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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 190 157 188
Rank change year-on-year -33 +31 -88
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 197 273 309
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.46% 1.67% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.58% 1.88% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 212 198
10th Percentile £265 £308 £400
25th Percentile £400 £425 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £569
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% -3.30% +5.81%
75th Percentile £581 £650 £675
90th Percentile £725 £775 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 6
10th Percentile - £47.63 £26.75
25th Percentile - £49.69 £38.19
Median hourly rate £24.61 £53.75 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -54.21% -0.46% -14.46%
75th Percentile £28.43 £57.19 £68.69
90th Percentile £30.72 £58.88 £79.75
England median hourly rate £15.50 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -67.37% -5.00% -

All Process and 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 12,450 14,530 19,983
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.51% 89.15% 90.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,226 9,664 14,478
10th Percentile £331 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -0.86%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £694
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 252 178 230
10th Percentile £17.01 £17.25 £18.15
25th Percentile £24.94 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.50 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.01% -6.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £49.56 £55.00 £63.44
90th Percentile £63.75 £71.88 £76.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +53.98%

E-Commerce
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing E-Commerce as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for E-Commerce 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 September 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
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 September 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
Central London +1 23 £513 -6.82% 118
West London +8 16 £363 -19.44% 20
North London - 1 £900 - 1
E-Commerce
England

E-Commerce
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (5.08%) CMS
2 7 (3.55%) Confluence
3 6 (3.05%) Headless CMS
4 2 (1.02%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.02%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.51%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (6.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (4.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (2.03%) Chatbot
3 4 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.03%) Trello
4 1 (0.51%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.51%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.51%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (0.51%) CINEMA 4D
4 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.51%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 16 (8.12%) Shopify
2 11 (5.58%) Magento
3 7 (3.55%) Oracle Retail
4 4 (2.03%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (2.03%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (1.02%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (1.02%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (1.02%) SAP CRM
5 2 (1.02%) SAP CX
6 1 (0.51%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.51%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.51%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.51%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 26 (13.20%) SaaS
2 25 (12.69%) AWS
3 15 (7.61%) Serverless
4 14 (7.11%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (5.08%) Figma
5 10 (5.08%) GCP
6 7 (3.55%) Amazon S3
6 7 (3.55%) Azure
6 7 (3.55%) Salsify
7 6 (3.05%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (3.05%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (2.54%) Amazon Cognito
8 5 (2.54%) BigCommerce
8 5 (2.54%) Facebook Ads
8 5 (2.54%) GitHub
8 5 (2.54%) Google Analytics
8 5 (2.54%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 5 (2.54%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 4 (2.03%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (2.03%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.02%) Internet
2 1 (0.51%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.51%) HTTP
2 1 (0.51%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.06%) DynamoDB
2 6 (3.05%) Tableau
3 5 (2.54%) Power Query
4 3 (1.52%) BigQuery
4 3 (1.52%) Mixpanel
4 3 (1.52%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.02%) Power BI
6 1 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.51%) Couchbase
6 1 (0.51%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.51%) KDB
6 1 (0.51%) Looker
6 1 (0.51%) Metadata
6 1 (0.51%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.51%) MySQL
6 1 (0.51%) Spark SQL
6 1 (0.51%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 24 (12.18%) JIRA
2 17 (8.63%) Jenkins
3 12 (6.09%) Git
4 4 (2.03%) Bitbucket
4 4 (2.03%) Cucumber
4 4 (2.03%) Cypress.io
4 4 (2.03%) GitLab
4 4 (2.03%) Postman
4 4 (2.03%) Selenium
5 3 (1.52%) Gradle
5 3 (1.52%) Maven
5 3 (1.52%) Visual Website Optimizer
5 3 (1.52%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.51%) Appium
6 1 (0.51%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.51%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.51%) Subversion
6 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio
General
1 77 (39.09%) Social Skills
2 46 (23.35%) Retail
3 40 (20.30%) Marketing
4 28 (14.21%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (12.69%) Finance
6 8 (4.06%) Advertising
7 7 (3.55%) Banking
7 7 (3.55%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.52%) Billing
10 3 (1.52%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.52%) Legal
10 3 (1.52%) Retail Banking
10 3 (1.52%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.02%) Back Office
11 2 (1.02%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (1.02%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.02%) Publishing
11 2 (1.02%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 31 (15.74%) Senior
2 26 (13.20%) Developer
3 19 (9.64%) Designer
4 17 (8.63%) Analyst
5 16 (8.12%) Architect
5 16 (8.12%) Consultant
6 11 (5.58%) Business Analyst
6 11 (5.58%) Lead
7 9 (4.57%) Product Manager
7 9 (4.57%) Project Manager
8 8 (4.06%) E-Commerce Designer
8 8 (4.06%) Magento Developer
8 8 (4.06%) Senior Designer
9 7 (3.55%) Product Designer
10 6 (3.05%) Senior Product Designer
10 6 (3.05%) Technical Consultant
11 5 (2.54%) Enterprise Architect
11 5 (2.54%) Senior Manager
11 5 (2.54%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (2.54%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (13.71%) Node.js
2 25 (12.69%) GraphQL
3 14 (7.11%) React
4 11 (5.58%) HTML
5 10 (5.08%) Playwright
5 10 (5.08%) Vitest
6 8 (4.06%) CSS
6 8 (4.06%) SOAP
7 7 (3.55%) Next.js
8 6 (3.05%) OAuth
8 6 (3.05%) OAuth2
8 6 (3.05%) YAML
9 5 (2.54%) Lightning Web Components
9 5 (2.54%) OpenID
9 5 (2.54%) SAML
9 5 (2.54%) Visualforce
9 5 (2.54%) VML
10 4 (2.03%) Lambda Expressions
10 4 (2.03%) Redux
10 4 (2.03%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.15%) Cloud Native
2 19 (9.64%) Product Ownership
3 14 (7.11%) Mobile App
4 8 (4.06%) Marketing Technology
4 8 (4.06%) Social Media
5 6 (3.05%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.54%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (2.54%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.54%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (2.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.52%) IVR
8 3 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.02%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.02%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.02%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.51%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.51%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.52%) Unix
2 2 (1.02%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.02%) Linux
3 1 (0.51%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (32.49%) Agile
2 39 (19.80%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (15.23%) Mentoring
4 27 (13.71%) Analytics
5 24 (12.18%) Roadmaps
5 24 (12.18%) User Experience
6 23 (11.68%) DevOps
7 22 (11.17%) B2B
7 22 (11.17%) Project Management
7 22 (11.17%) Stakeholder Management
8 21 (10.66%) CI/CD
9 20 (10.15%) A/B Testing
10 17 (8.63%) B2C
10 17 (8.63%) CRM
11 16 (8.12%) Actionable Insight
11 16 (8.12%) Customer Acquisition
11 16 (8.12%) Microservices
12 14 (7.11%) Coaching
12 14 (7.11%) ERP
12 14 (7.11%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 23 (11.68%) SQL
1 23 (11.68%) TypeScript
2 20 (10.15%) JavaScript
3 17 (8.63%) Python
4 12 (6.09%) Java
5 5 (2.54%) Apex Code
6 3 (1.52%) Ruby
7 2 (1.02%) PHP
7 2 (1.02%) R
8 1 (0.51%) ABAP
8 1 (0.51%) C#
8 1 (0.51%) Dart
8 1 (0.51%) Objective-C
8 1 (0.51%) Scala
8 1 (0.51%) SOQL
8 1 (0.51%) Swift
8 1 (0.51%) VBA
Qualifications
1 17 (8.63%) Degree
2 7 (3.55%) AWS Certification
3 2 (1.02%) APMG
3 2 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.02%) ISTQB
3 2 (1.02%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.51%) IBM Certification
4 1 (0.51%) PMP
4 1 (0.51%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.51%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.57%) Accessibility
1 9 (4.57%) QA
2 5 (2.54%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.02%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (1.02%) GDPR
3 2 (1.02%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.02%) SLA
4 1 (0.51%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (0.51%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (8.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (9.14%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.54%) Terraform
3 3 (1.52%) Ansible
3 3 (1.52%) Istio
3 3 (1.52%) Puppet
4 2 (1.02%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 29 (14.72%) Salesforce
2 18 (9.14%) SAP
3 15 (7.61%) Google
4 11 (5.58%) Oracle
5 10 (5.08%) Microsoft
6 8 (4.06%) Adobe
7 5 (2.54%) Facebook
7 5 (2.54%) Informatica
7 5 (2.54%) MuleSoft
7 5 (2.54%) Optimizely
7 5 (2.54%) Sitecore
8 4 (2.03%) TikTok
9 3 (1.52%) Amplitude
9 3 (1.52%) Hotjar
9 3 (1.52%) Splunk
9 3 (1.52%) Twitter
10 2 (1.02%) Dell
10 2 (1.02%) NCR
10 2 (1.02%) OneTrust
10 2 (1.02%) VeriFone