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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 179 152
Rank change year-on-year -6 -27 +13
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 250 176 291
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.37% 1.45% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.54% 1.57% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 110 214
10th Percentile £313 £310 £350
25th Percentile £400 £389 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -6.36% -2.22%
75th Percentile £586 £575 £625
90th Percentile £654 £676 £867
England median daily rate £500 £495 £500
% change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile £39.65 - £50.38
25th Percentile £44.75 - £56.56
Median hourly rate £54.50 £29.00 £63.75
Median % change year-on-year +87.93% -54.51% +82.14%
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% -80.15%

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 16,221 11,218 15,466
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.65% 92.28% 88.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,826 7,519 11,090
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £435 £431 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 192 320
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.19 £24.54 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.25 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.73% +15.18% -28.97%
75th Percentile £58.92 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.63 £63.23 £68.08
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.60 £37.50
% change year-on-year +64.34% -23.73% +0.43%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 2 June 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 -2 24 £475 -5.00% 47
West London -14 16 £480 +41.70% 8
North London - 1 £538 -
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 6 (2.40%) CMS
2 5 (2.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (1.60%) Confluence
4 2 (0.80%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.40%) Apache
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.40%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.40%) Kentico
5 1 (0.40%) nginx
5 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.40%) Sitefinity
5 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (4.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (2.80%) Chatbot
4 5 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (1.60%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.80%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.40%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.40%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.40%) Autodesk Smoke
7 1 (0.40%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.40%) Trello
Business Applications
1 31 (12.40%) Shopify
2 9 (3.60%) Magento
3 6 (2.40%) NetSuite
4 3 (1.20%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (1.20%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.40%) ION MarketView
6 1 (0.40%) SAP CAR
6 1 (0.40%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.40%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.40%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.40%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.40%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.40%) SAP Retail
6 1 (0.40%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.40%) SDL Web 8
6 1 (0.40%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 20 (8.00%) AWS
2 17 (6.80%) Azure
3 13 (5.20%) Figma
4 12 (4.80%) SaaS
5 11 (4.40%) BigCommerce
6 10 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (3.20%) Power Platform
8 7 (2.80%) Datadog
8 7 (2.80%) Google Workspace
8 7 (2.80%) Miro
8 7 (2.80%) Serverless
8 7 (2.80%) WhatsApp
9 6 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (2.40%) GCP
10 4 (1.60%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
11 3 (1.20%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.20%) SAP Commerce Cloud
12 2 (0.80%) GitHub
12 2 (0.80%) Google Analytics
12 2 (0.80%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.40%) Firewall
1 1 (0.40%) Internet
1 1 (0.40%) LAN
1 1 (0.40%) Network Security
1 1 (0.40%) RFID
1 1 (0.40%) RTMP
1 1 (0.40%) WAN
1 1 (0.40%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.80%) MySQL
1 7 (2.80%) Power BI
2 6 (2.40%) Looker
3 4 (1.60%) BigQuery
3 4 (1.60%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.60%) Tableau
4 3 (1.20%) DynamoDB
4 3 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (1.20%) Metadata
4 3 (1.20%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.20%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.20%) Semantic Layer
5 2 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.80%) CockroachDB
5 2 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.80%) Redis
5 2 (0.80%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.40%) KDB
Development Applications
1 18 (7.20%) Jenkins
2 13 (5.20%) Git
3 10 (4.00%) Selenium
4 9 (3.60%) JIRA
5 7 (2.80%) Cypress.io
6 6 (2.40%) GitLab
6 6 (2.40%) Vite
7 4 (1.60%) Maven
7 4 (1.60%) Subversion
8 3 (1.20%) Appium
8 3 (1.20%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.80%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.80%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.80%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.80%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.40%) Fiddler
10 1 (0.40%) NUnit
10 1 (0.40%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.40%) Spock
10 1 (0.40%) TeamCity
General
1 96 (38.40%) Retail
2 93 (37.20%) Social Skills
3 61 (24.40%) Finance
4 38 (15.20%) Organisational Skills
5 36 (14.40%) Marketing
6 27 (10.80%) Analytical Skills
7 21 (8.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (4.80%) Manufacturing
9 11 (4.40%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (3.20%) Legal
11 6 (2.40%) Electronics
12 5 (2.00%) Banking
13 4 (1.60%) Public Sector
14 3 (1.20%) Advertising
14 3 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (1.20%) French Language
14 3 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.80%) Front Office
15 2 (0.80%) Telecoms
16 1 (0.40%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 70 (28.00%) Senior
2 32 (12.80%) Project Manager
3 31 (12.40%) Senior Manager
4 27 (10.80%) Analyst
4 27 (10.80%) Developer
5 25 (10.00%) Senior Project Manager
6 21 (8.40%) Designer
7 19 (7.60%) Business Analyst
8 17 (6.80%) Lead
9 12 (4.80%) Product Manager
10 10 (4.00%) E-Commerce Manager
10 10 (4.00%) Senior Designer
11 8 (3.20%) Architect
11 8 (3.20%) E-Commerce Analyst
11 8 (3.20%) E-Commerce Business Analyst
11 8 (3.20%) Marketing Manager
12 7 (2.80%) QA Engineer
12 7 (2.80%) Senior Developer
13 6 (2.40%) Delivery Manager
13 6 (2.40%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (12.80%) GraphQL
2 22 (8.80%) VML
3 21 (8.40%) React
4 18 (7.20%) Node.js
5 17 (6.80%) Playwright
5 17 (6.80%) REST
6 15 (6.00%) CSS
7 13 (5.20%) Middleware
8 12 (4.80%) HTML
9 11 (4.40%) Spring
10 10 (4.00%) Next.js
11 7 (2.80%) AngularJS
11 7 (2.80%) Spring Boot
11 7 (2.80%) Vitest
11 7 (2.80%) Web Services
12 6 (2.40%) J2EE
12 6 (2.40%) jQuery
13 5 (2.00%) .NET
13 5 (2.00%) RESTful
13 5 (2.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (8.00%) Product Ownership
2 14 (5.60%) Cloud Native
3 13 (5.20%) Mobile App
4 11 (4.40%) Virtual Team
5 7 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.00%) AI Agents
6 5 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.00%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.20%) FMCG
8 3 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.20%) Marketing Technology
8 3 (1.20%) Smart Home
9 2 (0.80%) Fixed Income
9 2 (0.80%) Graphic Design
9 2 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.80%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.80%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.40%) Android
2 10 (4.00%) Apple iOS
3 7 (2.80%) Linux
4 4 (1.60%) Unix
4 4 (1.60%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (36.00%) Agile
2 59 (23.60%) User Experience
3 53 (21.20%) Problem-Solving
4 43 (17.20%) Stakeholder Management
5 42 (16.80%) Project Management
6 38 (15.20%) Time Management
7 32 (12.80%) Analytics
8 31 (12.40%) CI/CD
9 30 (12.00%) Customer Experience
9 30 (12.00%) Release Management
10 29 (11.60%) Continuous Improvement
11 26 (10.40%) Scrum
12 24 (9.60%) Workshop Facilitation
13 23 (9.20%) B2C
14 22 (8.80%) DevOps
14 22 (8.80%) SDLC
15 21 (8.40%) B2B
15 21 (8.40%) CRM
16 20 (8.00%) AI
16 20 (8.00%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 25 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 22 (8.80%) TypeScript
3 17 (6.80%) Java
4 16 (6.40%) SQL
5 11 (4.40%) Python
6 5 (2.00%) Kotlin
6 5 (2.00%) Swift
7 4 (1.60%) C#
8 2 (0.80%) Go
8 2 (0.80%) Korn
8 2 (0.80%) PHP
9 1 (0.40%) Bash
9 1 (0.40%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.40%) R
9 1 (0.40%) Scala
9 1 (0.40%) XPath
Qualifications
1 16 (6.40%) Degree
2 5 (2.00%) CSPO
3 2 (0.80%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.40%) CISA
4 1 (0.40%) CISSP
4 1 (0.40%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 1 (0.40%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.40%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.80%) QA
2 13 (5.20%) Accessibility
3 10 (4.00%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.60%) GDPR
4 4 (1.60%) SLA
5 3 (1.20%) WCAG
6 2 (0.80%) PMO
7 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.40%) NIST
7 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.40%) PERC
System Software
1 15 (6.00%) Docker
2 1 (0.40%) Sendmail
2 1 (0.40%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 14 (5.60%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.80%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 5 (2.00%) Grafana
3 5 (2.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.40%) Ansible
4 1 (0.40%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (9.60%) Salesforce
2 22 (8.80%) SAP
3 20 (8.00%) Adobe
4 15 (6.00%) Google
5 14 (5.60%) Microsoft
6 10 (4.00%) Sitecore
7 8 (3.20%) Oracle
8 4 (1.60%) Netlify
8 4 (1.60%) Splunk
9 3 (1.20%) Databricks
9 3 (1.20%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.20%) IBM
10 2 (0.80%) New Relic
10 2 (0.80%) Tealium
11 1 (0.40%) Botify
11 1 (0.40%) mParticle
11 1 (0.40%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.40%) OneTrust
11 1 (0.40%) Optimizely
11 1 (0.40%) ServiceNow