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 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 512 463 497
Rank change year-on-year -49 +34 +145
Contract jobs citing Shopify 36 34 59
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.11% 0.12% 0.16%
As % of the Business Applications category 1.34% 1.66% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 8 25
10th Percentile £400 £211 £263
25th Percentile £488 £244 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £300 £400
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -25.00% -24.88%
75th Percentile £519 £363 £450
90th Percentile £519 £374 £461
UK median daily rate £500 £300 £400
% change year-on-year +66.67% -25.00% -21.95%
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 2,689 2,053 2,751
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 8.49% 7.37% 7.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,624 1,137 1,623
10th Percentile £358 £378 £375
25th Percentile £450 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.65%
75th Percentile £671 £672 £675
90th Percentile £760 £774 £762
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 54 85
10th Percentile £18.50 £22.27 £30.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £30.43 £49.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £43.84 £57.29
Median % change year-on-year +2.65% -23.47% +63.67%
75th Percentile £86.00 £66.88 £80.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £80.75 £88.75
UK median hourly rate £41.86 £41.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year +0.86% -26.54% +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

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Shopify in England over the 6 months to 2 January 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 2 January 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 -23 27 £500 +66.67% 21
North of England - 4 - - 22
Yorkshire - 4 - - 12
East of England - 3 - - 5
South East -17 1 - - 15
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UK

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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 (11.11%) CMS
1 4 (11.11%) WordPress
2 2 (5.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (19.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (11.11%) Trello
3 1 (2.78%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Magento
2 1 (2.78%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 13 (36.11%) Dynamics 365
2 5 (13.89%) BigCommerce
3 4 (11.11%) Asana
3 4 (11.11%) Google Ads
3 4 (11.11%) Wix.com
4 3 (8.33%) Azure
5 2 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.78%) Cloudflare
6 1 (2.78%) Figma
6 1 (2.78%) GitHub
6 1 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.78%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.78%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
6 1 (2.78%) Stripe
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (2.78%) MySQL
1 1 (2.78%) Power BI
1 1 (2.78%) Redis
1 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Gradle
1 2 (5.56%) Jenkins
1 2 (5.56%) JIRA
2 1 (2.78%) CircleCI
2 1 (2.78%) Git
General
1 16 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 10 (27.78%) Retail
3 9 (25.00%) Marketing
4 7 (19.44%) Finance
5 5 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (19.44%) Senior
1 7 (19.44%) Support Engineer
2 5 (13.89%) Coordinator
3 4 (11.11%) Project Coordinator
4 3 (8.33%) Administrator
4 3 (8.33%) Developer
4 3 (8.33%) Shopify Developer
4 3 (8.33%) Web Administrator
5 2 (5.56%) Architect
5 2 (5.56%) Java Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Project Manager
5 2 (5.56%) Senior Java Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Senior Manager
5 2 (5.56%) Senior Project Manager
6 1 (2.78%) Content Coordinator
6 1 (2.78%) E-Commerce Analyst
6 1 (2.78%) E-Commerce Business Analyst
6 1 (2.78%) Retail Business Analyst
6 1 (2.78%) Technical Manager
6 1 (2.78%) Web Content Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (16.67%) Middleware
2 5 (13.89%) VML
3 4 (11.11%) GraphQL
4 3 (8.33%) EDI
4 3 (8.33%) Node.js
4 3 (8.33%) REST
5 2 (5.56%) CSS
5 2 (5.56%) CSS3
5 2 (5.56%) HTML
5 2 (5.56%) HTML5
5 2 (5.56%) Kafka
5 2 (5.56%) Micronaut
5 2 (5.56%) OpenAPI
5 2 (5.56%) React
5 2 (5.56%) Swagger
6 1 (2.78%) Bootstrap
6 1 (2.78%) Django
6 1 (2.78%) NestJS
6 1 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (2.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
1 4 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (2.78%) AI Agents
2 1 (2.78%) Client/Server
2 1 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.78%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (72.22%) E-Commerce
2 16 (44.44%) ERP
3 6 (16.67%) Agile
3 6 (16.67%) B2B
3 6 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (16.67%) Project Management
3 6 (16.67%) Time Management
4 5 (13.89%) AI
4 5 (13.89%) Customer Acquisition
5 4 (11.11%) Data Analysis
5 4 (11.11%) Digital Marketing
5 4 (11.11%) Pay per click
5 4 (11.11%) SEO
5 4 (11.11%) Webhook
6 3 (8.33%) Customer Experience
6 3 (8.33%) Design Patterns
6 3 (8.33%) Logistics
6 3 (8.33%) Order Management
7 2 (5.56%) Architectural Patterns
7 2 (5.56%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.11%) SQL
2 2 (5.56%) Java
2 2 (5.56%) JavaScript
2 2 (5.56%) PHP
2 2 (5.56%) Python
2 2 (5.56%) Ruby
2 2 (5.56%) TypeScript
3 1 (2.78%) Go
Qualifications
1 3 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.78%) Varnish
Vendors
1 8 (22.22%) Salesforce
2 7 (19.44%) Microsoft
3 6 (16.67%) Adobe
3 6 (16.67%) SAP
4 5 (13.89%) Sitecore
5 2 (5.56%) Dynatrace
5 2 (5.56%) New Relic
6 1 (2.78%) Facebook
6 1 (2.78%) Google
6 1 (2.78%) OpenAI
6 1 (2.78%) Optimizely