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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 111 133
Rank change year-on-year +10 +22 -7
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 20 18 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.14% 0.87% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 0.94% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 14 20
10th Percentile £380 £442 £458
25th Percentile £466 £516 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £626 £615
Median % change year-on-year -20.16% +1.83% +0.41%
75th Percentile £638 £697 £678
90th Percentile £715 £713 £714
Central London median daily rate £513 £625 £620
% change year-on-year -18.00% +0.81% +7.83%

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 1,661 1,913 2,719
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.27% 92.02% 90.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,107 1,212 1,878
10th Percentile £325 £375 £363
25th Percentile £419 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £705
90th Percentile £763 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 17 16
10th Percentile £17.35 £15.20 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.98 £20.22 £16.02
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.91% +8.00% -41.86%
75th Percentile £53.50 £78.75 £44.87
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £60.88
Central London median hourly rate £31.25 £35.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -10.71% +34.62% -38.82%

E-Commerce
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing E-Commerce as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for E-Commerce 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 17 September 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 and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (10.00%) Confluence
2 1 (5.00%) CMS
2 1 (5.00%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) SAP CRM
1 1 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) SaaS
2 3 (15.00%) Apigee
2 3 (15.00%) GCP
2 3 (15.00%) GitHub
2 3 (15.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 3 (15.00%) Stackdriver
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%) SAP Commerce Cloud
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 1 (5.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) GitLab
1 3 (15.00%) Gradle
1 3 (15.00%) JIRA
1 3 (15.00%) Maven
1 3 (15.00%) Visual Website Optimizer
2 1 (5.00%) Appium
2 1 (5.00%) Zephyr
General
1 11 (55.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (30.00%) Marketing
3 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (15.00%) Finance
4 3 (15.00%) Retail
4 3 (15.00%) Telecoms
5 1 (5.00%) Advertising
5 1 (5.00%) Banking
5 1 (5.00%) Billing
5 1 (5.00%) Legal
5 1 (5.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Developer
1 4 (20.00%) Senior
2 3 (15.00%) Analyst
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%) Digital Product Owner
3 2 (10.00%) Product Owner
4 1 (5.00%) Change and Release Manager
4 1 (5.00%) E-Commerce Architect
4 1 (5.00%) E-Commerce Solution Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Lead
4 1 (5.00%) Sales Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Designer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Digital Product Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Financial Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Senior UX Designer
4 1 (5.00%) UX Designer
4 1 (5.00%) Visual 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%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (5.00%) Fixed Income
4 1 (5.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (5.00%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (5.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Android
1 1 (5.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) Agile
1 6 (30.00%) Roadmaps
2 5 (25.00%) User Experience
3 4 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
3 4 (20.00%) Analytics
3 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (20.00%) UX Design
4 3 (15.00%) A/B Testing
4 3 (15.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 3 (15.00%) Backlog Management
4 3 (15.00%) Cohort Analysis
4 3 (15.00%) Conversion Rate Optimisation
4 3 (15.00%) Customer-Centric Approach
4 3 (15.00%) Customer-Centricity
4 3 (15.00%) Dashboard Development
4 3 (15.00%) Fintech
4 3 (15.00%) Funnel Analysis
4 3 (15.00%) Product Backlog
4 3 (15.00%) Storytelling
4 3 (15.00%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (10.00%) Java
2 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.00%) ABAP
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 2 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.00%) QA
2 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 6 (30.00%) 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%) Salesforce
3 2 (10.00%) SAP
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle