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 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 198 155
Rank change year-on-year +13 -43 +31
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 281 178 295
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.45% 1.35% 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.63% 1.46% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 108 225
10th Percentile £325 £293 £350
25th Percentile £400 £332 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.10% -6.36% -2.22%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £631
90th Percentile £694 £691 £864
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 4
10th Percentile £39.65 £29.18 £50.38
25th Percentile £44.75 £29.44 £56.56
Median hourly rate £54.50 £30.25 £63.75
Median % change year-on-year +80.17% -52.55% +6.25%
75th Percentile £65.38 £31.44 £68.75
90th Percentile £71.15 £31.93 -
England median hourly rate £46.00 £15.50 £13.00
% change year-on-year +196.77% +19.23% -74.00%

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 17,207 12,190 15,592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.94% 92.22% 88.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,434 8,142 11,106
10th Percentile £360 £331 £340
25th Percentile £438 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -5.98%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £523 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 227 296
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.97
25th Percentile £23.16 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.85% +8.33% -25.47%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.45 £68.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% +1.65%

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 4 July 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 4 July 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 4 July 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 25 £500 -9.30% 53
West London -11 15 £480 +41.18% 15
North London - 2 £456 - 1
South London - 1 £625 - 2
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 9 (3.20%) CMS
2 7 (2.49%) Confluence
3 4 (1.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (1.42%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.71%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.36%) Apache
5 1 (0.36%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.36%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.36%) Kentico
5 1 (0.36%) nginx
5 1 (0.36%) Sitefinity
5 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (3.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (2.49%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 7 (2.49%) Chatbot
3 7 (2.49%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.42%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.71%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 22 (7.83%) Shopify
2 13 (4.63%) Magento
3 6 (2.14%) NetSuite
4 5 (1.78%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (1.42%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.36%) ION MarketView
7 1 (0.36%) SAP CAR
7 1 (0.36%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.36%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.36%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.36%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.36%) SAP Retail
7 1 (0.36%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.36%) SDL Web 8
7 1 (0.36%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 29 (10.32%) AWS
1 29 (10.32%) Azure
2 20 (7.12%) Figma
3 10 (3.56%) SaaS
4 9 (3.20%) BigCommerce
4 9 (3.20%) Power Platform
5 8 (2.85%) GCP
5 8 (2.85%) GitHub
5 8 (2.85%) Google Workspace
5 8 (2.85%) Miro
6 7 (2.49%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
6 7 (2.49%) WhatsApp
7 6 (2.14%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (1.78%) Serverless
9 4 (1.42%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.42%) Datadog
10 3 (1.07%) Adobe Analytics
10 3 (1.07%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.07%) CloudFront
11 2 (0.71%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.42%) Internet
2 2 (0.71%) LAN
2 2 (0.71%) WAN
3 1 (0.36%) Firewall
3 1 (0.36%) Network Security
3 1 (0.36%) RFID
3 1 (0.36%) RTMP
3 1 (0.36%) Wireless
3 1 (0.36%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.56%) NoSQL
2 8 (2.85%) Power BI
3 7 (2.49%) Looker
3 7 (2.49%) MySQL
4 5 (1.78%) BigQuery
4 5 (1.78%) Couchbase
4 5 (1.78%) MongoDB
4 5 (1.78%) Relational Database
4 5 (1.78%) Tableau
5 4 (1.42%) Semantic Layer
5 4 (1.42%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.07%) Metadata
6 3 (1.07%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.71%) Redis
8 1 (0.36%) Big Data
8 1 (0.36%) Bigtable
8 1 (0.36%) KDB
Development Applications
1 25 (8.90%) Jenkins
2 16 (5.69%) Git
3 10 (3.56%) JIRA
3 10 (3.56%) Selenium
4 8 (2.85%) Cypress.io
5 6 (2.14%) GitLab
5 6 (2.14%) Subversion
5 6 (2.14%) Vite
6 5 (1.78%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.42%) Eclipse
7 4 (1.42%) Maven
8 3 (1.07%) Appium
8 3 (1.07%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.71%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.71%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.71%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.36%) NUnit
10 1 (0.36%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.36%) Spock
10 1 (0.36%) TeamCity
General
1 123 (43.77%) Retail
2 110 (39.15%) Social Skills
3 66 (23.49%) Finance
4 42 (14.95%) Marketing
5 40 (14.23%) Organisational Skills
6 31 (11.03%) Analytical Skills
7 23 (8.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (4.98%) Manufacturing
9 10 (3.56%) Banking
9 10 (3.56%) Legal
9 10 (3.56%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (2.14%) Advertising
11 4 (1.42%) Electronics
11 4 (1.42%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.07%) French Language
12 3 (1.07%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.71%) Front Office
13 2 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.36%) German Language
Job Titles
1 69 (24.56%) Senior
2 31 (11.03%) Designer
3 30 (10.68%) Analyst
4 29 (10.32%) Project Manager
4 29 (10.32%) Senior Manager
5 27 (9.61%) Developer
6 22 (7.83%) Lead
7 21 (7.47%) Business Analyst
7 21 (7.47%) Senior Project Manager
8 17 (6.05%) Product Manager
9 14 (4.98%) Senior Designer
10 13 (4.63%) E-Commerce Manager
11 11 (3.91%) Marketing Manager
11 11 (3.91%) UI Designer
12 10 (3.56%) Architect
13 9 (3.20%) E-Commerce Analyst
13 9 (3.20%) E-Commerce Business Analyst
13 9 (3.20%) UX Designer
14 8 (2.85%) Product Designer
14 8 (2.85%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (10.68%) GraphQL
2 21 (7.47%) React
3 19 (6.76%) VML
4 17 (6.05%) REST
5 14 (4.98%) Playwright
6 13 (4.63%) CSS
6 13 (4.63%) Middleware
6 13 (4.63%) Node.js
6 13 (4.63%) Spring
7 11 (3.91%) HTML
7 11 (3.91%) Next.js
8 9 (3.20%) J2EE
8 9 (3.20%) Kafka
8 9 (3.20%) Spring Boot
9 7 (2.49%) AngularJS
9 7 (2.49%) RESTful
10 6 (2.14%) HTML5
10 6 (2.14%) jQuery
10 6 (2.14%) Web Services
11 5 (1.78%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 28 (9.96%) Product Ownership
2 13 (4.63%) Cloud Native
3 12 (4.27%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (3.91%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (3.20%) Mobile App
5 9 (3.20%) Virtual Team
6 7 (2.49%) Graphic Design
7 6 (2.14%) AI Agents
7 6 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.42%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.07%) FMCG
10 3 (1.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.07%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.07%) Marketing Technology
10 3 (1.07%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.07%) Smart Home
10 3 (1.07%) Taxonomies
11 2 (0.71%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.91%) Android
2 10 (3.56%) Apple iOS
3 7 (2.49%) Linux
4 6 (2.14%) Windows
5 5 (1.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (34.88%) Agile
2 67 (23.84%) User Experience
3 59 (21.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 55 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (14.95%) Time Management
6 41 (14.59%) Project Management
7 35 (12.46%) Scrum
8 34 (12.10%) CI/CD
9 33 (11.74%) Customer Experience
10 32 (11.39%) Analytics
10 32 (11.39%) Release Management
11 31 (11.03%) Continuous Improvement
12 30 (10.68%) AI
13 28 (9.96%) Roadmaps
14 26 (9.25%) CRM
14 26 (9.25%) DevOps
14 26 (9.25%) Workshop Facilitation
15 24 (8.54%) B2C
16 22 (7.83%) Migration
16 22 (7.83%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 25 (8.90%) Java
2 23 (8.19%) SQL
3 22 (7.83%) JavaScript
4 20 (7.12%) TypeScript
5 12 (4.27%) Python
6 5 (1.78%) Groovy
6 5 (1.78%) Kotlin
6 5 (1.78%) Swift
7 4 (1.42%) C#
8 3 (1.07%) Go
9 2 (0.71%) Bash
9 2 (0.71%) Korn
9 2 (0.71%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.36%) ABAP
10 1 (0.36%) PHP
10 1 (0.36%) R
10 1 (0.36%) Scala
10 1 (0.36%) XPath
Qualifications
1 28 (9.96%) Degree
2 5 (1.78%) CSPO
3 3 (1.07%) Master's Degree
4 2 (0.71%) MBA
5 1 (0.36%) CISA
5 1 (0.36%) CISSP
5 1 (0.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.36%) IIBA
5 1 (0.36%) ISEB
5 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (0.36%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.36%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.19%) QA
2 15 (5.34%) Accessibility
3 9 (3.20%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.42%) GDPR
4 4 (1.42%) SLA
5 3 (1.07%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.07%) PMO
6 2 (0.71%) PSD2
6 2 (0.71%) WCAG
7 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.36%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (4.27%) Docker
2 1 (0.36%) Sendmail
2 1 (0.36%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 14 (4.98%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.49%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 6 (2.14%) Terraform
4 3 (1.07%) Grafana
4 3 (1.07%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.36%) Ansible
Vendors
1 26 (9.25%) Salesforce
2 22 (7.83%) Adobe
3 18 (6.41%) Google
3 18 (6.41%) SAP
4 15 (5.34%) Microsoft
5 13 (4.63%) Oracle
6 8 (2.85%) Sitecore
7 6 (2.14%) IBM
8 5 (1.78%) Dynatrace
8 5 (1.78%) Splunk
9 4 (1.42%) Databricks
9 4 (1.42%) Netlify
9 4 (1.42%) New Relic
10 2 (0.71%) Apple
10 2 (0.71%) Klarna
10 2 (0.71%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.71%) PayPal
10 2 (0.71%) Screaming Frog
11 1 (0.36%) ATG
11 1 (0.36%) Sony