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 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 160 152
Rank change year-on-year -20 -8 -4
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 253 213 284
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.45% 1.68% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.63% 1.82% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 134 204
10th Percentile £315 £311 £350
25th Percentile £409 £370 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £579 £613 £600
90th Percentile £645 £696 £750
England median daily rate £513 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +7.89% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 3
10th Percentile £27.27 £30.29 £63.85
25th Percentile £40.50 £32.23 £64.75
Median hourly rate £58.25 £35.46 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -47.47% +92.86%
75th Percentile £68.25 £38.68 £68.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £40.62 -
England median hourly rate £35.91 £35.46 £13.00
% change year-on-year +1.28% +172.73% -75.12%

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 15,500 11,691 15,679
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.89% 91.95% 88.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,370 7,941 11,223
10th Percentile £355 £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 £681 £675
90th Percentile £756 £800 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 166 333
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.30 £15.96
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.64 £19.92
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.58 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +15.25% -23.08%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.69 £48.56
90th Percentile £73.08 £63.50 £66.95
England median hourly rate £41.94 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.55% -9.60% -9.09%

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 21 April 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 21 April 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 21 April 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
West London -3 30 £375 +10.70% 5
Central London -9 20 £475 -17.39% 50
East London - 1 £400 - 3
North London - 1 £538 -
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 7 (2.77%) CMS
2 6 (2.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 5 (1.98%) Confluence
4 1 (0.40%) Apache
4 1 (0.40%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.40%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.40%) Kentico
4 1 (0.40%) nginx
4 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.40%) Sitefinity
4 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (3.16%) Chatbot
2 7 (2.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.98%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.79%) Autodesk Smoke
6 1 (0.40%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.40%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.40%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.40%) Trello
Business Applications
1 36 (14.23%) Shopify
2 5 (1.98%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (1.19%) Magento
4 2 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.79%) Endur
4 2 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.40%) Eikon
5 1 (0.40%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.40%) SAP CAR
5 1 (0.40%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.40%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.40%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.40%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.40%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.40%) SAP Retail
5 1 (0.40%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.40%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 21 (8.30%) SaaS
2 18 (7.11%) AWS
3 15 (5.93%) Dynamics 365
4 14 (5.53%) Azure
4 14 (5.53%) Datadog
5 13 (5.14%) Figma
6 11 (4.35%) BigCommerce
7 10 (3.95%) GCP
8 7 (2.77%) Google Workspace
8 7 (2.77%) Miro
8 7 (2.77%) Power Platform
8 7 (2.77%) Serverless
8 7 (2.77%) WhatsApp
9 6 (2.37%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (2.37%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
10 5 (1.98%) Contentsquare
10 5 (1.98%) Google Analytics
11 3 (1.19%) Google Tag Manager
11 3 (1.19%) Power Automate
11 3 (1.19%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.77%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.40%) Firewall
2 1 (0.40%) Internet
2 1 (0.40%) LAN
2 1 (0.40%) Network Security
2 1 (0.40%) RFID
2 1 (0.40%) RTMP
2 1 (0.40%) WAN
2 1 (0.40%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.16%) MySQL
2 6 (2.37%) Power BI
3 5 (1.98%) Looker
4 4 (1.58%) BigQuery
4 4 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (1.58%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.58%) Redis
4 4 (1.58%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.19%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.19%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.19%) Tableau
6 2 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.79%) CockroachDB
6 2 (0.79%) Metadata
6 2 (0.79%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.40%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.40%) Big Data
7 1 (0.40%) Bigtable
7 1 (0.40%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 27 (10.67%) Jenkins
2 11 (4.35%) JIRA
3 10 (3.95%) Selenium
4 7 (2.77%) Cypress.io
4 7 (2.77%) Git
5 6 (2.37%) GitLab
6 4 (1.58%) Maven
7 3 (1.19%) Appium
7 3 (1.19%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (1.19%) Charles Proxy
7 3 (1.19%) Fiddler
7 3 (1.19%) Zephyr
8 2 (0.79%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.79%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.79%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.40%) NUnit
9 1 (0.40%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.40%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.40%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.40%) Spock
General
1 93 (36.76%) Social Skills
2 70 (27.67%) Retail
3 52 (20.55%) Finance
4 35 (13.83%) Marketing
5 31 (12.25%) Organisational Skills
6 30 (11.86%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (6.32%) Legal
8 12 (4.74%) Electronics
8 12 (4.74%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (2.77%) Banking
10 6 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.98%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.58%) Advertising
12 4 (1.58%) French Language
12 4 (1.58%) Front Office
13 3 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.79%) Public Sector
14 2 (0.79%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.40%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 70 (27.67%) Senior
2 33 (13.04%) Analyst
3 27 (10.67%) Project Manager
4 25 (9.88%) Developer
4 25 (9.88%) Senior Manager
5 23 (9.09%) Business Analyst
6 21 (8.30%) Senior Project Manager
7 20 (7.91%) Consultant
8 19 (7.51%) Designer
9 15 (5.93%) Architect
10 14 (5.53%) Lead
11 12 (4.74%) Senior Designer
12 11 (4.35%) E-Commerce Manager
13 9 (3.56%) Technical Consultant
13 9 (3.56%) UX Designer
14 8 (3.16%) Senior Consultant
14 8 (3.16%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
14 8 (3.16%) Senior Technical Consultant
14 8 (3.16%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
14 8 (3.16%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (13.83%) Node.js
2 31 (12.25%) GraphQL
2 31 (12.25%) Playwright
3 21 (8.30%) Vitest
4 20 (7.91%) VML
5 19 (7.51%) CSS
6 18 (7.11%) React
7 16 (6.32%) HTML
7 16 (6.32%) REST
8 13 (5.14%) YAML
9 12 (4.74%) Middleware
10 11 (4.35%) OpenTelemetry
11 9 (3.56%) Spring
12 7 (2.77%) AngularJS
13 6 (2.37%) .NET
13 6 (2.37%) HTML5
13 6 (2.37%) Next.js
13 6 (2.37%) Web Services
14 5 (1.98%) jQuery
14 5 (1.98%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 30 (11.86%) Cloud Native
2 26 (10.28%) Product Ownership
3 18 (7.11%) Mobile App
4 11 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
4 11 (4.35%) Onboarding
4 11 (4.35%) Virtual Team
5 9 (3.56%) Marketing Technology
6 6 (2.37%) PMI
7 5 (1.98%) Client/Server
7 5 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.58%) FMCG
9 3 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.79%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.79%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.79%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.79%) Mobile Banking
10 2 (0.79%) Social Media
10 2 (0.79%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.16%) Android
2 7 (2.77%) Apple iOS
2 7 (2.77%) Linux
3 4 (1.58%) Unix
3 4 (1.58%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (41.11%) Agile
2 60 (23.72%) Problem-Solving
3 44 (17.39%) CI/CD
3 44 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
3 44 (17.39%) User Experience
4 38 (15.02%) Project Management
5 34 (13.44%) Analytics
6 33 (13.04%) DevOps
7 32 (12.65%) Test Automation
7 32 (12.65%) Time Management
8 31 (12.25%) Customer Experience
9 26 (10.28%) Mentoring
10 25 (9.88%) Coaching
10 25 (9.88%) Release Management
10 25 (9.88%) Workshop Facilitation
11 24 (9.49%) B2B
11 24 (9.49%) ERP
12 23 (9.09%) Scrum
13 22 (8.70%) B2C
13 22 (8.70%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 35 (13.83%) TypeScript
2 24 (9.49%) JavaScript
3 18 (7.11%) SQL
4 17 (6.72%) Java
5 9 (3.56%) Python
6 5 (1.98%) C#
7 4 (1.58%) PHP
8 1 (0.40%) Bash
8 1 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.40%) Go
8 1 (0.40%) Korn
8 1 (0.40%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.40%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 11 (4.35%) Degree
2 6 (2.37%) PMI Certification
3 5 (1.98%) CSPO
4 2 (0.79%) CBAP
5 1 (0.40%) CISA
5 1 (0.40%) CISSP
5 1 (0.40%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.40%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.40%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.70%) QA
2 18 (7.11%) GDPR
3 14 (5.53%) Accessibility
4 10 (3.95%) PERC
5 7 (2.77%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 5 (1.98%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.98%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.58%) SLA
7 4 (1.58%) WCAG
8 2 (0.79%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.79%) PSD2
9 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.40%) NIST
9 1 (0.40%) PMO
System Software
1 28 (11.07%) Docker
2 2 (0.79%) Varnish
3 1 (0.40%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 29 (11.46%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.74%) Grafana
2 12 (4.74%) Prometheus
3 8 (3.16%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 3 (1.19%) Terraform
5 1 (0.40%) Ansible
Vendors
1 29 (11.46%) Adobe
2 27 (10.67%) Salesforce
3 24 (9.49%) SAP
4 21 (8.30%) Google
5 11 (4.35%) Microsoft
5 11 (4.35%) Sitecore
6 10 (3.95%) Tealium
7 6 (2.37%) OneTrust
8 5 (1.98%) mParticle
9 4 (1.58%) Databricks
9 4 (1.58%) Netlify
10 3 (1.19%) Oracle
10 3 (1.19%) Splunk
11 2 (0.79%) ION Trading
11 2 (0.79%) Optimizely
12 1 (0.40%) Dynatrace
12 1 (0.40%) Solace
12 1 (0.40%) SolarWinds
12 1 (0.40%) Trayport
12 1 (0.40%) Wind River