E-Commerce Contract Job Trends in the East of England

E-Commerce (Electronic Commerce)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring E-Commerce skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 69 83
Rank change year-on-year -31 +14 -20
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 8 17 26
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.50% 1.50% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 1.79% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 20
10th Percentile - £284 £275
25th Percentile £463 £316 £283
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £375 £475
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% -21.05% -13.64%
75th Percentile £488 £444 £600
90th Percentile - £500 £613
England median daily rate £500 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% +4.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £12.75 - -
England median hourly rate £15.50 £47.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year -67.37% -5.94% -27.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,362 951 1,471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 84.49% 84.16% 87.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 561 407 786
10th Percentile £195 £240 £226
25th Percentile £363 £339 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £580 £586 £600
90th Percentile £681 £680 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 445 182 342
10th Percentile £14.15 - £14.16
25th Percentile £16.45 £15.62 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £30.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +36.36% -1.12%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.23 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.75
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.79% +20.52%

E-Commerce
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing E-Commerce relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

E-Commerce job vacancy trend in the East of England

E-Commerce
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing E-Commerce.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing E-Commerce

E-Commerce
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing E-Commerce.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing E-Commerce

E-Commerce
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing E-Commerce within the East of England region over the 6 months to 23 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Essex -1 3 - - 32
Hertfordshire -26 3 £475 +26.67% 24
Bedfordshire -7 2 - - 14
E-Commerce
England

E-Commerce
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco IOS
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 3 (37.50%) Marketing
1 3 (37.50%) Retail
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Administrator
1 3 (37.50%) Data Integration Specialist
1 3 (37.50%) Data Migration Specialist
1 3 (37.50%) Integration Specialist
1 3 (37.50%) Migration Specialist
1 3 (37.50%) SSIS Specialist
1 3 (37.50%) Web Administrator
2 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) EDI
1 3 (37.50%) JSON
1 3 (37.50%) REST
1 3 (37.50%) SOAP
1 3 (37.50%) XML
1 3 (37.50%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Android
1 2 (25.00%) Mac OS
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Logistics
2 3 (37.50%) AI
2 3 (37.50%) CRM
2 3 (37.50%) Data Extraction
2 3 (37.50%) Data Integration
2 3 (37.50%) Data Migration
2 3 (37.50%) End-to-End Testing
2 3 (37.50%) ERP
2 3 (37.50%) Migration
2 3 (37.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Java
1 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (25.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco
2 2 (25.00%) Meraki
2 2 (25.00%) Splunk