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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 111 109
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 +26
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 30 15 19
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.25% 0.80% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.42% 0.85% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 10 15
10th Percentile £343 £397 £448
25th Percentile £359 £495 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £516 £628
Median % change year-on-year -3.15% -17.73% +3.29%
75th Percentile £538 £619 £694
90th Percentile £658 £646 £711
Central London median daily rate £500 £538 £628
% change year-on-year -6.98% -14.34% +1.21%
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 - - -
Central London median hourly rate £70.00 - -

All Process & 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 2,109 1,759 1,892
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.58% 94.27% 91.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,436 1,154 1,280
10th Percentile £375 £330 £375
25th Percentile £456 £425 £474
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 £770 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 21 17
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.08 £15.20
25th Percentile £18.18 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £19.50 £28.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% +5.56% -13.60%
75th Percentile £37.17 £56.75 £78.75
90th Percentile £61.83 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £30.04 £27.00
% change year-on-year -22.89% +11.24% -22.86%

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 August 2026.

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 3 (10.00%) Confluence
2 2 (6.67%) CMS
3 1 (3.33%) Apache
3 1 (3.33%) Headless CMS
3 1 (3.33%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.33%) MS Visio
2 1 (3.33%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (3.33%) Magento
1 1 (3.33%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (3.33%) SAP CRM
1 1 (3.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 5 (16.67%) AWS
2 3 (10.00%) Azure
3 2 (6.67%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.33%) Algolia
4 1 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (3.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (3.33%) Anthropic Claude
4 1 (3.33%) Apple Pay
4 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.33%) ChatGPT
4 1 (3.33%) CloudFront
4 1 (3.33%) Contentsquare
4 1 (3.33%) Figma
4 1 (3.33%) GitHub
4 1 (3.33%) Google Pay
4 1 (3.33%) Miro
4 1 (3.33%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
4 1 (3.33%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) Power BI
1 2 (6.67%) Redis
1 2 (6.67%) Semantic Layer
2 1 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.33%) MySQL
2 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (3.33%) Claude Code
2 1 (3.33%) Git
2 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.33%) PHPUnit
2 1 (3.33%) Vite
General
1 14 (46.67%) Retail
2 7 (23.33%) Marketing
2 7 (23.33%) Social Skills
3 5 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (10.00%) Finance
4 3 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (6.67%) Advertising
5 2 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Banking
6 1 (3.33%) Electronics
6 1 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.33%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (23.33%) Developer
2 6 (20.00%) Senior
3 5 (16.67%) Product Manager
4 3 (10.00%) Senior Developer
5 2 (6.67%) .NET Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Business Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Data Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Designer
5 2 (6.67%) Digital Designer
5 2 (6.67%) E-Commerce Manager
5 2 (6.67%) PPC Specialist
5 2 (6.67%) Project Manager
6 1 (3.33%) Digital Project Manager
6 1 (3.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (3.33%) Product Marketing Manager
6 1 (3.33%) Salesforce Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Senior Designer
6 1 (3.33%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Senior Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.67%) React
2 4 (13.33%) GraphQL
2 4 (13.33%) REST
3 3 (10.00%) Next.js
3 3 (10.00%) Node.js
4 2 (6.67%) .NET
4 2 (6.67%) .NET Core
4 2 (6.67%) CSS
4 2 (6.67%) HTML
4 2 (6.67%) Spring
4 2 (6.67%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.33%) CSS3
5 1 (3.33%) HTML5
5 1 (3.33%) jQuery
5 1 (3.33%) Kafka
5 1 (3.33%) KnockoutJS
5 1 (3.33%) Middleware
5 1 (3.33%) OAuth
5 1 (3.33%) RESTful
5 1 (3.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.67%) FMCG
3 1 (3.33%) AI Agents
3 1 (3.33%) Animation
3 1 (3.33%) Digital Wallet
3 1 (3.33%) EPoS
3 1 (3.33%) Midjourney
3 1 (3.33%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.33%) Motion Graphics
3 1 (3.33%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 8 (26.67%) Agile
3 6 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (20.00%) User Experience
4 5 (16.67%) AI
4 5 (16.67%) CRM
4 5 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
5 4 (13.33%) Customer Experience
5 4 (13.33%) DevOps
5 4 (13.33%) Mentoring
5 4 (13.33%) Migration
5 4 (13.33%) Observability
5 4 (13.33%) Roadmaps
5 4 (13.33%) Use Case
6 3 (10.00%) Analytics
6 3 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (10.00%) Multichannel Retail
6 3 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (10.00%) Scrum
6 3 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 5 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 5 (16.67%) TypeScript
2 3 (10.00%) SQL
3 2 (6.67%) C#
3 2 (6.67%) Java
4 1 (3.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (6.67%) Degree
2 1 (3.33%) IIBA
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) QA
2 1 (3.33%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.33%) PSD2
System Software
1 2 (6.67%) Docker
2 1 (3.33%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.33%) Bosun
2 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.67%) Google
3 1 (3.33%) Adobe
3 1 (3.33%) Apple
3 1 (3.33%) Klarna
3 1 (3.33%) MuleSoft
3 1 (3.33%) New Relic
3 1 (3.33%) PayPal
3 1 (3.33%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.33%) SAP
3 1 (3.33%) TikTok