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 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 202 150
Rank change year-on-year +22 -52 +46
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 304 183 277
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.52% 1.34% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.71% 1.46% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 111 213
10th Percentile £313 £296 £353
25th Percentile £400 £355 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £591 £588 £650
90th Percentile £763 £700 £875
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £39.65 - £47.63
25th Percentile £44.75 £30.75 £49.69
Median hourly rate £54.50 £31.50 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +73.02% -41.40% -10.42%
75th Percentile £65.38 £32.25 £57.19
90th Percentile £71.15 - £58.88
England median hourly rate £37.50 £15.50 £13.00
% change year-on-year +141.94% +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 17,809 12,563 14,469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.02% 92.23% 88.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,743 8,414 10,214
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £541 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.62% -1.59% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
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 294 248 196
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.97
25th Percentile £20.02 £24.62 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.86 £29.50 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +21.54% -16.31% -14.59%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.56 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.88
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 4 August 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 +7 34 £500 -6.98% 53
West London -10 17 £480 +41.18% 11
North London -1 2 £456 -49.31% 1
South London - 1 £625 - 7
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 9 (2.96%) CMS
2 7 (2.30%) Confluence
3 4 (1.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (1.32%) WebSphere
4 3 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.66%) Apache
5 2 (0.66%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.66%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.66%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.33%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.33%) Mule
6 1 (0.33%) nginx
6 1 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 19 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (4.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (2.96%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 9 (2.96%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.97%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.66%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.33%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.33%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 22 (7.24%) 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%) ION MarketView
6 2 (0.66%) SAP CRM
6 2 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
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 40 (13.16%) AWS
2 33 (10.86%) Azure
3 16 (5.26%) Figma
4 11 (3.62%) GCP
5 10 (3.29%) GitHub
5 10 (3.29%) Power Platform
6 8 (2.63%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 7 (2.30%) BigCommerce
7 7 (2.30%) Google Workspace
7 7 (2.30%) Miro
7 7 (2.30%) Serverless
7 7 (2.30%) WhatsApp
8 6 (1.97%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (1.97%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (1.97%) SaaS
8 6 (1.97%) Snowflake
9 5 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.64%) dbt
10 4 (1.32%) CloudFront
10 4 (1.32%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.99%) 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 10 (3.29%) Looker
1 10 (3.29%) NoSQL
2 9 (2.96%) Power BI
3 8 (2.63%) BigQuery
4 7 (2.30%) MongoDB
4 7 (2.30%) MySQL
5 6 (1.97%) Couchbase
5 6 (1.97%) Tableau
6 5 (1.64%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.32%) Redis
7 4 (1.32%) Semantic Layer
8 3 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (0.99%) Metadata
9 2 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.66%) KDB
9 2 (0.66%) Power Query
9 2 (0.66%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.33%) Db2
10 1 (0.33%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 27 (8.88%) Jenkins
2 15 (4.93%) Git
3 12 (3.95%) 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
10 2 (0.66%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.33%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.33%) MLflow
11 1 (0.33%) PHPUnit
11 1 (0.33%) TestRail
11 1 (0.33%) WebDriver
General
1 141 (46.38%) Retail
2 116 (38.16%) Social Skills
3 60 (19.74%) Finance
4 53 (17.43%) Marketing
5 38 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
6 37 (12.17%) Organisational Skills
7 24 (7.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (4.61%) Manufacturing
9 11 (3.62%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (3.29%) Banking
11 8 (2.63%) Legal
12 7 (2.30%) Advertising
13 5 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (1.32%) Electronics
14 4 (1.32%) Public Sector
15 2 (0.66%) French Language
15 2 (0.66%) Front Office
15 2 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.66%) Publishing
15 2 (0.66%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 63 (20.72%) Senior
2 36 (11.84%) Developer
3 28 (9.21%) Analyst
4 26 (8.55%) Designer
5 24 (7.89%) Lead
5 24 (7.89%) Project Manager
6 21 (6.91%) Senior Manager
7 18 (5.92%) Business Analyst
8 17 (5.59%) Architect
8 17 (5.59%) Product Manager
9 13 (4.28%) UI Designer
10 12 (3.95%) Senior Project Manager
10 12 (3.95%) Solutions Architect
11 11 (3.62%) E-Commerce Manager
12 10 (3.29%) Senior Designer
13 9 (2.96%) Lead Designer
13 9 (2.96%) Marketing Manager
13 9 (2.96%) Senior Developer
14 8 (2.63%) Java Developer
14 8 (2.63%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (10.86%) GraphQL
2 22 (7.24%) React
2 22 (7.24%) REST
3 18 (5.92%) Node.js
4 17 (5.59%) VML
5 14 (4.61%) Spring
6 13 (4.28%) Playwright
7 12 (3.95%) CSS
7 12 (3.95%) Middleware
7 12 (3.95%) Next.js
8 11 (3.62%) Kafka
9 10 (3.29%) HTML
9 10 (3.29%) Spring Boot
10 9 (2.96%) Jakarta EE
10 9 (2.96%) RESTful
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%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 28 (9.21%) Product Ownership
2 16 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (4.93%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (4.61%) Cloud Native
5 12 (3.95%) Mobile App
6 9 (2.96%) Graphic Design
7 7 (2.30%) AI Agents
7 7 (2.30%) Virtual Team
8 6 (1.97%) FMCG
8 6 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.97%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.64%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.32%) Marketing Technology
10 4 (1.32%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.32%) Taxonomies
11 3 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.99%) Smart Home
12 2 (0.66%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.66%) Digital Wallet
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.29%) Android
1 10 (3.29%) Apple iOS
2 6 (1.97%) Windows
3 5 (1.64%) Linux
3 5 (1.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (31.91%) Agile
2 61 (20.07%) Stakeholder Management
3 59 (19.41%) User Experience
4 58 (19.08%) Problem-Solving
5 41 (13.49%) CI/CD
6 38 (12.50%) Time Management
7 37 (12.17%) Analytics
7 37 (12.17%) Customer Experience
7 37 (12.17%) Scrum
8 35 (11.51%) Roadmaps
9 34 (11.18%) CRM
9 34 (11.18%) Project Management
10 32 (10.53%) AI
10 32 (10.53%) DevOps
11 30 (9.87%) Migration
12 29 (9.54%) Continuous Improvement
12 29 (9.54%) Release Management
13 25 (8.22%) Decision-Making
14 23 (7.57%) Workshop Facilitation
15 21 (6.91%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 30 (9.87%) SQL
2 25 (8.22%) Java
3 22 (7.24%) JavaScript
4 20 (6.58%) TypeScript
5 16 (5.26%) Python
6 5 (1.64%) Groovy
6 5 (1.64%) Kotlin
6 5 (1.64%) Swift
7 4 (1.32%) C#
8 3 (0.99%) Go
9 2 (0.66%) Bash
9 2 (0.66%) LookML
9 2 (0.66%) PHP
9 2 (0.66%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.33%) ABAP
10 1 (0.33%) DataWeave
10 1 (0.33%) Korn
10 1 (0.33%) R
10 1 (0.33%) Scala
10 1 (0.33%) XPath
Qualifications
1 34 (11.18%) 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 24 (7.89%) QA
2 16 (5.26%) Data Quality
3 14 (4.61%) Accessibility
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
8 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.33%) NIST
8 1 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (5.26%) Docker
2 1 (0.33%) Sendmail
2 1 (0.33%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 17 (5.59%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.63%) Terraform
3 6 (1.97%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 3 (0.99%) Grafana
4 3 (0.99%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.66%) Bosun
6 1 (0.33%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 28 (9.21%) Salesforce
2 21 (6.91%) Adobe
2 21 (6.91%) Google
2 21 (6.91%) Microsoft
3 15 (4.93%) SAP
4 13 (4.28%) Oracle
5 7 (2.30%) New Relic
5 7 (2.30%) Sitecore
6 6 (1.97%) Databricks
6 6 (1.97%) IBM
7 5 (1.64%) Splunk
8 4 (1.32%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.32%) MuleSoft
9 3 (0.99%) Braze
9 3 (0.99%) Netlify
10 2 (0.66%) Apple
10 2 (0.66%) ION Trading
10 2 (0.66%) Klarna
10 2 (0.66%) PayPal
10 2 (0.66%) Screaming Frog