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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 195 160
Rank change year-on-year +17 -35 +24
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 304 185 286
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.53% 1.36% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.72% 1.48% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 111 219
10th Percentile £313 £293 £360
25th Percentile £400 £332 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -9.09% -2.22%
75th Percentile £600 £581 £650
90th Percentile £738 £700 £874
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile £39.65 - £50.38
25th Percentile £44.75 £30.75 £56.56
Median hourly rate £54.50 £31.50 £63.75
Median % change year-on-year +73.02% -50.59% +6.25%
75th Percentile £65.38 £32.25 £68.75
90th Percentile £71.15 - -
England median hourly rate £46.00 £15.50 £13.00
% change year-on-year +196.77% +19.23% -74.00%

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 17,636 12,537 14,932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.98% 92.16% 88.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,638 8,379 10,607
10th Percentile £363 £330 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £686
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 237 238
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £24.66 £21.39
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.81 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.92% -9.40% -20.93%
75th Percentile £57.38 £49.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.45 £71.25
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +88.87% -37.13% -6.43%

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 23 July 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 23 July 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 23 July 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 -2 30 £500 -9.30% 42
West London -4 16 £480 +41.18% 9
North London - 2 £456 - 1
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 8 (2.63%) CMS
2 6 (1.97%) Confluence
3 4 (1.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (1.32%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.66%) Apache Solr
4 2 (0.66%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.33%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.33%) Apache
5 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.33%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.33%) Mule
5 1 (0.33%) nginx
Applications
1 16 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (4.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (2.96%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 9 (2.96%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (2.30%) Chatbot
5 4 (1.32%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.66%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.33%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.33%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 21 (6.91%) Shopify
2 15 (4.93%) Magento
3 6 (1.97%) NetSuite
4 5 (1.64%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (1.32%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.66%) SAP CRM
6 2 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.33%) ION MarketView
7 1 (0.33%) SAP CAR
7 1 (0.33%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.33%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.33%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.33%) SAP Retail
7 1 (0.33%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.33%) SDL Web 8
7 1 (0.33%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 35 (11.51%) AWS
2 32 (10.53%) Azure
3 22 (7.24%) Figma
4 10 (3.29%) GCP
4 10 (3.29%) GitHub
5 8 (2.63%) Google Workspace
5 8 (2.63%) Miro
5 8 (2.63%) Power Platform
5 8 (2.63%) SaaS
6 7 (2.30%) BigCommerce
6 7 (2.30%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
6 7 (2.30%) Serverless
6 7 (2.30%) WhatsApp
7 6 (1.97%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (1.97%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.32%) CloudFront
8 4 (1.32%) Datadog
9 3 (0.99%) Adobe Analytics
9 3 (0.99%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.32%) Internet
2 2 (0.66%) HTTP
2 2 (0.66%) LAN
2 2 (0.66%) WAN
3 1 (0.33%) Firewall
3 1 (0.33%) Network Security
3 1 (0.33%) RFID
3 1 (0.33%) Wireless
3 1 (0.33%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.62%) NoSQL
2 8 (2.63%) MongoDB
2 8 (2.63%) MySQL
3 7 (2.30%) BigQuery
3 7 (2.30%) Looker
3 7 (2.30%) Power BI
4 6 (1.97%) Couchbase
5 5 (1.64%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.32%) Redis
6 4 (1.32%) Semantic Layer
6 4 (1.32%) Tableau
7 3 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (0.99%) Metadata
7 3 (0.99%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.66%) Power Query
9 1 (0.33%) Db2
9 1 (0.33%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 27 (8.88%) Jenkins
2 16 (5.26%) Git
3 10 (3.29%) JIRA
4 9 (2.96%) Cypress.io
5 8 (2.63%) Selenium
5 8 (2.63%) Subversion
6 6 (1.97%) GitLab
6 6 (1.97%) Vite
7 5 (1.64%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.32%) Eclipse
8 4 (1.32%) Maven
8 4 (1.32%) Zephyr
9 3 (0.99%) Appium
10 2 (0.66%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.33%) MLflow
11 1 (0.33%) PHPUnit
11 1 (0.33%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.33%) Spock
11 1 (0.33%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.33%) TestRail
General
1 142 (46.71%) Retail
2 122 (40.13%) Social Skills
3 64 (21.05%) Finance
4 50 (16.45%) Marketing
5 38 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
6 37 (12.17%) Analytical Skills
7 22 (7.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (4.28%) Manufacturing
9 11 (3.62%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (3.29%) Banking
10 10 (3.29%) Legal
11 7 (2.30%) Advertising
12 5 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.32%) Electronics
13 4 (1.32%) Public Sector
14 3 (0.99%) French Language
14 3 (0.99%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.66%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 69 (22.70%) Senior
2 33 (10.86%) Designer
3 32 (10.53%) Developer
4 27 (8.88%) Analyst
4 27 (8.88%) Project Manager
5 25 (8.22%) Lead
5 25 (8.22%) Senior Manager
6 18 (5.92%) Business Analyst
6 18 (5.92%) Product Manager
7 16 (5.26%) Senior Project Manager
8 15 (4.93%) Architect
9 14 (4.61%) E-Commerce Manager
9 14 (4.61%) Senior Designer
10 13 (4.28%) UI Designer
11 11 (3.62%) Marketing Manager
12 10 (3.29%) Solutions Architect
13 9 (2.96%) Lead Designer
13 9 (2.96%) Senior Developer
13 9 (2.96%) UX Designer
14 8 (2.63%) Digital Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (10.20%) GraphQL
2 22 (7.24%) React
2 22 (7.24%) REST
3 17 (5.59%) VML
4 16 (5.26%) Node.js
5 15 (4.93%) Spring
6 13 (4.28%) CSS
6 13 (4.28%) Middleware
6 13 (4.28%) Playwright
7 12 (3.95%) Kafka
7 12 (3.95%) Next.js
8 11 (3.62%) HTML
8 11 (3.62%) Spring Boot
9 10 (3.29%) RESTful
10 9 (2.96%) Jakarta EE
11 6 (1.97%) AngularJS
11 6 (1.97%) HTML5
11 6 (1.97%) jQuery
11 6 (1.97%) Web Services
12 5 (1.64%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 26 (8.55%) Product Ownership
2 14 (4.61%) Cloud Native
2 14 (4.61%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (4.61%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (3.95%) Mobile App
4 9 (2.96%) Graphic Design
4 9 (2.96%) Virtual Team
5 6 (1.97%) AI Agents
5 6 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (1.97%) Onboarding
6 5 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.64%) FMCG
7 4 (1.32%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.32%) Security Posture
8 3 (0.99%) Marketing Technology
8 3 (0.99%) Smart Home
8 3 (0.99%) Taxonomies
9 2 (0.66%) EPoS
9 2 (0.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.66%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.62%) Android
2 10 (3.29%) Apple iOS
3 7 (2.30%) Linux
4 6 (1.97%) Windows
5 5 (1.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (32.57%) Agile
2 68 (22.37%) User Experience
3 62 (20.39%) Stakeholder Management
4 59 (19.41%) Problem-Solving
5 40 (13.16%) Time Management
6 38 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 38 (12.50%) Customer Experience
6 38 (12.50%) Project Management
7 37 (12.17%) Analytics
8 36 (11.84%) Roadmaps
8 36 (11.84%) Scrum
9 34 (11.18%) CRM
10 32 (10.53%) AI
11 31 (10.20%) DevOps
12 30 (9.87%) Continuous Improvement
12 30 (9.87%) Release Management
13 26 (8.55%) Migration
13 26 (8.55%) Workshop Facilitation
14 23 (7.57%) Decision-Making
15 22 (7.24%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 26 (8.55%) Java
2 25 (8.22%) SQL
3 20 (6.58%) JavaScript
4 18 (5.92%) TypeScript
5 14 (4.61%) Python
6 5 (1.64%) Groovy
6 5 (1.64%) Kotlin
6 5 (1.64%) Swift
7 3 (0.99%) Go
8 2 (0.66%) Bash
8 2 (0.66%) C#
8 2 (0.66%) Korn
8 2 (0.66%) PHP
8 2 (0.66%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.33%) ABAP
9 1 (0.33%) DataWeave
9 1 (0.33%) LookML
9 1 (0.33%) R
9 1 (0.33%) Scala
9 1 (0.33%) XPath
Qualifications
1 35 (11.51%) Degree
2 5 (1.64%) CSPO
2 5 (1.64%) Master's Degree
3 3 (0.99%) MBA
4 2 (0.66%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.33%) CISA
5 1 (0.33%) CISSP
5 1 (0.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.33%) IIBA
5 1 (0.33%) ISEB
5 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (0.33%) PhD
5 1 (0.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.57%) QA
2 17 (5.59%) Accessibility
3 13 (4.28%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.64%) SLA
5 4 (1.32%) GDPR
6 3 (0.99%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.99%) PMO
7 2 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.66%) PSD2
7 2 (0.66%) WCAG
8 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.33%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (4.93%) Docker
2 1 (0.33%) Sendmail
2 1 (0.33%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 16 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.63%) Terraform
3 7 (2.30%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 3 (0.99%) Grafana
4 3 (0.99%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.66%) Bosun
6 1 (0.33%) Ansible
6 1 (0.33%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 25 (8.22%) Salesforce
2 21 (6.91%) Adobe
3 20 (6.58%) Google
3 20 (6.58%) Microsoft
4 17 (5.59%) SAP
5 13 (4.28%) Oracle
6 7 (2.30%) New Relic
7 6 (1.97%) IBM
7 6 (1.97%) Sitecore
8 5 (1.64%) Databricks
8 5 (1.64%) Dynatrace
8 5 (1.64%) Splunk
9 4 (1.32%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.32%) Netlify
10 3 (0.99%) Braze
11 2 (0.66%) Apple
11 2 (0.66%) Klarna
11 2 (0.66%) PayPal
11 2 (0.66%) Screaming Frog
12 1 (0.33%) Informatica