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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 103 107
Rank change year-on-year -1 +4 +30
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 35 17 19
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.54% 0.96% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.74% 1.02% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 12 15
10th Percentile £350 £417 £448
25th Percentile £381 £485 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £516 £628
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% -17.73% +2.03%
75th Percentile £613 £653 £694
90th Percentile £682 £723 £711
Central London median daily rate £525 £538 £626
% change year-on-year -2.33% -14.17% +1.01%
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 2,011 1,670 1,885
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.28% 94.03% 91.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,387 1,101 1,227
10th Percentile £375 £325 £380
25th Percentile £456 £424 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 22 16
10th Percentile - £17.35 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £19.79
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.33 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -25.86% +6.38% -3.18%
75th Percentile £32.05 £53.50 £82.19
90th Percentile £50.59 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.07 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -13.78% +7.67% -1.82%

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 5 September 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 5 (14.29%) Confluence
2 4 (11.43%) CMS
3 2 (5.71%) Apache
3 2 (5.71%) Umbraco
4 1 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.86%) Apache Spark
4 1 (2.86%) Headless CMS
4 1 (2.86%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.86%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.86%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.86%) Magento
2 1 (2.86%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (20.00%) AWS
2 5 (14.29%) Azure
3 2 (5.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (5.71%) Azure Functions
3 2 (5.71%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (5.71%) CloudFront
3 2 (5.71%) Power Platform
3 2 (5.71%) Serverless
4 1 (2.86%) Algolia
4 1 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (2.86%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (2.86%) Apple Pay
4 1 (2.86%) AWS Data Pipeline
4 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.86%) Figma
4 1 (2.86%) GitHub
4 1 (2.86%) Google Pay
4 1 (2.86%) Miro
4 1 (2.86%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
4 1 (2.86%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (5.71%) Power BI
1 2 (5.71%) Redis
1 2 (5.71%) Semantic Layer
2 1 (2.86%) BigQuery
2 1 (2.86%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.86%) Flink
2 1 (2.86%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.86%) MySQL
2 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (2.86%) Bundler
2 1 (2.86%) Claude Code
2 1 (2.86%) Git
2 1 (2.86%) PHPUnit
2 1 (2.86%) Vite
General
1 15 (42.86%) Retail
2 10 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 8 (22.86%) Marketing
4 5 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (8.57%) Finance
5 3 (8.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (5.71%) Advertising
6 2 (5.71%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.86%) Banking
7 1 (2.86%) Electronics
7 1 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.86%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.86%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.86%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 9 (25.71%) Developer
2 6 (17.14%) Product Manager
2 6 (17.14%) Senior
3 4 (11.43%) .NET Developer
4 3 (8.57%) Senior Developer
5 2 (5.71%) Architect
5 2 (5.71%) Azure Developer
5 2 (5.71%) Business Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Data Architect
5 2 (5.71%) Data Manager
5 2 (5.71%) Designer
5 2 (5.71%) Digital Designer
5 2 (5.71%) E-Commerce Manager
5 2 (5.71%) Lead
5 2 (5.71%) PPC Specialist
5 2 (5.71%) Project Manager
5 2 (5.71%) Technical Manager
6 1 (2.86%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.43%) .NET
1 4 (11.43%) GraphQL
1 4 (11.43%) React
1 4 (11.43%) REST
2 3 (8.57%) Next.js
3 2 (5.71%) .NET Core
3 2 (5.71%) Kafka
3 2 (5.71%) Node.js
3 2 (5.71%) OAuth
3 2 (5.71%) Spring
3 2 (5.71%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.86%) CSS
4 1 (2.86%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.86%) HTML
4 1 (2.86%) jQuery
4 1 (2.86%) KnockoutJS
4 1 (2.86%) Middleware
4 1 (2.86%) RESTful
4 1 (2.86%) SOAP
4 1 (2.86%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 5 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (11.43%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.71%) FMCG
3 2 (5.71%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.86%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.86%) Animation
4 1 (2.86%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.86%) Digital Media
4 1 (2.86%) Digital Wallet
4 1 (2.86%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.86%) EPoS
4 1 (2.86%) Midjourney
4 1 (2.86%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.86%) Motion Graphics
4 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (31.43%) Stakeholder Management
2 9 (25.71%) Agile
3 7 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (17.14%) AI
4 6 (17.14%) User Experience
5 5 (14.29%) CRM
5 5 (14.29%) Migration
5 5 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
6 4 (11.43%) Customer Experience
6 4 (11.43%) DevOps
6 4 (11.43%) Mentoring
6 4 (11.43%) Observability
6 4 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (11.43%) Scrum
6 4 (11.43%) Sprint Planning
6 4 (11.43%) Use Case
6 4 (11.43%) Workflow
6 4 (11.43%) Workshop Facilitation
7 3 (8.57%) Architectural Patterns
7 3 (8.57%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.43%) C#
1 4 (11.43%) JavaScript
1 4 (11.43%) TypeScript
2 3 (8.57%) SQL
3 2 (5.71%) Java
3 2 (5.71%) Python
4 1 (2.86%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (5.71%) Degree
2 1 (2.86%) IIBA
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Certified Professional
2 1 (2.86%) PMI Certification
2 1 (2.86%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) QA
2 1 (2.86%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.86%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.86%) PSD2
System Software
1 2 (5.71%) Docker
2 1 (2.86%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 2 (5.71%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.86%) Bosun
Vendors
1 5 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.71%) Adyen
2 2 (5.71%) Google
3 1 (2.86%) Adobe
3 1 (2.86%) Apple
3 1 (2.86%) Klarna
3 1 (2.86%) MuleSoft
3 1 (2.86%) New Relic
3 1 (2.86%) PayPal
3 1 (2.86%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.86%) SAP
3 1 (2.86%) TikTok