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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 508 470 526
Rank change year-on-year -38 +56 +129
Contract jobs citing Shopify 26 40 61
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.088% 0.13% 0.15%
As % of the Business Applications category 1.03% 1.84% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 15 20
10th Percentile £263 £197 £223
25th Percentile £304 £244 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £325 £331
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% -1.89% -37.79%
75th Percentile £500 £388 £438
90th Percentile £520 £488 £479
UK median daily rate £450 £325 £350
% change year-on-year +38.46% -7.14% -33.01%
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 2,514 2,171 2,975
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 8.54% 7.04% 7.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,509 1,206 1,745
10th Percentile £356 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.65%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £670
90th Percentile £738 £771 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 64 79
10th Percentile £12.82 £25.12 £34.08
25th Percentile £21.60 £35.00 £49.00
Median hourly rate £41.43 £40.91 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +1.26% -27.58% +61.40%
75th Percentile £80.13 £62.35 £80.00
90th Percentile £93.76 £80.15 £89.00
UK median hourly rate £38.75 £40.91 £56.49
% change year-on-year -5.29% -27.58% +25.53%

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 November 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 November 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 -11 15 £413 +26.92% 127
Yorkshire - 7 £450 - 15
North of England - 7 £450 - 40
East of England -14 3 - - 18
South East +2 1 - - 104
Shopify
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 (15.38%) CMS
1 4 (15.38%) WordPress
2 2 (7.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (19.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (19.23%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (15.38%) Trello
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (3.85%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (19.23%) Magento
2 1 (3.85%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 6 (23.08%) BigCommerce
2 4 (15.38%) Asana
2 4 (15.38%) GCP
2 4 (15.38%) Google Ads
2 4 (15.38%) Wix.com
3 3 (11.54%) AWS
3 3 (11.54%) Azure
3 3 (11.54%) Cloudflare
3 3 (11.54%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
4 2 (7.69%) SAP Commerce Cloud
5 1 (3.85%) Adobe Analytics
5 1 (3.85%) Figma
5 1 (3.85%) GitHub
5 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.85%) Stripe
Development Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Git
2 2 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.69%) JIRA
3 1 (3.85%) CircleCI
3 1 (3.85%) Subversion
General
1 18 (69.23%) Social Skills
2 15 (57.69%) Marketing
3 12 (46.15%) Retail
4 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (11.54%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (11.54%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (7.69%) Finance
6 1 (3.85%) Advertising
6 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (19.23%) Coordinator
2 4 (15.38%) Developer
2 4 (15.38%) Project Coordinator
2 4 (15.38%) Shopify Developer
3 3 (11.54%) Administrator
3 3 (11.54%) E-Commerce Manager
3 3 (11.54%) Web Administrator
4 2 (7.69%) Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Business Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Project Manager
4 2 (7.69%) SAP Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Senior
4 2 (7.69%) Technical Manager
5 1 (3.85%) E-Commerce Business Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 1 (3.85%) Lead
5 1 (3.85%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (15.38%) VML
2 3 (11.54%) CSS
2 3 (11.54%) HTML
3 2 (7.69%) GraphQL
3 2 (7.69%) Node.js
4 1 (3.85%) CSS3
4 1 (3.85%) Django
4 1 (3.85%) HTML5
4 1 (3.85%) NestJS
4 1 (3.85%) React
4 1 (3.85%) REST
4 1 (3.85%) RESTful
4 1 (3.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.85%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (65.38%) E-Commerce
2 8 (30.77%) Agile
3 7 (26.92%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (23.08%) Project Management
4 6 (23.08%) Time Management
5 5 (19.23%) AI
5 5 (19.23%) B2B
5 5 (19.23%) Digital Marketing
5 5 (19.23%) SEO
6 4 (15.38%) Customer Acquisition
6 4 (15.38%) Pay per click
7 3 (11.54%) Analytics
7 3 (11.54%) CRM
7 3 (11.54%) Logistics
7 3 (11.54%) Roadmaps
7 3 (11.54%) User Experience
8 2 (7.69%) CI/CD
8 2 (7.69%) Customer Experience
8 2 (7.69%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.54%) JavaScript
2 1 (3.85%) Go
2 1 (3.85%) PHP
2 1 (3.85%) Python
2 1 (3.85%) Ruby
2 1 (3.85%) SQL
2 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (3.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) GDPR
1 1 (3.85%) QA
Vendors
1 11 (42.31%) Salesforce
2 8 (30.77%) Adobe
3 7 (26.92%) SAP
4 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
4 4 (15.38%) Sitecore
5 3 (11.54%) Google
6 2 (7.69%) WooCommerce
7 1 (3.85%) Facebook
7 1 (3.85%) OpenAI
7 1 (3.85%) TikTok