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 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 192 149
Rank change year-on-year +16 -43 +38
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 297 181 296
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.50% 1.33% 1.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.69% 1.45% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 109 224
10th Percentile £316 £294 £350
25th Percentile £400 £333 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.10% -6.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £638
90th Percentile £756 £705 £867
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 4
10th Percentile £39.65 £29.18 £50.38
25th Percentile £44.75 £29.44 £56.56
Median hourly rate £54.50 £30.25 £63.75
Median % change year-on-year +80.17% -52.55% +6.25%
75th Percentile £65.38 £31.44 £68.75
90th Percentile £71.15 £31.93 -
England median hourly rate £54.75 £15.50 £13.00
% change year-on-year +253.23% +19.23% -74.00%

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 17,581 12,493 15,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.98% 92.12% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,664 8,343 10,937
10th Percentile £360 £331 £350
25th Percentile £446 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £770 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 274 239 281
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £36.25 £32.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +13.28% +6.10% -27.33%
75th Percentile £58.44 £50.25 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.35 £69.50
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% -8.14%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 16 July 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 27 £500 -6.98% 15
West London -5 16 £480 +41.18% 9
North London - 2 £456 -
South London - 1 £625 - 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 9 (3.03%) CMS
2 7 (2.36%) Confluence
3 4 (1.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (1.35%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.67%) Apache Solr
4 2 (0.67%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.34%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.34%) Apache
5 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.34%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.34%) Kentico
5 1 (0.34%) Mule
5 1 (0.34%) nginx
5 1 (0.34%) Sitefinity
5 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (4.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (4.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (3.03%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 9 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (2.36%) Chatbot
5 4 (1.35%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 21 (7.07%) Shopify
2 15 (5.05%) Magento
3 6 (2.02%) NetSuite
4 5 (1.68%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (1.35%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.67%) SAP CRM
6 2 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.34%) ION MarketView
7 1 (0.34%) SAP CAR
7 1 (0.34%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.34%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.34%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.34%) SAP Retail
7 1 (0.34%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.34%) SDL Web 8
7 1 (0.34%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 34 (11.45%) AWS
2 31 (10.44%) Azure
3 22 (7.41%) Figma
4 10 (3.37%) GCP
5 9 (3.03%) SaaS
6 8 (2.69%) GitHub
6 8 (2.69%) Google Workspace
6 8 (2.69%) Miro
6 8 (2.69%) Power Platform
6 8 (2.69%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 7 (2.36%) BigCommerce
7 7 (2.36%) Serverless
7 7 (2.36%) WhatsApp
8 6 (2.02%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (2.02%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (1.35%) CloudFront
9 4 (1.35%) Datadog
10 3 (1.01%) Adobe Analytics
10 3 (1.01%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.01%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.35%) Internet
2 2 (0.67%) HTTP
2 2 (0.67%) LAN
2 2 (0.67%) WAN
3 1 (0.34%) Firewall
3 1 (0.34%) Network Security
3 1 (0.34%) RFID
3 1 (0.34%) RTMP
3 1 (0.34%) Wireless
3 1 (0.34%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.70%) NoSQL
2 8 (2.69%) MySQL
3 7 (2.36%) Power BI
4 6 (2.02%) BigQuery
4 6 (2.02%) Couchbase
4 6 (2.02%) Looker
4 6 (2.02%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.68%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.35%) Semantic Layer
6 4 (1.35%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.35%) Tableau
7 3 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.01%) Metadata
7 3 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.67%) Power Query
8 2 (0.67%) Redis
9 1 (0.34%) Big Data
9 1 (0.34%) Bigtable
Development Applications
1 28 (9.43%) Jenkins
2 18 (6.06%) Git
3 10 (3.37%) JIRA
4 9 (3.03%) Cypress.io
4 9 (3.03%) Selenium
5 8 (2.69%) Subversion
6 7 (2.36%) GitLab
7 6 (2.02%) Vite
8 5 (1.68%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.35%) Eclipse
9 4 (1.35%) Maven
10 3 (1.01%) Appium
10 3 (1.01%) Zephyr
11 2 (0.67%) Claude Code
11 2 (0.67%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.67%) WebDriver
12 1 (0.34%) NUnit
12 1 (0.34%) PHPUnit
12 1 (0.34%) Spock
12 1 (0.34%) TeamCity
General
1 136 (45.79%) Retail
2 120 (40.40%) Social Skills
3 65 (21.89%) Finance
4 48 (16.16%) Marketing
5 39 (13.13%) Organisational Skills
6 35 (11.78%) Analytical Skills
7 22 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (4.04%) Manufacturing
9 11 (3.70%) Banking
9 11 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (3.37%) Legal
11 7 (2.36%) Advertising
12 4 (1.35%) Electronics
12 4 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.35%) Public Sector
13 3 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.01%) French Language
13 3 (1.01%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.67%) Front Office
14 2 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 66 (22.22%) Senior
2 33 (11.11%) Designer
3 30 (10.10%) Developer
4 27 (9.09%) Analyst
5 26 (8.75%) Project Manager
5 26 (8.75%) Senior Manager
6 24 (8.08%) Lead
7 19 (6.40%) Business Analyst
8 18 (6.06%) Product Manager
9 17 (5.72%) Senior Project Manager
10 14 (4.71%) Architect
10 14 (4.71%) Senior Designer
11 13 (4.38%) E-Commerce Manager
11 13 (4.38%) UI Designer
12 11 (3.70%) Marketing Manager
13 9 (3.03%) Lead Designer
13 9 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
13 9 (3.03%) UX Designer
14 8 (2.69%) Product Designer
14 8 (2.69%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (10.77%) GraphQL
2 24 (8.08%) React
3 20 (6.73%) REST
4 18 (6.06%) VML
5 16 (5.39%) Node.js
6 15 (5.05%) CSS
7 14 (4.71%) Playwright
8 13 (4.38%) HTML
8 13 (4.38%) Middleware
8 13 (4.38%) Spring
9 12 (4.04%) Next.js
10 10 (3.37%) Kafka
11 9 (3.03%) J2EE
11 9 (3.03%) RESTful
11 9 (3.03%) Spring Boot
12 8 (2.69%) AngularJS
13 7 (2.36%) HTML5
14 6 (2.02%) jQuery
14 6 (2.02%) Web Services
15 5 (1.68%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 28 (9.43%) Product Ownership
2 14 (4.71%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (4.38%) Cloud Native
4 12 (4.04%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (3.70%) Mobile App
6 9 (3.03%) Graphic Design
6 9 (3.03%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.02%) AI Agents
7 6 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.02%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.35%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.01%) FMCG
10 3 (1.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.01%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.01%) Marketing Technology
10 3 (1.01%) Smart Home
10 3 (1.01%) Taxonomies
11 2 (0.67%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.70%) Android
2 10 (3.37%) Apple iOS
3 7 (2.36%) Linux
4 6 (2.02%) Windows
5 5 (1.68%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (33.00%) Agile
2 69 (23.23%) User Experience
3 61 (20.54%) Stakeholder Management
4 59 (19.87%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (14.14%) Time Management
6 39 (13.13%) Project Management
7 38 (12.79%) CI/CD
8 37 (12.46%) Scrum
9 36 (12.12%) Customer Experience
10 34 (11.45%) Analytics
11 32 (10.77%) CRM
11 32 (10.77%) Roadmaps
12 31 (10.44%) Continuous Improvement
12 31 (10.44%) Release Management
13 30 (10.10%) AI
14 29 (9.76%) DevOps
15 26 (8.75%) Workshop Facilitation
16 24 (8.08%) Migration
17 22 (7.41%) B2C
17 22 (7.41%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 25 (8.42%) Java
2 24 (8.08%) JavaScript
3 23 (7.74%) SQL
4 21 (7.07%) TypeScript
5 12 (4.04%) Python
6 5 (1.68%) Groovy
6 5 (1.68%) Kotlin
6 5 (1.68%) Swift
7 4 (1.35%) C#
8 3 (1.01%) Go
9 2 (0.67%) Bash
9 2 (0.67%) Korn
9 2 (0.67%) PHP
9 2 (0.67%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.34%) ABAP
10 1 (0.34%) DataWeave
10 1 (0.34%) R
10 1 (0.34%) Scala
10 1 (0.34%) XPath
Qualifications
1 33 (11.11%) Degree
2 5 (1.68%) CSPO
3 4 (1.35%) Master's Degree
4 3 (1.01%) MBA
5 1 (0.34%) CISA
5 1 (0.34%) CISSP
5 1 (0.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.34%) IIBA
5 1 (0.34%) ISEB
5 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (0.34%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.34%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.74%) QA
2 17 (5.72%) Accessibility
3 11 (3.70%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.68%) SLA
5 4 (1.35%) GDPR
6 3 (1.01%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.01%) PMO
7 2 (0.67%) PSD2
7 2 (0.67%) WCAG
8 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.34%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (4.38%) Docker
2 1 (0.34%) Sendmail
2 1 (0.34%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 14 (4.71%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.36%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 6 (2.02%) Terraform
4 3 (1.01%) Grafana
4 3 (1.01%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.34%) Ansible
5 1 (0.34%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 25 (8.42%) Salesforce
2 22 (7.41%) Adobe
3 19 (6.40%) Google
3 19 (6.40%) Microsoft
4 17 (5.72%) SAP
5 13 (4.38%) Oracle
6 6 (2.02%) IBM
6 6 (2.02%) Sitecore
7 5 (1.68%) Databricks
7 5 (1.68%) Dynatrace
7 5 (1.68%) New Relic
7 5 (1.68%) Splunk
8 4 (1.35%) MuleSoft
8 4 (1.35%) Netlify
9 2 (0.67%) Apple
9 2 (0.67%) Braze
9 2 (0.67%) Klarna
9 2 (0.67%) PayPal
9 2 (0.67%) Screaming Frog
10 1 (0.34%) Atlassian