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

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 173 152 155
Rank change year-on-year -21 +3 -31
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 231 254 286
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.60% 1.69% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.76% 1.88% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 183 188
10th Percentile £321 £306 £363
25th Percentile £403 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £569 £625 £619
90th Percentile £725 £713 £704
England median daily rate £500 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% +3.04%
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% -17.86%
75th Percentile £49.20 £47.04 £65.75
90th Percentile £65.80 £48.07 £69.50
England median hourly rate £15.50 £47.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year -67.37% -5.94% -27.86%

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 13,161 13,523 16,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.38% 90.14% 89.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,663 8,690 11,795
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.18% -2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £681
90th Percentile £763 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 165 236
10th Percentile £18.06 £18.04 £18.42
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £21.38
Median hourly rate £30.25 £36.50 £33.35
Median % change year-on-year -17.12% +9.46% -13.52%
75th Percentile £52.66 £55.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £67.20 £80.75 £74.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +24.47%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 +13 39 £375 -14.29% 12
Central London -3 25 £500 -9.09% 98
East London - 2 £400 - 7
North London - 1 £900 - 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 6 (2.60%) CMS
1 6 (2.60%) Confluence
2 3 (1.30%) Headless CMS
3 2 (0.87%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (0.87%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.43%) SAS
4 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.60%) Chatbot
2 6 (2.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.87%) Autodesk Smoke
5 1 (0.43%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.43%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.43%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.43%) Trello
Business Applications
1 23 (9.96%) Shopify
2 9 (3.90%) Magento
3 5 (2.16%) Oracle Retail
4 4 (1.73%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (1.73%) Endur
4 4 (1.73%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.43%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.43%) Eikon
5 1 (0.43%) Infor M3
5 1 (0.43%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.43%) Orchestrade
5 1 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.43%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 34 (14.72%) SaaS
2 27 (11.69%) AWS
3 19 (8.23%) Azure
4 14 (6.06%) Serverless
5 13 (5.63%) AWS Lambda
5 13 (5.63%) Dynamics 365
5 13 (5.63%) Figma
5 13 (5.63%) GCP
6 10 (4.33%) Datadog
7 8 (3.46%) Google Analytics
8 7 (3.03%) Contentsquare
9 5 (2.16%) Facebook Ads
9 5 (2.16%) Google Tag Manager
9 5 (2.16%) SAP Commerce Cloud
10 4 (1.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (1.73%) BigCommerce
10 4 (1.73%) Cloudflare
10 4 (1.73%) Commercetools
10 4 (1.73%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
11 3 (1.30%) Contentful
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.03%) Cisco IPT
2 2 (0.87%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.03%) DynamoDB
2 6 (2.60%) Mixpanel
3 5 (2.16%) NoSQL
4 4 (1.73%) Redis
5 3 (1.30%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.30%) Tableau
6 2 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.87%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.87%) CockroachDB
6 2 (0.87%) Couchbase
6 2 (0.87%) Metadata
6 2 (0.87%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.87%) MySQL
6 2 (0.87%) Power BI
7 1 (0.43%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.43%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.43%) Power Query
7 1 (0.43%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 34 (14.72%) Jenkins
2 15 (6.49%) JIRA
3 7 (3.03%) Git
4 6 (2.60%) Visual Website Optimizer
5 4 (1.73%) Cucumber
5 4 (1.73%) Selenium
5 4 (1.73%) SpecFlow
6 3 (1.30%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (1.30%) Charles Proxy
6 3 (1.30%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.30%) Fiddler
7 2 (0.87%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.87%) GitLab
7 2 (0.87%) Postman
7 2 (0.87%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.43%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.43%) Gradle
8 1 (0.43%) Maven
8 1 (0.43%) Subversion
General
1 71 (30.74%) Social Skills
2 40 (17.32%) Retail
3 35 (15.15%) Marketing
4 33 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (11.26%) Finance
6 15 (6.49%) Legal
7 12 (5.19%) Electronics
8 8 (3.46%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.60%) Advertising
9 6 (2.60%) Banking
10 4 (1.73%) French Language
10 4 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.30%) Front Office
11 3 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.87%) Back Office
12 2 (0.87%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.87%) Publishing
12 2 (0.87%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.87%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 39 (16.88%) Senior
2 30 (12.99%) Consultant
3 26 (11.26%) Analyst
4 23 (9.96%) Developer
5 22 (9.52%) Architect
6 17 (7.36%) Business Analyst
7 13 (5.63%) Technical Consultant
8 12 (5.19%) Senior Consultant
8 12 (5.19%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 12 (5.19%) Senior Technical Consultant
8 12 (5.19%) Senior Technical Specialist
8 12 (5.19%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
8 12 (5.19%) Technical Specialist
9 11 (4.76%) Designer
10 9 (3.90%) Project Manager
11 8 (3.46%) Cloud Specialist
11 8 (3.46%) Lead
11 8 (3.46%) UX Designer
12 7 (3.03%) Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (3.03%) Senior Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (21.21%) Node.js
2 40 (17.32%) GraphQL
3 28 (12.12%) Playwright
3 28 (12.12%) Vitest
4 16 (6.93%) React
4 16 (6.93%) YAML
5 14 (6.06%) HTML
6 11 (4.76%) CSS
7 8 (3.46%) OpenTelemetry
8 7 (3.03%) Next.js
8 7 (3.03%) REST
9 6 (2.60%) .NET
10 5 (2.16%) HTML5
10 5 (2.16%) RESTful
10 5 (2.16%) SOAP
10 5 (2.16%) VML
11 4 (1.73%) CSS3
11 4 (1.73%) Middleware
11 4 (1.73%) NumPy
12 3 (1.30%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 39 (16.88%) Cloud Native
2 29 (12.55%) Product Ownership
3 18 (7.79%) Mobile App
4 14 (6.06%) Analytical Mindset
4 14 (6.06%) Onboarding
5 10 (4.33%) Marketing Technology
6 7 (3.03%) Social Media
7 6 (2.60%) PMI
8 5 (2.16%) Client/Server
8 5 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.30%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.30%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.87%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.87%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.43%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.43%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.43%) IVR
11 1 (0.43%) Motion Graphics
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.30%) Android
1 3 (1.30%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.87%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (36.80%) Agile
2 51 (22.08%) CI/CD
3 47 (20.35%) DevOps
4 43 (18.61%) Analytics
5 40 (17.32%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (16.02%) Mentoring
6 37 (16.02%) User Experience
7 35 (15.15%) Coaching
7 35 (15.15%) Stakeholder Management
8 30 (12.99%) Test Automation
9 25 (10.82%) A/B Testing
10 24 (10.39%) Customer Experience
10 24 (10.39%) ERP
11 22 (9.52%) UX Design
12 21 (9.09%) B2B
12 21 (9.09%) Software Engineering
13 20 (8.66%) B2C
13 20 (8.66%) Containerisation
13 20 (8.66%) Process Improvement
14 19 (8.23%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 42 (18.18%) TypeScript
2 29 (12.55%) SQL
3 20 (8.66%) Python
4 19 (8.23%) JavaScript
5 10 (4.33%) Java
6 7 (3.03%) C#
7 4 (1.73%) PHP
7 4 (1.73%) Ruby
8 2 (0.87%) R
9 1 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.43%) Go
9 1 (0.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (6.49%) Degree
2 6 (2.60%) PMI Certification
3 4 (1.73%) AWS Certification
3 4 (1.73%) Master's Degree
4 2 (0.87%) APMG
4 2 (0.87%) CBAP
4 2 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.87%) ISTQB
4 2 (0.87%) MBA
5 1 (0.43%) CFA
5 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.66%) GDPR
2 12 (5.19%) QA
3 10 (4.33%) Accessibility
3 10 (4.33%) PERC
4 9 (3.90%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (1.73%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.73%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.30%) WCAG
7 2 (0.87%) ISO 8583
7 2 (0.87%) PSD2
7 2 (0.87%) SLA
8 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 36 (15.58%) Docker
2 1 (0.43%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 37 (16.02%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.90%) Grafana
2 9 (3.90%) Prometheus
3 6 (2.60%) Terraform
4 3 (1.30%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.43%) Ansible
5 1 (0.43%) Istio
5 1 (0.43%) Puppet
Vendors
1 26 (11.26%) Google
2 23 (9.96%) Salesforce
3 18 (7.79%) Adobe
4 16 (6.93%) SAP
5 10 (4.33%) Microsoft
5 10 (4.33%) Tealium
6 9 (3.90%) Optimizely
7 8 (3.46%) OneTrust
7 8 (3.46%) Oracle
8 6 (2.60%) Amplitude
8 6 (2.60%) Hotjar
9 5 (2.16%) Facebook
9 5 (2.16%) mParticle
10 4 (1.73%) Sitecore
10 4 (1.73%) TikTok
10 4 (1.73%) Wind River
11 3 (1.30%) OpenAI
11 3 (1.30%) Splunk
12 2 (0.87%) New Relic
12 2 (0.87%) Rollbar