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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 178 159
Rank change year-on-year -13 -19 +28
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 308 198 263
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.53% 1.47% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.72% 1.59% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 114 202
10th Percentile £313 £265 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -6.36% -3.30%
75th Percentile £615 £594 £650
90th Percentile £763 £725 £775
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £51.50 - £47.63
25th Percentile £53.75 - £49.69
Median hourly rate £60.00 £24.61 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +143.80% -54.21% -0.46%
75th Percentile £68.75 £28.43 £57.19
90th Percentile £72.50 £30.72 £58.88
England median hourly rate £37.50 £15.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +141.94% -67.37% -5.00%

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 17,943 12,436 14,413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.88% 92.58% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,720 8,226 9,619
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 298 251 180
10th Percentile £16.70 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £33.92 £31.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.67% -10.00% -12.31%
75th Percentile £56.81 £48.13 £55.00
90th Percentile £82.38 £63.75 £72.19
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.91%

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -10 41 £525 +2.44% 76
West London -19 19 £480 +32.41% 11
North London 0 1 £375 -58.33%
South London - 1 £625 - 6
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 15 (4.87%) CMS
2 9 (2.92%) Confluence
3 5 (1.62%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.30%) Apache
4 4 (1.30%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.97%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.97%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.65%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.65%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.32%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.32%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.32%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.32%) Mule
7 1 (0.32%) nginx
7 1 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 20 (6.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (3.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (3.25%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (2.92%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.65%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.32%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.32%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 17 (5.52%) Magento
2 16 (5.19%) Shopify
3 9 (2.92%) Payment Gateway
4 7 (2.27%) NetSuite
5 6 (1.95%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (1.95%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.65%) ION MarketView
8 1 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.32%) Oracle Retail
8 1 (0.32%) Oracle SCM
8 1 (0.32%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.32%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
8 1 (0.32%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 48 (15.58%) AWS
2 45 (14.61%) Azure
3 15 (4.87%) GCP
4 14 (4.55%) Figma
4 14 (4.55%) GitHub
5 12 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (3.57%) Serverless
7 10 (3.25%) Power Platform
7 10 (3.25%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 9 (2.92%) SaaS
9 8 (2.60%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (2.60%) Snowflake
10 6 (1.95%) Azure Functions
10 6 (1.95%) BigCommerce
10 6 (1.95%) dbt
10 6 (1.95%) Entra ID
11 5 (1.62%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (1.62%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (1.62%) CloudFront
11 5 (1.62%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.30%) WAN
2 3 (0.97%) Firewall
2 3 (0.97%) Internet
3 2 (0.65%) HTTP
3 2 (0.65%) LAN
3 2 (0.65%) Network Security
3 2 (0.65%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.65%) VPN
3 2 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.32%) Wireless
4 1 (0.32%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.57%) BigQuery
1 11 (3.57%) NoSQL
2 10 (3.25%) Looker
3 9 (2.92%) MongoDB
3 9 (2.92%) Power BI
4 7 (2.27%) SQL Server
5 6 (1.95%) Couchbase
5 6 (1.95%) Redis
5 6 (1.95%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.62%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (1.62%) Tableau
7 4 (1.30%) Semantic Layer
8 3 (0.97%) Metadata
8 3 (0.97%) MySQL
8 3 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.97%) Power Query
8 3 (0.97%) SAP HANA
9 2 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 23 (7.47%) Jenkins
2 15 (4.87%) Git
3 14 (4.55%) JIRA
4 8 (2.60%) Subversion
5 6 (1.95%) Vite
6 5 (1.62%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.30%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.30%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.97%) GitLab
8 3 (0.97%) Selenium
8 3 (0.97%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.65%) Appium
9 2 (0.65%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.65%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.32%) Bundler
10 1 (0.32%) MLflow
10 1 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.32%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.32%) Postman
10 1 (0.32%) TestRail
General
1 148 (48.05%) Retail
2 106 (34.42%) Social Skills
3 57 (18.51%) Marketing
4 54 (17.53%) Finance
5 41 (13.31%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (10.71%) Organisational Skills
7 26 (8.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (4.87%) Manufacturing
9 10 (3.25%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (2.92%) Banking
11 8 (2.60%) Legal
12 6 (1.95%) Advertising
13 5 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (1.30%) Electronics
14 4 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.97%) French Language
15 3 (0.97%) Public Sector
15 3 (0.97%) Publishing
16 2 (0.65%) Front Office
16 2 (0.65%) German Language
Job Titles
1 62 (20.13%) Senior
2 36 (11.69%) Developer
3 29 (9.42%) Analyst
4 26 (8.44%) Architect
5 23 (7.47%) Designer
6 21 (6.82%) Lead
7 18 (5.84%) Business Analyst
7 18 (5.84%) Product Manager
8 17 (5.52%) Senior Manager
9 15 (4.87%) Project Manager
9 15 (4.87%) Solutions Architect
10 12 (3.90%) E-Commerce Manager
10 12 (3.90%) UI Designer
11 11 (3.57%) Data Engineer
12 9 (2.92%) Consultant
12 9 (2.92%) Lead Designer
12 9 (2.92%) Marketing Manager
12 9 (2.92%) Senior Designer
12 9 (2.92%) Senior Developer
13 8 (2.60%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (9.42%) GraphQL
2 25 (8.12%) React
3 23 (7.47%) REST
4 19 (6.17%) Node.js
5 16 (5.19%) Kafka
5 16 (5.19%) VML
6 15 (4.87%) Next.js
7 12 (3.90%) .NET
8 11 (3.57%) Spring
8 11 (3.57%) Spring Boot
8 11 (3.57%) Terraform
9 10 (3.25%) HTML
9 10 (3.25%) Middleware
10 9 (2.92%) RESTful
11 8 (2.60%) CSS
12 7 (2.27%) SOAP
13 5 (1.62%) ASP.NET
13 5 (1.62%) HTML5
13 5 (1.62%) Jakarta EE
13 5 (1.62%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 31 (10.06%) Product Ownership
2 20 (6.49%) Cloud Native
2 20 (6.49%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (4.87%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (3.25%) Mobile App
5 9 (2.92%) FMCG
5 9 (2.92%) Graphic Design
6 8 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.27%) AI Agents
7 7 (2.27%) Management Information System
7 7 (2.27%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.62%) Marketing Technology
8 5 (1.62%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.97%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.97%) Life Science
10 3 (0.97%) Smart Home
11 2 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.65%) Digital Wallet
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.92%) Android
1 9 (2.92%) Apple iOS
2 4 (1.30%) Windows
3 2 (0.65%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.32%) Linux
4 1 (0.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (29.87%) Agile
2 75 (24.35%) Stakeholder Management
3 57 (18.51%) User Experience
4 51 (16.56%) CI/CD
4 51 (16.56%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (13.64%) CRM
6 40 (12.99%) AI
7 39 (12.66%) Analytics
8 38 (12.34%) DevOps
8 38 (12.34%) Roadmaps
9 37 (12.01%) Customer Experience
10 36 (11.69%) Scrum
11 34 (11.04%) Migration
12 29 (9.42%) Time Management
13 28 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
14 27 (8.77%) Project Management
15 21 (6.82%) Mentoring
15 21 (6.82%) Release Management
16 20 (6.49%) Decision-Making
16 20 (6.49%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 35 (11.36%) SQL
2 25 (8.12%) Python
3 23 (7.47%) TypeScript
4 21 (6.82%) Java
5 17 (5.52%) JavaScript
6 12 (3.90%) C#
7 5 (1.62%) Groovy
7 5 (1.62%) Kotlin
7 5 (1.62%) Swift
8 4 (1.30%) Bash
8 4 (1.30%) LookML
8 4 (1.30%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.97%) ABAP
9 3 (0.97%) Go
10 2 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.65%) PHP
10 2 (0.65%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.32%) Scala
11 1 (0.32%) SOQL
11 1 (0.32%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 32 (10.39%) Degree
2 5 (1.62%) CSPO
2 5 (1.62%) Master's Degree
3 3 (0.97%) MBA
3 3 (0.97%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.32%) CISA
4 1 (0.32%) CISSP
4 1 (0.32%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.32%) IIBA
4 1 (0.32%) ISEB
4 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 1 (0.32%) PhD
4 1 (0.32%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.32%) PMP
4 1 (0.32%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.47%) QA
2 21 (6.82%) Data Quality
3 12 (3.90%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.62%) GDPR
5 3 (0.97%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.97%) PMO
6 2 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.65%) PSD2
7 1 (0.32%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.32%) NIST
7 1 (0.32%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (3.90%) Docker
2 3 (0.97%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.32%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 15 (4.87%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.65%) Bosun
2 2 (0.65%) Jamf Pro
2 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.32%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 33 (10.71%) Salesforce
2 30 (9.74%) Microsoft
3 19 (6.17%) Adobe
4 17 (5.52%) Oracle
5 14 (4.55%) Google
5 14 (4.55%) SAP
6 7 (2.27%) IBM
6 7 (2.27%) New Relic
7 6 (1.95%) Databricks
7 6 (1.95%) Sitecore
7 6 (1.95%) Splunk
8 5 (1.62%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.30%) Apple
9 4 (1.30%) MuleSoft
10 3 (0.97%) Adyen
10 3 (0.97%) Aprimo
10 3 (0.97%) Braze
10 3 (0.97%) OneTrust
10 3 (0.97%) Optimizely
11 2 (0.65%) Screaming Frog