Shopify Contract Job Trends in England

Shopify
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Shopify skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 510 470 509
Rank change year-on-year -40 +39 +139
Contract jobs citing Shopify 34 37 62
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.11% 0.12% 0.16%
As % of the Business Applications category 1.29% 1.70% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 11 23
10th Percentile £306 £225 £232
25th Percentile £400 £250 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £325 £350
Median % change year-on-year +53.85% -7.14% -34.27%
75th Percentile £513 £388 £419
90th Percentile £519 £488 £465
UK median daily rate £500 £325 £375
% change year-on-year +53.85% -13.33% -27.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £12.75 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -75.71% - -
75th Percentile £13.19 £53.75 -
90th Percentile £13.98 - -
UK median hourly rate £12.75 £52.50 -
% change year-on-year -75.71% - -

All Business Application Skills
England

Shopify falls under the Business Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring business application skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 2,644 2,175 2,955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 8.54% 7.17% 7.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,613 1,229 1,741
10th Percentile £358 £380 £375
25th Percentile £450 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.22%
75th Percentile £656 £669 £675
90th Percentile £752 £757 £756
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 58 77
10th Percentile £17.27 £24.23 £34.50
25th Percentile £25.93 £35.00 £49.00
Median hourly rate £47.48 £47.18 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +0.63% -16.48% +61.40%
75th Percentile £90.09 £67.13 £80.00
90th Percentile £93.86 £80.75 £89.25
UK median hourly rate £37.75 £46.18 £56.49
% change year-on-year -18.25% -18.25% +51.45%

Shopify
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Shopify relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Shopify job vacancy trend in England

Shopify
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Shopify.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Shopify

Shopify
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Shopify in England over the 6 months to 9 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Shopify in England

Shopify
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Shopify.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Shopify

Shopify
Contract 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 Shopify within the England region over the 6 months to 9 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
London -14 23 £500 +53.85% 28
Yorkshire - 6 £450 - 13
North of England - 6 £450 - 31
East of England -11 3 - - 22
South East -15 1 - - 33
Shopify
UK

Shopify
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 4 (11.76%) CMS
1 4 (11.76%) WordPress
2 2 (5.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (20.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (14.71%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (11.76%) Trello
4 1 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (2.94%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (11.76%) Magento
2 1 (2.94%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 9 (26.47%) Dynamics 365
2 5 (14.71%) BigCommerce
3 4 (11.76%) Asana
3 4 (11.76%) Google Ads
3 4 (11.76%) Wix.com
4 3 (8.82%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
5 2 (5.88%) Azure
6 1 (2.94%) Adobe Analytics
6 1 (2.94%) AWS
6 1 (2.94%) Cloudflare
6 1 (2.94%) Figma
6 1 (2.94%) GCP
6 1 (2.94%) GitHub
6 1 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.94%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.94%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.94%) Stripe
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (2.94%) MySQL
1 1 (2.94%) Power BI
1 1 (2.94%) Redis
1 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Git
1 3 (8.82%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.88%) JIRA
3 1 (2.94%) CircleCI
3 1 (2.94%) Subversion
General
1 18 (52.94%) Social Skills
2 14 (41.18%) Marketing
3 12 (35.29%) Retail
4 4 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (11.76%) Finance
5 3 (8.82%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (8.82%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.94%) Advertising
6 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (14.71%) Coordinator
2 4 (11.76%) Developer
2 4 (11.76%) Project Coordinator
2 4 (11.76%) Shopify Developer
3 3 (8.82%) Administrator
3 3 (8.82%) E-Commerce Manager
3 3 (8.82%) Senior
3 3 (8.82%) Support Engineer
3 3 (8.82%) Web Administrator
4 2 (5.88%) Analyst
4 2 (5.88%) Architect
4 2 (5.88%) Business Analyst
4 2 (5.88%) Project Manager
4 2 (5.88%) Technical Manager
5 1 (2.94%) E-Commerce Project Manager
5 1 (2.94%) Product Manager
5 1 (2.94%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (2.94%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.94%) Technical Architect
5 1 (2.94%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.71%) VML
2 3 (8.82%) CSS
2 3 (8.82%) HTML
2 3 (8.82%) Middleware
2 3 (8.82%) Node.js
3 2 (5.88%) CSS3
3 2 (5.88%) EDI
3 2 (5.88%) GraphQL
3 2 (5.88%) HTML5
3 2 (5.88%) React
4 1 (2.94%) Bootstrap
4 1 (2.94%) Django
4 1 (2.94%) NestJS
4 1 (2.94%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (2.94%) REST
4 1 (2.94%) RESTful
4 1 (2.94%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.82%) Analytical Mindset
1 3 (8.82%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.94%) AI Agents
3 1 (2.94%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.94%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (76.47%) E-Commerce
2 10 (29.41%) ERP
3 8 (23.53%) Agile
4 7 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (17.65%) AI
5 6 (17.65%) B2B
5 6 (17.65%) Project Management
5 6 (17.65%) Time Management
6 5 (14.71%) Customer Acquisition
6 5 (14.71%) Digital Marketing
6 5 (14.71%) SEO
7 4 (11.76%) Pay per click
7 4 (11.76%) Roadmaps
7 4 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (8.82%) Analytics
8 3 (8.82%) CI/CD
8 3 (8.82%) CRM
8 3 (8.82%) Logistics
8 3 (8.82%) Order Management
8 3 (8.82%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.82%) JavaScript
1 3 (8.82%) SQL
2 2 (5.88%) PHP
2 2 (5.88%) Python
2 2 (5.88%) Ruby
2 2 (5.88%) TypeScript
3 1 (2.94%) Go
Qualifications
1 3 (8.82%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.94%) GDPR
1 1 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.94%) Varnish
Vendors
1 10 (29.41%) Salesforce
2 7 (20.59%) Adobe
2 7 (20.59%) Microsoft
3 6 (17.65%) SAP
4 5 (14.71%) Sitecore
5 1 (2.94%) Facebook
5 1 (2.94%) Google
5 1 (2.94%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.94%) TikTok