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 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 175 157
Rank change year-on-year +4 -18 -1
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 257 201 279
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.44% 1.60% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.63% 1.73% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 128 204
10th Percentile £316 £312 £350
25th Percentile £402 £370 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £545
Median % change year-on-year - -8.26% -3.11%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £638 £688 £775
England median daily rate £500 £469 £500
% change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 3
10th Percentile £27.27 - £63.85
25th Percentile £40.50 - £64.75
Median hourly rate £58.25 £29.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +100.86% -57.04% +92.86%
75th Percentile £68.25 - £68.75
90th Percentile £72.50 - -
England median hourly rate £46.00 £29.00 £13.00
% change year-on-year +58.62% +123.08% -80.15%

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 15,735 11,590 15,693
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.36% 92.20% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,521 7,861 11,249
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £756 £813 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 172 322
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.04 £22.73 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.61 £34.25 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% +20.18% -26.92%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.56 £47.34
90th Percentile £74.63 £63.75 £65.68
England median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £36.05
% change year-on-year +51.53% -16.77% -0.96%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 6 May 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 -5 25 £440 -22.81% 55
West London -7 24 £375 +10.70% 7
North London - 1 £538 -
East London - 1 £400 - 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 8 (3.11%) CMS
2 6 (2.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 6 (2.33%) Confluence
3 1 (0.39%) Apache
3 1 (0.39%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.39%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.39%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.39%) Kentico
3 1 (0.39%) nginx
3 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.39%) Sitefinity
3 1 (0.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (3.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.11%) Chatbot
3 6 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.56%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.78%) Autodesk Smoke
7 1 (0.39%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.39%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.39%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.39%) Trello
Business Applications
1 38 (14.79%) Shopify
2 5 (1.95%) Magento
2 5 (1.95%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.39%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.39%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.39%) SAP CAR
5 1 (0.39%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.39%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.39%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.39%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.39%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.39%) SAP Retail
5 1 (0.39%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.39%) SDL Web 8
5 1 (0.39%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 19 (7.39%) AWS
2 17 (6.61%) Azure
3 16 (6.23%) SaaS
4 15 (5.84%) Dynamics 365
5 14 (5.45%) Figma
6 13 (5.06%) BigCommerce
6 13 (5.06%) Datadog
7 10 (3.89%) GCP
8 8 (3.11%) Power Platform
9 7 (2.72%) Google Workspace
9 7 (2.72%) Miro
9 7 (2.72%) Serverless
9 7 (2.72%) WhatsApp
10 6 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (1.95%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
12 4 (1.56%) Contentsquare
12 4 (1.56%) Google Analytics
12 4 (1.56%) SAP Commerce Cloud
13 3 (1.17%) Power Automate
14 2 (0.78%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.17%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.39%) Firewall
2 1 (0.39%) Internet
2 1 (0.39%) LAN
2 1 (0.39%) Network Security
2 1 (0.39%) RFID
2 1 (0.39%) RTMP
2 1 (0.39%) WAN
2 1 (0.39%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.11%) MySQL
2 7 (2.72%) Power BI
3 5 (1.95%) Looker
3 5 (1.95%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.56%) BigQuery
4 4 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.56%) Redis
5 3 (1.17%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.17%) Metadata
5 3 (1.17%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.17%) Tableau
6 2 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.78%) CockroachDB
6 2 (0.78%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.78%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (0.39%) Big Data
7 1 (0.39%) Bigtable
7 1 (0.39%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (9.34%) Jenkins
2 12 (4.67%) JIRA
3 10 (3.89%) Selenium
4 9 (3.50%) Git
5 7 (2.72%) Cypress.io
5 7 (2.72%) GitLab
6 4 (1.56%) Maven
7 3 (1.17%) Appium
7 3 (1.17%) Zephyr
8 2 (0.78%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.78%) Browser DevTools
8 2 (0.78%) Charles Proxy
8 2 (0.78%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.78%) Fiddler
8 2 (0.78%) Subversion
8 2 (0.78%) Vite
8 2 (0.78%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.39%) NUnit
9 1 (0.39%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.39%) TeamCity
General
1 94 (36.58%) Social Skills
2 83 (32.30%) Retail
3 55 (21.40%) Finance
4 35 (13.62%) Marketing
5 34 (13.23%) Organisational Skills
6 28 (10.89%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (4.67%) Legal
7 12 (4.67%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (3.50%) Electronics
8 9 (3.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.72%) Banking
10 6 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (2.33%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.56%) French Language
11 4 (1.56%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.17%) Advertising
12 3 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.78%) Front Office
13 2 (0.78%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.39%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 72 (28.02%) Senior
2 35 (13.62%) Analyst
3 30 (11.67%) Project Manager
4 29 (11.28%) Senior Manager
5 28 (10.89%) Developer
6 26 (10.12%) Business Analyst
7 23 (8.95%) Senior Project Manager
8 20 (7.78%) Designer
9 17 (6.61%) Consultant
10 15 (5.84%) Lead
11 14 (5.45%) Architect
12 13 (5.06%) Senior Designer
13 10 (3.89%) E-Commerce Analyst
13 10 (3.89%) E-Commerce Business Analyst
13 10 (3.89%) E-Commerce Manager
14 9 (3.50%) Full-Stack Developer
14 9 (3.50%) UX Designer
15 8 (3.11%) Product Designer
16 7 (2.72%) Product Manager
16 7 (2.72%) Senior UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (12.45%) GraphQL
2 31 (12.06%) Node.js
3 26 (10.12%) Playwright
4 22 (8.56%) VML
5 21 (8.17%) React
6 19 (7.39%) CSS
7 17 (6.61%) REST
8 16 (6.23%) HTML
8 16 (6.23%) Vitest
9 12 (4.67%) Middleware
10 10 (3.89%) OpenTelemetry
10 10 (3.89%) YAML
11 9 (3.50%) Spring
12 8 (3.11%) Next.js
13 7 (2.72%) AngularJS
13 7 (2.72%) HTML5
13 7 (2.72%) Web Services
14 6 (2.33%) .NET
14 6 (2.33%) jQuery
15 5 (1.95%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.12%) Cloud Native
1 26 (10.12%) Product Ownership
2 18 (7.00%) Mobile App
3 11 (4.28%) Virtual Team
4 10 (3.89%) Analytical Mindset
4 10 (3.89%) Onboarding
5 9 (3.50%) Marketing Technology
6 6 (2.33%) PMI
7 5 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.56%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.56%) FMCG
9 3 (1.17%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.78%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.78%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.78%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.78%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.50%) Android
2 8 (3.11%) Apple iOS
3 7 (2.72%) Linux
4 4 (1.56%) Unix
4 4 (1.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (41.25%) Agile
2 58 (22.57%) Problem-Solving
3 51 (19.84%) User Experience
4 44 (17.12%) Stakeholder Management
5 41 (15.95%) Project Management
6 40 (15.56%) CI/CD
7 34 (13.23%) Analytics
7 34 (13.23%) Time Management
8 33 (12.84%) Customer Experience
9 29 (11.28%) DevOps
10 27 (10.51%) Release Management
10 27 (10.51%) Workshop Facilitation
11 26 (10.12%) Scrum
12 24 (9.34%) B2B
12 24 (9.34%) B2C
12 24 (9.34%) Test Automation
13 23 (8.95%) Continuous Improvement
13 23 (8.95%) Mentoring
14 22 (8.56%) ERP
14 22 (8.56%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 32 (12.45%) TypeScript
2 26 (10.12%) JavaScript
3 18 (7.00%) SQL
4 17 (6.61%) Java
5 10 (3.89%) Python
6 5 (1.95%) C#
7 3 (1.17%) PHP
8 2 (0.78%) Go
8 2 (0.78%) Kotlin
8 2 (0.78%) Swift
9 1 (0.39%) Bash
9 1 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.39%) Korn
9 1 (0.39%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.39%) Ruby
9 1 (0.39%) XPath
Qualifications
1 15 (5.84%) Degree
2 6 (2.33%) PMI Certification
3 5 (1.95%) CSPO
4 2 (0.78%) CBAP
5 1 (0.39%) CISA
5 1 (0.39%) CISSP
5 1 (0.39%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (0.39%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.39%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.56%) QA
2 15 (5.84%) GDPR
3 14 (5.45%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.72%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.72%) PERC
5 6 (2.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (1.56%) SLA
6 4 (1.56%) WCAG
7 3 (1.17%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.78%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.78%) PMO
8 2 (0.78%) PSD2
9 1 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.39%) NIST
System Software
1 23 (8.95%) Docker
2 2 (0.78%) Varnish
3 1 (0.39%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 24 (9.34%) Kubernetes
2 11 (4.28%) Grafana
2 11 (4.28%) Prometheus
3 8 (3.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 3 (1.17%) Terraform
5 1 (0.39%) Ansible
Vendors
1 29 (11.28%) Adobe
2 27 (10.51%) Salesforce
3 25 (9.73%) SAP
4 19 (7.39%) Google
5 14 (5.45%) Microsoft
6 12 (4.67%) Sitecore
7 9 (3.50%) Tealium
8 5 (1.95%) mParticle
8 5 (1.95%) OneTrust
9 4 (1.56%) Databricks
9 4 (1.56%) Netlify
10 3 (1.17%) Oracle
10 3 (1.17%) Splunk
11 2 (0.78%) Optimizely
12 1 (0.39%) Atlassian
12 1 (0.39%) Dynatrace
12 1 (0.39%) Infor
12 1 (0.39%) Instagram
12 1 (0.39%) Solace
12 1 (0.39%) SolarWinds