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 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 112 111
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 +34
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 26 12 20
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.00% 0.63% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% 0.67% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 6 16
10th Percentile £361 £448 £425
25th Percentile £447 £495 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £626
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -15.37% -1.76%
75th Percentile £553 £685 £691
90th Percentile £725 £806 £709
London median daily rate £490 £515 £550
% change year-on-year -4.85% -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 £29.00 £63.75
% change year-on-year +87.93% -54.51% +6.25%

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 2,249 1,795 2,165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 86.33% 93.49% 90.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,522 1,161 1,519
10th Percentile £358 £350 £356
25th Percentile £450 £449 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £670 £675 £683
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
London median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 28 24
10th Percentile £17.60 £21.78 £20.22
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.43 £22.75
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.04 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -8.44% +8.00% -20.54%
75th Percentile £54.50 £49.25 £30.28
90th Percentile £64.25 £63.75 £41.29
London median hourly rate £37.50 £33.45 £29.25
% change year-on-year +12.12% +14.34% -26.88%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 -1 24 £488 -1.52% 14
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 (7.69%) CMS
2 1 (3.85%) Apache
2 1 (3.85%) Confluence
2 1 (3.85%) Headless CMS
2 1 (3.85%) Kentico
2 1 (3.85%) nginx
2 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.85%) Sitefinity
2 1 (3.85%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (3.85%) Magento
1 1 (3.85%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (3.85%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 3 (11.54%) SaaS
2 2 (7.69%) AWS
2 2 (7.69%) Azure
2 2 (7.69%) Figma
2 2 (7.69%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (3.85%) Anthropic Claude
3 1 (3.85%) Apple Pay
3 1 (3.85%) ChatGPT
3 1 (3.85%) CloudFront
3 1 (3.85%) Contentsquare
3 1 (3.85%) GCP
3 1 (3.85%) Google Drive
3 1 (3.85%) Google Pay
3 1 (3.85%) Google Workspace
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.85%) OneDrive
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) Power BI
1 2 (7.69%) Semantic Layer
2 1 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.85%) MySQL
2 1 (3.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Claude Code
1 1 (3.85%) Git
1 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.85%) JIRA
1 1 (3.85%) PHPUnit
1 1 (3.85%) Vite
General
1 9 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 8 (30.77%) Retail
3 4 (15.38%) Finance
3 4 (15.38%) Marketing
4 3 (11.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Banking
5 1 (3.85%) Electronics
5 1 (3.85%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Senior
2 5 (19.23%) Product Manager
3 3 (11.54%) Designer
3 3 (11.54%) Developer
4 2 (7.69%) Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Data Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Digital Designer
4 2 (7.69%) Programme Manager
4 2 (7.69%) Project Manager
4 2 (7.69%) Senior Designer
4 2 (7.69%) Senior Developer
4 2 (7.69%) Senior User Researcher
4 2 (7.69%) Technical Manager
4 2 (7.69%) User Researcher
5 1 (3.85%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Backend Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Digital Programme Manager
5 1 (3.85%) E-Commerce Programme Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Payments Programme Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Retail Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (19.23%) React
2 4 (15.38%) GraphQL
3 3 (11.54%) CSS
3 3 (11.54%) HTML
3 3 (11.54%) Next.js
3 3 (11.54%) REST
4 2 (7.69%) Node.js
5 1 (3.85%) .NET
5 1 (3.85%) AngularJS
5 1 (3.85%) CSS3
5 1 (3.85%) HTML5
5 1 (3.85%) jQuery
5 1 (3.85%) KnockoutJS
5 1 (3.85%) Material-UI
5 1 (3.85%) Middleware
5 1 (3.85%) OAuth
5 1 (3.85%) Playwright
5 1 (3.85%) SOAP
5 1 (3.85%) Spring
5 1 (3.85%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.85%) AI Agents
2 1 (3.85%) Animation
2 1 (3.85%) Digital Wallet
2 1 (3.85%) EPoS
2 1 (3.85%) FMCG
2 1 (3.85%) Midjourney
2 1 (3.85%) Motion Graphics
2 1 (3.85%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (34.62%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (23.08%) Analytics
3 5 (19.23%) Roadmaps
3 5 (19.23%) User Experience
4 4 (15.38%) Agile
4 4 (15.38%) AI
4 4 (15.38%) Decision-Making
4 4 (15.38%) Use Case
5 3 (11.54%) B2C
5 3 (11.54%) CI/CD
5 3 (11.54%) CRM
5 3 (11.54%) Mentoring
5 3 (11.54%) Migration
5 3 (11.54%) Model Validation
5 3 (11.54%) Monetization
5 3 (11.54%) Observability
5 3 (11.54%) Pricing Strategy
5 3 (11.54%) User Research
6 2 (7.69%) Commercialisation
6 2 (7.69%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (23.08%) TypeScript
2 5 (19.23%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.85%) C#
3 1 (3.85%) Java
3 1 (3.85%) Korn
3 1 (3.85%) PHP
3 1 (3.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.85%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.85%) PSD2
2 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Docker
1 1 (3.85%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) Google
1 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.85%) Adobe
2 1 (3.85%) Apple
2 1 (3.85%) Klarna
2 1 (3.85%) PayPal