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 13 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 114 115
Rank change year-on-year +5 +1 +20
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 25 12 14
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.03% 0.61% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 0.65% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 8 11
10th Percentile £328 £467 £413
25th Percentile £361 £499 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £570 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -5.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £569 £825 £694
90th Percentile £713 £844 £719
London median daily rate £500 £515 £540
% change year-on-year -2.91% -4.63% -5.05%
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 £46.00 £29.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year +58.62% -57.04% +92.86%

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 2,063 1,833 2,177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 85.32% 93.09% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,395 1,182 1,550
10th Percentile £356 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £551 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% +0.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 25 23
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £20.22
25th Percentile £19.13 £22.75 £22.75
Median hourly rate £26.56 £29.07 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +4.53% -20.54%
75th Percentile £45.03 £43.75 £30.41
90th Percentile £59.64 £50.75 £41.47
London median hourly rate £35.71 £34.50 £27.92
% change year-on-year +3.51% +23.57% -28.41%

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 13 May 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 13 May 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 +7 25 £475 -16.67% 43
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 (8.00%) CMS
2 1 (4.00%) Apache
2 1 (4.00%) Confluence
2 1 (4.00%) Headless CMS
2 1 (4.00%) Kentico
2 1 (4.00%) nginx
2 1 (4.00%) Sitefinity
2 1 (4.00%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.00%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (4.00%) Adobe XD
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (4.00%) Photoshop
2 1 (4.00%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Shopify
2 1 (4.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (4.00%) Magento
2 1 (4.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.00%) AWS
2 3 (12.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (12.00%) SaaS
2 3 (12.00%) Serverless
3 2 (8.00%) Amazon EventBridge
3 2 (8.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (8.00%) AWS Step Functions
3 2 (8.00%) Azure
3 2 (8.00%) Figma
3 2 (8.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (8.00%) Textract
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (4.00%) Anthropic Claude
4 1 (4.00%) Contentsquare
4 1 (4.00%) Google Docs
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) DynamoDB
2 2 (8.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (8.00%) CockroachDB
2 2 (8.00%) Metadata
2 2 (8.00%) Power BI
2 2 (8.00%) Semantic Layer
3 1 (4.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (4.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (4.00%) MySQL
3 1 (4.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.00%) Claude Code
2 1 (4.00%) Git
2 1 (4.00%) JIRA
2 1 (4.00%) PHPUnit
2 1 (4.00%) Vite
General
1 9 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (28.00%) Retail
3 4 (16.00%) Finance
3 4 (16.00%) Marketing
4 3 (12.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Electronics
5 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (28.00%) Senior
2 5 (20.00%) Developer
3 3 (12.00%) Designer
3 3 (12.00%) Product Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Data Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Data Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Digital Designer
4 2 (8.00%) Programme Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Senior Designer
4 2 (8.00%) Senior Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Senior User Researcher
4 2 (8.00%) User Researcher
5 1 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Backend Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Digital Programme Manager
5 1 (4.00%) E-Commerce Programme Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Payments Programme Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (24.00%) HTML
1 6 (24.00%) React
2 5 (20.00%) CSS
2 5 (20.00%) REST
3 4 (16.00%) GraphQL
3 4 (16.00%) Node.js
4 3 (12.00%) Next.js
5 2 (8.00%) boto
5 2 (8.00%) CSS3
5 2 (8.00%) HTML5
5 2 (8.00%) NumPy
5 2 (8.00%) Pandas
6 1 (4.00%) .NET
6 1 (4.00%) AngularJS
6 1 (4.00%) Bootstrap
6 1 (4.00%) jQuery
6 1 (4.00%) KnockoutJS
6 1 (4.00%) Middleware
6 1 (4.00%) SOAP
6 1 (4.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.00%) AI Agents
2 1 (4.00%) FMCG
2 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.00%) Motion Graphics
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (28.00%) Analytics
2 6 (24.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (20.00%) User Experience
4 4 (16.00%) Agile
4 4 (16.00%) AI
4 4 (16.00%) Decision-Making
4 4 (16.00%) Observability
4 4 (16.00%) Use Case
4 4 (16.00%) Validation
5 3 (12.00%) B2B
5 3 (12.00%) B2C
5 3 (12.00%) Data Modelling
5 3 (12.00%) Mentoring
5 3 (12.00%) Model Validation
5 3 (12.00%) Monetization
5 3 (12.00%) Pricing Strategy
5 3 (12.00%) Roadmaps
5 3 (12.00%) User Research
5 3 (12.00%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 7 (28.00%) TypeScript
2 6 (24.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (12.00%) Python
3 3 (12.00%) SQL
4 2 (8.00%) PHP
5 1 (4.00%) C#
5 1 (4.00%) Go
5 1 (4.00%) Java
5 1 (4.00%) Korn
5 1 (4.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (8.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Docker
1 1 (4.00%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) Adobe
2 2 (8.00%) SAP
3 1 (4.00%) Google