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

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 183 160 168
Rank change year-on-year -23 +8 -47
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 209 257 286
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.49% 1.64% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.62% 1.83% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 190 187
10th Percentile £320 £306 £376
25th Percentile £404 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -7.27% -
75th Percentile £575 £625 £625
90th Percentile £730 £713 £760
England median daily rate £500 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 5
10th Percentile £22.08 £42.34 £30.20
25th Percentile £24.61 £43.00 £47.75
Median hourly rate £31.50 £44.71 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.54% -22.25% -22.69%
75th Percentile £49.20 £47.04 £65.75
90th Percentile £65.80 £48.07 £69.50
England median hourly rate £15.50 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -67.37% -5.00% -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 12,904 14,060 17,647
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.94% 89.70% 89.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,504 9,083 12,650
10th Percentile £335 £350 £353
25th Percentile £425 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £567
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.96% -3.72%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £764 £800 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £548
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.11% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 169 237
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £18.54
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £29.25 £37.00 £35.63
Median % change year-on-year -20.95% +3.85% -9.80%
75th Percentile £47.38 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.50 £80.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.14%

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 1 December 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing E-Commerce in London over the 6 months to 1 December 2025.

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 1 December 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
West London +8 29 £438 - 9
Central London +2 23 £513 -6.82% 13
East London - 2 £400 - 3
North London - 1 £900 - 9
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 (4.31%) Confluence
2 7 (3.35%) CMS
3 4 (1.91%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.96%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.48%) SAS
5 1 (0.48%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (3.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.87%) Chatbot
2 6 (2.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.48%) Autodesk Smoke
4 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (8.13%) Shopify
2 10 (4.78%) Magento
3 5 (2.39%) Oracle Retail
4 4 (1.91%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (1.91%) Endur
4 4 (1.91%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.96%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.48%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.48%) Eikon
6 1 (0.48%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.48%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.48%) Orchestrade
6 1 (0.48%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 31 (14.83%) SaaS
2 22 (10.53%) AWS
3 17 (8.13%) Azure
4 12 (5.74%) Figma
4 12 (5.74%) GCP
4 12 (5.74%) Serverless
5 11 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (3.35%) Dynamics 365
6 7 (3.35%) Google Analytics
7 6 (2.87%) Contentsquare
7 6 (2.87%) Datadog
8 5 (2.39%) Facebook Ads
9 4 (1.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (1.91%) BigCommerce
9 4 (1.91%) Cloudflare
9 4 (1.91%) Commercetools
9 4 (1.91%) Google Tag Manager
9 4 (1.91%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
9 4 (1.91%) SAP Commerce Cloud
10 3 (1.44%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.35%) Cisco IPT
2 2 (0.96%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.87%) Mixpanel
2 5 (2.39%) DynamoDB
2 5 (2.39%) NoSQL
2 5 (2.39%) Tableau
3 4 (1.91%) Redis
4 3 (1.44%) Power BI
4 3 (1.44%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.96%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.96%) Couchbase
5 2 (0.96%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.96%) MySQL
6 1 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.48%) Essbase
6 1 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.48%) Power Query
6 1 (0.48%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 28 (13.40%) Jenkins
2 17 (8.13%) JIRA
3 7 (3.35%) Git
4 6 (2.87%) Visual Website Optimizer
5 4 (1.91%) Cucumber
5 4 (1.91%) Selenium
5 4 (1.91%) SpecFlow
6 3 (1.44%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.96%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.96%) Browser DevTools
7 2 (0.96%) Charles Proxy
7 2 (0.96%) Fiddler
7 2 (0.96%) GitLab
7 2 (0.96%) Postman
7 2 (0.96%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.48%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.48%) Gradle
8 1 (0.48%) Maven
8 1 (0.48%) Subversion
General
1 71 (33.97%) Social Skills
2 40 (19.14%) Retail
3 33 (15.79%) Marketing
4 29 (13.88%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (11.00%) Finance
6 12 (5.74%) Legal
7 9 (4.31%) Electronics
8 7 (3.35%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.87%) Advertising
9 6 (2.87%) Banking
10 4 (1.91%) French Language
10 4 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.44%) Front Office
12 2 (0.96%) Back Office
12 2 (0.96%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.96%) Publishing
12 2 (0.96%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.96%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 31 (14.83%) Senior
2 27 (12.92%) Analyst
3 25 (11.96%) Consultant
4 21 (10.05%) Developer
5 19 (9.09%) Architect
5 19 (9.09%) Business Analyst
6 11 (5.26%) Designer
7 10 (4.78%) Technical Consultant
8 9 (4.31%) Senior Consultant
8 9 (4.31%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 9 (4.31%) Senior Technical Consultant
8 9 (4.31%) Senior Technical Specialist
8 9 (4.31%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
8 9 (4.31%) Technical Specialist
9 8 (3.83%) Cloud Specialist
9 8 (3.83%) Lead
9 8 (3.83%) Project Manager
9 8 (3.83%) UX Designer
10 7 (3.35%) Senior Designer
11 6 (2.87%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (19.14%) Node.js
2 32 (15.31%) GraphQL
3 22 (10.53%) Playwright
3 22 (10.53%) Vitest
4 14 (6.70%) React
5 13 (6.22%) YAML
6 12 (5.74%) HTML
7 10 (4.78%) CSS
8 6 (2.87%) .NET
8 6 (2.87%) Next.js
9 5 (2.39%) OpenTelemetry
9 5 (2.39%) RESTful
9 5 (2.39%) SOAP
10 4 (1.91%) HTML5
10 4 (1.91%) REST
10 4 (1.91%) VML
11 3 (1.44%) CSS3
11 3 (1.44%) Lambda Expressions
11 3 (1.44%) Redux
12 2 (0.96%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 33 (15.79%) Cloud Native
2 28 (13.40%) Product Ownership
3 16 (7.66%) Mobile App
4 11 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
4 11 (5.26%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.35%) Marketing Technology
5 7 (3.35%) Social Media
6 6 (2.87%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.39%) Client/Server
8 4 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.91%) PMI
9 3 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.44%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.96%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.48%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.48%) FMCG
11 1 (0.48%) IVR
11 1 (0.48%) Learning Management System
11 1 (0.48%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.96%) Android
1 2 (0.96%) Apple iOS
1 2 (0.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (35.89%) Agile
2 42 (20.10%) CI/CD
3 39 (18.66%) DevOps
4 38 (18.18%) Analytics
5 36 (17.22%) Problem-Solving
6 35 (16.75%) Stakeholder Management
7 33 (15.79%) Mentoring
7 33 (15.79%) User Experience
8 28 (13.40%) Coaching
9 26 (12.44%) Test Automation
10 23 (11.00%) A/B Testing
11 22 (10.53%) Roadmaps
12 20 (9.57%) B2B
12 20 (9.57%) CRM
12 20 (9.57%) Customer Experience
12 20 (9.57%) UX Design
13 19 (9.09%) B2C
14 17 (8.13%) ERP
14 17 (8.13%) Process Improvement
14 17 (8.13%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 35 (16.75%) TypeScript
2 25 (11.96%) SQL
3 18 (8.61%) Python
4 17 (8.13%) JavaScript
5 10 (4.78%) Java
6 7 (3.35%) C#
7 4 (1.91%) Ruby
8 3 (1.44%) PHP
9 2 (0.96%) R
10 1 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.48%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (6.22%) Degree
2 5 (2.39%) AWS Certification
3 4 (1.91%) Master's Degree
3 4 (1.91%) PMI Certification
4 2 (0.96%) APMG
4 2 (0.96%) CBAP
4 2 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.96%) ISTQB
4 2 (0.96%) MBA
5 1 (0.48%) CFA
5 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.13%) GDPR
2 12 (5.74%) QA
3 9 (4.31%) Accessibility
4 8 (3.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 8 (3.83%) PERC
5 4 (1.91%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.96%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.96%) ISO 8583
6 2 (0.96%) PSD2
6 2 (0.96%) SLA
6 2 (0.96%) WCAG
7 1 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 28 (13.40%) Docker
2 1 (0.48%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 29 (13.88%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.87%) Grafana
2 6 (2.87%) Prometheus
3 5 (2.39%) Terraform
4 3 (1.44%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.48%) Ansible
5 1 (0.48%) Istio
5 1 (0.48%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (11.48%) Salesforce
2 23 (11.00%) Google
3 14 (6.70%) SAP
4 13 (6.22%) Adobe
5 9 (4.31%) Optimizely
6 8 (3.83%) Oracle
7 7 (3.35%) Microsoft
7 7 (3.35%) OneTrust
7 7 (3.35%) Tealium
8 6 (2.87%) Amplitude
8 6 (2.87%) Hotjar
9 5 (2.39%) Facebook
10 4 (1.91%) Sitecore
10 4 (1.91%) TikTok
10 4 (1.91%) Wind River
11 3 (1.44%) mParticle
11 3 (1.44%) OpenAI
12 2 (0.96%) New Relic
12 2 (0.96%) Rollbar
12 2 (0.96%) Splunk