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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 109 102
Rank change year-on-year -1 -7 +37
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 23 11 20
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.95% 0.63% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 0.67% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 5 16
10th Percentile £360 - £425
25th Percentile £400 £495 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £626
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -14.17% -1.76%
75th Percentile £600 £565 £691
90th Percentile £748 £661 £709
Central London median daily rate £500 £551 £626
% change year-on-year -9.30% -11.98% -3.65%
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 2,084 1,640 1,950
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.80% 93.77% 90.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,407 1,047 1,355
10th Percentile £367 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £453 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
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 31 18 14
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.90 £20.01
25th Percentile £18.18 £23.98 £20.29
Median hourly rate £19.50 £29.75 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -34.45% +11.74% -23.93%
75th Percentile £42.83 £54.75 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £71.25 £47.73
Central London median hourly rate £26.39 £30.04 £27.41
% change year-on-year -12.15% +9.60% -21.70%

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 27 June 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 (8.70%) CMS
2 1 (4.35%) Apache
2 1 (4.35%) Confluence
2 1 (4.35%) Headless CMS
2 1 (4.35%) Kentico
2 1 (4.35%) nginx
2 1 (4.35%) Sitefinity
2 1 (4.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (4.35%) Magento
1 1 (4.35%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (4.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.70%) AWS
1 2 (8.70%) Azure
1 2 (8.70%) Figma
1 2 (8.70%) Power Platform
1 2 (8.70%) SaaS
2 1 (4.35%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (4.35%) Anthropic Claude
2 1 (4.35%) Apple Pay
2 1 (4.35%) ChatGPT
2 1 (4.35%) CloudFront
2 1 (4.35%) Contentsquare
2 1 (4.35%) Google Pay
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) Power BI
1 2 (8.70%) Semantic Layer
2 1 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.35%) MySQL
2 1 (4.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Claude Code
1 1 (4.35%) Git
1 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.35%) JIRA
1 1 (4.35%) PHPUnit
1 1 (4.35%) Vite
General
1 8 (34.78%) Retail
2 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
3 4 (17.39%) Finance
3 4 (17.39%) Marketing
4 3 (13.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Banking
5 1 (4.35%) Electronics
5 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Senior
2 5 (21.74%) Product Manager
3 3 (13.04%) Designer
3 3 (13.04%) Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Data Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Digital Designer
4 2 (8.70%) Programme Manager
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Designer
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Business Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Engineering Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 1 (4.35%) Lead
5 1 (4.35%) Project Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Technical Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) React
2 4 (17.39%) GraphQL
3 3 (13.04%) CSS
3 3 (13.04%) HTML
3 3 (13.04%) Next.js
3 3 (13.04%) REST
4 2 (8.70%) Node.js
5 1 (4.35%) AngularJS
5 1 (4.35%) CSS3
5 1 (4.35%) jQuery
5 1 (4.35%) KnockoutJS
5 1 (4.35%) Material-UI
5 1 (4.35%) Middleware
5 1 (4.35%) Model Context Protocol
5 1 (4.35%) Playwright
5 1 (4.35%) SOAP
5 1 (4.35%) Spring
5 1 (4.35%) Spring Boot
5 1 (4.35%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (4.35%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.35%) AI Agents
2 1 (4.35%) Animation
2 1 (4.35%) Digital Wallet
2 1 (4.35%) EPoS
2 1 (4.35%) FMCG
2 1 (4.35%) Midjourney
2 1 (4.35%) Motion Graphics
2 1 (4.35%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (21.74%) Analytics
2 5 (21.74%) User Experience
3 4 (17.39%) Agile
3 4 (17.39%) AI
3 4 (17.39%) Roadmaps
3 4 (17.39%) Use Case
4 3 (13.04%) B2C
4 3 (13.04%) CI/CD
4 3 (13.04%) CRM
4 3 (13.04%) Decision-Making
4 3 (13.04%) Mentoring
4 3 (13.04%) Observability
5 2 (8.70%) Data Architecture
5 2 (8.70%) Data Protection
5 2 (8.70%) DevOps
5 2 (8.70%) Fintech
5 2 (8.70%) Front End Development
5 2 (8.70%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (8.70%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 6 (26.09%) TypeScript
2 5 (21.74%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.35%) C#
3 1 (4.35%) Java
3 1 (4.35%) Korn
3 1 (4.35%) PHP
3 1 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.35%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.35%) PSD2
2 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Docker
1 1 (4.35%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.35%) Adobe
2 1 (4.35%) Apple
2 1 (4.35%) Google
2 1 (4.35%) Klarna
2 1 (4.35%) PayPal