E-Commerce Contract Job Trends in London

E-Commerce (Electronic Commerce)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring E-Commerce skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 206 148
Rank change year-on-year +23 -58 +40
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 320 170 271
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.56% 1.27% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.75% 1.37% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 101 207
10th Percentile £313 £296 £300
25th Percentile £418 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -6.36% -2.22%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £650
90th Percentile £743 £738 £749
England median daily rate £538 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +7.50% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £44.75 £24.61 £46.25
Median hourly rate £54.50 £28.06 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +94.26% -40.94% -12.04%
75th Percentile £64.25 £33.04 £54.38
90th Percentile - £34.46 £57.75
England median hourly rate £62.00 £15.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +300.00% -67.37% -5.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

E-Commerce falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 18,257 12,368 14,352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.02% 92.44% 89.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,959 8,171 9,325
10th Percentile £360 £333 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £668 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 241 180
10th Percentile £15.89 £18.25 £17.48
25th Percentile £18.56 £25.04 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.50 £37.15
Median % change year-on-year +6.56% -17.90% -7.13%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £57.81
90th Percentile £79.38 £65.00 £78.75
England median hourly rate £38.72 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +53.96% -40.82% -5.56%

E-Commerce
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing E-Commerce relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

E-Commerce job vacancy trend in London

E-Commerce
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing E-Commerce.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing E-Commerce

E-Commerce
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing E-Commerce in London over the 6 months to 15 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for E-Commerce in London

E-Commerce
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing E-Commerce.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing E-Commerce

E-Commerce
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing E-Commerce within the London region over the 6 months to 15 October 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
Central London -8 43 £525 - 46
West London -14 20 £480 +32.41% 11
North London -3 1 £375 -58.33%
South London - 1 £625 - 3
E-Commerce
England

E-Commerce
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 22 (6.88%) CMS
2 11 (3.44%) Confluence
3 9 (2.81%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (2.19%) Sitecore CMS
5 5 (1.56%) Umbraco
6 4 (1.25%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.94%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.94%) Apache
7 3 (0.94%) Headless CMS
7 3 (0.94%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.63%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.63%) EPiServer
8 2 (0.63%) Kentico
9 1 (0.31%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.31%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.31%) Mule
9 1 (0.31%) WordPress
Applications
1 20 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (3.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (3.44%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (2.81%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.63%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.31%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.31%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 15 (4.69%) Magento
2 12 (3.75%) Shopify
3 8 (2.50%) Payment Gateway
4 7 (2.19%) NetSuite
5 6 (1.88%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (1.88%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.63%) ION MarketView
8 1 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.31%) Oracle Retail
8 1 (0.31%) Oracle SCM
8 1 (0.31%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.31%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
8 1 (0.31%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 56 (17.50%) Azure
2 55 (17.19%) AWS
3 21 (6.56%) GCP
4 14 (4.38%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (4.38%) Figma
4 14 (4.38%) GitHub
5 13 (4.06%) SaaS
6 12 (3.75%) Serverless
7 10 (3.13%) dbt
7 10 (3.13%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 9 (2.81%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (2.81%) Power Platform
8 9 (2.81%) Snowflake
9 6 (1.88%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (1.88%) Azure Functions
9 6 (1.88%) Entra ID
10 5 (1.56%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (1.56%) CloudFront
10 5 (1.56%) Datadog
11 4 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.94%) Internet
1 3 (0.94%) WAN
2 2 (0.63%) Firewall
2 2 (0.63%) HTTP
2 2 (0.63%) SD-WAN
2 2 (0.63%) SMS
2 2 (0.63%) VPN
2 2 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.31%) LAN
3 1 (0.31%) Network Security
3 1 (0.31%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.75%) NoSQL
2 11 (3.44%) BigQuery
3 10 (3.13%) MongoDB
4 9 (2.81%) Power BI
4 9 (2.81%) Relational Database
5 8 (2.50%) Looker
5 8 (2.50%) SQL Server
6 7 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (1.88%) Couchbase
8 5 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (1.56%) MySQL
8 5 (1.56%) Redis
8 5 (1.56%) Semantic Layer
8 5 (1.56%) Tableau
9 4 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (1.25%) SAP HANA
10 3 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (0.94%) Metadata
10 3 (0.94%) Power Query
10 3 (0.94%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 23 (7.19%) Jenkins
2 15 (4.69%) JIRA
3 14 (4.38%) Git
4 8 (2.50%) Subversion
5 6 (1.88%) Vite
6 4 (1.25%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.25%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.94%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.63%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.63%) GitLab
8 2 (0.63%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.63%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.31%) Appium
9 1 (0.31%) Bundler
9 1 (0.31%) MLflow
9 1 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.31%) Postman
9 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.31%) TestRail
General
1 162 (50.63%) Retail
2 98 (30.63%) Social Skills
3 69 (21.56%) Marketing
4 57 (17.81%) Finance
5 42 (13.13%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (9.06%) Organisational Skills
7 26 (8.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (5.00%) Manufacturing
9 8 (2.50%) Advertising
9 8 (2.50%) Banking
9 8 (2.50%) Legal
10 7 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (2.19%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.25%) Electronics
12 4 (1.25%) Publishing
13 3 (0.94%) French Language
14 2 (0.63%) Front Office
14 2 (0.63%) German Language
14 2 (0.63%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 56 (17.50%) Senior
2 37 (11.56%) Developer
3 31 (9.69%) Architect
4 26 (8.13%) Analyst
4 26 (8.13%) Lead
5 21 (6.56%) Designer
6 18 (5.63%) Product Manager
7 17 (5.31%) Project Manager
8 16 (5.00%) Business Analyst
9 14 (4.38%) E-Commerce Manager
9 14 (4.38%) Solutions Architect
10 12 (3.75%) Senior Manager
11 11 (3.44%) Data Engineer
12 10 (3.13%) UI Designer
13 9 (2.81%) Consultant
13 9 (2.81%) Lead Designer
13 9 (2.81%) Marketing Manager
13 9 (2.81%) Senior Developer
14 8 (2.50%) Administrator
14 8 (2.50%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (9.38%) GraphQL
2 28 (8.75%) React
3 22 (6.88%) Next.js
4 21 (6.56%) .NET
4 21 (6.56%) Node.js
4 21 (6.56%) REST
5 16 (5.00%) Kafka
6 14 (4.38%) RESTful
7 12 (3.75%) Terraform
8 10 (3.13%) HTML
9 9 (2.81%) Spring
9 9 (2.81%) Spring Boot
9 9 (2.81%) VML
10 8 (2.50%) Middleware
11 7 (2.19%) CSS
11 7 (2.19%) SOAP
12 5 (1.56%) ASP.NET
12 5 (1.56%) HTML5
12 5 (1.56%) Jakarta EE
12 5 (1.56%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 28 (8.75%) Product Ownership
2 20 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 20 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (3.44%) Onboarding
3 11 (3.44%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (2.81%) Graphic Design
4 9 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (2.81%) Mobile App
5 8 (2.50%) FMCG
6 7 (2.19%) AI Agents
6 7 (2.19%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (1.56%) Life Science
7 5 (1.56%) Marketing Technology
7 5 (1.56%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.25%) Taxonomies
9 3 (0.94%) Smart Home
10 2 (0.63%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.50%) Android
1 8 (2.50%) Apple iOS
2 4 (1.25%) Windows
3 2 (0.63%) macOS
4 1 (0.31%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (32.19%) Agile
2 80 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 60 (18.75%) CI/CD
4 54 (16.88%) User Experience
5 52 (16.25%) CRM
6 48 (15.00%) Analytics
7 47 (14.69%) Customer Experience
7 47 (14.69%) Roadmaps
8 46 (14.38%) Problem-Solving
9 43 (13.44%) DevOps
10 42 (13.13%) AI
11 40 (12.50%) Scrum
12 38 (11.88%) Migration
13 30 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
14 28 (8.75%) Decision-Making
15 26 (8.13%) Project Management
16 25 (7.81%) Event-Driven
16 25 (7.81%) Time Management
17 24 (7.50%) ERP
18 23 (7.19%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 39 (12.19%) SQL
2 31 (9.69%) Python
3 26 (8.13%) TypeScript
4 20 (6.25%) JavaScript
5 19 (5.94%) Java
6 13 (4.06%) C#
7 5 (1.56%) Groovy
7 5 (1.56%) Kotlin
7 5 (1.56%) Swift
8 4 (1.25%) Bash
8 4 (1.25%) LookML
8 4 (1.25%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.94%) ABAP
9 3 (0.94%) Go
10 2 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.63%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.31%) Korn
11 1 (0.31%) PHP
11 1 (0.31%) R
11 1 (0.31%) XPath
Qualifications
1 41 (12.81%) Degree
2 5 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.25%) CSPO
3 4 (1.25%) IIBA
3 4 (1.25%) Master's Degree
4 3 (0.94%) MBA
5 2 (0.63%) DBS Check
5 2 (0.63%) PMP
5 2 (0.63%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.31%) CISA
6 1 (0.31%) CISSP
6 1 (0.31%) ISEB
6 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.31%) PhD
6 1 (0.31%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.81%) Data Quality
1 25 (7.81%) QA
2 15 (4.69%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.81%) GDPR
4 5 (1.56%) PMO
5 3 (0.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (0.94%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.94%) WCAG
6 2 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.63%) PSD2
7 1 (0.31%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.31%) NIST
7 1 (0.31%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (4.06%) Docker
2 3 (0.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (4.69%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.63%) Bosun
2 2 (0.63%) Jamf Pro
2 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.31%) CloudHub
3 1 (0.31%) Grafana
Vendors
1 30 (9.38%) Microsoft
2 27 (8.44%) Salesforce
3 17 (5.31%) Adobe
3 17 (5.31%) Oracle
4 15 (4.69%) Google
5 13 (4.06%) SAP
6 9 (2.81%) Sitecore
7 7 (2.19%) IBM
7 7 (2.19%) New Relic
8 6 (1.88%) MuleSoft
8 6 (1.88%) Splunk
9 5 (1.56%) Databricks
9 5 (1.56%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.56%) Optimizely
10 4 (1.25%) Apple
11 3 (0.94%) Adyen
11 3 (0.94%) Aprimo
11 3 (0.94%) Braze
11 3 (0.94%) OneTrust
12 2 (0.63%) OpenAI