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

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 182 158 160
Rank change year-on-year -24 +2 -39
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 216 257 285
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.51% 1.65% 1.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 1.83% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 189 183
10th Percentile £325 £305 £381
25th Percentile £413 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £575 £625 £624
90th Percentile £725 £713 £750
England median daily rate £500 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 5
10th Percentile £22.08 £42.34 £30.20
25th Percentile £24.61 £43.00 £47.75
Median hourly rate £31.50 £44.71 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.54% -22.25% -20.69%
75th Percentile £49.20 £47.04 £65.75
90th Percentile £65.80 £48.07 £69.50
England median hourly rate £15.50 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -67.37% -5.00% -29.82%

All Process and 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 13,110 14,014 17,485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.71% 89.83% 89.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,647 9,052 12,526
10th Percentile £338 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -3.08% -3.81%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £766 £800 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 165 236
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £18.68
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £29.25 £37.50 £35.32
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% +6.19% -11.16%
75th Percentile £47.56 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.50 £80.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%

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 8 December 2025.

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 8 December 2025.

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 8 December 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
West London +10 31 £375 -14.29% 7
Central London +3 22 £513 -6.82% 11
East London - 2 £400 - 3
North London - 1 £900 - 5
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 (3.70%) Confluence
2 6 (2.78%) CMS
3 3 (1.39%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.93%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.46%) SAS
5 1 (0.46%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.78%) Chatbot
2 6 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.46%) Autodesk Smoke
4 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (9.72%) Shopify
2 10 (4.63%) Magento
3 5 (2.31%) Oracle Retail
4 4 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (1.85%) Endur
4 4 (1.85%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.93%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.46%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.46%) Eikon
6 1 (0.46%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.46%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.46%) Orchestrade
6 1 (0.46%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 32 (14.81%) SaaS
2 23 (10.65%) AWS
3 18 (8.33%) Azure
4 13 (6.02%) GCP
5 12 (5.56%) Figma
6 11 (5.09%) Serverless
7 10 (4.63%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (4.63%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (3.24%) Datadog
8 7 (3.24%) Google Analytics
9 6 (2.78%) Contentsquare
10 5 (2.31%) Facebook Ads
10 5 (2.31%) Google Tag Manager
11 4 (1.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (1.85%) BigCommerce
11 4 (1.85%) Cloudflare
11 4 (1.85%) Commercetools
11 4 (1.85%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
11 4 (1.85%) SAP Commerce Cloud
12 3 (1.39%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.24%) Cisco IPT
2 2 (0.93%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.78%) Mixpanel
2 5 (2.31%) NoSQL
3 4 (1.85%) DynamoDB
3 4 (1.85%) Redis
3 4 (1.85%) Tableau
4 3 (1.39%) Power BI
4 3 (1.39%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.93%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.93%) Couchbase
5 2 (0.93%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.93%) MySQL
6 1 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.46%) Essbase
6 1 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.46%) Power Query
6 1 (0.46%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 30 (13.89%) Jenkins
2 16 (7.41%) JIRA
3 8 (3.70%) Git
4 6 (2.78%) Visual Website Optimizer
5 4 (1.85%) Cucumber
5 4 (1.85%) Selenium
5 4 (1.85%) SpecFlow
6 3 (1.39%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (1.39%) Charles Proxy
6 3 (1.39%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.39%) Fiddler
7 2 (0.93%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.93%) GitLab
7 2 (0.93%) Postman
7 2 (0.93%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.46%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.46%) Gradle
8 1 (0.46%) Maven
8 1 (0.46%) Subversion
General
1 69 (31.94%) Social Skills
2 40 (18.52%) Retail
3 34 (15.74%) Marketing
4 30 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (11.11%) Finance
6 13 (6.02%) Legal
7 11 (5.09%) Electronics
8 7 (3.24%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.78%) Advertising
9 6 (2.78%) Banking
10 4 (1.85%) French Language
10 4 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.39%) Front Office
12 2 (0.93%) Back Office
12 2 (0.93%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.93%) Publishing
12 2 (0.93%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.93%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 36 (16.67%) Senior
2 27 (12.50%) Analyst
2 27 (12.50%) Consultant
3 22 (10.19%) Developer
4 20 (9.26%) Architect
5 18 (8.33%) Business Analyst
6 11 (5.09%) Technical Consultant
7 10 (4.63%) Designer
7 10 (4.63%) Senior Consultant
7 10 (4.63%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 10 (4.63%) Senior Technical Consultant
7 10 (4.63%) Senior Technical Specialist
7 10 (4.63%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
7 10 (4.63%) Technical Specialist
8 9 (4.17%) Lead
9 8 (3.70%) Cloud Specialist
9 8 (3.70%) Project Manager
9 8 (3.70%) UX Designer
10 7 (3.24%) Senior Designer
11 6 (2.78%) Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (20.37%) Node.js
2 36 (16.67%) GraphQL
3 24 (11.11%) Playwright
3 24 (11.11%) Vitest
4 16 (7.41%) React
5 14 (6.48%) YAML
6 13 (6.02%) HTML
7 11 (5.09%) CSS
8 7 (3.24%) Next.js
9 6 (2.78%) .NET
9 6 (2.78%) OpenTelemetry
10 5 (2.31%) HTML5
10 5 (2.31%) REST
10 5 (2.31%) RESTful
10 5 (2.31%) SOAP
11 4 (1.85%) CSS3
11 4 (1.85%) VML
12 3 (1.39%) Lambda Expressions
12 3 (1.39%) Middleware
12 3 (1.39%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 35 (16.20%) Cloud Native
2 30 (13.89%) Product Ownership
3 18 (8.33%) Mobile App
4 12 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
4 12 (5.56%) Onboarding
5 9 (4.17%) Marketing Technology
6 7 (3.24%) Social Media
7 6 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (2.31%) Client/Server
9 4 (1.85%) PMI
10 3 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.39%) Low-Code
11 2 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.93%) Management Information System
12 1 (0.46%) Data Protection Act
12 1 (0.46%) Enterprise Software
12 1 (0.46%) FMCG
12 1 (0.46%) IVR
12 1 (0.46%) Learning Management System
12 1 (0.46%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.39%) Android
1 3 (1.39%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.93%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (37.04%) Agile
2 45 (20.83%) CI/CD
3 42 (19.44%) DevOps
4 39 (18.06%) Analytics
5 38 (17.59%) Problem-Solving
6 35 (16.20%) Stakeholder Management
7 34 (15.74%) Mentoring
8 33 (15.28%) User Experience
9 31 (14.35%) Coaching
10 27 (12.50%) Test Automation
11 23 (10.65%) A/B Testing
12 21 (9.72%) ERP
13 20 (9.26%) Customer Experience
13 20 (9.26%) Roadmaps
13 20 (9.26%) UX Design
14 19 (8.80%) B2B
14 19 (8.80%) B2C
14 19 (8.80%) CRM
14 19 (8.80%) Software Engineering
15 18 (8.33%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 38 (17.59%) TypeScript
2 26 (12.04%) SQL
3 20 (9.26%) JavaScript
4 18 (8.33%) Python
5 10 (4.63%) Java
6 7 (3.24%) C#
7 4 (1.85%) Ruby
8 3 (1.39%) PHP
9 2 (0.93%) R
10 1 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.46%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (6.48%) Degree
2 4 (1.85%) AWS Certification
2 4 (1.85%) Master's Degree
2 4 (1.85%) PMI Certification
3 2 (0.93%) APMG
3 2 (0.93%) CBAP
3 2 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.93%) ISTQB
3 2 (0.93%) MBA
4 1 (0.46%) CFA
4 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.33%) GDPR
2 12 (5.56%) QA
3 9 (4.17%) Accessibility
3 9 (4.17%) PERC
4 8 (3.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (1.85%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.93%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.93%) ISO 8583
6 2 (0.93%) PSD2
6 2 (0.93%) SLA
6 2 (0.93%) WCAG
7 1 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 31 (14.35%) Docker
2 1 (0.46%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 32 (14.81%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.24%) Grafana
2 7 (3.24%) Prometheus
3 5 (2.31%) Terraform
4 3 (1.39%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.46%) Ansible
5 1 (0.46%) Istio
5 1 (0.46%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (11.11%) Google
2 23 (10.65%) Salesforce
3 15 (6.94%) Adobe
4 14 (6.48%) SAP
5 9 (4.17%) Optimizely
5 9 (4.17%) Tealium
6 8 (3.70%) Microsoft
6 8 (3.70%) OneTrust
6 8 (3.70%) Oracle
7 6 (2.78%) Amplitude
7 6 (2.78%) Hotjar
8 5 (2.31%) Facebook
9 4 (1.85%) mParticle
9 4 (1.85%) Sitecore
9 4 (1.85%) TikTok
9 4 (1.85%) Wind River
10 3 (1.39%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.93%) Databricks
11 2 (0.93%) Rollbar
11 2 (0.93%) Splunk