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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 104 96
Rank change year-on-year -2 -8 +31
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 35 21 27
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.60% 1.21% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.78% 1.28% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 17 20
10th Percentile £350 £391 £260
25th Percentile £391 £475 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £700
90th Percentile £679 £753 £808
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -12.00%
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 £54.50 - -

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 1,967 1,644 1,949
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.11% 94.48% 91.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,362 1,104 1,217
10th Percentile £368 £325 £366
25th Percentile £455 £422 £463
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 £763 £792
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 20 19
10th Percentile - £17.02 £15.60
25th Percentile £17.60 £21.54 £21.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £27.83 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.53% -27.73% +40.00%
75th Percentile £31.00 £47.00 £102.25
90th Percentile £61.50 £66.25 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £27.83 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.15% -20.50% +30.84%

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 4 October 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%) Umbraco
4 1 (2.86%) Apache
4 1 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.86%) Apache Spark
4 1 (2.86%) Headless CMS
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 2 (5.71%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
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 Kinesis
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%) GCP
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%) Power BI
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%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.86%) Flink
2 1 (2.86%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.86%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (2.86%) Bundler
2 1 (2.86%) Claude Code
2 1 (2.86%) Vite
General
1 15 (42.86%) Retail
2 11 (31.43%) 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 8 (22.86%) Developer
2 7 (20.00%) Senior
3 6 (17.14%) Product Manager
4 4 (11.43%) .NET Developer
5 3 (8.57%) Senior Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Azure Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Business Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) Data Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Data Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Designer
6 2 (5.71%) Digital Designer
6 2 (5.71%) E-Commerce Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Lead
6 2 (5.71%) PPC Specialist
6 2 (5.71%) Project Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Technical Manager
7 1 (2.86%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Digital Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.43%) .NET
1 4 (11.43%) React
2 3 (8.57%) GraphQL
2 3 (8.57%) Next.js
2 3 (8.57%) REST
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%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.86%) MACH
4 1 (2.86%) Material-UI
4 1 (2.86%) Model Context Protocol
4 1 (2.86%) RESTful
4 1 (2.86%) Terraform
4 1 (2.86%) Vue
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 10 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 9 (25.71%) Agile
3 7 (20.00%) AI
4 6 (17.14%) CI/CD
5 5 (14.29%) CRM
5 5 (14.29%) Migration
5 5 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
5 5 (14.29%) User Experience
6 4 (11.43%) Analytics
6 4 (11.43%) Customer Experience
6 4 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (11.43%) Project Management
6 4 (11.43%) Scrum
6 4 (11.43%) Use Case
6 4 (11.43%) Workflow
6 4 (11.43%) Workshop Facilitation
7 3 (8.57%) Backlog Management
7 3 (8.57%) Event-Driven
7 3 (8.57%) Observability
7 3 (8.57%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.43%) C#
1 4 (11.43%) JavaScript
1 4 (11.43%) TypeScript
2 2 (5.71%) Java
2 2 (5.71%) Python
2 2 (5.71%) SQL
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 2 (5.71%) QA
2 1 (2.86%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.86%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.86%) PSD2
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) Docker
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%) 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