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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 85 87
Rank change year-on-year -8 +2 +6
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 19 12 16
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.87% 0.95% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 1.08% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 6
10th Percentile £325 £452 £313
25th Percentile £334 £455 £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £481 £375
Median % change year-on-year +7.79% +28.33% -29.58%
75th Percentile £664 £500 £500
90th Percentile £696 - £594
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £29.52 - -
25th Percentile £30.59 - -
Median hourly rate £33.54 - £10.42
75th Percentile £35.32 - -
90th Percentile £35.67 - -
England median hourly rate £46.00 £15.50 £13.00
% change year-on-year +196.77% +19.23% -74.00%

All Process & 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 1,717 1,113 1,343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.73% 88.19% 83.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 841 519 523
10th Percentile £190 £200 £200
25th Percentile £385 £364 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £594 £575 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £649
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 392 265 499
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.99 £14.48
25th Percentile £16.50 £17.98 £15.62
Median hourly rate £40.00 £37.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +90.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £81.80 £70.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing E-Commerce in the East of England over the 6 months to 3 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for E-Commerce in the East of England

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 3 August 2026. 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
Hertfordshire -7 7 £350 -23.33% 4
Cambridgeshire - 7 £675 - 4
Bedfordshire -6 3 £688 +37.50% 2
Suffolk - 2 £500 -
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 (10.53%) CMS
Business Applications
1 6 (31.58%) Shopify
2 1 (5.26%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.26%) Anthropic Claude
1 1 (5.26%) AWS
1 1 (5.26%) Azure
1 1 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (5.26%) Figma
1 1 (5.26%) GitHub
1 1 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (5.26%) GitHub Copilot
1 1 (5.26%) Google Ads
1 1 (5.26%) Google Gemini
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Claude Code
General
1 13 (68.42%) Retail
2 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Marketing
4 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Architect
2 4 (21.05%) Head of IT
3 3 (15.79%) Analyst
3 3 (15.79%) Support Analyst
3 3 (15.79%) Technical Analyst
3 3 (15.79%) Technical Support
3 3 (15.79%) Technical Support Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Digital Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (10.53%) SEO Specialist
5 1 (5.26%) Designer
5 1 (5.26%) E-Commerce Specialist
5 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Lead
5 1 (5.26%) Mobile Product Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Principal Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Product Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Senior
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (5.26%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) Next.js
1 2 (10.53%) REST
2 1 (5.26%) .NET
2 1 (5.26%) Blazor
2 1 (5.26%) GraphQL
2 1 (5.26%) Node.js
2 1 (5.26%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Management Information System
2 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.53%) Marketing Technology
3 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.26%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Linux
1 3 (15.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) Agile
2 5 (26.32%) Roadmaps
3 4 (21.05%) AI
3 4 (21.05%) Software Engineering
4 3 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (15.79%) Customer Experience
4 3 (15.79%) Event-Driven
4 3 (15.79%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 3 (15.79%) Inventory Management
4 3 (15.79%) Order Management
4 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (10.53%) Content Management
5 2 (10.53%) Customer Engagement
5 2 (10.53%) Data Architecture
5 2 (10.53%) ERP
5 2 (10.53%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (10.53%) Link Building
5 2 (10.53%) SEO
6 1 (5.26%) Change Management
6 1 (5.26%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.79%) Shell Script
2 1 (5.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) Analytics IQ
1 1 (5.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) GDPR
1 1 (5.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle
2 2 (10.53%) Braze
2 2 (10.53%) Confluent
2 2 (10.53%) Databricks
2 2 (10.53%) Google
2 2 (10.53%) mParticle