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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 104 120
Rank change year-on-year +5 +16 +11
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 22 25 26
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.24% 1.15% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 1.26% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 16 24
10th Percentile £393 £251 £428
25th Percentile £419 £348 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% -3.36%
75th Percentile £669 £800 £630
90th Percentile £745 £888 £696
Central London median daily rate £500 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% -

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 1,654 1,982 2,419
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 92.87% 91.51% 89.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,159 1,217 1,711
10th Percentile £339 £375 £363
25th Percentile £421 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £694
90th Percentile £756 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 17 13
10th Percentile £20.02 £16.70 -
25th Percentile £25.75 £22.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £42.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +54.55% -47.12%
75th Percentile £47.50 £112.00 £53.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £72.75
Central London median hourly rate £28.00 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -20.00% +30.84% -47.55%

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 29 November 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 (9.09%) Confluence
2 1 (4.55%) CMS
2 1 (4.55%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (4.55%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 6 (27.27%) SaaS
2 4 (18.18%) GCP
3 2 (9.09%) Apigee
3 2 (9.09%) AWS
3 2 (9.09%) Cloudflare
3 2 (9.09%) Figma
3 2 (9.09%) GitHub
3 2 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 2 (9.09%) Stackdriver
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (4.55%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) Mixpanel
2 2 (9.09%) Couchbase
2 2 (9.09%) Redis
3 1 (4.55%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Visual Website Optimizer
2 2 (9.09%) GitLab
2 2 (9.09%) Gradle
2 2 (9.09%) JIRA
2 2 (9.09%) Maven
3 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (27.27%) Marketing
3 3 (13.64%) Finance
3 3 (13.64%) Retail
4 2 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Telecoms
5 1 (4.55%) Legal
5 1 (4.55%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (18.18%) Analyst
1 4 (18.18%) Senior
2 3 (13.64%) Conversion Specialist
2 3 (13.64%) Designer
2 3 (13.64%) Developer
2 3 (13.64%) Digital Product Manager
2 3 (13.64%) Product Manager
3 2 (9.09%) Business Analyst
3 2 (9.09%) Digital Product Owner
3 2 (9.09%) Head of Operations
3 2 (9.09%) Head of Technical Operations
3 2 (9.09%) Payments Analyst
3 2 (9.09%) Payments Business Analyst
3 2 (9.09%) Product Owner
4 1 (4.55%) Change and Release Manager
4 1 (4.55%) E-Commerce Architect
4 1 (4.55%) E-Commerce Solution Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Lead
4 1 (4.55%) Senior Digital Product Manager
4 1 (4.55%) Senior UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) CSS
1 3 (13.64%) HTML
1 3 (13.64%) Node.js
2 2 (9.09%) GraphQL
3 1 (4.55%) Bootstrap
3 1 (4.55%) CSS3
3 1 (4.55%) HTML5
3 1 (4.55%) LAMP
3 1 (4.55%) Laravel
3 1 (4.55%) OAuth
3 1 (4.55%) OAuth2
3 1 (4.55%) OpenID
3 1 (4.55%) React
3 1 (4.55%) SAML
3 1 (4.55%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Onboarding
2 4 (18.18%) Product Ownership
3 2 (9.09%) IVR
3 2 (9.09%) PMI
4 1 (4.55%) Culture of Ownership
4 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.55%) Marketing Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) Agile
1 8 (36.36%) Roadmaps
2 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (22.73%) User Experience
2 5 (22.73%) User Stories
3 4 (18.18%) Actionable Insight
3 4 (18.18%) Analytics
3 4 (18.18%) Customer-Centricity
3 4 (18.18%) DevOps
3 4 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (18.18%) UX Design
4 3 (13.64%) A/B Testing
4 3 (13.64%) Cohort Analysis
4 3 (13.64%) Conversion Rate Optimisation
4 3 (13.64%) Customer-Centric Approach
4 3 (13.64%) Funnel Analysis
4 3 (13.64%) Product Marketing
4 3 (13.64%) Psychology
4 3 (13.64%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 6 (27.27%) SQL
2 3 (13.64%) JavaScript
3 2 (9.09%) Python
4 1 (4.55%) PHP
4 1 (4.55%) Ruby
4 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) CBAP
1 2 (9.09%) PMI Certification
2 1 (4.55%) APMG
2 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.55%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) ISO 8583
1 2 (9.09%) PCI DSS
1 2 (9.09%) PSD2
1 2 (9.09%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Ansible
1 2 (9.09%) Istio
1 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 2 (9.09%) Puppet
1 2 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (31.82%) Google
2 3 (13.64%) Amplitude
2 3 (13.64%) Hotjar
2 3 (13.64%) Optimizely
3 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.09%) MuleSoft
3 2 (9.09%) New Relic
3 2 (9.09%) Rollbar
3 2 (9.09%) Salesforce
3 2 (9.09%) Splunk
4 1 (4.55%) Oracle
4 1 (4.55%) SAP