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 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 101 117
Rank change year-on-year +4 +16 +9
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 20 26 24
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.19% 1.23% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 1.34% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 18 17
10th Percentile £391 £255 £463
25th Percentile £475 £367 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £615
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £700 £697 £675
90th Percentile £753 £839 £705
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £615
% change year-on-year -4.55% -10.57% +6.96%

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 1,589 1,942 2,576
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.47% 91.86% 89.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,098 1,193 1,798
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £420 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £595
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -3.36% +3.48%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £773 £783 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £585
% change year-on-year -4.35% -1.71% +1.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 17 17
10th Percentile £16.79 £16.70 £14.25
25th Percentile £20.08 £23.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.04 £42.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.39% +54.55% -36.05%
75th Percentile £41.19 £112.00 £46.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £59.30
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -21.43% +30.84% -37.06%

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 24 October 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 2 (10.00%) Confluence
2 1 (5.00%) CMS
2 1 (5.00%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) GCP
1 5 (25.00%) SaaS
2 3 (15.00%) Apigee
2 3 (15.00%) GitHub
2 3 (15.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 3 (15.00%) Stackdriver
3 2 (10.00%) Cloudflare
3 2 (10.00%) Figma
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.00%) AWS
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (5.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) Mixpanel
2 2 (10.00%) Couchbase
2 2 (10.00%) Redis
3 1 (5.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) GitLab
1 3 (15.00%) Gradle
1 3 (15.00%) Maven
1 3 (15.00%) Visual Website Optimizer
2 2 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 11 (55.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (30.00%) Marketing
3 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (15.00%) Retail
4 3 (15.00%) Telecoms
5 2 (10.00%) Finance
6 1 (5.00%) Advertising
6 1 (5.00%) Legal
6 1 (5.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Developer
1 4 (20.00%) Senior
2 3 (15.00%) Conversion Specialist
2 3 (15.00%) Designer
2 3 (15.00%) Digital Product Manager
2 3 (15.00%) Product Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Analyst
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%) Product Owner
4 1 (5.00%) Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Development Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Financial Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Release Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) GraphQL
1 3 (15.00%) Node.js
2 2 (10.00%) CSS
2 2 (10.00%) HTML
3 1 (5.00%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (5.00%) OAuth
3 1 (5.00%) OAuth2
3 1 (5.00%) OpenID
3 1 (5.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 3 (15.00%) IVR
3 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (5.00%) Culture of Ownership
4 1 (5.00%) Fixed Income
4 1 (5.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (5.00%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 6 (30.00%) Agile
3 5 (25.00%) DevOps
3 5 (25.00%) User Experience
4 4 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
4 4 (20.00%) Analytics
4 4 (20.00%) Customer-Centricity
4 4 (20.00%) UX Design
5 3 (15.00%) Acceptance Criteria
5 3 (15.00%) Backlog Management
5 3 (15.00%) Containerisation
5 3 (15.00%) Customer-Centric Approach
5 3 (15.00%) Design Patterns
5 3 (15.00%) Digital Engineering
5 3 (15.00%) Journey Map
5 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (15.00%) Product Backlog
5 3 (15.00%) Storytelling
5 3 (15.00%) Strategic Roadmap
5 3 (15.00%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.00%) Java
3 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) APMG
1 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (5.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Ansible
1 3 (15.00%) Istio
1 3 (15.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (15.00%) Puppet
1 3 (15.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) Google
2 3 (15.00%) Amplitude
2 3 (15.00%) Hotjar
2 3 (15.00%) MuleSoft
2 3 (15.00%) Optimizely
2 3 (15.00%) Splunk
3 2 (10.00%) New Relic
3 2 (10.00%) Rollbar
3 2 (10.00%) Salesforce
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle
4 1 (5.00%) SAP