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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 190 162
Rank change year-on-year -2 -28 +2
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 256 168 287
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.40% 1.39% 1.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.58% 1.51% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 104 212
10th Percentile £313 £311 £350
25th Percentile £400 £383 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% -7.73% -1.12%
75th Percentile £575 £578 £614
90th Percentile £644 £668 £872
England median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £39.65 - £61.25
25th Percentile £44.75 - £63.13
Median hourly rate £54.50 £29.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +87.93% -57.04% +92.86%
75th Percentile £65.38 - £68.75
90th Percentile £71.15 - -
England median hourly rate £46.00 £15.50 £13.00
% change year-on-year +196.77% +19.23% -82.72%

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 16,181 11,140 15,429
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.43% 92.20% 88.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,808 7,503 11,081
10th Percentile £358 £350 £338
25th Percentile £435 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £762 £800 £800
England median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 182 312
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.95
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.76 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.25 £30.90 £27.92
Median % change year-on-year +20.54% +10.68% -29.54%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.68 £63.23 £66.98
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +60.71% -23.29% -2.67%

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 27 May 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 27 May 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 27 May 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 -3 24 £475 -10.80% 60
West London -18 18 £480 +41.70% 4
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 6 (2.34%) CMS
2 5 (1.95%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 5 (1.95%) Confluence
3 2 (0.78%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.39%) Apache
4 1 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.39%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.39%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.39%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.39%) Kentico
4 1 (0.39%) nginx
4 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.39%) Sitefinity
4 1 (0.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (4.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (2.73%) Chatbot
4 5 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (1.56%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.39%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.39%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.39%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.39%) Autodesk Smoke
6 1 (0.39%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.39%) Trello
Business Applications
1 34 (13.28%) Shopify
2 9 (3.52%) Magento
3 6 (2.34%) NetSuite
4 3 (1.17%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (1.17%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.39%) ION MarketView
6 1 (0.39%) SAP CAR
6 1 (0.39%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.39%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.39%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.39%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.39%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.39%) SAP Retail
6 1 (0.39%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.39%) SDL Web 8
6 1 (0.39%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 19 (7.42%) AWS
1 19 (7.42%) Azure
2 13 (5.08%) Dynamics 365
2 13 (5.08%) Figma
2 13 (5.08%) SaaS
3 11 (4.30%) BigCommerce
4 9 (3.52%) Power Platform
5 8 (3.13%) Datadog
6 7 (2.73%) GCP
6 7 (2.73%) Google Workspace
6 7 (2.73%) Miro
6 7 (2.73%) Serverless
6 7 (2.73%) WhatsApp
7 6 (2.34%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (1.56%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
9 3 (1.17%) SAP Commerce Cloud
10 2 (0.78%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.78%) GitHub
10 2 (0.78%) Google Analytics
10 2 (0.78%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.39%) Firewall
1 1 (0.39%) Internet
1 1 (0.39%) LAN
1 1 (0.39%) Network Security
1 1 (0.39%) RFID
1 1 (0.39%) RTMP
1 1 (0.39%) WAN
1 1 (0.39%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.13%) Power BI
2 7 (2.73%) MySQL
3 6 (2.34%) Looker
4 4 (1.56%) BigQuery
4 4 (1.56%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.56%) Tableau
5 3 (1.17%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.17%) Metadata
5 3 (1.17%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.17%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.17%) Semantic Layer
6 2 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.78%) CockroachDB
6 2 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.78%) Redis
6 2 (0.78%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.39%) Bigtable
Development Applications
1 20 (7.81%) Jenkins
2 13 (5.08%) Git
3 10 (3.91%) JIRA
3 10 (3.91%) Selenium
4 7 (2.73%) Cypress.io
5 6 (2.34%) GitLab
5 6 (2.34%) Vite
6 4 (1.56%) Maven
6 4 (1.56%) Subversion
7 3 (1.17%) Appium
7 3 (1.17%) Zephyr
8 2 (0.78%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.78%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.78%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.78%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.39%) Fiddler
9 1 (0.39%) NUnit
9 1 (0.39%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.39%) Spock
9 1 (0.39%) TeamCity
General
1 94 (36.72%) Retail
2 93 (36.33%) Social Skills
3 62 (24.22%) Finance
4 38 (14.84%) Marketing
4 38 (14.84%) Organisational Skills
5 28 (10.94%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (8.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (4.69%) Manufacturing
8 11 (4.30%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (3.52%) Legal
10 7 (2.73%) Electronics
11 6 (2.34%) Banking
12 4 (1.56%) Public Sector
13 3 (1.17%) Advertising
13 3 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.17%) French Language
13 3 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.78%) Front Office
14 2 (0.78%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.39%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 71 (27.73%) Senior
2 32 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 31 (12.11%) Senior Manager
4 30 (11.72%) Analyst
5 29 (11.33%) Developer
6 25 (9.77%) Senior Project Manager
7 21 (8.20%) Business Analyst
8 20 (7.81%) Designer
9 17 (6.64%) Lead
10 12 (4.69%) Product Manager
11 10 (3.91%) E-Commerce Manager
11 10 (3.91%) Senior Designer
12 9 (3.52%) Architect
12 9 (3.52%) E-Commerce Analyst
12 9 (3.52%) E-Commerce Business Analyst
13 8 (3.13%) Consultant
13 8 (3.13%) Marketing Manager
14 7 (2.73%) Full-Stack Developer
14 7 (2.73%) QA Engineer
14 7 (2.73%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (13.28%) GraphQL
2 22 (8.59%) VML
3 21 (8.20%) React
4 20 (7.81%) Node.js
5 19 (7.42%) Playwright
6 17 (6.64%) REST
7 15 (5.86%) CSS
8 12 (4.69%) HTML
9 11 (4.30%) Middleware
9 11 (4.30%) Spring
10 10 (3.91%) Next.js
11 9 (3.52%) Vitest
12 7 (2.73%) AngularJS
12 7 (2.73%) Spring Boot
12 7 (2.73%) Web Services
13 6 (2.34%) J2EE
13 6 (2.34%) jQuery
13 6 (2.34%) OpenTelemetry
13 6 (2.34%) YAML
14 5 (1.95%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.59%) Product Ownership
2 16 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 13 (5.08%) Mobile App
4 11 (4.30%) Virtual Team
5 7 (2.73%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (2.73%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.34%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (2.34%) Marketing Technology
6 6 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.56%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.17%) FMCG
9 3 (1.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.17%) Smart Home
10 2 (0.78%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.78%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.78%) Mobile Banking
10 2 (0.78%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.30%) Android
2 10 (3.91%) Apple iOS
3 7 (2.73%) Linux
4 4 (1.56%) Unix
4 4 (1.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (36.72%) Agile
2 59 (23.05%) User Experience
3 53 (20.70%) Problem-Solving
4 43 (16.80%) Stakeholder Management
5 42 (16.41%) Project Management
6 37 (14.45%) Time Management
7 32 (12.50%) Analytics
7 32 (12.50%) CI/CD
8 30 (11.72%) Continuous Improvement
8 30 (11.72%) Release Management
9 29 (11.33%) Customer Experience
10 27 (10.55%) Scrum
11 24 (9.38%) B2C
11 24 (9.38%) DevOps
11 24 (9.38%) Workshop Facilitation
12 22 (8.59%) SDLC
13 21 (8.20%) B2B
13 21 (8.20%) CRM
13 21 (8.20%) Decision-Making
14 20 (7.81%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 25 (9.77%) JavaScript
2 24 (9.38%) TypeScript
3 17 (6.64%) Java
3 17 (6.64%) SQL
4 10 (3.91%) Python
5 5 (1.95%) Kotlin
5 5 (1.95%) Swift
6 4 (1.56%) C#
7 2 (0.78%) Go
7 2 (0.78%) Korn
7 2 (0.78%) PHP
8 1 (0.39%) Bash
8 1 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.39%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.39%) R
8 1 (0.39%) Scala
8 1 (0.39%) XPath
Qualifications
1 15 (5.86%) Degree
2 5 (1.95%) CSPO
3 2 (0.78%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.39%) CISA
4 1 (0.39%) CISSP
4 1 (0.39%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 1 (0.39%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.39%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.64%) QA
2 12 (4.69%) Accessibility
3 11 (4.30%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.73%) GDPR
5 4 (1.56%) SLA
6 3 (1.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (1.17%) WCAG
7 2 (0.78%) PERC
7 2 (0.78%) PMO
8 1 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.39%) NIST
8 1 (0.39%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (6.64%) Docker
2 1 (0.39%) Sendmail
2 1 (0.39%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 16 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.73%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 6 (2.34%) Grafana
3 6 (2.34%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.39%) Ansible
4 1 (0.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (9.77%) Salesforce
2 22 (8.59%) Adobe
2 22 (8.59%) SAP
3 15 (5.86%) Google
4 14 (5.47%) Microsoft
5 10 (3.91%) Sitecore
6 8 (3.13%) Oracle
7 5 (1.95%) Tealium
8 4 (1.56%) Databricks
8 4 (1.56%) Netlify
8 4 (1.56%) Splunk
9 3 (1.17%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.17%) IBM
9 3 (1.17%) OneTrust
10 2 (0.78%) mParticle
10 2 (0.78%) New Relic
11 1 (0.39%) Infor
11 1 (0.39%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.39%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.39%) SolarWinds