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 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 157 160
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 -36
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 222 227 287
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.57% 1.62% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.72% 1.79% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 165 184
10th Percentile £358 £303 £359
25th Percentile £425 £400 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £556 £625 £600
90th Percentile £700 £712 £700
England median daily rate £500 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 5
10th Percentile £21.45 £42.34 £30.20
25th Percentile £24.61 £43.00 £47.75
Median hourly rate £29.55 £44.71 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.89% -22.25% -17.86%
75th Percentile £56.10 £47.04 £65.75
90th Percentile £66.50 £48.07 £69.50
England median hourly rate £18.28 £47.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year -61.52% -5.94% -27.86%

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 12,887 12,677 16,143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.35% 90.27% 88.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,501 8,101 11,545
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -5.46%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 155 258
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.94 £16.52
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.99 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.59 £54.50 £54.03
90th Percentile £69.30 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year -27.63% -18.24% +21.43%

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 11 January 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 11 January 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 11 January 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 +16 39 £375 -10.45% 5
Central London -11 23 £495 -1.00% 32
East London - 2 £400 - 3
North London - 1 £900 - 1
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 5 (2.25%) CMS
1 5 (2.25%) Confluence
2 3 (1.35%) Headless CMS
3 2 (0.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (0.90%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (4.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.25%) Chatbot
3 4 (1.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.90%) Autodesk Smoke
4 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.45%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.45%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.45%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.45%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (10.81%) Shopify
2 7 (3.15%) Magento
3 4 (1.80%) Endur
3 4 (1.80%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.45%) Eikon
5 1 (0.45%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.45%) Orchestrade
5 1 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.45%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.45%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 34 (15.32%) SaaS
2 26 (11.71%) AWS
3 18 (8.11%) Azure
4 14 (6.31%) Serverless
5 13 (5.86%) AWS Lambda
5 13 (5.86%) Dynamics 365
5 13 (5.86%) GCP
6 11 (4.95%) Figma
7 10 (4.50%) Datadog
8 7 (3.15%) Contentsquare
8 7 (3.15%) Google Analytics
9 5 (2.25%) BigCommerce
9 5 (2.25%) Google Tag Manager
9 5 (2.25%) SAP Commerce Cloud
10 4 (1.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (1.80%) Cloudflare
11 3 (1.35%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (1.35%) Commercetools
11 3 (1.35%) Facebook Ads
11 3 (1.35%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.15%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.15%) DynamoDB
2 6 (2.70%) Mixpanel
3 5 (2.25%) NoSQL
4 4 (1.80%) Redis
5 3 (1.35%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.35%) Tableau
6 2 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.90%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.90%) CockroachDB
6 2 (0.90%) Couchbase
6 2 (0.90%) Metadata
6 2 (0.90%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.90%) MySQL
6 2 (0.90%) Power BI
7 1 (0.45%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.45%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.45%) Power Query
7 1 (0.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 33 (14.86%) Jenkins
2 10 (4.50%) JIRA
3 6 (2.70%) Git
3 6 (2.70%) Visual Website Optimizer
4 4 (1.80%) SpecFlow
5 3 (1.35%) Browser DevTools
5 3 (1.35%) Charles Proxy
5 3 (1.35%) Cypress.io
5 3 (1.35%) Fiddler
6 2 (0.90%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.90%) GitLab
6 2 (0.90%) Postman
7 1 (0.45%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.45%) Gradle
7 1 (0.45%) Maven
General
1 66 (29.73%) Social Skills
2 36 (16.22%) Retail
3 31 (13.96%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (12.61%) Marketing
5 23 (10.36%) Finance
6 15 (6.76%) Legal
7 14 (6.31%) Organisational Skills
8 12 (5.41%) Electronics
9 5 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.80%) Advertising
10 4 (1.80%) French Language
10 4 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.35%) Banking
11 3 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.35%) Front Office
12 2 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.90%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.90%) Publishing
13 1 (0.45%) Law
13 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 46 (20.72%) Senior
2 30 (13.51%) Consultant
3 27 (12.16%) Analyst
4 21 (9.46%) Developer
5 18 (8.11%) Business Analyst
6 17 (7.66%) Architect
7 13 (5.86%) Project Manager
7 13 (5.86%) Technical Consultant
8 12 (5.41%) Senior Consultant
8 12 (5.41%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 12 (5.41%) Senior Technical Consultant
8 12 (5.41%) Senior Technical Specialist
8 12 (5.41%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
8 12 (5.41%) Technical Specialist
9 10 (4.50%) Designer
10 8 (3.60%) Cloud Specialist
10 8 (3.60%) Lead
10 8 (3.60%) UX Designer
11 7 (3.15%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (3.15%) Senior Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (22.07%) Node.js
2 40 (18.02%) GraphQL
3 28 (12.61%) Playwright
3 28 (12.61%) Vitest
4 16 (7.21%) React
4 16 (7.21%) YAML
5 13 (5.86%) HTML
6 10 (4.50%) CSS
7 9 (4.05%) VML
8 8 (3.60%) OpenTelemetry
9 7 (3.15%) Next.js
9 7 (3.15%) REST
10 6 (2.70%) .NET
11 5 (2.25%) HTML5
12 4 (1.80%) CSS3
12 4 (1.80%) Middleware
12 4 (1.80%) NumPy
13 3 (1.35%) Redux
13 3 (1.35%) RESTful
13 3 (1.35%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 34 (15.32%) Cloud Native
2 23 (10.36%) Product Ownership
3 18 (8.11%) Mobile App
4 13 (5.86%) Analytical Mindset
4 13 (5.86%) Onboarding
5 9 (4.05%) Marketing Technology
6 6 (2.70%) PMI
6 6 (2.70%) Social Media
7 5 (2.25%) Client/Server
7 5 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.90%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.90%) FMCG
8 2 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.90%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.90%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.90%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.45%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.45%) Motion Graphics
9 1 (0.45%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.35%) Android
1 3 (1.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (37.84%) Agile
2 50 (22.52%) CI/CD
3 45 (20.27%) Analytics
4 44 (19.82%) DevOps
5 40 (18.02%) Problem-Solving
6 39 (17.57%) Stakeholder Management
7 38 (17.12%) User Experience
8 37 (16.67%) Mentoring
9 33 (14.86%) Coaching
10 26 (11.71%) Test Automation
11 24 (10.81%) A/B Testing
12 23 (10.36%) Customer Experience
13 20 (9.01%) Containerisation
13 20 (9.01%) ERP
13 20 (9.01%) UX Design
14 19 (8.56%) Infrastructure as Code
14 19 (8.56%) Observability
14 19 (8.56%) Process Improvement
14 19 (8.56%) Software Engineering
15 18 (8.11%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 42 (18.92%) TypeScript
2 24 (10.81%) SQL
3 19 (8.56%) JavaScript
4 18 (8.11%) Python
5 8 (3.60%) Java
6 7 (3.15%) C#
7 4 (1.80%) PHP
8 2 (0.90%) R
8 2 (0.90%) Ruby
9 1 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.45%) Go
9 1 (0.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (4.50%) Degree
2 6 (2.70%) PMI Certification
3 4 (1.80%) AWS Certification
3 4 (1.80%) Master's Degree
4 2 (0.90%) APMG
4 2 (0.90%) CBAP
4 2 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.90%) MBA
5 1 (0.45%) CFA
5 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.56%) GDPR
2 11 (4.95%) Accessibility
3 10 (4.50%) PERC
4 9 (4.05%) QA
5 8 (3.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (1.80%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.80%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.90%) ISO 8583
7 2 (0.90%) PSD2
7 2 (0.90%) WCAG
8 1 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 36 (16.22%) Docker
2 1 (0.45%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 37 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.05%) Grafana
2 9 (4.05%) Prometheus
3 6 (2.70%) Terraform
4 2 (0.90%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.45%) Ansible
5 1 (0.45%) Istio
5 1 (0.45%) Puppet
Vendors
1 25 (11.26%) Google
2 22 (9.91%) Salesforce
3 19 (8.56%) Adobe
4 17 (7.66%) SAP
5 10 (4.50%) Tealium
6 8 (3.60%) Microsoft
6 8 (3.60%) Optimizely
7 7 (3.15%) OneTrust
8 6 (2.70%) Amplitude
8 6 (2.70%) Hotjar
9 5 (2.25%) mParticle
9 5 (2.25%) Sitecore
10 4 (1.80%) Wind River
11 3 (1.35%) Facebook
11 3 (1.35%) OpenAI
11 3 (1.35%) Oracle
11 3 (1.35%) Splunk
11 3 (1.35%) TikTok
12 2 (0.90%) Databricks
12 2 (0.90%) New Relic