90th Percentile £626 £823 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +13.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 4
10th Percentile - - £46.50
25th Percentile £58.75 £35.00 £48.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.50 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -8.40% +27.80% +13.89%
75th Percentile £61.25 £97.50 £59.47
90th Percentile - £99.00 £69.77
UK median hourly rate £13.00 £65.50 £51.25
% change year-on-year -80.15% +27.80% +16.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

E-Commerce 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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,282 22,550 40,272
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.98% 89.75% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,890 15,929 29,247
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 574 522 532
10th Percentile £15.05 £18.63 £13.75
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £69.31 £55.38
90th Percentile £75.18 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

E-Commerce
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing E-Commerce as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

E-Commerce trend for jobs with a WFH option

E-Commerce
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing E-Commerce.

E-Commerce daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

E-Commerce
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing E-Commerce over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

E-Commerce daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

E-Commerce
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing E-Commerce.

E-Commerce hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

E-Commerce
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 14 (6.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 14 (6.76%) CMS
2 9 (4.35%) Confluence
3 4 (1.93%) Headless CMS
4 3 (1.45%) Apache Solr
4 3 (1.45%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.45%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.97%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.48%) Apache
6 1 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.48%) Drupal
6 1 (0.48%) IIS
6 1 (0.48%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.48%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (2.42%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.97%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.48%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 13 (6.28%) SAP Hybris
2 10 (4.83%) Shopify
3 9 (4.35%) Payment Gateway
4 8 (3.86%) Magento
5 4 (1.93%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.97%) JDE OneWorld
6 2 (0.97%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.48%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.48%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 42 (20.29%) AWS
2 15 (7.25%) Azure
2 15 (7.25%) SAP Commerce Cloud
3 9 (4.35%) GCP
3 9 (4.35%) Serverless
4 7 (3.38%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (2.90%) SaaS
5 6 (2.90%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
5 6 (2.90%) Twilio
6 5 (2.42%) GitHub
7 4 (1.93%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (1.93%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 4 (1.93%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 4 (1.93%) Stripe
8 3 (1.45%) Amplience
8 3 (1.45%) BigCommerce
8 3 (1.45%) Contentstack
8 3 (1.45%) Figma
9 2 (0.97%) Apigee
9 2 (0.97%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.45%) Internet
2 2 (0.97%) HTTP
3 1 (0.48%) Firewall
3 1 (0.48%) FTP
3 1 (0.48%) LAN
3 1 (0.48%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.48%) WAN
3 1 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (2.42%) MySQL
1 5 (2.42%) NoSQL
2 4 (1.93%) Data Lake
3 3 (1.45%) Big Data
3 3 (1.45%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.45%) SQLite
4 2 (0.97%) Amazon QuickSight
4 2 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (0.97%) Delta Lake
4 2 (0.97%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (0.97%) GIS
4 2 (0.97%) KDB
4 2 (0.97%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.97%) Spark SQL
4 2 (0.97%) Tableau
5 1 (0.48%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 19 (9.18%) Git
2 17 (8.21%) JIRA
3 8 (3.86%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.90%) GitLab
5 4 (1.93%) Cypress.io
5 4 (1.93%) Postman
6 3 (1.45%) Selenium
7 2 (0.97%) Appium
7 2 (0.97%) Maven
7 2 (0.97%) rollup.js
7 2 (0.97%) Storybook
7 2 (0.97%) TestCafe
7 2 (0.97%) Vite
7 2 (0.97%) webpack
8 1 (0.48%) Axure RP
8 1 (0.48%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.48%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.48%) WiX
General
1 48 (23.19%) Retail
2 43 (20.77%) Social Skills
3 22 (10.63%) Finance
4 19 (9.18%) Marketing
5 11 (5.31%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.38%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (3.38%) Publishing
7 6 (2.90%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.93%) Banking
9 3 (1.45%) Front Office
9 3 (1.45%) Legal
9 3 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.97%) Advertising
10 2 (0.97%) German Language
10 2 (0.97%) Public Sector
10 2 (0.97%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.48%) Back Office
11 1 (0.48%) Billing
11 1 (0.48%) Games
11 1 (0.48%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 75 (36.23%) Developer
2 25 (12.08%) Senior
3 24 (11.59%) Project Manager
4 21 (10.14%) E-Commerce Developer
5 16 (7.73%) Analyst
5 16 (7.73%) Architect
6 13 (6.28%) Business Analyst
6 13 (6.28%) Consultant
7 11 (5.31%) Full Stack Developer
7 11 (5.31%) Java Developer
7 11 (5.31%) JavaScript Developer
8 10 (4.83%) React Developer
9 9 (4.35%) E-Commerce Manager
9 9 (4.35%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 9 (4.35%) Senior Developer
10 7 (3.38%) Payments Consultant
11 6 (2.90%) Data Engineer
11 6 (2.90%) Technical Consultant
11 6 (2.90%) Test Engineer
11 6 (2.90%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (15.46%) React
2 29 (14.01%) Node.js
3 25 (12.08%) CSS
4 24 (11.59%) HTML
5 20 (9.66%) GraphQL
6 15 (7.25%) REST
7 14 (6.76%) Next.js
8 13 (6.28%) Web Services
9 9 (4.35%) JSON
9 9 (4.35%) OAuth
10 8 (3.86%) OpenID
11 6 (2.90%) CSS3
11 6 (2.90%) HTML5
11 6 (2.90%) React Native
11 6 (2.90%) XML
12 5 (2.42%) Ajax
12 5 (2.42%) AngularJS
12 5 (2.42%) RESTful
13 4 (1.93%) Express.js
13 4 (1.93%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.25%) Mobile App
2 14 (6.76%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (6.28%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.38%) EMV
5 6 (2.90%) Algorithms
5 6 (2.90%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (2.42%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.42%) FMCG
7 4 (1.93%) Marketing Technology
7 4 (1.93%) Taxonomies
7 4 (1.93%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.45%) Equities
8 3 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.45%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.45%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.97%) Digital Wallet
9 2 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.97%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.83%) Android
2 8 (3.86%) Linux
3 7 (3.38%) Unix
4 6 (2.90%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.93%) Windows
6 1 (0.48%) CentOS
6 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.48%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (33.33%) Agile
2 28 (13.53%) CI/CD
3 25 (12.08%) Project Management
4 24 (11.59%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (11.59%) Test Automation
5 23 (11.11%) Scrum
6 22 (10.63%) DevOps
7 21 (10.14%) CRM
8 20 (9.66%) Analytics
9 18 (8.70%) Full Stack Development
9 18 (8.70%) User Experience
10 16 (7.73%) Microservices
11 15 (7.25%) TDD
11 15 (7.25%) Web Development
12 13 (6.28%) Software Engineering
13 12 (5.80%) B2B
13 12 (5.80%) ERP
14 11 (5.31%) B2C
14 11 (5.31%) Data Modelling
14 11 (5.31%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 49 (23.67%) JavaScript
2 27 (13.04%) Java
2 27 (13.04%) TypeScript
3 19 (9.18%) SQL
4 17 (8.21%) Python
5 8 (3.86%) Bash
6 5 (2.42%) PHP
6 5 (2.42%) Scala
7 4 (1.93%) Go
7 4 (1.93%) Kotlin
8 2 (0.97%) C++
8 2 (0.97%) Perl
9 1 (0.48%) C#
9 1 (0.48%) Groovy
9 1 (0.48%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.48%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (4.83%) Degree
2 3 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.97%) Azure Certification
3 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.48%) CBAP
4 1 (0.48%) IIBA
4 1 (0.48%) ISEB
4 1 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (0.48%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.48%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.48%) PMP
4 1 (0.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (0.48%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.28%) QA
2 8 (3.86%) PMO
3 7 (3.38%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.42%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.93%) ISO 9001
6 3 (1.45%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.97%) GDPR
7 2 (0.97%) PSD2
7 2 (0.97%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (6.28%) Docker
2 3 (1.45%) zsh
3 1 (0.48%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (7.25%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.93%) Grafana
3 1 (0.48%) Kibana
3 1 (0.48%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (9.18%) Adobe
1 19 (9.18%) SAP
2 14 (6.76%) Salesforce
3 12 (5.80%) Microsoft
4 10 (4.83%) Google
5 3 (1.45%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 3 (1.45%) Sitecore
6 2 (0.97%) Databricks
6 2 (0.97%) Dell
6 2 (0.97%) Dynatrace
6 2 (0.97%) Intel
6 2 (0.97%) Marketo
6 2 (0.97%) PayPal
7 1 (0.48%) Ariba
7 1 (0.48%) Cisco
7 1 (0.48%) Citrix
7 1 (0.48%) Facebook
7 1 (0.48%) Meraki
7 1 (0.48%) Oracle
7 1 (0.48%) Splunk