E-Commerce Contract Job Trends in the City of London

E-Commerce (Electronic Commerce)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring E-Commerce skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 97 115
Rank change year-on-year -6 +18 +13
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 21 26 30
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.21% 1.23% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 1.34% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 18 25
10th Percentile £396 £255 £463
25th Percentile £461 £367 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% -6.12%
75th Percentile £684 £697 £630
90th Percentile £749 £839 £695
Central London median daily rate £513 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -6.82% -8.33% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,634 1,941 2,514
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.91% 91.69% 89.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,137 1,189 1,764
10th Percentile £331 £375 £363
25th Percentile £420 £469 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £583
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -1.37% +1.39%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £695
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 17 16
10th Percentile £16.96 £16.70 £15.63
25th Percentile £20.18 £23.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £42.50 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -35.29% +29.77% -35.15%
75th Percentile £41.75 £112.00 £52.63
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £71.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -22.76% +27.27% -41.33%

E-Commerce
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

E-Commerce job vacancy trend in the City of London

E-Commerce
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing E-Commerce.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing E-Commerce

E-Commerce
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing E-Commerce in the City of London over the 6 months to 8 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for E-Commerce in the City of London

E-Commerce
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing E-Commerce.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing E-Commerce

E-Commerce
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 (9.52%) Confluence
2 1 (4.76%) CMS
2 1 (4.76%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 6 (28.57%) SaaS
2 5 (23.81%) GCP
3 3 (14.29%) Apigee
3 3 (14.29%) GitHub
3 3 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 3 (14.29%) Stackdriver
4 2 (9.52%) AWS
4 2 (9.52%) Cloudflare
4 2 (9.52%) Figma
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) Ethernet
1 1 (4.76%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) Mixpanel
2 2 (9.52%) Couchbase
2 2 (9.52%) Redis
3 1 (4.76%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) GitLab
1 3 (14.29%) Gradle
1 3 (14.29%) Maven
1 3 (14.29%) Visual Website Optimizer
2 2 (9.52%) JIRA
General
1 11 (52.38%) Social Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Marketing
3 4 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (14.29%) Retail
4 3 (14.29%) Telecoms
5 2 (9.52%) Finance
6 1 (4.76%) Advertising
6 1 (4.76%) Legal
6 1 (4.76%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) Senior
2 4 (19.05%) Developer
3 3 (14.29%) Conversion Specialist
3 3 (14.29%) Designer
3 3 (14.29%) Digital Product Manager
3 3 (14.29%) Product Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Digital Product Owner
4 2 (9.52%) Head of Operations
4 2 (9.52%) Head of Technical Operations
4 2 (9.52%) Product Owner
5 1 (4.76%) Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Development Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Release Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Financial Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) GraphQL
1 3 (14.29%) Node.js
2 2 (9.52%) CSS
2 2 (9.52%) HTML
3 1 (4.76%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (4.76%) LAMP
3 1 (4.76%) Laravel
3 1 (4.76%) OAuth
3 1 (4.76%) OAuth2
3 1 (4.76%) OpenID
3 1 (4.76%) SAML
3 1 (4.76%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Onboarding
2 3 (14.29%) IVR
3 2 (9.52%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.76%) Culture of Ownership
4 1 (4.76%) Fixed Income
4 1 (4.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.76%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (38.10%) Roadmaps
2 6 (28.57%) Agile
3 5 (23.81%) DevOps
3 5 (23.81%) User Experience
4 4 (19.05%) Actionable Insight
4 4 (19.05%) Analytics
4 4 (19.05%) Customer-Centricity
4 4 (19.05%) UX Design
5 3 (14.29%) A/B Testing
5 3 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
5 3 (14.29%) Backlog Management
5 3 (14.29%) Containerisation
5 3 (14.29%) Conversion Rate Optimisation
5 3 (14.29%) Customer-Centric Approach
5 3 (14.29%) Design Patterns
5 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (14.29%) Product Backlog
5 3 (14.29%) Storytelling
5 3 (14.29%) Strategic Roadmap
5 3 (14.29%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) SQL
2 2 (9.52%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.76%) Java
3 1 (4.76%) PHP
3 1 (4.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) APMG
1 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
1 1 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) Accessibility
1 1 (4.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Ansible
1 3 (14.29%) Istio
1 3 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 3 (14.29%) Puppet
1 3 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (38.10%) Google
2 3 (14.29%) Amplitude
2 3 (14.29%) Hotjar
2 3 (14.29%) MuleSoft
2 3 (14.29%) Optimizely
2 3 (14.29%) Splunk
3 2 (9.52%) New Relic
3 2 (9.52%) Rollbar
3 2 (9.52%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.76%) Oracle
4 1 (4.76%) SAP