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

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 94 112
Rank change year-on-year -9 +18 +12
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 21 23 23
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.14% 1.21% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.28% 1.32% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 14 22
10th Percentile £343 £246 £414
25th Percentile £404 £348 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% -2.17% -11.54%
75th Percentile £638 £817 £628
90th Percentile £745 £913 £683
Central London median daily rate £495 £500 £575
% change year-on-year -1.00% -13.04% -3.20%

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 1,642 1,743 2,174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.29% 92.03% 89.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,152 1,059 1,548
10th Percentile £350 £375 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% - -2.54%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £767 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -6.09% +0.88% -1.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 10 10
10th Percentile £19.98 £13.73 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.66 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £27.75 £35.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -21.83% +35.24% -30.46%
75th Percentile £42.12 £94.94 £44.56
90th Percentile £45.08 £114.55 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -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 18 January 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:

Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Adobe After Effects
1 1 (4.76%) Adobe XD
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.76%) Photoshop
1 1 (4.76%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (4.76%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 7 (33.33%) SaaS
2 4 (19.05%) AWS
3 3 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (14.29%) GCP
3 3 (14.29%) Serverless
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon EventBridge
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon S3
4 2 (9.52%) AWS Step Functions
4 2 (9.52%) Cloudflare
4 2 (9.52%) Figma
4 2 (9.52%) Textract
5 1 (4.76%) Apigee
5 1 (4.76%) GitHub
5 1 (4.76%) Google Docs
5 1 (4.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (4.76%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) DynamoDB
1 3 (14.29%) Mixpanel
2 2 (9.52%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (9.52%) CockroachDB
2 2 (9.52%) Couchbase
2 2 (9.52%) Metadata
2 2 (9.52%) Redis
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (4.76%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Visual Website Optimizer
2 1 (4.76%) GitLab
2 1 (4.76%) Gradle
2 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.76%) Maven
General
1 9 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Marketing
3 5 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Finance
4 2 (9.52%) Retail
5 1 (4.76%) Legal
5 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (19.05%) Senior
2 3 (14.29%) Analyst
2 3 (14.29%) Conversion Specialist
2 3 (14.29%) Developer
3 2 (9.52%) Business Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) Data Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Designer
3 2 (9.52%) Head of Operations
3 2 (9.52%) Head of Technical Operations
3 2 (9.52%) Payments Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) Payments Business Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) Senior User Researcher
3 2 (9.52%) User Researcher
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Digital Designer
4 1 (4.76%) E-Commerce Solution Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Lead
4 1 (4.76%) Sales Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Senior UX Designer
4 1 (4.76%) Shopify Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (23.81%) HTML
2 4 (19.05%) CSS
3 3 (14.29%) Node.js
4 2 (9.52%) boto
4 2 (9.52%) NumPy
4 2 (9.52%) Pandas
4 2 (9.52%) REST
5 1 (4.76%) Bootstrap
5 1 (4.76%) CSS3
5 1 (4.76%) GraphQL
5 1 (4.76%) HTML5
5 1 (4.76%) LAMP
5 1 (4.76%) Laravel
5 1 (4.76%) PySpark
5 1 (4.76%) React
5 1 (4.76%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Onboarding
2 3 (14.29%) Product Ownership
3 2 (9.52%) Data Structures
3 2 (9.52%) PMI
4 1 (4.76%) Culture of Ownership
4 1 (4.76%) IVR
4 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.76%) Motion Graphics
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) Analytics
2 6 (28.57%) Actionable Insight
2 6 (28.57%) Roadmaps
3 5 (23.81%) Agile
3 5 (23.81%) Customer-Centricity
3 5 (23.81%) User Experience
4 4 (19.05%) A/B Testing
4 4 (19.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (19.05%) Validation
5 3 (14.29%) Cohort Analysis
5 3 (14.29%) Conversion Rate Optimisation
5 3 (14.29%) Customer-Centric Approach
5 3 (14.29%) Decision-Making
5 3 (14.29%) Funnel Analysis
5 3 (14.29%) Journey Map
5 3 (14.29%) Observability
5 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (14.29%) Storytelling
5 3 (14.29%) User Research
5 3 (14.29%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 7 (33.33%) SQL
2 4 (19.05%) Python
3 3 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 2 (9.52%) PHP
5 1 (4.76%) Go
5 1 (4.76%) Ruby
5 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) CBAP
1 2 (9.52%) PMI Certification
2 1 (4.76%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) Accessibility
1 2 (9.52%) Data Quality
1 2 (9.52%) ISO 8583
1 2 (9.52%) PCI DSS
1 2 (9.52%) PSD2
1 2 (9.52%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Ansible
1 1 (4.76%) Istio
1 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.76%) Puppet
1 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) Google
2 3 (14.29%) Amplitude
2 3 (14.29%) Hotjar
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 3 (14.29%) Optimizely
2 3 (14.29%) SAP
3 2 (9.52%) New Relic
3 2 (9.52%) Rollbar
3 2 (9.52%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.76%) Adobe
4 1 (4.76%) MuleSoft
4 1 (4.76%) Oracle
4 1 (4.76%) Splunk