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 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 206 157
Rank change year-on-year +23 -49 +20
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 321 173 270
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.58% 1.30% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.77% 1.41% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 104 207
10th Percentile £313 £301 £300
25th Percentile £418 £426 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £508 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.46% -7.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £581 £650
90th Percentile £743 £734 £749
England median daily rate £538 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +7.50% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 2
10th Percentile - - £47.63
25th Percentile £44.75 £24.61 £49.69
Median hourly rate £54.50 £28.06 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +94.26% -47.80% -0.46%
75th Percentile £64.25 £33.04 £57.19
90th Percentile - £34.46 £58.88
England median hourly rate £69.00 £15.50 £53.75
% change year-on-year +345.16% -71.16% +7.50%

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 18,128 12,293 14,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.98% 92.49% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,864 8,121 9,276
10th Percentile £360 £332 £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 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 342 242 178
10th Percentile £15.90 £18.25 £17.43
25th Percentile £18.81 £25.02 £24.18
Median hourly rate £33.30 £30.25 £36.65
Median % change year-on-year +10.08% -17.46% -8.38%
75th Percentile £58.75 £47.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £79.88 £64.98 £78.75
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -5.56%

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 13 October 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
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 13 October 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 -2 43 £525 - 44
West London -15 20 £480 +32.41% 11
North London -2 1 £375 -58.33%
South London - 1 £625 - 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 22 (6.85%) CMS
2 11 (3.43%) Confluence
3 9 (2.80%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (2.18%) Sitecore CMS
5 5 (1.56%) Umbraco
6 4 (1.25%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.93%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.93%) Apache
7 3 (0.93%) Headless CMS
7 3 (0.93%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.62%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.62%) EPiServer
8 2 (0.62%) Kentico
9 1 (0.31%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.31%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.31%) Mule
9 1 (0.31%) WordPress
Applications
1 20 (6.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (3.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (3.43%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (2.80%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.62%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.31%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.31%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 15 (4.67%) Magento
2 13 (4.05%) Shopify
3 8 (2.49%) Payment Gateway
4 7 (2.18%) NetSuite
5 6 (1.87%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (1.87%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.62%) ION MarketView
8 1 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.31%) Oracle Retail
8 1 (0.31%) Oracle SCM
8 1 (0.31%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.31%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
8 1 (0.31%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 55 (17.13%) AWS
1 55 (17.13%) Azure
2 21 (6.54%) GCP
3 14 (4.36%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (4.36%) Figma
3 14 (4.36%) GitHub
4 13 (4.05%) SaaS
5 12 (3.74%) Serverless
6 10 (3.12%) dbt
6 10 (3.12%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 9 (2.80%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (2.80%) Power Platform
7 9 (2.80%) Snowflake
8 6 (1.87%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (1.87%) Azure Functions
8 6 (1.87%) Entra ID
9 5 (1.56%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (1.56%) CloudFront
9 5 (1.56%) Datadog
10 4 (1.25%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.25%) WAN
2 3 (0.93%) Firewall
2 3 (0.93%) Internet
3 2 (0.62%) HTTP
3 2 (0.62%) LAN
3 2 (0.62%) Network Security
3 2 (0.62%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.62%) SMS
3 2 (0.62%) VPN
3 2 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.31%) Wireless
4 1 (0.31%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.74%) NoSQL
2 11 (3.43%) BigQuery
3 10 (3.12%) MongoDB
4 9 (2.80%) Power BI
4 9 (2.80%) Relational Database
5 8 (2.49%) Looker
6 7 (2.18%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (2.18%) SQL Server
7 6 (1.87%) Couchbase
8 5 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (1.56%) MySQL
8 5 (1.56%) Redis
8 5 (1.56%) Semantic Layer
8 5 (1.56%) Tableau
9 4 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (1.25%) SAP HANA
10 3 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (0.93%) Metadata
10 3 (0.93%) Power Query
10 3 (0.93%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 23 (7.17%) Jenkins
2 15 (4.67%) JIRA
3 14 (4.36%) Git
4 8 (2.49%) Subversion
5 6 (1.87%) Vite
6 4 (1.25%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.25%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.93%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.62%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.62%) GitLab
8 2 (0.62%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.62%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.31%) Appium
9 1 (0.31%) Bundler
9 1 (0.31%) MLflow
9 1 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.31%) Postman
9 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.31%) TestRail
General
1 163 (50.78%) Retail
2 99 (30.84%) Social Skills
3 69 (21.50%) Marketing
4 57 (17.76%) Finance
5 43 (13.40%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (9.03%) Organisational Skills
7 26 (8.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (4.98%) Manufacturing
9 8 (2.49%) Advertising
9 8 (2.49%) Banking
9 8 (2.49%) Legal
10 7 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (2.18%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.25%) Electronics
12 4 (1.25%) Publishing
13 3 (0.93%) French Language
14 2 (0.62%) Front Office
14 2 (0.62%) German Language
14 2 (0.62%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 56 (17.45%) Senior
2 37 (11.53%) Developer
3 30 (9.35%) Architect
4 26 (8.10%) Analyst
4 26 (8.10%) Lead
5 21 (6.54%) Designer
6 18 (5.61%) Product Manager
7 17 (5.30%) Project Manager
8 16 (4.98%) Business Analyst
9 15 (4.67%) E-Commerce Manager
10 14 (4.36%) Solutions Architect
11 13 (4.05%) Senior Manager
12 11 (3.43%) Data Engineer
13 10 (3.12%) UI Designer
14 9 (2.80%) Consultant
14 9 (2.80%) Lead Designer
14 9 (2.80%) Marketing Manager
14 9 (2.80%) Senior Developer
15 8 (2.49%) Administrator
15 8 (2.49%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (9.35%) GraphQL
2 28 (8.72%) React
3 22 (6.85%) Next.js
4 21 (6.54%) Node.js
4 21 (6.54%) REST
5 20 (6.23%) .NET
6 16 (4.98%) Kafka
7 13 (4.05%) RESTful
8 12 (3.74%) Terraform
9 10 (3.12%) HTML
9 10 (3.12%) VML
10 9 (2.80%) Spring
10 9 (2.80%) Spring Boot
11 7 (2.18%) CSS
11 7 (2.18%) Middleware
11 7 (2.18%) SOAP
12 5 (1.56%) ASP.NET
12 5 (1.56%) HTML5
12 5 (1.56%) Jakarta EE
12 5 (1.56%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 28 (8.72%) Product Ownership
2 20 (6.23%) Cloud Native
2 20 (6.23%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (3.74%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (3.43%) Onboarding
5 9 (2.80%) Graphic Design
5 9 (2.80%) Mobile App
6 8 (2.49%) FMCG
6 8 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.18%) AI Agents
7 7 (2.18%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.56%) Life Science
8 5 (1.56%) Marketing Technology
8 5 (1.56%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.25%) Taxonomies
10 3 (0.93%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.93%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.49%) Android
1 8 (2.49%) Apple iOS
2 4 (1.25%) Windows
3 2 (0.62%) macOS
4 1 (0.31%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (32.09%) Agile
2 80 (24.92%) Stakeholder Management
3 59 (18.38%) CI/CD
4 55 (17.13%) User Experience
5 52 (16.20%) CRM
6 48 (14.95%) Analytics
6 48 (14.95%) Customer Experience
7 47 (14.64%) Problem-Solving
7 47 (14.64%) Roadmaps
8 43 (13.40%) DevOps
9 42 (13.08%) AI
10 40 (12.46%) Scrum
11 38 (11.84%) Migration
12 30 (9.35%) Continuous Improvement
13 28 (8.72%) Decision-Making
14 27 (8.41%) Project Management
15 25 (7.79%) Time Management
16 24 (7.48%) Event-Driven
17 23 (7.17%) ERP
18 22 (6.85%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 38 (11.84%) SQL
2 31 (9.66%) Python
3 26 (8.10%) TypeScript
4 20 (6.23%) JavaScript
5 19 (5.92%) Java
6 12 (3.74%) C#
7 5 (1.56%) Groovy
7 5 (1.56%) Kotlin
7 5 (1.56%) Swift
8 4 (1.25%) Bash
8 4 (1.25%) LookML
8 4 (1.25%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.93%) ABAP
9 3 (0.93%) Go
10 2 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.62%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.31%) R
11 1 (0.31%) Scala
11 1 (0.31%) SOQL
11 1 (0.31%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 42 (13.08%) Degree
2 5 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (1.56%) Master's Degree
3 4 (1.25%) CSPO
3 4 (1.25%) IIBA
4 3 (0.93%) MBA
5 2 (0.62%) DBS Check
5 2 (0.62%) PMP
5 2 (0.62%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.31%) CISA
6 1 (0.31%) CISSP
6 1 (0.31%) ISEB
6 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.31%) PhD
6 1 (0.31%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.79%) Data Quality
1 25 (7.79%) QA
2 15 (4.67%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.80%) GDPR
4 6 (1.87%) PMO
5 3 (0.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (0.93%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.93%) WCAG
6 2 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.62%) PSD2
7 1 (0.31%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.31%) NIST
7 1 (0.31%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (4.05%) Docker
2 3 (0.93%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (4.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.62%) Bosun
2 2 (0.62%) Jamf Pro
2 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.31%) CloudHub
3 1 (0.31%) Grafana
Vendors
1 30 (9.35%) Microsoft
2 28 (8.72%) Salesforce
3 18 (5.61%) Adobe
4 17 (5.30%) Oracle
5 15 (4.67%) Google
6 14 (4.36%) SAP
7 10 (3.12%) Sitecore
8 7 (2.18%) IBM
8 7 (2.18%) New Relic
9 6 (1.87%) MuleSoft
9 6 (1.87%) Splunk
10 5 (1.56%) Databricks
10 5 (1.56%) Dynatrace
10 5 (1.56%) Optimizely
11 4 (1.25%) Apple
12 3 (0.93%) Adyen
12 3 (0.93%) Aprimo
12 3 (0.93%) Braze
12 3 (0.93%) OneTrust
13 2 (0.62%) Screaming Frog