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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 167 154
Rank change year-on-year -9 -13 +1
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 254 198 284
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.43% 1.59% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.62% 1.72% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 126 209
10th Percentile £313 £322 £350
25th Percentile £405 £378 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -6.36% -2.22%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £638 £688 £783
England median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 3
10th Percentile £27.27 - £63.85
25th Percentile £40.50 - £64.75
Median hourly rate £58.25 £29.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +100.86% -57.04% +92.86%
75th Percentile £68.25 - £68.75
90th Percentile £72.50 - -
England median hourly rate £54.50 £29.00 £13.00
% change year-on-year +87.93% +123.08% -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 15,718 11,485 15,694
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.39% 92.19% 88.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,513 7,782 11,264
10th Percentile £356 £350 £340
25th Percentile £430 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £680
90th Percentile £755 £813 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 172 317
10th Percentile £18.66 £16.50 £15.98
25th Percentile £25.00 £22.73 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £34.25 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.26% +20.18% -26.92%
75th Percentile £58.92 £50.56 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £65.85
England median hourly rate £46.47 £29.15 £36.50
% change year-on-year +59.40% -20.14% -2.14%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 8 May 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 -1 25 £440 -22.81% 53
West London -10 24 £375 +10.29% 7
North London - 1 £538 -
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 8 (3.15%) CMS
2 6 (2.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 5 (1.97%) Confluence
4 1 (0.39%) Apache
4 1 (0.39%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.39%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.39%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.39%) Kentico
4 1 (0.39%) nginx
4 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.39%) Sitefinity
4 1 (0.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (3.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.15%) Chatbot
3 6 (2.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.57%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.79%) Autodesk Smoke
7 1 (0.39%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.39%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.39%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.39%) Trello
Business Applications
1 37 (14.57%) Shopify
2 5 (1.97%) Magento
3 4 (1.57%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.39%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.39%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.39%) SAP CAR
5 1 (0.39%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.39%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.39%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.39%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.39%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.39%) SAP Retail
5 1 (0.39%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.39%) SDL Web 8
5 1 (0.39%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 19 (7.48%) AWS
2 17 (6.69%) Azure
3 15 (5.91%) SaaS
4 14 (5.51%) Dynamics 365
4 14 (5.51%) Figma
5 13 (5.12%) BigCommerce
5 13 (5.12%) Datadog
6 10 (3.94%) GCP
7 8 (3.15%) Power Platform
8 7 (2.76%) Google Workspace
8 7 (2.76%) Miro
8 7 (2.76%) Serverless
8 7 (2.76%) WhatsApp
9 6 (2.36%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (1.57%) Google Analytics
10 4 (1.57%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
10 4 (1.57%) SAP Commerce Cloud
11 3 (1.18%) Contentsquare
11 3 (1.18%) Power Automate
12 2 (0.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.79%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.39%) Firewall
2 1 (0.39%) Internet
2 1 (0.39%) LAN
2 1 (0.39%) Network Security
2 1 (0.39%) RFID
2 1 (0.39%) RTMP
2 1 (0.39%) WAN
2 1 (0.39%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.15%) MySQL
2 7 (2.76%) Power BI
3 5 (1.97%) Looker
3 5 (1.97%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.57%) BigQuery
4 4 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.57%) Redis
5 3 (1.18%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.18%) Metadata
5 3 (1.18%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.18%) Tableau
6 2 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.79%) CockroachDB
6 2 (0.79%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.79%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (0.39%) Big Data
7 1 (0.39%) Bigtable
7 1 (0.39%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (9.45%) Jenkins
2 11 (4.33%) JIRA
3 10 (3.94%) Selenium
4 9 (3.54%) Git
5 7 (2.76%) Cypress.io
5 7 (2.76%) GitLab
6 4 (1.57%) Maven
6 4 (1.57%) Vite
7 3 (1.18%) Appium
7 3 (1.18%) Zephyr
8 2 (0.79%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.79%) Browser DevTools
8 2 (0.79%) Charles Proxy
8 2 (0.79%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.79%) Fiddler
8 2 (0.79%) Subversion
8 2 (0.79%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.39%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.39%) NUnit
9 1 (0.39%) PHPUnit
General
1 91 (35.83%) Social Skills
2 82 (32.28%) Retail
3 54 (21.26%) Finance
4 35 (13.78%) Marketing
5 34 (13.39%) Organisational Skills
6 25 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (4.72%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (4.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (4.33%) Legal
9 10 (3.94%) Electronics
10 7 (2.76%) Banking
11 6 (2.36%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.57%) Public Sector
14 3 (1.18%) Advertising
14 3 (1.18%) French Language
14 3 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.79%) Front Office
15 2 (0.79%) Telecoms
16 1 (0.39%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 72 (28.35%) Senior
2 32 (12.60%) Analyst
3 30 (11.81%) Project Manager
4 29 (11.42%) Developer
4 29 (11.42%) Senior Manager
5 24 (9.45%) Business Analyst
6 23 (9.06%) Senior Project Manager
7 20 (7.87%) Designer
8 16 (6.30%) Consultant
9 15 (5.91%) Lead
10 14 (5.51%) Architect
11 13 (5.12%) Senior Designer
12 9 (3.54%) E-Commerce Analyst
12 9 (3.54%) E-Commerce Business Analyst
12 9 (3.54%) E-Commerce Manager
12 9 (3.54%) Full-Stack Developer
12 9 (3.54%) UX Designer
13 8 (3.15%) Product Designer
13 8 (3.15%) Product Manager
14 7 (2.76%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (13.39%) GraphQL
2 31 (12.20%) Node.js
3 26 (10.24%) Playwright
4 23 (9.06%) React
5 22 (8.66%) VML
6 19 (7.48%) CSS
7 17 (6.69%) REST
8 16 (6.30%) HTML
8 16 (6.30%) Vitest
9 12 (4.72%) Middleware
10 10 (3.94%) Next.js
10 10 (3.94%) OpenTelemetry
10 10 (3.94%) YAML
11 9 (3.54%) Spring
12 7 (2.76%) AngularJS
12 7 (2.76%) HTML5
12 7 (2.76%) Web Services
13 6 (2.36%) .NET
13 6 (2.36%) jQuery
14 5 (1.97%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.84%) Cloud Native
1 25 (9.84%) Product Ownership
2 18 (7.09%) Mobile App
3 11 (4.33%) Virtual Team
4 10 (3.94%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.15%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (3.15%) Marketing Technology
6 6 (2.36%) PMI
7 5 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.57%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.57%) FMCG
9 3 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.79%) Client/Server
10 2 (0.79%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.79%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.79%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.79%) Mobile Banking
10 2 (0.79%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.54%) Android
2 8 (3.15%) Apple iOS
3 7 (2.76%) Linux
4 4 (1.57%) Unix
4 4 (1.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (40.55%) Agile
2 58 (22.83%) Problem-Solving
3 52 (20.47%) User Experience
4 41 (16.14%) Project Management
4 41 (16.14%) Stakeholder Management
5 39 (15.35%) CI/CD
6 34 (13.39%) Time Management
7 33 (12.99%) Analytics
8 32 (12.60%) Customer Experience
9 29 (11.42%) DevOps
10 27 (10.63%) Release Management
11 26 (10.24%) Workshop Facilitation
12 25 (9.84%) Scrum
13 24 (9.45%) B2B
13 24 (9.45%) B2C
13 24 (9.45%) Continuous Improvement
14 23 (9.06%) Mentoring
14 23 (9.06%) Test Automation
15 21 (8.27%) Full-Stack Development
15 21 (8.27%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 33 (12.99%) TypeScript
2 26 (10.24%) JavaScript
3 17 (6.69%) SQL
4 16 (6.30%) Java
5 9 (3.54%) Python
6 5 (1.97%) C#
7 3 (1.18%) PHP
8 2 (0.79%) Go
8 2 (0.79%) Kotlin
8 2 (0.79%) Swift
9 1 (0.39%) Bash
9 1 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.39%) Korn
9 1 (0.39%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.39%) Ruby
9 1 (0.39%) XPath
Qualifications
1 15 (5.91%) Degree
2 6 (2.36%) PMI Certification
3 5 (1.97%) CSPO
4 2 (0.79%) CBAP
5 1 (0.39%) CISA
5 1 (0.39%) CISSP
5 1 (0.39%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (0.39%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.39%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.87%) QA
2 14 (5.51%) Accessibility
2 14 (5.51%) GDPR
3 7 (2.76%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 6 (2.36%) PERC
5 4 (1.57%) SLA
5 4 (1.57%) WCAG
6 3 (1.18%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.79%) ISO 8583
7 2 (0.79%) PMO
7 2 (0.79%) PSD2
8 1 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.39%) NIST
System Software
1 23 (9.06%) Docker
2 2 (0.79%) Varnish
3 1 (0.39%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 24 (9.45%) Kubernetes
2 11 (4.33%) Grafana
2 11 (4.33%) Prometheus
3 8 (3.15%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 3 (1.18%) Terraform
5 1 (0.39%) Ansible
Vendors
1 28 (11.02%) Adobe
2 26 (10.24%) Salesforce
3 25 (9.84%) SAP
4 19 (7.48%) Google
5 13 (5.12%) Microsoft
6 12 (4.72%) Sitecore
7 9 (3.54%) Tealium
8 5 (1.97%) mParticle
8 5 (1.97%) OneTrust
9 4 (1.57%) Databricks
9 4 (1.57%) Netlify
10 3 (1.18%) Oracle
10 3 (1.18%) Splunk
11 2 (0.79%) Optimizely
12 1 (0.39%) Cisco
12 1 (0.39%) Dynatrace
12 1 (0.39%) IBM
12 1 (0.39%) Infor
12 1 (0.39%) Solace
12 1 (0.39%) SolarWinds