E-business Contracts in England

Electronic Business (eBusiness)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring E-business skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited E-business over the 6 months leading up to 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 495 504 569
Rank change year-on-year +9 +65 +182
DemandTrendContract jobs citing E-business 18 20 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.065% 0.060% 0.098%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.071% 0.070% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 18 34
10th Percentile - £468 £575
25th Percentile £404 £484 £610
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £606 £645
Median % change year-on-year -9.28% -6.01% +10.26%
75th Percentile £631 £638 £667
90th Percentile £645 £936 £717
UK median daily rate £550 £551 £645
% change year-on-year -0.09% -14.65% +22.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

E-business 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 England.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 25,200 28,440 39,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.84% 85.75% 89.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,048 18,384 27,240
10th Percentile £300 £313 £325
25th Percentile £404 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £627 £650 £663
90th Percentile £738 £753 £760
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,475 1,543 1,389
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.05 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £18.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.19
Median % change year-on-year -40.82% +0.73% +56.26%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.50 £42.19
% change year-on-year -37.90% -4.01% +56.38%

E-business
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing E-business as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for E-business in England

E-business
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing E-business.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing E-business

E-business
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing E-business in England over the 6 months to 23 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for E-business in England

E-business
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing E-business.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing E-business

E-business
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing E-business within the England region over the 6 months to 23 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +15 9 £408 -35.01% 2
South East +16 8 £625 +2.04% 3
North of England - 1 £600 - 2
North West - 1 £600 - 1
E-business
UK

E-business
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (27.78%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (5.56%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 9 (50.00%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (38.89%) Oracle Assets
2 7 (38.89%) Oracle E-Business Tax
2 7 (38.89%) Oracle General Ledger
2 7 (38.89%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle AGIS
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) Azure
2 5 (27.78%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (27.78%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (27.78%) Miro
2 5 (27.78%) Power Platform
2 5 (27.78%) SaaS
3 2 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) FIX Connectivity
1 1 (5.56%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) Power BI
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle Database
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle Database 10g
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle Database 11g
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Eclipse
1 1 (5.56%) Git
1 1 (5.56%) Gradle
1 1 (5.56%) IntelliJ
1 1 (5.56%) Maven
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle Forms
General
1 7 (38.89%) Finance
2 6 (33.33%) Banking
2 6 (33.33%) General Ledger
3 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 3 (16.67%) Front Office
5 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Delivery Manager
2 2 (11.11%) Consultant
2 2 (11.11%) Developer
2 2 (11.11%) Functional Consultant
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle Consultant
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle Functional Consultant
3 1 (5.56%) Applications Developer
3 1 (5.56%) Business Developer
3 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) IT Security Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Java Developer
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle Applications Developer
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle Developer
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle Financials Consultant
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle Financials Functional Consultant
3 1 (5.56%) Procurement Consultant
3 1 (5.56%) Procurement Specialist
3 1 (5.56%) Project Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Security Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (5.56%) Middleware
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Algorithms
1 1 (5.56%) HP Storage
1 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
1 1 (5.56%) TWAP
1 1 (5.56%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Linux
2 2 (11.11%) Windows
3 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.56%) Solaris
3 1 (5.56%) Unix
3 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Validation
2 7 (38.89%) Agile
3 6 (33.33%) Accounts Payable
3 6 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
3 6 (33.33%) Scrum
3 6 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 6 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
4 5 (27.78%) Contingency Planning
4 5 (27.78%) DevOps
4 5 (27.78%) Matrix Organization
4 5 (27.78%) PRINCE2
4 5 (27.78%) Waterfall
5 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (11.11%) Electronic Trading
6 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Management
6 2 (11.11%) ITIL
6 2 (11.11%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) SQL
2 2 (11.11%) Java
3 1 (5.56%) PL/SQL
3 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.56%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 15 (83.33%) Oracle
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Sun
3 1 (5.56%) CyberArk
3 1 (5.56%) Dell
3 1 (5.56%) HP
3 1 (5.56%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.56%) Tenable
3 1 (5.56%) VMware