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

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 169 153 154
Rank change year-on-year -16 +1 -31
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 231 251 284
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.61% 1.70% 1.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.76% 1.88% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 181 185
10th Percentile £325 £306 £363
25th Percentile £407 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £567 £625 £613
90th Percentile £725 £713 £700
England median daily rate £500 £450 £540
% change year-on-year +11.11% -16.67% +2.86%
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 & 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 13,097 13,344 16,454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.33% 90.12% 89.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,632 8,554 11,793
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £756 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 165 243
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.16 £17.80
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.80 £20.01
Median hourly rate £31.49 £36.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.73% +12.31% -16.13%
75th Percentile £53.13 £55.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £67.91 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +25.64%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 +14 39 £375 -16.67% 10
Central London -4 24 £498 -5.24% 132
East London - 2 £400 - 8
North London - 1 £900 - 3
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 9 (3.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.60%) Chatbot
3 4 (1.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.87%) Autodesk Smoke
4 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
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%) Eikon
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 26 (11.26%) AWS
3 18 (7.79%) Azure
4 14 (6.06%) Serverless
5 13 (5.63%) AWS Lambda
5 13 (5.63%) Dynamics 365
5 13 (5.63%) GCP
6 12 (5.19%) Figma
7 10 (4.33%) Datadog
8 8 (3.46%) Google Analytics
9 7 (3.03%) Contentsquare
10 5 (2.16%) Facebook Ads
10 5 (2.16%) Google Tag Manager
10 5 (2.16%) SAP Commerce Cloud
11 4 (1.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (1.73%) Cloudflare
11 4 (1.73%) Commercetools
12 3 (1.30%) Amazon SQS
12 3 (1.30%) BigCommerce
12 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 33 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 15 (6.49%) JIRA
3 6 (2.60%) Git
3 6 (2.60%) Visual Website Optimizer
4 4 (1.73%) Cucumber
4 4 (1.73%) Selenium
4 4 (1.73%) SpecFlow
5 3 (1.30%) Browser DevTools
5 3 (1.30%) Charles Proxy
5 3 (1.30%) Cypress.io
5 3 (1.30%) Fiddler
6 2 (0.87%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.87%) GitLab
6 2 (0.87%) Postman
6 2 (0.87%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.43%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.43%) Gradle
7 1 (0.43%) Maven
General
1 70 (30.30%) Social Skills
2 39 (16.88%) Retail
3 33 (14.29%) Marketing
4 32 (13.85%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (10.82%) Finance
6 15 (6.49%) Legal
7 12 (5.19%) Electronics
8 9 (3.90%) 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%) Publishing
12 2 (0.87%) Wholesale Banking
13 1 (0.43%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.43%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 42 (18.18%) Senior
2 29 (12.55%) Consultant
3 26 (11.26%) Analyst
4 23 (9.96%) Developer
5 22 (9.52%) Architect
6 17 (7.36%) Business Analyst
7 12 (5.19%) Senior Consultant
7 12 (5.19%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 12 (5.19%) Senior Technical Consultant
7 12 (5.19%) Senior Technical Specialist
7 12 (5.19%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
7 12 (5.19%) Technical Consultant
7 12 (5.19%) Technical Specialist
8 10 (4.33%) Designer
9 9 (3.90%) Project Manager
10 8 (3.46%) Cloud Specialist
10 8 (3.46%) Lead
10 8 (3.46%) UX Designer
11 7 (3.03%) Full-Stack Developer
11 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%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 39 (16.88%) Cloud Native
2 30 (12.99%) Product Ownership
3 19 (8.23%) Mobile App
4 14 (6.06%) Analytical Mindset
5 13 (5.63%) Onboarding
6 9 (3.90%) Marketing Technology
7 7 (3.03%) Social Media
8 6 (2.60%) PMI
9 5 (2.16%) Client/Server
9 5 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.30%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.30%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.87%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.87%) Virtual Team
12 1 (0.43%) Culture of Ownership
12 1 (0.43%) Educational Technology
12 1 (0.43%) Renewable Energy
12 1 (0.43%) Self-Motivation
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 50 (21.65%) CI/CD
3 46 (19.91%) DevOps
4 45 (19.48%) Analytics
5 40 (17.32%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (16.02%) Mentoring
6 37 (16.02%) User Experience
7 36 (15.58%) Stakeholder Management
8 35 (15.15%) Coaching
9 30 (12.99%) Test Automation
10 25 (10.82%) A/B Testing
11 24 (10.39%) Customer Experience
11 24 (10.39%) ERP
12 21 (9.09%) Software Engineering
12 21 (9.09%) UX Design
13 20 (8.66%) B2B
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 12 (5.19%) 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 11 (4.76%) Accessibility
4 10 (4.33%) PERC
5 9 (3.90%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (1.73%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.73%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.87%) ISO 8583
7 2 (0.87%) PSD2
7 2 (0.87%) SLA
7 2 (0.87%) WCAG
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 21 (9.09%) Salesforce
3 17 (7.36%) Adobe
4 15 (6.49%) SAP
5 10 (4.33%) Tealium
6 9 (3.90%) Microsoft
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%) TikTok
10 4 (1.73%) Wind River
11 3 (1.30%) OpenAI
11 3 (1.30%) Sitecore
11 3 (1.30%) Splunk
12 2 (0.87%) New Relic
12 2 (0.87%) Rollbar