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 13 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 542 447 484
Rank change year-on-year -95 +37 +110
Contract jobs citing Shopify 49 31 57
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.12% 0.13% 0.16%
As % of the Business Applications category 1.73% 1.58% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 8 29
10th Percentile £312 £160 £203
25th Percentile £400 £209 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £375 £350
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £519 £617 £400
90th Percentile - £630 £450
UK median daily rate £463 £375 £338
% change year-on-year +23.33% +11.11% -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 2,837 1,959 2,602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 7.04% 8.12% 7.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,678 1,178 1,607
10th Percentile £362 £400 £375
25th Percentile £450 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.35% +4.55% -2.22%
75th Percentile £652 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £788 £796
UK median daily rate £539 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -5.53% +3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 48 105
10th Percentile £23.40 £22.27 £14.71
25th Percentile £34.01 £40.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £55.25 £60.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.92% +50.00% -18.37%
75th Percentile £68.75 £78.31 £57.33
90th Percentile £87.35 £86.00 £61.60
UK median hourly rate £54.50 £60.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -9.17% +50.00% -18.37%

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 13 May 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 13 May 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 -50 40 £500 -19.35% 35
East of England - 4 - - 4
Midlands - 2 £488 - 12
West Midlands - 2 £488 - 9
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 2 (4.08%) CMS
2 1 (2.04%) Confluence
2 1 (2.04%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (10.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.04%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (2.04%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (6.12%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 13 (26.53%) Dynamics 365
2 12 (24.49%) BigCommerce
3 4 (8.16%) Azure
4 3 (6.12%) AWS
5 2 (4.08%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (4.08%) Contentful
5 2 (4.08%) Figma
6 1 (2.04%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (2.04%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.04%) GitHub
6 1 (2.04%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.04%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.04%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
6 1 (2.04%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.04%) DynamoDB
1 1 (2.04%) MySQL
1 1 (2.04%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.04%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (12.24%) Cypress.io
1 6 (12.24%) Selenium
2 3 (6.12%) Git
2 3 (6.12%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.08%) Gradle
4 1 (2.04%) JIRA
4 1 (2.04%) Subversion
4 1 (2.04%) Vite
General
1 20 (40.82%) Retail
2 15 (30.61%) Social Skills
3 9 (18.37%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (16.33%) Finance
5 6 (12.24%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (6.12%) Marketing
7 2 (4.08%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.04%) Law
Job Titles
1 16 (32.65%) Senior
2 9 (18.37%) Senior Manager
3 7 (14.29%) Support Engineer
4 6 (12.24%) Project Manager
4 6 (12.24%) QA Engineer
5 5 (10.20%) Senior Project Manager
6 4 (8.16%) Automation Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) E-Commerce Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Head of IT
6 4 (8.16%) QA Automation Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Designer
7 2 (4.08%) Developer
7 2 (4.08%) Java Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Lead
7 2 (4.08%) Senior Automation Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Senior Java Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Senior QA Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Shopify Developer
8 1 (2.04%) Analyst
8 1 (2.04%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (24.49%) VML
2 7 (14.29%) Middleware
2 7 (14.29%) Playwright
3 5 (10.20%) CSS
3 5 (10.20%) HTML
3 5 (10.20%) Node.js
4 4 (8.16%) CSS3
4 4 (8.16%) GraphQL
4 4 (8.16%) HTML5
4 4 (8.16%) React
4 4 (8.16%) REST
5 3 (6.12%) EDI
6 2 (4.08%) Kafka
6 2 (4.08%) Micronaut
6 2 (4.08%) OpenAPI
6 2 (4.08%) Sass
6 2 (4.08%) Swagger
6 2 (4.08%) Tailwind CSS
7 1 (2.04%) LEMP Stack
7 1 (2.04%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.20%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (8.16%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (4.08%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.08%) Marketing Technology
3 2 (4.08%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.04%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.04%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (87.76%) E-Commerce
2 16 (32.65%) ERP
3 12 (24.49%) B2B
3 12 (24.49%) Customer Acquisition
4 10 (20.41%) Agile
4 10 (20.41%) Project Management
5 9 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (16.33%) User Experience
7 7 (14.29%) Test Automation
8 6 (12.24%) Customer Experience
8 6 (12.24%) QA Automation
8 6 (12.24%) Release Management
8 6 (12.24%) Re-Platforming
8 6 (12.24%) SDLC
8 6 (12.24%) Time Management
9 5 (10.20%) Budget Management
9 5 (10.20%) Budgeting
9 5 (10.20%) Creative Thinking
9 5 (10.20%) Strategic Thinking
9 5 (10.20%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 6 (12.24%) JavaScript
2 4 (8.16%) TypeScript
3 3 (6.12%) SQL
4 2 (4.08%) Java
5 1 (2.04%) Bash
5 1 (2.04%) PHP
5 1 (2.04%) Python
5 1 (2.04%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (10.20%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (16.33%) QA
2 1 (2.04%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.04%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (4.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.04%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (26.53%) Adobe
1 13 (26.53%) Salesforce
2 12 (24.49%) SAP
2 12 (24.49%) Sitecore
3 6 (12.24%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.08%) Dynatrace
4 2 (4.08%) New Relic
5 1 (2.04%) Optimizely