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 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 211 151 179
Rank change year-on-year -60 +28 -70
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 169 265 291
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.26% 1.69% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% 1.90% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 199 186
10th Percentile £287 £300 £388
25th Percentile £416 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £634 £648
90th Percentile £741 £713 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 4
10th Percentile - - £27.28
25th Percentile £24.61 £46.25 £40.44
Median hourly rate £28.06 £47.50 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.94% -12.04% -29.18%
75th Percentile £33.04 £54.38 £62.06
90th Percentile £34.46 £57.75 £68.03
England median hourly rate £15.50 £50.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -69.00% - -29.82%

All Process and 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 12,407 13,954 18,484
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.43% 89.21% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,152 8,992 13,332
10th Percentile £331 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -2.13%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 168 235
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.43 £18.23
25th Percentile £25.01 £24.42 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.00 £37.79 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -17.97% -2.49% +2.15%
75th Percentile £47.50 £57.81 £62.75
90th Percentile £64.83 £79.13 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -10.11% +27.14%

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 27 October 2025.

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
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 October 2025. 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 22 £525 -4.55% 190
West London +2 15 £363 -19.44% 17
North London - 1 £900 -
East London - 1 - - 7
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 11 (6.51%) CMS
2 8 (4.73%) Confluence
2 8 (4.73%) Headless CMS
3 2 (1.18%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.59%) SAS
4 1 (0.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (4.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (2.96%) Chatbot
4 4 (2.37%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 12 (7.10%) Shopify
2 11 (6.51%) Magento
3 5 (2.96%) Oracle Retail
4 2 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (1.18%) Endur
4 2 (1.18%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.59%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.59%) Infor M3
5 1 (0.59%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.59%) Orchestrade
5 1 (0.59%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.59%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 24 (14.20%) AWS
2 22 (13.02%) SaaS
3 17 (10.06%) Serverless
4 16 (9.47%) AWS Lambda
5 12 (7.10%) Azure
5 12 (7.10%) GCP
6 8 (4.73%) Figma
7 6 (3.55%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (3.55%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (3.55%) Amazon S3
8 5 (2.96%) Amazon Cognito
8 5 (2.96%) Facebook Ads
8 5 (2.96%) GitHub
8 5 (2.96%) Google Analytics
9 4 (2.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (2.37%) BigCommerce
9 4 (2.37%) Cloudflare
9 4 (2.37%) Contentsquare
9 4 (2.37%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 3 (1.78%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.18%) Internet
2 1 (0.59%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.59%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.33%) DynamoDB
2 6 (3.55%) Mixpanel
3 5 (2.96%) Tableau
4 4 (2.37%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.78%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.18%) Couchbase
6 2 (1.18%) Redis
6 2 (1.18%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.59%) Essbase
7 1 (0.59%) Metadata
7 1 (0.59%) MySQL
7 1 (0.59%) Power BI
7 1 (0.59%) Power Query
7 1 (0.59%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 18 (10.65%) JIRA
2 16 (9.47%) Jenkins
3 11 (6.51%) Git
4 6 (3.55%) Visual Website Optimizer
5 4 (2.37%) Bitbucket
5 4 (2.37%) Cucumber
5 4 (2.37%) Cypress.io
5 4 (2.37%) Selenium
5 4 (2.37%) SpecFlow
6 3 (1.78%) GitLab
6 3 (1.78%) Gradle
6 3 (1.78%) Maven
6 3 (1.78%) Postman
7 2 (1.18%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.59%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.59%) Subversion
8 1 (0.59%) Visual Studio
General
1 57 (33.73%) Social Skills
2 34 (20.12%) Retail
3 27 (15.98%) Marketing
4 20 (11.83%) Finance
5 18 (10.65%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (5.33%) Advertising
7 7 (4.14%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.37%) Publishing
9 3 (1.78%) Banking
9 3 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.78%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.18%) Back Office
10 2 (1.18%) French Language
10 2 (1.18%) Legal
10 2 (1.18%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.18%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.18%) Wholesale Banking
11 1 (0.59%) Italian Language
11 1 (0.59%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 22 (13.02%) Developer
2 21 (12.43%) Senior
3 16 (9.47%) Analyst
4 13 (7.69%) Consultant
5 12 (7.10%) Architect
6 11 (6.51%) Business Analyst
7 10 (5.92%) Designer
8 8 (4.73%) Lead
8 8 (4.73%) Magento Developer
8 8 (4.73%) Project Manager
9 6 (3.55%) Automation Tester
9 6 (3.55%) Tester
10 5 (2.96%) Enterprise Architect
10 5 (2.96%) Product Manager
10 5 (2.96%) Solutions Designer
10 5 (2.96%) Technical Consultant
10 5 (2.96%) Technical Manager
11 4 (2.37%) E-Commerce Manager
11 4 (2.37%) Senior Technical Consultant
11 4 (2.37%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (17.16%) Node.js
2 24 (14.20%) GraphQL
3 13 (7.69%) React
4 10 (5.92%) Playwright
4 10 (5.92%) Vitest
5 8 (4.73%) HTML
6 6 (3.55%) CSS
6 6 (3.55%) YAML
7 5 (2.96%) .NET
7 5 (2.96%) Next.js
7 5 (2.96%) OAuth
7 5 (2.96%) OAuth2
7 5 (2.96%) OpenID
7 5 (2.96%) SAML
7 5 (2.96%) SOAP
8 4 (2.37%) Lambda Expressions
8 4 (2.37%) Redux
8 4 (2.37%) RESTful
8 4 (2.37%) VML
9 2 (1.18%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.83%) Cloud Native
2 17 (10.06%) Product Ownership
3 9 (5.33%) Mobile App
4 7 (4.14%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.14%) Social Media
5 6 (3.55%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (2.37%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.37%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.78%) IVR
8 2 (1.18%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.18%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.18%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.18%) Marketing Technology
9 1 (0.59%) Culture of Ownership
9 1 (0.59%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.59%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.59%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.59%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.78%) Unix
2 2 (1.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (33.73%) Agile
2 32 (18.93%) Analytics
3 28 (16.57%) Mentoring
4 27 (15.98%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (15.98%) Stakeholder Management
5 26 (15.38%) DevOps
6 23 (13.61%) CI/CD
7 22 (13.02%) User Experience
8 21 (12.43%) Roadmaps
9 20 (11.83%) A/B Testing
10 18 (10.65%) B2B
11 14 (8.28%) B2C
11 14 (8.28%) Coaching
11 14 (8.28%) Customer Experience
11 14 (8.28%) Microservices
11 14 (8.28%) Test Automation
12 13 (7.69%) Conversion Rate Optimisation
12 13 (7.69%) CRM
12 13 (7.69%) UX Design
13 12 (7.10%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 23 (13.61%) TypeScript
2 20 (11.83%) SQL
3 19 (11.24%) JavaScript
4 17 (10.06%) Python
5 10 (5.92%) Java
6 6 (3.55%) C#
7 3 (1.78%) Ruby
8 2 (1.18%) Apex Code
8 2 (1.18%) PHP
8 2 (1.18%) R
9 1 (0.59%) SOQL
9 1 (0.59%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (6.51%) Degree
2 9 (5.33%) AWS Certification
3 4 (2.37%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.18%) APMG
4 2 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.18%) ISTQB
4 2 (1.18%) MBA
5 1 (0.59%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.73%) QA
2 7 (4.14%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.78%) GDPR
4 2 (1.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (1.18%) SLA
5 1 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.59%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.59%) Software Quality Assurance
5 1 (0.59%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (9.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (10.06%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.96%) Terraform
3 3 (1.78%) Ansible
3 3 (1.78%) Istio
3 3 (1.78%) Puppet
4 2 (1.18%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 21 (12.43%) Google
1 21 (12.43%) Salesforce
2 12 (7.10%) SAP
3 9 (5.33%) Oracle
4 8 (4.73%) Optimizely
5 6 (3.55%) Amplitude
5 6 (3.55%) Hotjar
6 5 (2.96%) Facebook
6 5 (2.96%) Microsoft
7 4 (2.37%) Adobe
7 4 (2.37%) Sitecore
7 4 (2.37%) TikTok
7 4 (2.37%) Wind River
8 3 (1.78%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.78%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.78%) Splunk
8 3 (1.78%) Twitter
9 2 (1.18%) New Relic
9 2 (1.18%) OneTrust
9 2 (1.18%) Rollbar