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 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 197 163
Rank change year-on-year +7 -34 +31
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 296 177 270
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.48% 1.32% 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 1.43% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 106 208
10th Percentile £313 £281 £363
25th Percentile £400 £389 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -10.43% +4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £594 £675
90th Percentile £763 £713 £874
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £51.50 - £47.63
25th Percentile £53.75 £30.75 £49.69
Median hourly rate £60.00 £31.50 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +90.48% -41.40% -6.52%
75th Percentile £68.75 £32.25 £57.19
90th Percentile £72.50 - £58.88
England median hourly rate £35.91 £15.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year +131.68% -3.13% -68.00%

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 17,896 12,411 14,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.21% 92.39% 88.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,750 8,257 10,026
10th Percentile £362 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £530
% change year-on-year +2.94% -3.77% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 255 196
10th Percentile £17.16 £16.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.72 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -15.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.13 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.56
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.83%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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 20 August 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 +11 36 £525 -2.33% 41
West London -8 18 £480 +42.22% 12
North London -2 2 £456 -49.31% 1
South London - 1 £625 - 7
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 (3.04%) CMS
2 7 (2.36%) Confluence
3 4 (1.35%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.01%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.68%) Apache
5 2 (0.68%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.68%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.34%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.34%) Mule
6 1 (0.34%) nginx
6 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 20 (6.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (4.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (3.04%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 9 (3.04%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.68%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.68%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.34%) CPLEX
5 1 (0.34%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (6.08%) Shopify
2 15 (5.07%) Magento
3 6 (2.03%) NetSuite
4 5 (1.69%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (1.69%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.68%) ION MarketView
6 2 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle SCM
7 1 (0.34%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.34%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
7 1 (0.34%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.34%) SDL Web 8
7 1 (0.34%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 42 (14.19%) AWS
2 34 (11.49%) Azure
3 14 (4.73%) Figma
4 11 (3.72%) GCP
5 10 (3.38%) GitHub
6 9 (3.04%) Power Platform
6 9 (3.04%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 8 (2.70%) SaaS
8 7 (2.36%) BigCommerce
9 6 (2.03%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (2.03%) Datadog
9 6 (2.03%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (2.03%) Serverless
9 6 (2.03%) Snowflake
10 5 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (1.69%) CloudFront
10 5 (1.69%) dbt
10 5 (1.69%) Google Workspace
11 3 (1.01%) Miro
11 3 (1.01%) Salsify
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.35%) WAN
2 3 (1.01%) Firewall
2 3 (1.01%) Internet
3 2 (0.68%) HTTP
3 2 (0.68%) LAN
3 2 (0.68%) Network Security
3 2 (0.68%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.68%) VPN
3 2 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.34%) Wireless
4 1 (0.34%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.38%) Looker
1 10 (3.38%) NoSQL
2 9 (3.04%) MongoDB
3 8 (2.70%) BigQuery
3 8 (2.70%) Power BI
4 6 (2.03%) Couchbase
4 6 (2.03%) MySQL
4 6 (2.03%) Redis
5 5 (1.69%) Relational Database
5 5 (1.69%) Tableau
6 4 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.35%) Semantic Layer
6 4 (1.35%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.01%) Metadata
8 2 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.68%) KDB
8 2 (0.68%) Power Query
9 1 (0.34%) Db2
9 1 (0.34%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 25 (8.45%) Jenkins
2 14 (4.73%) Git
3 10 (3.38%) JIRA
4 8 (2.70%) Subversion
5 7 (2.36%) Cypress.io
6 6 (2.03%) Vite
7 5 (1.69%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.69%) GitLab
7 5 (1.69%) Selenium
8 4 (1.35%) Eclipse
9 3 (1.01%) Maven
9 3 (1.01%) Zephyr
10 2 (0.68%) Appium
10 2 (0.68%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.68%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.34%) Bundler
11 1 (0.34%) MLflow
11 1 (0.34%) PHPUnit
11 1 (0.34%) Spock
11 1 (0.34%) TestRail
General
1 142 (47.97%) Retail
2 104 (35.14%) Social Skills
3 53 (17.91%) Marketing
4 52 (17.57%) Finance
5 38 (12.84%) Analytical Skills
6 34 (11.49%) Organisational Skills
7 24 (8.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (4.39%) Manufacturing
9 11 (3.72%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (3.04%) Banking
11 7 (2.36%) Advertising
11 7 (2.36%) Legal
12 5 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.35%) Electronics
13 4 (1.35%) Public Sector
14 2 (0.68%) French Language
14 2 (0.68%) Front Office
14 2 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.68%) Publishing
14 2 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 65 (21.96%) Senior
2 37 (12.50%) Developer
3 27 (9.12%) Analyst
4 24 (8.11%) Designer
5 20 (6.76%) Lead
5 20 (6.76%) Project Manager
6 19 (6.42%) Architect
6 19 (6.42%) Product Manager
6 19 (6.42%) Senior Manager
7 17 (5.74%) Business Analyst
8 15 (5.07%) Solutions Architect
9 13 (4.39%) UI Designer
10 10 (3.38%) E-Commerce Manager
10 10 (3.38%) Senior Designer
11 9 (3.04%) Consultant
11 9 (3.04%) Lead Designer
11 9 (3.04%) Marketing Manager
11 9 (3.04%) Senior Developer
11 9 (3.04%) Senior Project Manager
12 8 (2.70%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (10.81%) GraphQL
2 23 (7.77%) React
2 23 (7.77%) REST
3 19 (6.42%) Node.js
4 17 (5.74%) VML
5 15 (5.07%) Spring
6 13 (4.39%) Next.js
7 12 (4.05%) Kafka
7 12 (4.05%) Spring Boot
8 11 (3.72%) Middleware
9 10 (3.38%) CSS
9 10 (3.38%) Terraform
10 9 (3.04%) HTML
10 9 (3.04%) Playwright
10 9 (3.04%) RESTful
11 8 (2.70%) Jakarta EE
12 7 (2.36%) .NET
13 6 (2.03%) AngularJS
13 6 (2.03%) SOAP
14 5 (1.69%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 30 (10.14%) Product Ownership
2 16 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (5.07%) Cloud Native
3 15 (5.07%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (3.72%) Mobile App
5 9 (3.04%) Graphic Design
6 7 (2.36%) AI Agents
6 7 (2.36%) FMCG
6 7 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.36%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.36%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.69%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.35%) Marketing Technology
9 3 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.01%) Smart Home
9 3 (1.01%) Taxonomies
9 3 (1.01%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.68%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.04%) Android
1 9 (3.04%) Apple iOS
2 7 (2.36%) Windows
3 4 (1.35%) Linux
3 4 (1.35%) Unix
4 2 (0.68%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (30.74%) Agile
2 65 (21.96%) Stakeholder Management
3 56 (18.92%) User Experience
4 53 (17.91%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (14.53%) CI/CD
6 36 (12.16%) Scrum
7 35 (11.82%) DevOps
7 35 (11.82%) Time Management
8 34 (11.49%) Customer Experience
9 33 (11.15%) AI
9 33 (11.15%) Analytics
9 33 (11.15%) CRM
10 31 (10.47%) Migration
10 31 (10.47%) Roadmaps
11 29 (9.80%) Project Management
12 27 (9.12%) Continuous Improvement
13 26 (8.78%) Release Management
14 24 (8.11%) Mentoring
15 22 (7.43%) Decision-Making
16 20 (6.76%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 30 (10.14%) SQL
2 25 (8.45%) Java
3 23 (7.77%) TypeScript
4 20 (6.76%) JavaScript
5 19 (6.42%) Python
6 7 (2.36%) C#
7 5 (1.69%) Groovy
7 5 (1.69%) Kotlin
7 5 (1.69%) Swift
8 4 (1.35%) Bash
8 4 (1.35%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.01%) Go
9 3 (1.01%) LookML
10 2 (0.68%) PHP
11 1 (0.34%) ABAP
11 1 (0.34%) Korn
11 1 (0.34%) Scala
11 1 (0.34%) SOQL
11 1 (0.34%) SOSL
11 1 (0.34%) XPath
Qualifications
1 32 (10.81%) Degree
2 5 (1.69%) CSPO
2 5 (1.69%) Master's Degree
3 3 (1.01%) MBA
4 2 (0.68%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.34%) CISA
5 1 (0.34%) CISSP
5 1 (0.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.34%) IIBA
5 1 (0.34%) ISEB
5 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (0.34%) PhD
5 1 (0.34%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.43%) QA
2 16 (5.41%) Data Quality
3 12 (4.05%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.35%) GDPR
4 4 (1.35%) SLA
5 3 (1.01%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.01%) PMO
6 2 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.68%) PSD2
7 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.34%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (5.41%) Docker
2 1 (0.34%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.34%) Sendmail
2 1 (0.34%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 19 (6.42%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.01%) Grafana
2 3 (1.01%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.68%) Bosun
3 2 (0.68%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.68%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (0.34%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 30 (10.14%) Salesforce
2 22 (7.43%) Microsoft
3 19 (6.42%) Adobe
4 18 (6.08%) Google
5 15 (5.07%) Oracle
6 14 (4.73%) SAP
7 7 (2.36%) IBM
7 7 (2.36%) New Relic
7 7 (2.36%) Sitecore
8 5 (1.69%) Dynatrace
8 5 (1.69%) Splunk
9 4 (1.35%) Apple
9 4 (1.35%) Databricks
9 4 (1.35%) MuleSoft
10 3 (1.01%) Braze
11 2 (0.68%) ION Trading
11 2 (0.68%) Klarna
11 2 (0.68%) Netlify
11 2 (0.68%) PayPal
11 2 (0.68%) Screaming Frog