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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 159 157
Rank change year-on-year -31 -2 -12
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 245 205 282
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.45% 1.62% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.62% 1.78% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 132 201
10th Percentile £350 £310 £325
25th Percentile £413 £370 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -6.98% -4.44%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £644 £688 £721
England median daily rate £510 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +13.39% -10.00% -5.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 3
10th Percentile £25.47 £31.58 £63.85
25th Percentile £36.25 £35.46 £64.75
Median hourly rate £54.50 £41.91 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.04% -37.91% +23.85%
75th Percentile £63.00 £45.33 £68.75
90th Percentile £67.20 £47.38 -
England median hourly rate £35.91 £44.71 £13.00
% change year-on-year -19.67% +243.88% -81.43%

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 15,126 11,538 15,944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.53% 91.39% 88.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,169 7,836 11,414
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £428 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 169 337
10th Percentile £18.07 £18.83 £15.98
25th Percentile £22.11 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.05% -22.67%
75th Percentile £57.23 £51.18 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £65.50 £68.75
England median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +13.85% - -13.33%

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 April 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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -2 29 £375 +10.70% 7
Central London -14 17 £475 -16.67% 66
East London - 1 £400 - 6
North London - 1 £538 - 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 9 (3.67%) CMS
2 6 (2.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 5 (2.04%) Confluence
4 3 (1.22%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.41%) Apache
5 1 (0.41%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.41%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.41%) Kentico
5 1 (0.41%) nginx
5 1 (0.41%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.41%) Sitefinity
5 1 (0.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (3.27%) Chatbot
2 7 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.04%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.82%) Autodesk Smoke
6 1 (0.41%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.41%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.41%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.41%) Trello
Business Applications
1 32 (13.06%) Shopify
2 5 (2.04%) Magento
3 4 (1.63%) Endur
3 4 (1.63%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.41%) Eikon
5 1 (0.41%) Orchestrade
5 1 (0.41%) SAP CAR
5 1 (0.41%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.41%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.41%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.41%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.41%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.41%) SAP Retail
5 1 (0.41%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.41%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 23 (9.39%) SaaS
2 16 (6.53%) AWS
2 16 (6.53%) Azure
3 15 (6.12%) Dynamics 365
4 13 (5.31%) Datadog
4 13 (5.31%) Figma
5 9 (3.67%) BigCommerce
5 9 (3.67%) GCP
6 7 (2.86%) Google Workspace
6 7 (2.86%) Miro
6 7 (2.86%) Power Platform
6 7 (2.86%) WhatsApp
7 6 (2.45%) Contentsquare
7 6 (2.45%) Serverless
8 5 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (2.04%) Google Analytics
9 4 (1.63%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
10 3 (1.22%) Google Tag Manager
10 3 (1.22%) Power Automate
10 3 (1.22%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.86%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.41%) Internet
2 1 (0.41%) RFID
2 1 (0.41%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.86%) MySQL
2 6 (2.45%) Power BI
3 5 (2.04%) Looker
3 5 (2.04%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.63%) BigQuery
4 4 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.63%) Redis
5 3 (1.22%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.22%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.22%) Tableau
6 2 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.82%) CockroachDB
6 2 (0.82%) Metadata
6 2 (0.82%) Mixpanel
6 2 (0.82%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.41%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.41%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.41%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.41%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 27 (11.02%) Jenkins
2 10 (4.08%) JIRA
3 8 (3.27%) Git
3 8 (3.27%) Selenium
4 6 (2.45%) GitLab
5 5 (2.04%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.63%) Maven
7 3 (1.22%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (1.22%) Charles Proxy
7 3 (1.22%) Fiddler
7 3 (1.22%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.82%) Appium
8 2 (0.82%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.82%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.82%) Visual Website Optimizer
8 2 (0.82%) WebDriver
8 2 (0.82%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.41%) NUnit
9 1 (0.41%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.41%) Spock
General
1 89 (36.33%) Social Skills
2 62 (25.31%) Retail
3 52 (21.22%) Finance
4 32 (13.06%) Marketing
5 29 (11.84%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (11.02%) Organisational Skills
7 16 (6.53%) Legal
8 12 (4.90%) Electronics
9 8 (3.27%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (2.45%) Advertising
10 6 (2.45%) Banking
10 6 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (2.04%) French Language
12 4 (1.63%) Front Office
12 4 (1.63%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.22%) Publishing
14 2 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.82%) Public Sector
14 2 (0.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 63 (25.71%) Senior
2 31 (12.65%) Analyst
3 26 (10.61%) Project Manager
4 24 (9.80%) Developer
5 23 (9.39%) Senior Manager
6 21 (8.57%) Business Analyst
6 21 (8.57%) Senior Project Manager
7 20 (8.16%) Consultant
8 17 (6.94%) Designer
9 15 (6.12%) Architect
10 14 (5.71%) Lead
11 11 (4.49%) E-Commerce Manager
12 10 (4.08%) Full-Stack Developer
12 10 (4.08%) Senior Designer
13 9 (3.67%) Technical Consultant
13 9 (3.67%) UX Designer
14 8 (3.27%) Senior Consultant
14 8 (3.27%) Senior Technical Consultant
14 8 (3.27%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
14 8 (3.27%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (13.47%) Node.js
2 29 (11.84%) GraphQL
2 29 (11.84%) Playwright
3 21 (8.57%) Vitest
4 18 (7.35%) CSS
5 16 (6.53%) React
6 15 (6.12%) HTML
6 15 (6.12%) VML
7 13 (5.31%) REST
7 13 (5.31%) YAML
8 11 (4.49%) OpenTelemetry
9 10 (4.08%) Middleware
10 9 (3.67%) .NET
11 7 (2.86%) AngularJS
11 7 (2.86%) Spring
12 6 (2.45%) Web Services
13 5 (2.04%) Bootstrap
13 5 (2.04%) HTML5
13 5 (2.04%) jQuery
13 5 (2.04%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 30 (12.24%) Cloud Native
2 24 (9.80%) Product Ownership
3 17 (6.94%) Mobile App
4 13 (5.31%) Analytical Mindset
5 11 (4.49%) Onboarding
5 11 (4.49%) Virtual Team
6 9 (3.67%) Marketing Technology
7 6 (2.45%) PMI
8 5 (2.04%) Client/Server
9 4 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.22%) FMCG
11 2 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.82%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.82%) Fixed Income
11 2 (0.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.82%) Low-Code
11 2 (0.82%) Social Media
11 2 (0.82%) Taxonomies
12 1 (0.41%) Derivative
12 1 (0.41%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.86%) Android
2 6 (2.45%) Apple iOS
2 6 (2.45%) Linux
3 4 (1.63%) Unix
3 4 (1.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (41.22%) Agile
2 55 (22.45%) Problem-Solving
3 47 (19.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 46 (18.78%) User Experience
5 44 (17.96%) CI/CD
6 36 (14.69%) Project Management
7 35 (14.29%) Analytics
7 35 (14.29%) DevOps
8 32 (13.06%) Test Automation
9 29 (11.84%) Customer Experience
9 29 (11.84%) Time Management
10 26 (10.61%) Coaching
11 25 (10.20%) Release Management
12 24 (9.80%) Mentoring
13 23 (9.39%) B2C
14 22 (8.98%) Scrum
14 22 (8.98%) SDLC
15 21 (8.57%) Continuous Improvement
15 21 (8.57%) ERP
15 21 (8.57%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 35 (14.29%) TypeScript
2 23 (9.39%) JavaScript
3 19 (7.76%) SQL
4 13 (5.31%) Java
5 9 (3.67%) Python
6 8 (3.27%) C#
7 4 (1.63%) PHP
8 1 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.41%) Go
8 1 (0.41%) Korn
8 1 (0.41%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 11 (4.49%) Degree
2 6 (2.45%) PMI Certification
3 2 (0.82%) CBAP
3 2 (0.82%) CSPO
3 2 (0.82%) Master's Degree
3 2 (0.82%) MBA
4 1 (0.41%) CFA
4 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.41%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.41%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.16%) QA
2 17 (6.94%) GDPR
3 14 (5.71%) Accessibility
4 10 (4.08%) PERC
5 7 (2.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 5 (2.04%) Data Quality
7 4 (1.63%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.63%) SLA
7 4 (1.63%) WCAG
8 2 (0.82%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.82%) PSD2
9 1 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 27 (11.02%) Docker
2 2 (0.82%) Varnish
3 1 (0.41%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 27 (11.02%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.90%) Grafana
2 12 (4.90%) Prometheus
3 8 (3.27%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 3 (1.22%) Terraform
5 1 (0.41%) Ansible
Vendors
1 27 (11.02%) Adobe
2 24 (9.80%) Salesforce
3 23 (9.39%) Google
4 21 (8.57%) SAP
5 11 (4.49%) Microsoft
6 10 (4.08%) Tealium
7 9 (3.67%) Sitecore
8 6 (2.45%) OneTrust
9 5 (2.04%) mParticle
10 4 (1.63%) Databricks
10 4 (1.63%) Optimizely
11 3 (1.22%) Wind River
12 2 (0.82%) Amplitude
12 2 (0.82%) Hotjar
12 2 (0.82%) Netlify
12 2 (0.82%) Splunk
13 1 (0.41%) Botify
13 1 (0.41%) Dynatrace
13 1 (0.41%) Instagram
13 1 (0.41%) Solace