E-Commerce Contract Job Trends in Central London

E-Commerce (Electronic Commerce)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring E-Commerce skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 107 112
Rank change year-on-year -14 +5 +15
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 18 17 20
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.76% 0.86% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 0.93% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 10 18
10th Percentile £324 £490 £413
25th Percentile £403 £506 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £570 £575
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -0.87% -9.80%
75th Percentile £534 £796 £600
90th Percentile £626 £831 £654
London median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% -4.44%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Central London

E-Commerce 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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,069 1,830 2,257
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 87.41% 92.38% 90.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,422 1,198 1,593
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £573 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% +4.09% -7.17%
75th Percentile £667 £675 £680
90th Percentile £775 £763 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 19 25
10th Percentile £18.75 £21.85 £19.33
25th Percentile £20.82 £24.66 £22.50
Median hourly rate £26.11 £31.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -15.77% +11.47% -20.54%
75th Percentile £42.65 £46.68 £40.00
90th Percentile £57.89 £53.35 £59.10
London median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.06
% change year-on-year +1.43% +16.43% -22.92%

E-Commerce
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing E-Commerce relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

E-Commerce job vacancy trend in Central London

E-Commerce
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing E-Commerce.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing E-Commerce

E-Commerce
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing E-Commerce in Central London over the 6 months to 7 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for E-Commerce in Central London

E-Commerce
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing E-Commerce.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing E-Commerce

E-Commerce
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing E-Commerce within the Central London region over the 6 months to 7 April 2026. 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
City of London -10 18 £475 -17.39% 61
E-Commerce
London

E-Commerce
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.11%) CMS
2 1 (5.56%) Apache
2 1 (5.56%) Confluence
2 1 (5.56%) Headless CMS
2 1 (5.56%) Kentico
2 1 (5.56%) nginx
2 1 (5.56%) Sitefinity
2 1 (5.56%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.56%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (5.56%) Adobe XD
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (5.56%) Photoshop
2 1 (5.56%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (11.11%) Shopify
3 1 (5.56%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) AWS
1 4 (22.22%) SaaS
2 3 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (16.67%) Serverless
3 2 (11.11%) Amazon EventBridge
3 2 (11.11%) Amazon S3
3 2 (11.11%) AWS Step Functions
3 2 (11.11%) Figma
3 2 (11.11%) Textract
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (5.56%) Contentsquare
4 1 (5.56%) Google Docs
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) DynamoDB
2 2 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (11.11%) CockroachDB
2 2 (11.11%) Metadata
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (5.56%) Data Lake
3 1 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (5.56%) MySQL
3 1 (5.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.56%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) PHPUnit
General
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Retail
3 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Marketing
4 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Senior
2 4 (22.22%) Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Business Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Designer
3 2 (11.11%) Payments Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Payments Business Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Senior User Researcher
3 2 (11.11%) User Researcher
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Digital Designer
4 1 (5.56%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (5.56%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 1 (5.56%) Lead
4 1 (5.56%) Magento Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Payments Programme Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Designer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Front-End Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Shopify Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (33.33%) HTML
2 5 (27.78%) CSS
3 4 (22.22%) React
4 3 (16.67%) Node.js
4 3 (16.67%) REST
5 2 (11.11%) boto
5 2 (11.11%) CSS3
5 2 (11.11%) HTML5
5 2 (11.11%) NumPy
5 2 (11.11%) Pandas
6 1 (5.56%) .NET
6 1 (5.56%) AngularJS
6 1 (5.56%) Bootstrap
6 1 (5.56%) jQuery
6 1 (5.56%) KnockoutJS
6 1 (5.56%) LAMP
6 1 (5.56%) Laravel
6 1 (5.56%) Middleware
6 1 (5.56%) SOAP
6 1 (5.56%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Data Structures
1 2 (11.11%) Onboarding
1 2 (11.11%) PMI
1 2 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.56%) FMCG
2 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.56%) Motion Graphics
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Agile
2 5 (27.78%) Analytics
2 5 (27.78%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 4 (22.22%) Validation
4 3 (16.67%) B2B
4 3 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 3 (16.67%) Model Validation
4 3 (16.67%) Monetization
4 3 (16.67%) Pricing Strategy
4 3 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 3 (16.67%) Scrum
4 3 (16.67%) TDD
4 3 (16.67%) User Experience
4 3 (16.67%) User Research
4 3 (16.67%) Webhook
4 3 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
5 2 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (11.11%) Qualitative Research
5 2 (11.11%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) JavaScript
1 4 (22.22%) SQL
1 4 (22.22%) TypeScript
2 3 (16.67%) PHP
2 3 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (5.56%) C#
3 1 (5.56%) Go
3 1 (5.56%) Korn
3 1 (5.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) CBAP
1 2 (11.11%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) Accessibility
1 3 (16.67%) QA
2 2 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 2 (11.11%) ISO 8583
2 2 (11.11%) PCI DSS
2 2 (11.11%) PSD2
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
1 1 (5.56%) Varnish
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Adobe
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 2 (11.11%) SAP
2 1 (5.56%) Google