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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 108 110
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 +20
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 23 11 16
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.00% 0.63% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.17% 0.67% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 5 13
10th Percentile £328 £455 -
25th Percentile £381 £538 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £488
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +17.95% -22.00%
75th Percentile £531 £825 £640
90th Percentile £623 - £698
Central London median daily rate £475 £570 £488
% change year-on-year -16.67% +16.92% -20.08%
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 1,959 1,637 1,989
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.25% 93.17% 90.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,333 1,034 1,408
10th Percentile £359 £363 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% -5.83%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 12 11
10th Percentile £18.14 £22.00 £19.92
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £27.50 £29.58 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.02% +18.30% -28.57%
75th Percentile £47.41 £45.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £62.25 £41.84
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -10.18% +4.53% -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 2 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 (8.70%) 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 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.35%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (4.35%) Adobe XD
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (4.35%) Photoshop
2 1 (4.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (8.70%) Shopify
3 1 (4.35%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 4 (17.39%) AWS
2 3 (13.04%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (13.04%) SaaS
2 3 (13.04%) Serverless
3 2 (8.70%) Amazon EventBridge
3 2 (8.70%) Amazon S3
3 2 (8.70%) AWS Step Functions
3 2 (8.70%) Figma
3 2 (8.70%) Textract
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (4.35%) Anthropic Claude
4 1 (4.35%) Contentsquare
4 1 (4.35%) Google Docs
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) DynamoDB
2 2 (8.70%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (8.70%) CockroachDB
2 2 (8.70%) Metadata
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (4.35%) Data Lake
3 1 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (4.35%) MySQL
3 1 (4.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.35%) Claude Code
2 1 (4.35%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) JIRA
2 1 (4.35%) PHPUnit
2 1 (4.35%) Vite
General
1 8 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Finance
2 3 (13.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (13.04%) Marketing
2 3 (13.04%) Retail
3 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Senior
2 5 (21.74%) Developer
3 3 (13.04%) Designer
4 2 (8.70%) Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Business Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Data Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Digital Designer
4 2 (8.70%) Payments Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Payments Business Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Product Manager
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Designer
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Senior User Researcher
4 2 (8.70%) User Researcher
5 1 (4.35%) Engineering Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (4.35%) Payments Programme Manager
5 1 (4.35%) PHP Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Front-End Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) HTML
1 6 (26.09%) React
2 5 (21.74%) CSS
2 5 (21.74%) REST
3 4 (17.39%) GraphQL
3 4 (17.39%) Node.js
4 3 (13.04%) Next.js
5 2 (8.70%) boto
5 2 (8.70%) CSS3
5 2 (8.70%) HTML5
5 2 (8.70%) NumPy
5 2 (8.70%) Pandas
6 1 (4.35%) .NET
6 1 (4.35%) AngularJS
6 1 (4.35%) Bootstrap
6 1 (4.35%) jQuery
6 1 (4.35%) KnockoutJS
6 1 (4.35%) Middleware
6 1 (4.35%) SOAP
6 1 (4.35%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Data Structures
1 2 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Onboarding
1 2 (8.70%) PMI
1 2 (8.70%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.35%) AI Agents
2 1 (4.35%) FMCG
2 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.35%) Motion Graphics
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (26.09%) Agile
1 6 (26.09%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (21.74%) Analytics
2 5 (21.74%) CI/CD
3 4 (17.39%) Observability
3 4 (17.39%) Use Case
3 4 (17.39%) User Experience
3 4 (17.39%) Validation
4 3 (13.04%) AI
4 3 (13.04%) Anti-Money Laundering
4 3 (13.04%) B2B
4 3 (13.04%) Decision-Making
4 3 (13.04%) Mentoring
4 3 (13.04%) Model Validation
4 3 (13.04%) Monetization
4 3 (13.04%) Pricing Strategy
4 3 (13.04%) Project Delivery
4 3 (13.04%) Scrum
4 3 (13.04%) User Research
4 3 (13.04%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 7 (30.43%) TypeScript
2 6 (26.09%) JavaScript
3 3 (13.04%) Python
3 3 (13.04%) SQL
4 2 (8.70%) PHP
5 1 (4.35%) C#
5 1 (4.35%) Go
5 1 (4.35%) Java
5 1 (4.35%) Korn
5 1 (4.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) CBAP
1 2 (8.70%) PMI Certification
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) Accessibility
1 3 (13.04%) QA
2 2 (8.70%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.70%) ISO 8583
2 2 (8.70%) PCI DSS
2 2 (8.70%) PSD2
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Docker
1 1 (4.35%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (8.70%) Adobe
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
1 2 (8.70%) SAP
2 1 (4.35%) Google