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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 107 105
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 +30
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 24 10 17
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.03% 0.59% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 0.63% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 5 14
10th Percentile £328 £438 £425
25th Percentile £361 - £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £626
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -20.96% -13.62%
75th Percentile £569 £565 £688
90th Percentile £713 £594 £713
Central London median daily rate £475 £500 £626
% change year-on-year -5.00% -20.16% -13.62%
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 1,990 1,584 1,957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.26% 93.62% 90.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,365 1,004 1,368
10th Percentile £356 £356 £350
25th Percentile £450 £454 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 14 11
10th Percentile £17.84 £18.15 £19.92
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.98 £20.22
Median hourly rate £27.50 £28.33 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +7.90% -25.00%
75th Percentile £52.49 £41.48 £40.00
90th Percentile £62.89 £59.25 £41.84
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £28.33 £27.81
% change year-on-year -6.25% +1.85% -20.54%

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 30 May 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 2 (8.33%) CMS
2 1 (4.17%) Apache
2 1 (4.17%) Confluence
2 1 (4.17%) Headless CMS
2 1 (4.17%) Kentico
2 1 (4.17%) nginx
2 1 (4.17%) Sitefinity
2 1 (4.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.17%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (4.17%) Adobe XD
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (4.17%) Photoshop
2 1 (4.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (4.17%) Magento
1 1 (4.17%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (4.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.67%) AWS
2 3 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (12.50%) SaaS
2 3 (12.50%) Serverless
3 2 (8.33%) Amazon EventBridge
3 2 (8.33%) Amazon S3
3 2 (8.33%) AWS Step Functions
3 2 (8.33%) Azure
3 2 (8.33%) Figma
3 2 (8.33%) Power Platform
3 2 (8.33%) Textract
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (4.17%) Anthropic Claude
4 1 (4.17%) Contentsquare
4 1 (4.17%) Google Docs
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) DynamoDB
2 2 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (8.33%) CockroachDB
2 2 (8.33%) Metadata
2 2 (8.33%) Power BI
2 2 (8.33%) Semantic Layer
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (4.17%) Data Lake
3 1 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (4.17%) MySQL
3 1 (4.17%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Claude Code
1 1 (4.17%) Git
1 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.17%) JIRA
1 1 (4.17%) PHPUnit
1 1 (4.17%) Vite
General
1 9 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 7 (29.17%) Retail
3 4 (16.67%) Finance
3 4 (16.67%) Marketing
4 3 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Electronics
5 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Senior
2 4 (16.67%) Developer
3 3 (12.50%) Designer
3 3 (12.50%) Product Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Data Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Data Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Digital Designer
4 2 (8.33%) Programme Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Designer
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Senior User Researcher
4 2 (8.33%) User Researcher
5 1 (4.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Backend Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Digital Programme Manager
5 1 (4.17%) E-Commerce Programme Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Payments Programme Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) HTML
1 5 (20.83%) React
1 5 (20.83%) REST
2 4 (16.67%) CSS
2 4 (16.67%) GraphQL
3 3 (12.50%) Next.js
3 3 (12.50%) Node.js
4 2 (8.33%) boto
4 2 (8.33%) NumPy
4 2 (8.33%) Pandas
5 1 (4.17%) .NET
5 1 (4.17%) AngularJS
5 1 (4.17%) CSS3
5 1 (4.17%) HTML5
5 1 (4.17%) jQuery
5 1 (4.17%) KnockoutJS
5 1 (4.17%) Middleware
5 1 (4.17%) SOAP
5 1 (4.17%) Spring
5 1 (4.17%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Data Structures
1 2 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.17%) AI Agents
2 1 (4.17%) FMCG
2 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.17%) Motion Graphics
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (29.17%) Analytics
2 6 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (20.83%) User Experience
4 4 (16.67%) AI
4 4 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 4 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 4 (16.67%) Observability
4 4 (16.67%) Use Case
4 4 (16.67%) Validation
5 3 (12.50%) Agile
5 3 (12.50%) B2B
5 3 (12.50%) B2C
5 3 (12.50%) Data Modelling
5 3 (12.50%) Integration Patterns
5 3 (12.50%) Mentoring
5 3 (12.50%) Model Validation
5 3 (12.50%) Monetization
5 3 (12.50%) Pricing Strategy
5 3 (12.50%) Roadmaps
5 3 (12.50%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) TypeScript
2 5 (20.83%) JavaScript
3 3 (12.50%) SQL
4 2 (8.33%) PHP
4 2 (8.33%) Python
5 1 (4.17%) C#
5 1 (4.17%) Go
5 1 (4.17%) Java
5 1 (4.17%) Korn
Qualifications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) Accessibility
2 2 (8.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Docker
1 1 (4.17%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.33%) Adobe
2 2 (8.33%) SAP
3 1 (4.17%) Google