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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 201 153
Rank change year-on-year +10 -48 +11
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 266 160 295
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.40% 1.28% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% 1.38% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 98 219
10th Percentile £313 £304 £350
25th Percentile £399 £355 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.10% -6.36% -2.22%
75th Percentile £581 £575 £629
90th Percentile £665 £688 £855
England median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile £39.65 - £50.38
25th Percentile £44.75 - £56.56
Median hourly rate £54.50 £29.00 £63.75
Median % change year-on-year +87.93% -54.51% +6.25%
75th Percentile £65.38 - £68.75
90th Percentile £71.15 - -
England median hourly rate £46.00 £15.50 £13.00
% change year-on-year +196.77% +19.23% -77.49%

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 16,916 11,555 15,666
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.87% 92.40% 88.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,270 7,751 11,170
10th Percentile £360 £338 £340
25th Percentile £437 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 210 314
10th Percentile £18.06 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.22 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.45 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% +18.39% -29.38%
75th Percentile £59.99 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.70
England median hourly rate £47.50 £27.40 £37.63
% change year-on-year +73.36% -27.18% +4.81%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 20 June 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 28 £488 -8.02% 17
West London -22 12 £480 +41.18% 6
North London - 2 £456 -
South London - 1 £625 - 1
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 7 (2.63%) CMS
2 6 (2.26%) Confluence
3 4 (1.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (1.13%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.75%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.38%) Apache
6 1 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.38%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.38%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.38%) Kentico
6 1 (0.38%) nginx
6 1 (0.38%) Sitefinity
6 1 (0.38%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (3.01%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (3.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (2.63%) Chatbot
3 5 (1.88%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 5 (1.88%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.50%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 25 (9.40%) Shopify
2 11 (4.14%) Magento
3 6 (2.26%) NetSuite
4 5 (1.88%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (1.50%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.38%) ION MarketView
7 1 (0.38%) SAP CAR
7 1 (0.38%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.38%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.38%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.38%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.38%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.38%) SAP Retail
7 1 (0.38%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.38%) SDL Web 8
7 1 (0.38%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 22 (8.27%) AWS
2 20 (7.52%) Azure
3 18 (6.77%) Figma
4 12 (4.51%) SaaS
5 11 (4.14%) BigCommerce
6 8 (3.01%) Google Workspace
6 8 (3.01%) Power Platform
7 7 (2.63%) Miro
7 7 (2.63%) WhatsApp
8 6 (2.26%) GCP
8 6 (2.26%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 6 (2.26%) Serverless
9 5 (1.88%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (1.88%) GitHub
10 4 (1.50%) Datadog
11 3 (1.13%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.13%) CloudFront
11 3 (1.13%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.13%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (0.75%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.13%) Internet
2 1 (0.38%) Firewall
2 1 (0.38%) LAN
2 1 (0.38%) Network Security
2 1 (0.38%) RFID
2 1 (0.38%) RTMP
2 1 (0.38%) WAN
2 1 (0.38%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.63%) MySQL
1 7 (2.63%) NoSQL
1 7 (2.63%) Power BI
2 6 (2.26%) Looker
3 4 (1.50%) BigQuery
3 4 (1.50%) Metadata
3 4 (1.50%) MongoDB
3 4 (1.50%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.50%) Tableau
4 3 (1.13%) Couchbase
4 3 (1.13%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.13%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.13%) Semantic Layer
5 2 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.75%) CockroachDB
5 2 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.75%) DynamoDB
5 2 (0.75%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (6.39%) Jenkins
2 13 (4.89%) Git
3 10 (3.76%) Selenium
4 9 (3.38%) JIRA
5 7 (2.63%) Cypress.io
6 6 (2.26%) GitLab
6 6 (2.26%) Vite
7 4 (1.50%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.50%) Maven
7 4 (1.50%) Subversion
8 3 (1.13%) Appium
8 3 (1.13%) Eclipse
8 3 (1.13%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.75%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.75%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.75%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.38%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.38%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.38%) Spock
10 1 (0.38%) TeamCity
General
1 112 (42.11%) Retail
2 100 (37.59%) Social Skills
3 64 (24.06%) Finance
4 42 (15.79%) Organisational Skills
5 37 (13.91%) Marketing
6 28 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
7 22 (8.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (4.51%) Manufacturing
9 11 (4.14%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (3.38%) Legal
11 8 (3.01%) Banking
12 5 (1.88%) Advertising
13 4 (1.50%) Electronics
13 4 (1.50%) Public Sector
14 3 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (1.13%) French Language
14 3 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.75%) Front Office
15 2 (0.75%) Telecoms
16 1 (0.38%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 69 (25.94%) Senior
2 33 (12.41%) Project Manager
3 31 (11.65%) Senior Manager
4 30 (11.28%) Analyst
5 29 (10.90%) Designer
6 26 (9.77%) Developer
7 25 (9.40%) Senior Project Manager
8 21 (7.89%) Business Analyst
8 21 (7.89%) Lead
9 18 (6.77%) Product Manager
10 14 (5.26%) Senior Designer
11 11 (4.14%) E-Commerce Manager
12 10 (3.76%) Marketing Manager
13 9 (3.38%) E-Commerce Analyst
13 9 (3.38%) E-Commerce Business Analyst
13 9 (3.38%) UI Designer
13 9 (3.38%) UX Designer
14 8 (3.01%) Architect
14 8 (3.01%) Product Designer
15 7 (2.63%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (10.15%) GraphQL
2 21 (7.89%) VML
3 19 (7.14%) React
4 17 (6.39%) REST
5 13 (4.89%) CSS
5 13 (4.89%) Playwright
6 12 (4.51%) Middleware
6 12 (4.51%) Spring
7 11 (4.14%) HTML
7 11 (4.14%) Node.js
8 9 (3.38%) Next.js
9 8 (3.01%) Spring Boot
10 7 (2.63%) AngularJS
10 7 (2.63%) J2EE
10 7 (2.63%) Kafka
11 6 (2.26%) jQuery
11 6 (2.26%) RESTful
11 6 (2.26%) Web Services
12 5 (1.88%) .NET
12 5 (1.88%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.40%) Product Ownership
2 12 (4.51%) Cloud Native
3 11 (4.14%) Mobile App
4 10 (3.76%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (3.38%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (3.38%) Virtual Team
6 6 (2.26%) AI Agents
7 5 (1.88%) Graphic Design
7 5 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.50%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.50%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.13%) FMCG
9 3 (1.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.13%) Marketing Technology
9 3 (1.13%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.13%) Smart Home
9 3 (1.13%) Taxonomies
10 2 (0.75%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.14%) Android
2 10 (3.76%) Apple iOS
3 7 (2.63%) Linux
4 5 (1.88%) Windows
5 4 (1.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (33.83%) Agile
2 65 (24.44%) User Experience
3 54 (20.30%) Stakeholder Management
4 51 (19.17%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (16.17%) Time Management
6 42 (15.79%) Project Management
7 33 (12.41%) Release Management
8 32 (12.03%) Customer Experience
9 30 (11.28%) Analytics
9 30 (11.28%) Scrum
10 28 (10.53%) CI/CD
10 28 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
11 27 (10.15%) AI
11 27 (10.15%) Workshop Facilitation
12 25 (9.40%) Roadmaps
13 23 (8.65%) B2C
13 23 (8.65%) CRM
13 23 (8.65%) SDLC
14 22 (8.27%) Decision-Making
15 21 (7.89%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 22 (8.27%) JavaScript
2 21 (7.89%) Java
3 19 (7.14%) SQL
4 18 (6.77%) TypeScript
5 12 (4.51%) Python
6 5 (1.88%) Kotlin
6 5 (1.88%) Swift
7 4 (1.50%) C#
8 3 (1.13%) Groovy
9 2 (0.75%) Go
9 2 (0.75%) Korn
10 1 (0.38%) Bash
10 1 (0.38%) PHP
10 1 (0.38%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.38%) R
10 1 (0.38%) Scala
10 1 (0.38%) XPath
Qualifications
1 20 (7.52%) Degree
2 5 (1.88%) CSPO
3 1 (0.38%) CISA
3 1 (0.38%) CISSP
3 1 (0.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.38%) ISEB
3 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 1 (0.38%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.14%) QA
2 17 (6.39%) Accessibility
3 11 (4.14%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.50%) GDPR
4 4 (1.50%) SLA
5 3 (1.13%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.13%) PMO
6 2 (0.75%) PSD2
6 2 (0.75%) WCAG
7 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.38%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (3.76%) Docker
2 1 (0.38%) Sendmail
2 1 (0.38%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 11 (4.14%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.63%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 3 (1.13%) Grafana
3 3 (1.13%) Prometheus
3 3 (1.13%) Terraform
4 1 (0.38%) Ansible
Vendors
1 27 (10.15%) Salesforce
2 22 (8.27%) SAP
3 21 (7.89%) Adobe
4 17 (6.39%) Google
5 12 (4.51%) Microsoft
6 11 (4.14%) Oracle
7 10 (3.76%) Sitecore
8 4 (1.50%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.50%) IBM
8 4 (1.50%) Netlify
8 4 (1.50%) Splunk
9 3 (1.13%) Databricks
9 3 (1.13%) New Relic
10 2 (0.75%) Apple
10 2 (0.75%) Klarna
10 2 (0.75%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.75%) PayPal
11 1 (0.38%) ATG
11 1 (0.38%) Cisco
11 1 (0.38%) Sony