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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 176 154
Rank change year-on-year -7 -22 +10
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 248 195 283
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.40% 1.56% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.58% 1.69% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 125 208
10th Percentile £313 £321 £350
25th Percentile £413 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -4.63% -6.09%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £640 £688 £786
England median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -6.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 3
10th Percentile £23.67 - £63.85
25th Percentile £31.76 - £64.75
Median hourly rate £46.00 £29.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +58.62% -57.04% +92.86%
75th Percentile £60.56 - £68.75
90th Percentile £69.23 - -
England median hourly rate £37.50 £22.25 £13.00
% change year-on-year +68.54% +71.15% -80.15%

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 15,677 11,512 15,660
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.30% 92.23% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,479 7,802 11,216
10th Percentile £356 £350 £341
25th Percentile £431 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £681
90th Percentile £755 £813 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 175 313
10th Percentile £18.52 £16.50 £15.96
25th Percentile £23.66 £23.35 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.61 £34.50 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.20% +23.21% -26.80%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.40
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.07 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.68% -20.36% -2.67%

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 12 May 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing E-Commerce in London over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for E-Commerce in London

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 12 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
Central London -1 25 £475 -16.67% 54
West London -12 21 £375 +10.29% 8
North London - 1 £538 -
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 8 (3.23%) CMS
2 5 (2.02%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 5 (2.02%) Confluence
3 1 (0.40%) Apache
3 1 (0.40%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.40%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.40%) Kentico
3 1 (0.40%) nginx
3 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.40%) Sitefinity
3 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.82%) Chatbot
2 7 (2.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.61%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.40%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.40%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.40%) Autodesk Smoke
4 1 (0.40%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.40%) Trello
Business Applications
1 37 (14.92%) Shopify
2 6 (2.42%) Magento
3 2 (0.81%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.81%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.40%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.40%) SAP CAR
4 1 (0.40%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.40%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.40%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.40%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.40%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.40%) SAP Retail
4 1 (0.40%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.40%) SDL Web 8
4 1 (0.40%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 19 (7.66%) AWS
2 17 (6.85%) Azure
3 14 (5.65%) Dynamics 365
3 14 (5.65%) SaaS
4 13 (5.24%) BigCommerce
4 13 (5.24%) Figma
5 12 (4.84%) Datadog
6 9 (3.63%) Power Platform
7 8 (3.23%) GCP
8 7 (2.82%) Google Workspace
8 7 (2.82%) Miro
8 7 (2.82%) Serverless
8 7 (2.82%) WhatsApp
9 6 (2.42%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (1.61%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
11 3 (1.21%) Power Automate
11 3 (1.21%) SAP Commerce Cloud
12 2 (0.81%) AWS Step Functions
12 2 (0.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 2 (0.81%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.40%) Firewall
1 1 (0.40%) Internet
1 1 (0.40%) LAN
1 1 (0.40%) Network Security
1 1 (0.40%) RFID
1 1 (0.40%) RTMP
1 1 (0.40%) WAN
1 1 (0.40%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.23%) MySQL
1 8 (3.23%) Power BI
2 5 (2.02%) Looker
3 4 (1.61%) BigQuery
3 4 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (1.61%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.21%) DynamoDB
4 3 (1.21%) Metadata
4 3 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.21%) Redis
4 3 (1.21%) Semantic Layer
4 3 (1.21%) Tableau
5 2 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.81%) CockroachDB
5 2 (0.81%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.40%) Big Data
6 1 (0.40%) Bigtable
6 1 (0.40%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.40%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 23 (9.27%) Jenkins
2 10 (4.03%) Git
2 10 (4.03%) JIRA
2 10 (4.03%) Selenium
3 7 (2.82%) Cypress.io
3 7 (2.82%) GitLab
4 6 (2.42%) Vite
5 4 (1.61%) Maven
6 3 (1.21%) Appium
6 3 (1.21%) Subversion
6 3 (1.21%) Zephyr
7 2 (0.81%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.81%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.81%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.40%) Fiddler
8 1 (0.40%) NUnit
8 1 (0.40%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.40%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.40%) Spock
8 1 (0.40%) TeamCity
General
1 89 (35.89%) Social Skills
2 83 (33.47%) Retail
3 55 (22.18%) Finance
4 35 (14.11%) Organisational Skills
5 33 (13.31%) Marketing
6 20 (8.06%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (6.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (4.84%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (3.23%) Legal
10 7 (2.82%) Banking
10 7 (2.82%) Electronics
10 7 (2.82%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.61%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.21%) Advertising
12 3 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.21%) French Language
12 3 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.81%) Front Office
13 2 (0.81%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.40%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 72 (29.03%) Senior
2 31 (12.50%) Developer
2 31 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 30 (12.10%) Senior Manager
4 29 (11.69%) Analyst
5 24 (9.68%) Senior Project Manager
6 21 (8.47%) Business Analyst
7 19 (7.66%) Designer
8 15 (6.05%) Lead
9 13 (5.24%) Consultant
10 12 (4.84%) Architect
10 12 (4.84%) Senior Designer
11 9 (3.63%) E-Commerce Analyst
11 9 (3.63%) E-Commerce Business Analyst
11 9 (3.63%) E-Commerce Manager
11 9 (3.63%) Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (3.23%) Product Designer
12 8 (3.23%) Product Manager
12 8 (3.23%) UX Designer
13 7 (2.82%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (14.11%) GraphQL
2 28 (11.29%) Node.js
3 25 (10.08%) React
4 24 (9.68%) Playwright
5 23 (9.27%) VML
6 19 (7.66%) CSS
7 16 (6.45%) HTML
8 15 (6.05%) REST
9 14 (5.65%) Vitest
10 12 (4.84%) Next.js
11 11 (4.44%) Middleware
12 9 (3.63%) OpenTelemetry
12 9 (3.63%) Spring
12 9 (3.63%) YAML
13 7 (2.82%) AngularJS
13 7 (2.82%) HTML5
13 7 (2.82%) Web Services
14 6 (2.42%) jQuery
15 5 (2.02%) .NET
15 5 (2.02%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 21 (8.47%) Cloud Native
1 21 (8.47%) Product Ownership
2 15 (6.05%) Mobile App
3 11 (4.44%) Virtual Team
4 7 (2.82%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (2.82%) Marketing Technology
4 7 (2.82%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.61%) AI Agents
6 4 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.61%) FMCG
7 3 (1.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.81%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.81%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.81%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.81%) Mobile Banking
8 2 (0.81%) PMI
8 2 (0.81%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.63%) Android
2 8 (3.23%) Apple iOS
3 7 (2.82%) Linux
4 4 (1.61%) Unix
4 4 (1.61%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (38.71%) Agile
2 55 (22.18%) Problem-Solving
3 52 (20.97%) User Experience
4 41 (16.53%) Project Management
5 37 (14.92%) Stakeholder Management
6 36 (14.52%) CI/CD
7 35 (14.11%) Time Management
8 32 (12.90%) Analytics
9 30 (12.10%) Customer Experience
10 28 (11.29%) Release Management
11 27 (10.89%) DevOps
12 24 (9.68%) Scrum
12 24 (9.68%) Workshop Facilitation
13 23 (9.27%) B2B
14 22 (8.87%) B2C
14 22 (8.87%) Continuous Improvement
14 22 (8.87%) Mentoring
15 21 (8.47%) SDLC
15 21 (8.47%) Test Automation
16 20 (8.06%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 32 (12.90%) TypeScript
2 26 (10.48%) JavaScript
3 16 (6.45%) SQL
4 15 (6.05%) Java
5 9 (3.63%) Python
6 4 (1.61%) C#
7 3 (1.21%) Kotlin
7 3 (1.21%) PHP
7 3 (1.21%) Swift
8 2 (0.81%) Go
9 1 (0.40%) Bash
9 1 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.40%) Korn
9 1 (0.40%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.40%) Ruby
9 1 (0.40%) XPath
Qualifications
1 15 (6.05%) Degree
2 5 (2.02%) CSPO
3 2 (0.81%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.40%) CISA
4 1 (0.40%) CISSP
4 1 (0.40%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 1 (0.40%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.40%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.85%) QA
2 12 (4.84%) Accessibility
3 9 (3.63%) GDPR
4 8 (3.23%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.61%) PERC
5 4 (1.61%) SLA
6 3 (1.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (1.21%) WCAG
7 2 (0.81%) PMO
8 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.40%) NIST
8 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 20 (8.06%) Docker
2 2 (0.81%) Varnish
3 1 (0.40%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 21 (8.47%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.63%) Grafana
2 9 (3.63%) Prometheus
3 7 (2.82%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 3 (1.21%) Terraform
5 1 (0.40%) Ansible
Vendors
1 25 (10.08%) Adobe
1 25 (10.08%) Salesforce
2 24 (9.68%) SAP
3 16 (6.45%) Google
4 13 (5.24%) Microsoft
5 12 (4.84%) Sitecore
6 7 (2.82%) Tealium
7 4 (1.61%) Databricks
7 4 (1.61%) mParticle
7 4 (1.61%) Netlify
8 3 (1.21%) OneTrust
8 3 (1.21%) Oracle
8 3 (1.21%) Splunk
9 1 (0.40%) ATG
9 1 (0.40%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.40%) Cisco
9 1 (0.40%) IBM
9 1 (0.40%) Infor
9 1 (0.40%) ION Trading
9 1 (0.40%) Omniture