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 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 165 153
Rank change year-on-year 0 -12 -23
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 236 213 302
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.59% 1.56% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.75% 1.72% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 154 191
10th Percentile £359 £289 £333
25th Percentile £416 £361 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £538
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -16.28% -4.44%
75th Percentile £567 £613 £588
90th Percentile £695 £704 £640
England median daily rate £500 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 7
10th Percentile £21.45 £31.58 £36.05
25th Percentile £24.61 £35.46 £52.00
Median hourly rate £29.55 £41.91 £64.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.49% -35.02% -7.86%
75th Percentile £56.10 £45.33 £68.75
90th Percentile £66.50 £47.38 £70.05
England median hourly rate £31.18 £44.71 £16.00
% change year-on-year -30.27% +179.41% -76.38%

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 13,506 12,355 16,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.78% 90.53% 88.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,992 7,845 11,870
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 207 153 346
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.80 £16.01
25th Percentile £24.81 £25.00 £19.28
Median hourly rate £34.00 £37.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% +23.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £56.25 £55.25 £51.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% - -

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 7 February 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 7 February 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 7 February 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
West London +15 39 £375 +14.94% 10
Central London -9 24 £488 -2.50% 60
East London - 2 £400 - 4
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 6 (2.54%) CMS
2 4 (1.69%) Confluence
3 3 (1.27%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.85%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.42%) Kentico
5 1 (0.42%) Sitefinity
5 1 (0.42%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (3.39%) Chatbot
1 8 (3.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.27%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.85%) Autodesk Smoke
4 1 (0.42%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.42%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.42%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.42%) Trello
Business Applications
1 22 (9.32%) Shopify
2 4 (1.69%) Endur
3 3 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.27%) Magento
3 3 (1.27%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.42%) Eikon
5 1 (0.42%) Orchestrade
5 1 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.42%) SAP CAR
5 1 (0.42%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.42%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.42%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.42%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.42%) SAP Retail
5 1 (0.42%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 40 (16.95%) SaaS
2 29 (12.29%) AWS
3 20 (8.47%) Azure
4 17 (7.20%) Figma
5 14 (5.93%) Serverless
6 13 (5.51%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (5.51%) Dynamics 365
7 12 (5.08%) GCP
8 10 (4.24%) Datadog
9 7 (2.97%) Contentsquare
10 6 (2.54%) BigCommerce
10 6 (2.54%) Google Analytics
11 4 (1.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (1.69%) Google Tag Manager
11 4 (1.69%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
12 3 (1.27%) Amazon S3
12 3 (1.27%) Cloudflare
12 3 (1.27%) Commercetools
12 3 (1.27%) Google Workspace
12 3 (1.27%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.97%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.42%) Internet
2 1 (0.42%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.97%) DynamoDB
2 6 (2.54%) Mixpanel
2 6 (2.54%) NoSQL
3 5 (2.12%) Redis
3 5 (2.12%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.27%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.27%) Power BI
4 3 (1.27%) Tableau
5 2 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.85%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.85%) CockroachDB
5 2 (0.85%) Couchbase
5 2 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.85%) Metadata
5 2 (0.85%) MySQL
6 1 (0.42%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.42%) Essbase
6 1 (0.42%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 33 (13.98%) Jenkins
2 7 (2.97%) JIRA
3 6 (2.54%) Visual Website Optimizer
4 5 (2.12%) Git
5 4 (1.69%) Cypress.io
5 4 (1.69%) SpecFlow
6 3 (1.27%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (1.27%) Charles Proxy
6 3 (1.27%) Fiddler
7 2 (0.85%) GitLab
7 2 (0.85%) Selenium
8 1 (0.42%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.42%) NUnit
8 1 (0.42%) Postman
8 1 (0.42%) WebDriver
General
1 74 (31.36%) Social Skills
2 45 (19.07%) Retail
3 34 (14.41%) Finance
4 33 (13.98%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (13.98%) Marketing
5 20 (8.47%) Organisational Skills
6 17 (7.20%) Legal
7 12 (5.08%) Electronics
8 5 (2.12%) Advertising
8 5 (2.12%) French Language
8 5 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.69%) Banking
9 4 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.69%) Front Office
9 4 (1.69%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.85%) Publishing
12 1 (0.42%) Law
12 1 (0.42%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 57 (24.15%) Senior
2 29 (12.29%) Analyst
2 29 (12.29%) Consultant
3 19 (8.05%) Project Manager
4 18 (7.63%) Business Analyst
4 18 (7.63%) Designer
5 17 (7.20%) Developer
6 15 (6.36%) Senior Manager
6 15 (6.36%) Senior Project Manager
7 13 (5.51%) Architect
7 13 (5.51%) Technical Consultant
8 12 (5.08%) Senior Consultant
8 12 (5.08%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 12 (5.08%) Senior Technical Consultant
8 12 (5.08%) Senior Technical Specialist
8 12 (5.08%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
8 12 (5.08%) Technical Specialist
9 11 (4.66%) E-Commerce Manager
9 11 (4.66%) Lead
9 11 (4.66%) Senior Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (19.92%) Node.js
2 38 (16.10%) GraphQL
3 30 (12.71%) Playwright
4 28 (11.86%) Vitest
5 19 (8.05%) React
6 16 (6.78%) YAML
7 14 (5.93%) HTML
8 13 (5.51%) CSS
9 11 (4.66%) VML
10 10 (4.24%) .NET
11 8 (3.39%) OpenTelemetry
12 7 (2.97%) Next.js
13 5 (2.12%) Middleware
13 5 (2.12%) REST
14 4 (1.69%) HTML5
14 4 (1.69%) NumPy
14 4 (1.69%) RESTful
15 3 (1.27%) AngularJS
15 3 (1.27%) CSS3
15 3 (1.27%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 38 (16.10%) Cloud Native
2 22 (9.32%) Product Ownership
3 18 (7.63%) Mobile App
4 14 (5.93%) Analytical Mindset
5 13 (5.51%) Onboarding
6 9 (3.81%) Marketing Technology
7 6 (2.54%) PMI
7 6 (2.54%) Virtual Team
8 5 (2.12%) Client/Server
8 5 (2.12%) Social Media
9 4 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.85%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.85%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.85%) FMCG
10 2 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.85%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.42%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.42%) Motion Graphics
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.69%) Android
2 3 (1.27%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (39.41%) Agile
2 52 (22.03%) CI/CD
3 50 (21.19%) User Experience
4 48 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
5 46 (19.49%) Stakeholder Management
6 44 (18.64%) DevOps
7 43 (18.22%) Analytics
8 33 (13.98%) Coaching
8 33 (13.98%) Mentoring
9 29 (12.29%) Test Automation
10 27 (11.44%) Customer Experience
11 25 (10.59%) A/B Testing
11 25 (10.59%) UX Design
12 24 (10.17%) Project Management
13 22 (9.32%) Full-Stack Development
14 21 (8.90%) Continuous Improvement
14 21 (8.90%) ERP
14 21 (8.90%) Software Engineering
15 20 (8.47%) Observability
15 20 (8.47%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 45 (19.07%) TypeScript
2 26 (11.02%) SQL
3 20 (8.47%) JavaScript
4 18 (7.63%) Python
5 11 (4.66%) Java
6 10 (4.24%) C#
7 3 (1.27%) PHP
8 1 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.42%) Go
8 1 (0.42%) Korn
8 1 (0.42%) R
8 1 (0.42%) Ruby
8 1 (0.42%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (4.24%) Degree
2 6 (2.54%) PMI Certification
3 4 (1.69%) AWS Certification
3 4 (1.69%) Master's Degree
4 2 (0.85%) APMG
4 2 (0.85%) CBAP
4 2 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.85%) MBA
5 1 (0.42%) CFA
5 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.05%) GDPR
2 15 (6.36%) Accessibility
3 12 (5.08%) QA
4 10 (4.24%) PERC
5 8 (3.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (1.69%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.69%) WCAG
7 3 (1.27%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.85%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.85%) PSD2
9 1 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 34 (14.41%) Docker
2 1 (0.42%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 36 (15.25%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.81%) Grafana
2 9 (3.81%) Prometheus
3 5 (2.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 5 (2.12%) Terraform
4 1 (0.42%) Ansible
Vendors
1 25 (10.59%) Google
2 22 (9.32%) Salesforce
3 21 (8.90%) Adobe
4 17 (7.20%) SAP
5 10 (4.24%) Tealium
6 8 (3.39%) Microsoft
6 8 (3.39%) Optimizely
7 7 (2.97%) OneTrust
8 6 (2.54%) Amplitude
8 6 (2.54%) Hotjar
8 6 (2.54%) Sitecore
9 5 (2.12%) mParticle
10 4 (1.69%) Wind River
11 3 (1.27%) OpenAI
11 3 (1.27%) Oracle
12 2 (0.85%) Databricks
12 2 (0.85%) New Relic
12 2 (0.85%) Rollbar
12 2 (0.85%) Splunk
12 2 (0.85%) TikTok