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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 107 108
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 +25
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 40 20 20
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.61% 1.03% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.81% 1.09% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 15 16
10th Percentile £345 £430 £425
25th Percentile £391 £495 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £626
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -14.17% +1.01%
75th Percentile £600 £669 £691
90th Percentile £668 £733 £709
London median daily rate £500 £515 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% -6.36% -0.72%
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 £60.00 £28.06 £53.75
% change year-on-year +113.87% -47.80% -16.99%

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 2,210 1,830 2,092
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 88.97% 93.85% 91.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,528 1,219 1,388
10th Percentile £363 £315 £375
25th Percentile £456 £419 £475
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 £788
London median daily rate £550 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 33 22
10th Percentile £17.60 £19.05 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.75 £20.88
Median hourly rate £25.07 £29.07 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.78% +7.67% -1.82%
75th Percentile £42.56 £50.75 £56.50
90th Percentile £63.88 £63.75 £133.00
London median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +10.94% -8.57% -12.50%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 -6 35 £525 +1.69% 49
West End of London - 3 £475 - 2
City of Westminster - 3 £525 - 6
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 5 (12.50%) Confluence
2 4 (10.00%) CMS
3 2 (5.00%) Apache
3 2 (5.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (5.00%) Umbraco
4 1 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.50%) Apache Spark
4 1 (2.50%) Headless CMS
4 1 (2.50%) nginx
4 1 (2.50%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.50%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.50%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.50%) Magento
2 1 (2.50%) SAP CRM
2 1 (2.50%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 8 (20.00%) AWS
2 6 (15.00%) Azure
3 3 (7.50%) GCP
3 3 (7.50%) Power Platform
4 2 (5.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (5.00%) Azure Functions
4 2 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (5.00%) CloudFront
4 2 (5.00%) Serverless
5 1 (2.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (2.50%) Anthropic Claude
5 1 (2.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (2.50%) ChatGPT
5 1 (2.50%) GitHub
5 1 (2.50%) Google Workspace
5 1 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.50%) Miro
5 1 (2.50%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
5 1 (2.50%) Snowflake
5 1 (2.50%) Twilio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.50%) Power BI
1 3 (7.50%) Redis
2 2 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.00%) Semantic Layer
3 1 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.50%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.50%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.50%) Flink
3 1 (2.50%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.50%) MySQL
3 1 (2.50%) Power Query
3 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.50%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (2.50%) Bundler
2 1 (2.50%) Claude Code
2 1 (2.50%) Git
2 1 (2.50%) PHPUnit
2 1 (2.50%) Vite
General
1 17 (42.50%) Retail
2 12 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 9 (22.50%) Marketing
4 5 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (10.00%) Finance
6 3 (7.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (5.00%) Advertising
7 2 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.50%) Banking
8 1 (2.50%) Electronics
8 1 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 11 (27.50%) Developer
2 6 (15.00%) Product Manager
2 6 (15.00%) Senior
3 4 (10.00%) .NET Developer
4 3 (7.50%) Project Manager
4 3 (7.50%) Senior Developer
4 3 (7.50%) Technical Manager
5 2 (5.00%) Architect
5 2 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Azure Developer
5 2 (5.00%) Backend Developer
5 2 (5.00%) Business Analyst
5 2 (5.00%) Data Architect
5 2 (5.00%) Data Manager
5 2 (5.00%) Designer
5 2 (5.00%) Digital Designer
5 2 (5.00%) E-Commerce Manager
5 2 (5.00%) Java Developer
5 2 (5.00%) Lead
5 2 (5.00%) PPC Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.50%) React
2 4 (10.00%) .NET
2 4 (10.00%) GraphQL
2 4 (10.00%) REST
3 3 (7.50%) Next.js
3 3 (7.50%) Spring
3 3 (7.50%) Spring Boot
4 2 (5.00%) .NET Core
4 2 (5.00%) Kafka
4 2 (5.00%) Node.js
4 2 (5.00%) OAuth
5 1 (2.50%) CSS
5 1 (2.50%) Django
5 1 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.50%) HTML
5 1 (2.50%) jQuery
5 1 (2.50%) Middleware
5 1 (2.50%) RESTful
5 1 (2.50%) SOAP
5 1 (2.50%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.00%) Cloud Native
1 6 (15.00%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.00%) AI Agents
3 2 (5.00%) FMCG
3 2 (5.00%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.50%) Animation
4 1 (2.50%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.50%) Digital Media
4 1 (2.50%) Digital Wallet
4 1 (2.50%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.50%) EPoS
4 1 (2.50%) Midjourney
4 1 (2.50%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.50%) Motion Graphics
4 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (32.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 10 (25.00%) Agile
3 8 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (20.00%) Migration
4 7 (17.50%) AI
5 6 (15.00%) CRM
5 6 (15.00%) Customer Experience
5 6 (15.00%) User Experience
6 5 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
6 5 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (10.00%) DevOps
7 4 (10.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 4 (10.00%) Mentoring
7 4 (10.00%) Microservices
7 4 (10.00%) Scrum
7 4 (10.00%) Sprint Planning
7 4 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (10.00%) Workflow
7 4 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 5 (12.50%) JavaScript
1 5 (12.50%) SQL
1 5 (12.50%) TypeScript
2 4 (10.00%) C#
2 4 (10.00%) Python
3 3 (7.50%) Java
4 1 (2.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (2.50%) PHP
4 1 (2.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (5.00%) Degree
2 1 (2.50%) IIBA
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
2 1 (2.50%) PMI Certification
2 1 (2.50%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) QA
2 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.50%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.50%) PSD2
System Software
1 2 (5.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.50%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 3 (7.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.50%) Bosun
Vendors
1 7 (17.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.50%) Google
3 2 (5.00%) Adyen
3 2 (5.00%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.50%) Adobe
4 1 (2.50%) Apple
4 1 (2.50%) Databricks
4 1 (2.50%) HubSpot
4 1 (2.50%) Klarna
4 1 (2.50%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.50%) New Relic
4 1 (2.50%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.50%) PayPal
4 1 (2.50%) SAP
4 1 (2.50%) TikTok
4 1 (2.50%) WooCommerce
4 1 (2.50%) Zoho