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 10 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 196 159 176
Rank change year-on-year -37 +17 -67
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 188 258 297
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.37% 1.66% 1.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% 1.87% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 190 189
10th Percentile £304 £300 £375
25th Percentile £403 £411 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -6.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £640
90th Percentile £763 £713 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 4
10th Percentile - £43.21 £27.28
25th Percentile £24.61 £45.17 £40.44
Median hourly rate £28.06 £47.50 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.94% -12.04% -27.39%
75th Percentile £33.04 £51.56 £62.06
90th Percentile £34.46 £56.63 £68.03
England median hourly rate £15.50 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -67.37% -5.00% -27.20%

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 12,709 13,828 18,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.42% 89.13% 89.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,364 8,905 13,142
10th Percentile £331 £350 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -2.13%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £799 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.50% -0.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 162 248
10th Percentile £17.74 £17.28 £18.55
25th Percentile £24.94 £24.63 £21.44
Median hourly rate £29.50 £37.79 £37.17
Median % change year-on-year -21.93% +1.65% -0.88%
75th Percentile £46.81 £55.94 £60.44
90th Percentile £64.88 £80.68 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £36.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -31.10% -17.98% +27.14%

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 10 November 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
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 10 November 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
Central London -2 23 £513 -6.82% 146
West London +2 21 £363 -19.44% 17
East London - 2 £400 - 15
North London - 1 £900 - 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 11 (5.85%) CMS
2 9 (4.79%) Confluence
3 8 (4.26%) Headless CMS
4 2 (1.06%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.53%) SAS
5 1 (0.53%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (3.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (2.66%) Chatbot
4 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.53%) Autodesk Smoke
5 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (6.38%) Shopify
2 11 (5.85%) Magento
3 5 (2.66%) Oracle Retail
4 4 (2.13%) Endur
5 3 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (1.06%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (1.06%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.53%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.53%) Eikon
7 1 (0.53%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.53%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.53%) Orchestrade
7 1 (0.53%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 28 (14.89%) SaaS
2 24 (12.77%) AWS
3 17 (9.04%) Serverless
4 16 (8.51%) AWS Lambda
5 12 (6.38%) Azure
6 11 (5.85%) GCP
7 8 (4.26%) Figma
8 6 (3.19%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (3.19%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (3.19%) Amazon S3
8 6 (3.19%) Contentsquare
8 6 (3.19%) Google Analytics
8 6 (3.19%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
9 5 (2.66%) Amazon Cognito
9 5 (2.66%) Facebook Ads
10 4 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (2.13%) Cloudflare
10 4 (2.13%) GitHub
10 4 (2.13%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 4 (2.13%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.66%) Cisco IPT
2 2 (1.06%) Internet
3 1 (0.53%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.53%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.79%) DynamoDB
2 6 (3.19%) Mixpanel
3 5 (2.66%) Tableau
4 4 (2.13%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.06%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.06%) Couchbase
5 2 (1.06%) Redis
5 2 (1.06%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.53%) Essbase
6 1 (0.53%) Metadata
6 1 (0.53%) MySQL
6 1 (0.53%) Power BI
6 1 (0.53%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 21 (11.17%) Jenkins
2 20 (10.64%) JIRA
3 10 (5.32%) Git
4 6 (3.19%) Visual Website Optimizer
5 4 (2.13%) Bitbucket
5 4 (2.13%) Cucumber
5 4 (2.13%) Cypress.io
5 4 (2.13%) Selenium
5 4 (2.13%) SpecFlow
6 3 (1.60%) GitLab
6 3 (1.60%) Gradle
6 3 (1.60%) Maven
6 3 (1.60%) Postman
7 2 (1.06%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.53%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.53%) Charles Proxy
8 1 (0.53%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.53%) Fiddler
8 1 (0.53%) Subversion
8 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio
General
1 65 (34.57%) Social Skills
2 36 (19.15%) Retail
3 30 (15.96%) Marketing
4 25 (13.30%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (10.64%) Finance
6 8 (4.26%) Legal
7 7 (3.72%) Advertising
8 6 (3.19%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.13%) Electronics
9 4 (2.13%) French Language
9 4 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.13%) Publishing
10 3 (1.60%) Banking
10 3 (1.60%) Front Office
10 3 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.60%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.06%) Back Office
11 2 (1.06%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.06%) Retail Banking
11 2 (1.06%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (13.30%) Senior
2 21 (11.17%) Analyst
2 21 (11.17%) Developer
3 18 (9.57%) Consultant
4 14 (7.45%) Architect
4 14 (7.45%) Business Analyst
5 10 (5.32%) Designer
6 9 (4.79%) Lead
7 8 (4.26%) Magento Developer
7 8 (4.26%) Project Manager
8 7 (3.72%) Technical Consultant
9 6 (3.19%) Automation Tester
9 6 (3.19%) E-Commerce Manager
9 6 (3.19%) Senior Consultant
9 6 (3.19%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 6 (3.19%) Senior Technical Consultant
9 6 (3.19%) Senior Technical Specialist
9 6 (3.19%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
9 6 (3.19%) Technical Specialist
9 6 (3.19%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (17.55%) Node.js
2 28 (14.89%) GraphQL
3 15 (7.98%) Playwright
3 15 (7.98%) Vitest
4 12 (6.38%) React
5 9 (4.79%) HTML
5 9 (4.79%) YAML
6 7 (3.72%) CSS
7 5 (2.66%) .NET
7 5 (2.66%) Next.js
7 5 (2.66%) OAuth
7 5 (2.66%) OAuth2
7 5 (2.66%) OpenID
7 5 (2.66%) SAML
7 5 (2.66%) SOAP
8 4 (2.13%) Lambda Expressions
8 4 (2.13%) Redux
8 4 (2.13%) RESTful
9 3 (1.60%) VML
10 2 (1.06%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 26 (13.83%) Cloud Native
2 22 (11.70%) Product Ownership
3 10 (5.32%) Mobile App
4 9 (4.79%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (3.72%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.19%) Social Media
7 5 (2.66%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.60%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.60%) IVR
9 3 (1.60%) Marketing Technology
10 2 (1.06%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (1.06%) Low-Code
10 2 (1.06%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.06%) PMI
11 1 (0.53%) Culture of Ownership
11 1 (0.53%) Educational Technology
11 1 (0.53%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.06%) Unix
2 1 (0.53%) Android
2 1 (0.53%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (35.64%) Agile
2 34 (18.09%) Analytics
2 34 (18.09%) Stakeholder Management
3 33 (17.55%) DevOps
3 33 (17.55%) Mentoring
4 31 (16.49%) CI/CD
4 31 (16.49%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (14.36%) User Experience
6 22 (11.70%) Roadmaps
6 22 (11.70%) Test Automation
7 21 (11.17%) A/B Testing
7 21 (11.17%) Coaching
8 19 (10.11%) CRM
9 18 (9.57%) B2B
9 18 (9.57%) B2C
9 18 (9.57%) Customer Experience
10 15 (7.98%) Software Engineering
11 14 (7.45%) Conversion Rate Optimisation
11 14 (7.45%) ERP
11 14 (7.45%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 27 (14.36%) TypeScript
2 22 (11.70%) SQL
3 20 (10.64%) JavaScript
4 17 (9.04%) Python
5 10 (5.32%) Java
6 6 (3.19%) C#
7 3 (1.60%) PHP
7 3 (1.60%) Ruby
8 2 (1.06%) Apex Code
8 2 (1.06%) R
9 1 (0.53%) SOQL
9 1 (0.53%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (5.32%) Degree
2 9 (4.79%) AWS Certification
3 4 (2.13%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.06%) APMG
4 2 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.06%) ISTQB
4 2 (1.06%) MBA
4 2 (1.06%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.53%) CFA
5 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.38%) QA
2 9 (4.79%) GDPR
3 8 (4.26%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (2.13%) PERC
5 2 (1.06%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.06%) SLA
5 2 (1.06%) WCAG
6 1 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.53%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.53%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 21 (11.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (11.70%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.66%) Terraform
3 3 (1.60%) Ansible
3 3 (1.60%) Istio
3 3 (1.60%) Puppet
4 2 (1.06%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.53%) Grafana
5 1 (0.53%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 23 (12.23%) Salesforce
2 22 (11.70%) Google
3 12 (6.38%) SAP
4 8 (4.26%) Optimizely
4 8 (4.26%) Oracle
5 6 (3.19%) Adobe
5 6 (3.19%) Amplitude
5 6 (3.19%) Hotjar
6 5 (2.66%) Facebook
6 5 (2.66%) Microsoft
7 4 (2.13%) TikTok
7 4 (2.13%) Wind River
8 3 (1.60%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.60%) OneTrust
8 3 (1.60%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.60%) Sitecore
8 3 (1.60%) Splunk
9 2 (1.06%) New Relic
9 2 (1.06%) Rollbar
10 1 (0.53%) Databricks