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 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 566 474 485
Rank change year-on-year -92 +11 +94
Contract jobs citing Shopify 47 35 55
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.10% 0.13% 0.15%
As % of the Business Applications category 1.48% 1.61% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 15 26
10th Percentile £311 £188 £163
25th Percentile £325 £263 £266
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £450 £338
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +33.33% -3.57%
75th Percentile £500 £519 £375
90th Percentile £546 £623 £488
UK median daily rate £425 £450 £338
% change year-on-year -5.56% +33.33% -3.57%

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 3,173 2,174 2,567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 7.05% 8.02% 6.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,852 1,330 1,569
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £456 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £555
Median % change year-on-year - -0.90% -1.33%
75th Percentile £651 £669 £688
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £539 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 53 108
10th Percentile £19.06 £14.29 £17.88
25th Percentile £28.88 £36.48 £24.44
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +50.00% -24.17%
75th Percentile £70.33 £72.50 £55.86
90th Percentile £88.75 £85.80 £61.60
UK median hourly rate £51.43 £57.50 £40.33
% change year-on-year -10.55% +42.59% -19.35%

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 11 July 2026.

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 11 July 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
London -51 29 £400 +23.08% 27
Midlands - 6 £488 - 11
West Midlands - 6 £488 - 5
East of England - 6 £500 - 1
North West -50 3 £500 +33.33% 4
North of England -76 3 £500 +11.11% 8
South East -62 1 - - 10
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 3 (6.38%) CMS
2 2 (4.26%) Confluence
3 1 (2.13%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (4.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.13%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (2.13%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (8.51%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 7 (14.89%) BigCommerce
2 6 (12.77%) Azure
3 3 (6.38%) AWS
4 2 (4.26%) Boomi
4 2 (4.26%) Contentful
4 2 (4.26%) Figma
4 2 (4.26%) iPaaS
4 2 (4.26%) Workato
5 1 (2.13%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (2.13%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.13%) GitHub
5 1 (2.13%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
5 1 (2.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.13%) DHCP
1 1 (2.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.13%) DynamoDB
1 1 (2.13%) MySQL
1 1 (2.13%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (12.77%) Cypress.io
1 6 (12.77%) Selenium
2 3 (6.38%) Git
3 2 (4.26%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.26%) JIRA
4 1 (2.13%) Subversion
4 1 (2.13%) Vite
General
1 27 (57.45%) Retail
2 13 (27.66%) Social Skills
3 9 (19.15%) Marketing
4 5 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.38%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (4.26%) Finance
7 1 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.13%) Law
7 1 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (25.53%) Senior
2 6 (12.77%) QA Engineer
2 6 (12.77%) Senior Manager
3 5 (10.64%) Developer
3 5 (10.64%) Product Manager
4 4 (8.51%) Automation Engineer
4 4 (8.51%) Coordinator
4 4 (8.51%) E-Commerce Engineer
4 4 (8.51%) Head of IT
4 4 (8.51%) Mobile Product Manager
4 4 (8.51%) QA Automation Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) Analyst
5 3 (6.38%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (6.38%) Project Manager
5 3 (6.38%) Senior Developer
5 3 (6.38%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (4.26%) Business Analyst
6 2 (4.26%) Integration Specialist
6 2 (4.26%) Senior Project Manager
6 2 (4.26%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (17.02%) React
2 7 (14.89%) Playwright
2 7 (14.89%) REST
2 7 (14.89%) VML
3 5 (10.64%) .NET
4 4 (8.51%) CSS
4 4 (8.51%) HTML
4 4 (8.51%) Node.js
5 3 (6.38%) CSS3
5 3 (6.38%) HTML5
5 3 (6.38%) Middleware
6 2 (4.26%) GraphQL
6 2 (4.26%) Sass
6 2 (4.26%) Tailwind CSS
7 1 (2.13%) JSON
7 1 (2.13%) Laravel
7 1 (2.13%) LEMP Stack
7 1 (2.13%) Vue
7 1 (2.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.64%) Mobile App
2 4 (8.51%) Marketing Technology
2 4 (8.51%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (6.38%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.26%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (4.26%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (80.85%) E-Commerce
2 11 (23.40%) Agile
3 9 (19.15%) Customer Experience
3 9 (19.15%) User Experience
4 8 (17.02%) AI
4 8 (17.02%) CI/CD
5 7 (14.89%) B2B
5 7 (14.89%) Customer Acquisition
5 7 (14.89%) Project Management
5 7 (14.89%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (12.77%) QA Automation
6 6 (12.77%) Re-Platforming
6 6 (12.77%) Test Automation
7 5 (10.64%) Analytics
7 5 (10.64%) Customer Service
7 5 (10.64%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (10.64%) Logistics
7 5 (10.64%) Product Backlog
7 5 (10.64%) Product Vision
7 5 (10.64%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 8 (17.02%) TypeScript
2 5 (10.64%) C#
2 5 (10.64%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.13%) Bash
3 1 (2.13%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (4.26%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (4.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (17.02%) QA
2 1 (2.13%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (4.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.13%) AirWatch
1 1 (2.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (17.02%) Adobe
1 8 (17.02%) Salesforce
1 8 (17.02%) SAP
2 7 (14.89%) Sitecore
3 2 (4.26%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.26%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.13%) Apple
4 1 (2.13%) VMware