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 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 121 116
Rank change year-on-year +7 -5 +28
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 32 16 20
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.23% 0.78% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% 0.83% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 11 16
10th Percentile £346 £413 £425
25th Percentile £361 £495 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £626
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -14.17% +1.01%
75th Percentile £569 £638 £691
90th Percentile £658 £725 £709
London median daily rate £500 £515 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £54.50 £31.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +73.02% -47.50% -

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 2,296 1,928 2,090
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 87.94% 93.73% 91.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,558 1,268 1,445
10th Percentile £361 £328 £363
25th Percentile £455 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £795
London median daily rate £550 £544 £550
% change year-on-year +1.12% -1.11% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 33 19
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.15 £18.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £21.25
Median hourly rate £23.16 £31.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.29% +14.81% -22.86%
75th Percentile £54.50 £50.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £64.25 £63.75 £137.50
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.75 £34.00
% change year-on-year +19.33% -12.50% -17.62%

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 1 August 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 1 August 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 +4 29 £488 -5.57% 51
Southwark - 1 £650 -
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 3 (9.38%) Confluence
2 2 (6.25%) CMS
3 1 (3.13%) Apache
3 1 (3.13%) Headless CMS
3 1 (3.13%) nginx
3 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.13%) MS Visio
2 1 (3.13%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (3.13%) Magento
1 1 (3.13%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (3.13%) SAP CRM
1 1 (3.13%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 3 (9.38%) AWS
1 3 (9.38%) Azure
2 2 (6.25%) GCP
2 2 (6.25%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.13%) Algolia
3 1 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (3.13%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (3.13%) Anthropic Claude
3 1 (3.13%) Apple Pay
3 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.13%) ChatGPT
3 1 (3.13%) CloudFront
3 1 (3.13%) Contentsquare
3 1 (3.13%) Figma
3 1 (3.13%) Google Drive
3 1 (3.13%) Google Pay
3 1 (3.13%) Google Workspace
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.13%) Miro
3 1 (3.13%) OneDrive
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) Redis
2 2 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.25%) Power BI
2 2 (6.25%) Semantic Layer
3 1 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.13%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.13%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (9.38%) JIRA
2 1 (3.13%) Claude Code
2 1 (3.13%) Git
2 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.13%) PHPUnit
2 1 (3.13%) Vite
General
1 15 (46.88%) Retail
2 10 (31.25%) Social Skills
3 7 (21.88%) Marketing
4 5 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (12.50%) Finance
6 3 (9.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (6.25%) Advertising
7 2 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (3.13%) Banking
8 1 (3.13%) Electronics
8 1 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing
8 1 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (18.75%) Developer
1 6 (18.75%) Senior
2 5 (15.63%) Product Manager
3 3 (9.38%) Project Manager
3 3 (9.38%) Senior Developer
4 2 (6.25%) Architect
4 2 (6.25%) Backend Developer
4 2 (6.25%) Business Analyst
4 2 (6.25%) Data Architect
4 2 (6.25%) Designer
4 2 (6.25%) Digital Designer
4 2 (6.25%) E-Commerce Manager
4 2 (6.25%) Java Developer
4 2 (6.25%) PPC Specialist
4 2 (6.25%) Programme Manager
4 2 (6.25%) Technical Manager
5 1 (3.13%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 1 (3.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Lead
5 1 (3.13%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.63%) React
2 4 (12.50%) GraphQL
2 4 (12.50%) REST
3 3 (9.38%) Next.js
3 3 (9.38%) Node.js
3 3 (9.38%) Spring
3 3 (9.38%) Spring Boot
4 2 (6.25%) CSS
4 2 (6.25%) HTML
5 1 (3.13%) CSS3
5 1 (3.13%) HTML5
5 1 (3.13%) jQuery
5 1 (3.13%) Kafka
5 1 (3.13%) Material-UI
5 1 (3.13%) Middleware
5 1 (3.13%) OAuth
5 1 (3.13%) Playwright
5 1 (3.13%) RESTful
5 1 (3.13%) SOAP
5 1 (3.13%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (9.38%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.25%) FMCG
4 1 (3.13%) AI Agents
4 1 (3.13%) Animation
4 1 (3.13%) Digital Wallet
4 1 (3.13%) EPoS
4 1 (3.13%) Midjourney
4 1 (3.13%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.13%) Motion Graphics
4 1 (3.13%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (34.38%) Stakeholder Management
2 9 (28.13%) Agile
3 6 (18.75%) CI/CD
3 6 (18.75%) User Experience
4 5 (15.63%) AI
4 5 (15.63%) CRM
4 5 (15.63%) Customer Experience
4 5 (15.63%) Migration
4 5 (15.63%) Performance Optimisation
4 5 (15.63%) Roadmaps
5 4 (12.50%) DevOps
5 4 (12.50%) Mentoring
5 4 (12.50%) Observability
5 4 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (12.50%) Use Case
6 3 (9.38%) Analytics
6 3 (9.38%) Decision-Making
6 3 (9.38%) Multichannel Retail
6 3 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (9.38%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 5 (15.63%) JavaScript
1 5 (15.63%) TypeScript
2 3 (9.38%) Java
3 1 (3.13%) Korn
3 1 (3.13%) PHP
3 1 (3.13%) Python
3 1 (3.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (6.25%) Degree
2 1 (3.13%) IIBA
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) QA
2 1 (3.13%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.13%) PSD2
System Software
1 2 (6.25%) Docker
2 1 (3.13%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 3 (9.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.13%) Bosun
2 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (12.50%) Google
1 4 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.13%) Adobe
2 1 (3.13%) Apple
2 1 (3.13%) Klarna
2 1 (3.13%) MuleSoft
2 1 (3.13%) New Relic
2 1 (3.13%) PayPal
2 1 (3.13%) Salesforce
2 1 (3.13%) SAP
2 1 (3.13%) TikTok