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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 158 152
Rank change year-on-year -4 -6 -20
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 258 214 299
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.65% 1.58% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.82% 1.75% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 149 193
10th Percentile £352 £292 £336
25th Percentile £413 £348 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% -6.67%
75th Percentile £573 £588 £588
90th Percentile £685 £692 £638
England median daily rate £500 £450 £520
% change year-on-year +11.11% -13.46% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 6
10th Percentile £22.71 £31.58 £33.13
25th Percentile £24.61 £35.46 £51.63
Median hourly rate £36.00 £41.91 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.11% -36.50% -5.71%
75th Percentile £57.56 £45.33 £68.75
90th Percentile £65.10 £47.38 £70.38
England median hourly rate £33.25 £44.71 £13.00
% change year-on-year -25.63% +243.88% -80.81%

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 14,164 12,253 16,358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.44% 90.70% 88.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,468 7,900 11,699
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.10%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 156 345
10th Percentile £18.06 £20.60 £16.02
25th Percentile £23.81 £25.50 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.04% +24.17% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56.73 £55.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.58 £72.50
England median hourly rate £26.61 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -23.99% - -

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 February 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 February 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 February 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 +10 39 £375 +10.29% 10
Central London -6 26 £488 -7.14% 34
East London - 2 £400 - 4
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 (3.10%) CMS
2 5 (1.94%) Confluence
3 4 (1.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (1.55%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.78%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.39%) Kentico
5 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.39%) Sitefinity
5 1 (0.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (3.88%) Chatbot
2 7 (2.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.55%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.78%) Autodesk Smoke
6 1 (0.39%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.39%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.39%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.39%) Trello
Business Applications
1 25 (9.69%) Shopify
2 4 (1.55%) Endur
3 3 (1.16%) Magento
3 3 (1.16%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.39%) Eikon
5 1 (0.39%) Orchestrade
5 1 (0.39%) SAP CAR
5 1 (0.39%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.39%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.39%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.39%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.39%) SAP Retail
5 1 (0.39%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 40 (15.50%) SaaS
2 30 (11.63%) AWS
3 22 (8.53%) Azure
4 17 (6.59%) Figma
5 16 (6.20%) Serverless
6 14 (5.43%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (5.43%) Dynamics 365
7 13 (5.04%) GCP
8 10 (3.88%) Datadog
9 7 (2.71%) Contentsquare
10 6 (2.33%) BigCommerce
10 6 (2.33%) Google Workspace
10 6 (2.33%) Miro
10 6 (2.33%) WhatsApp
11 5 (1.94%) Power Platform
12 4 (1.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (1.55%) Google Analytics
12 4 (1.55%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
13 3 (1.16%) Amazon S3
13 3 (1.16%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.71%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.39%) Internet
2 1 (0.39%) RFID
2 1 (0.39%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.71%) DynamoDB
2 6 (2.33%) Mixpanel
2 6 (2.33%) NoSQL
3 5 (1.94%) Power BI
3 5 (1.94%) Redis
3 5 (1.94%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.55%) MySQL
5 3 (1.16%) BigQuery
5 3 (1.16%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.16%) Tableau
6 2 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.78%) CockroachDB
6 2 (0.78%) Couchbase
6 2 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.78%) Looker
6 2 (0.78%) Metadata
7 1 (0.39%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.39%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 35 (13.57%) Jenkins
2 9 (3.49%) JIRA
3 6 (2.33%) Cypress.io
3 6 (2.33%) Git
3 6 (2.33%) Visual Website Optimizer
4 5 (1.94%) Selenium
5 4 (1.55%) SpecFlow
6 3 (1.16%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (1.16%) Charles Proxy
6 3 (1.16%) Fiddler
6 3 (1.16%) GitLab
7 2 (0.78%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.78%) Maven
7 2 (0.78%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.39%) Appium
8 1 (0.39%) NUnit
8 1 (0.39%) Zephyr
General
1 89 (34.50%) Social Skills
2 54 (20.93%) Retail
3 44 (17.05%) Finance
4 33 (12.79%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (12.40%) Marketing
6 22 (8.53%) Organisational Skills
7 18 (6.98%) Legal
8 12 (4.65%) Electronics
9 5 (1.94%) Advertising
9 5 (1.94%) Banking
9 5 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.94%) French Language
9 5 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.55%) Front Office
10 4 (1.55%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.78%) Publishing
13 1 (0.39%) Games
13 1 (0.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 60 (23.26%) Senior
2 30 (11.63%) Analyst
3 28 (10.85%) Consultant
4 23 (8.91%) Project Manager
5 19 (7.36%) Designer
6 18 (6.98%) Developer
7 17 (6.59%) Business Analyst
7 17 (6.59%) Senior Manager
7 17 (6.59%) Senior Project Manager
8 15 (5.81%) Architect
8 15 (5.81%) Lead
9 13 (5.04%) Technical Consultant
10 12 (4.65%) Senior Consultant
10 12 (4.65%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
10 12 (4.65%) Senior Technical Consultant
10 12 (4.65%) Senior Technical Specialist
10 12 (4.65%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
10 12 (4.65%) Technical Specialist
11 11 (4.26%) E-Commerce Manager
11 11 (4.26%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (18.99%) Node.js
2 40 (15.50%) GraphQL
3 34 (13.18%) Playwright
4 28 (10.85%) Vitest
5 22 (8.53%) React
6 17 (6.59%) CSS
7 16 (6.20%) HTML
7 16 (6.20%) YAML
8 11 (4.26%) VML
9 10 (3.88%) .NET
10 8 (3.10%) Next.js
10 8 (3.10%) OpenTelemetry
11 7 (2.71%) Middleware
11 7 (2.71%) REST
12 5 (1.94%) AngularJS
12 5 (1.94%) HTML5
13 4 (1.55%) CSS3
13 4 (1.55%) NumPy
13 4 (1.55%) Spring
14 3 (1.16%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 39 (15.12%) Cloud Native
2 23 (8.91%) Product Ownership
3 17 (6.59%) Mobile App
4 15 (5.81%) Analytical Mindset
5 13 (5.04%) Onboarding
6 9 (3.49%) Marketing Technology
6 9 (3.49%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.33%) PMI
8 5 (1.94%) Client/Server
9 4 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.16%) Social Media
11 2 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.78%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.78%) Fixed Income
11 2 (0.78%) FMCG
11 2 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.78%) Low-Code
11 2 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.39%) Greenfield Project
12 1 (0.39%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.94%) Android
2 4 (1.55%) Apple iOS
2 4 (1.55%) Linux
3 2 (0.78%) Unix
3 2 (0.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (39.92%) Agile
2 55 (21.32%) CI/CD
3 54 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
4 53 (20.54%) User Experience
5 47 (18.22%) Stakeholder Management
6 45 (17.44%) Analytics
7 44 (17.05%) DevOps
8 34 (13.18%) Customer Experience
9 33 (12.79%) Coaching
9 33 (12.79%) Mentoring
10 32 (12.40%) Test Automation
11 27 (10.47%) Project Management
12 25 (9.69%) UX Design
13 24 (9.30%) A/B Testing
14 23 (8.91%) Continuous Improvement
14 23 (8.91%) Full-Stack Development
15 22 (8.53%) ERP
15 22 (8.53%) Software Engineering
16 21 (8.14%) B2C
17 20 (7.75%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 48 (18.60%) TypeScript
2 26 (10.08%) SQL
3 25 (9.69%) JavaScript
4 17 (6.59%) Python
5 14 (5.43%) Java
6 10 (3.88%) C#
7 3 (1.16%) PHP
8 1 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.39%) Go
8 1 (0.39%) Korn
8 1 (0.39%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 12 (4.65%) Degree
2 6 (2.33%) PMI Certification
3 4 (1.55%) AWS Certification
3 4 (1.55%) Master's Degree
4 2 (0.78%) CBAP
4 2 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.78%) MBA
5 1 (0.39%) APMG
5 1 (0.39%) CFA
5 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.98%) GDPR
2 15 (5.81%) Accessibility
2 15 (5.81%) QA
3 10 (3.88%) PERC
4 7 (2.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (1.55%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.55%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.55%) WCAG
6 2 (0.78%) ISO 8583
6 2 (0.78%) PSD2
6 2 (0.78%) SLA
7 1 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 34 (13.18%) Docker
2 1 (0.39%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 36 (13.95%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.49%) Grafana
2 9 (3.49%) Prometheus
3 7 (2.71%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 5 (1.94%) Terraform
5 1 (0.39%) Ansible
Vendors
1 27 (10.47%) Google
2 23 (8.91%) Adobe
3 21 (8.14%) Salesforce
4 18 (6.98%) SAP
5 10 (3.88%) Microsoft
5 10 (3.88%) Tealium
6 8 (3.10%) Optimizely
7 6 (2.33%) Amplitude
7 6 (2.33%) Hotjar
7 6 (2.33%) OneTrust
7 6 (2.33%) Sitecore
8 5 (1.94%) mParticle
9 4 (1.55%) Databricks
9 4 (1.55%) Wind River
10 3 (1.16%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.78%) Netlify
11 2 (0.78%) New Relic
11 2 (0.78%) Oracle
11 2 (0.78%) Rollbar
11 2 (0.78%) Splunk