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 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 104 116
Rank change year-on-year -1 +12 +12
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 20 22 24
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.11% 1.07% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.22% 1.16% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 14 22
10th Percentile £389 £246 £418
25th Percentile £416 £348 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -2.17% -3.77%
75th Percentile £638 £817 £628
90th Percentile £749 £913 £683
Central London median daily rate £513 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -6.82% -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 1,638 1,897 2,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.85% 92.04% 89.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,161 1,158 1,637
10th Percentile £340 £363 £363
25th Percentile £421 £465 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -0.86%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £756 £788 £804
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 15 11
10th Percentile £19.98 £15.80 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.36 £22.00 £17.97
Median hourly rate £31.00 £42.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.06% +70.00% -41.86%
75th Percentile £43.33 £102.25 £42.38
90th Percentile £55.25 £127.30 £73.75
Central London median hourly rate £26.57 £35.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -24.09% +37.25% -37.04%

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 18 December 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 1 (5.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (5.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) SaaS
2 3 (15.00%) GCP
3 2 (10.00%) AWS
3 2 (10.00%) Cloudflare
3 2 (10.00%) Figma
4 1 (5.00%) Apigee
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.00%) GitHub
4 1 (5.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (5.00%) Serverless
4 1 (5.00%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) Mixpanel
2 2 (10.00%) Couchbase
2 2 (10.00%) Redis
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (5.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Visual Website Optimizer
2 1 (5.00%) GitLab
2 1 (5.00%) Gradle
2 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) Maven
General
1 9 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (30.00%) Marketing
3 3 (15.00%) Finance
4 2 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Retail
5 1 (5.00%) Legal
5 1 (5.00%) Retail Banking
5 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Analyst
2 3 (15.00%) Conversion Specialist
2 3 (15.00%) Developer
2 3 (15.00%) Senior
3 2 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Designer
3 2 (10.00%) Digital Product Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Digital Product Owner
3 2 (10.00%) Head of Operations
3 2 (10.00%) Head of Technical Operations
3 2 (10.00%) Payments Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Payments Business Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Product Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Product Owner
4 1 (5.00%) Financial Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Release Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Designer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Financial Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.00%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) CSS
1 3 (15.00%) HTML
1 3 (15.00%) Node.js
2 1 (5.00%) Bootstrap
2 1 (5.00%) CSS3
2 1 (5.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (5.00%) HTML5
2 1 (5.00%) LAMP
2 1 (5.00%) Laravel
2 1 (5.00%) React
2 1 (5.00%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Onboarding
2 4 (20.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (10.00%) PMI
4 1 (5.00%) Culture of Ownership
4 1 (5.00%) IVR
4 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (5.00%) Marketing Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Agile
1 7 (35.00%) Roadmaps
2 5 (25.00%) User Experience
3 4 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
3 4 (20.00%) Analytics
3 4 (20.00%) Customer-Centricity
3 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (20.00%) Scrum
3 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (20.00%) User Stories
3 4 (20.00%) UX Design
4 3 (15.00%) A/B Testing
4 3 (15.00%) Conversion Rate Optimisation
4 3 (15.00%) Customer-Centric Approach
4 3 (15.00%) Funnel Analysis
4 3 (15.00%) Journey Map
4 3 (15.00%) Product Marketing
4 3 (15.00%) Psychology
4 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (15.00%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) SQL
2 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (10.00%) PHP
3 2 (10.00%) Python
4 1 (5.00%) Go
4 1 (5.00%) Ruby
4 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) CBAP
1 2 (10.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (5.00%) APMG
2 1 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) ISO 8583
1 2 (10.00%) PCI DSS
1 2 (10.00%) PSD2
1 2 (10.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Ansible
1 1 (5.00%) Istio
1 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.00%) Puppet
1 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Google
2 3 (15.00%) Amplitude
2 3 (15.00%) Hotjar
2 3 (15.00%) Optimizely
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.00%) New Relic
3 2 (10.00%) Rollbar
3 2 (10.00%) Salesforce
4 1 (5.00%) MuleSoft
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle
4 1 (5.00%) SAP
4 1 (5.00%) Splunk