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 27 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 167 153
Rank change year-on-year -6 -14 -25
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 225 217 294
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.54% 1.58% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.69% 1.75% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 156 188
10th Percentile £352 £294 £345
25th Percentile £425 £374 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £545
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -15.14% -0.91%
75th Percentile £563 £623 £600
90th Percentile £700 £712 £658
England median daily rate £500 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 6
10th Percentile £21.45 £31.58 £33.13
25th Percentile £24.61 £35.46 £49.88
Median hourly rate £29.55 £41.91 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.49% -31.30% -12.86%
75th Percentile £56.10 £45.33 £68.00
90th Percentile £66.50 £47.38 £70.38
England median hourly rate £24.61 £44.71 £34.75
% change year-on-year -44.95% +28.65% -48.71%

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 13,335 12,405 16,439
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.04% 90.46% 88.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,836 7,879 11,756
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £503 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.29% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 155 323
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.75 £16.25
25th Percentile £25.08 £24.66 £19.53
Median hourly rate £34.27 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.09% +16.67% -19.40%
75th Percentile £56.25 £52.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £71.20 £79.50 £72.70
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -6.85% +4.92%

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 27 January 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 27 January 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 27 January 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
West London +14 39 £375 -10.45% 6
Central London -12 23 £495 -1.00% 26
East London - 2 £400 - 4
North London - 1 £900 - 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 6 (2.67%) CMS
2 5 (2.22%) Confluence
3 3 (1.33%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.89%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.89%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.44%) Kentico
5 1 (0.44%) Sitefinity
5 1 (0.44%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.22%) Chatbot
3 4 (1.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.89%) Autodesk Smoke
4 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.89%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.44%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.44%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.44%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.44%) Trello
Business Applications
1 25 (11.11%) Shopify
2 4 (1.78%) Endur
2 4 (1.78%) Magento
2 4 (1.78%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.44%) Eikon
4 1 (0.44%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.44%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 36 (16.00%) SaaS
2 27 (12.00%) AWS
3 18 (8.00%) Azure
4 14 (6.22%) Serverless
5 13 (5.78%) AWS Lambda
5 13 (5.78%) Dynamics 365
5 13 (5.78%) Figma
5 13 (5.78%) GCP
6 10 (4.44%) Datadog
7 7 (3.11%) Contentsquare
7 7 (3.11%) Google Analytics
8 6 (2.67%) BigCommerce
9 5 (2.22%) Google Tag Manager
10 4 (1.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (1.78%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
11 3 (1.33%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.33%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (1.33%) Cloudflare
11 3 (1.33%) Facebook Ads
11 3 (1.33%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.11%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.44%) Internet
2 1 (0.44%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.11%) DynamoDB
2 6 (2.67%) Mixpanel
3 5 (2.22%) NoSQL
4 4 (1.78%) Redis
4 4 (1.78%) Tableau
5 3 (1.33%) Power BI
5 3 (1.33%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.89%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.89%) CockroachDB
6 2 (0.89%) Couchbase
6 2 (0.89%) Metadata
6 2 (0.89%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.44%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.44%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.44%) Looker
7 1 (0.44%) Power Query
7 1 (0.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 34 (15.11%) Jenkins
2 7 (3.11%) JIRA
3 6 (2.67%) Visual Website Optimizer
4 5 (2.22%) Git
5 4 (1.78%) Cypress.io
5 4 (1.78%) SpecFlow
6 3 (1.33%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (1.33%) Charles Proxy
6 3 (1.33%) Fiddler
6 3 (1.33%) GitLab
7 2 (0.89%) Postman
7 2 (0.89%) Selenium
8 1 (0.44%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.44%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.44%) Gradle
8 1 (0.44%) Maven
8 1 (0.44%) NUnit
8 1 (0.44%) WebDriver
General
1 68 (30.22%) Social Skills
2 39 (17.33%) Retail
3 34 (15.11%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (13.78%) Marketing
5 28 (12.44%) Finance
6 18 (8.00%) Organisational Skills
7 16 (7.11%) Legal
8 12 (5.33%) Electronics
9 5 (2.22%) Advertising
9 5 (2.22%) French Language
9 5 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.78%) Banking
10 4 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.78%) Front Office
10 4 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.78%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.89%) Publishing
11 2 (0.89%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.44%) Law
Job Titles
1 51 (22.67%) Senior
2 31 (13.78%) Analyst
3 29 (12.89%) Consultant
4 20 (8.89%) Business Analyst
5 18 (8.00%) Developer
6 15 (6.67%) Project Manager
7 14 (6.22%) Architect
8 13 (5.78%) Technical Consultant
9 12 (5.33%) Designer
9 12 (5.33%) Senior Consultant
9 12 (5.33%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 12 (5.33%) Senior Technical Consultant
9 12 (5.33%) Senior Technical Specialist
9 12 (5.33%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
9 12 (5.33%) Technical Specialist
10 10 (4.44%) Senior Manager
10 10 (4.44%) Senior Project Manager
11 9 (4.00%) Lead
11 9 (4.00%) UX Designer
12 8 (3.56%) Senior Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (21.78%) Node.js
2 41 (18.22%) GraphQL
3 30 (13.33%) Playwright
4 28 (12.44%) Vitest
5 18 (8.00%) React
6 16 (7.11%) YAML
7 14 (6.22%) HTML
8 13 (5.78%) CSS
9 11 (4.89%) VML
10 9 (4.00%) .NET
11 8 (3.56%) OpenTelemetry
12 7 (3.11%) Next.js
13 6 (2.67%) REST
14 5 (2.22%) HTML5
15 4 (1.78%) CSS3
15 4 (1.78%) Middleware
15 4 (1.78%) NumPy
15 4 (1.78%) RESTful
16 3 (1.33%) Lambda Expressions
16 3 (1.33%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 36 (16.00%) Cloud Native
2 23 (10.22%) Product Ownership
3 18 (8.00%) Mobile App
4 14 (6.22%) Analytical Mindset
5 13 (5.78%) Onboarding
6 9 (4.00%) Marketing Technology
7 6 (2.67%) PMI
7 6 (2.67%) Social Media
8 5 (2.22%) Client/Server
8 5 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.33%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.89%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.89%) FMCG
10 2 (0.89%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.89%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.44%) Culture of Ownership
11 1 (0.44%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.44%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.78%) Android
2 3 (1.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (40.00%) Agile
2 52 (23.11%) CI/CD
3 45 (20.00%) Analytics
3 45 (20.00%) DevOps
4 43 (19.11%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (18.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 42 (18.67%) User Experience
6 33 (14.67%) Coaching
6 33 (14.67%) Mentoring
7 28 (12.44%) Test Automation
8 25 (11.11%) A/B Testing
9 24 (10.67%) Customer Experience
10 22 (9.78%) UX Design
11 21 (9.33%) Full-Stack Development
12 20 (8.89%) Containerisation
12 20 (8.89%) ERP
12 20 (8.89%) Process Improvement
13 19 (8.44%) Infrastructure as Code
13 19 (8.44%) Project Management
13 19 (8.44%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 45 (20.00%) TypeScript
2 26 (11.56%) SQL
3 20 (8.89%) JavaScript
4 19 (8.44%) Python
5 9 (4.00%) C#
6 8 (3.56%) Java
7 3 (1.33%) PHP
8 2 (0.89%) R
8 2 (0.89%) Ruby
9 1 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.44%) Go
9 1 (0.44%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (4.89%) Degree
2 6 (2.67%) PMI Certification
3 4 (1.78%) AWS Certification
3 4 (1.78%) Master's Degree
4 2 (0.89%) APMG
4 2 (0.89%) CBAP
4 2 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.89%) MBA
5 1 (0.44%) CFA
5 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.44%) GDPR
2 12 (5.33%) QA
3 11 (4.89%) Accessibility
4 10 (4.44%) PERC
5 8 (3.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (1.78%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.78%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.33%) WCAG
8 2 (0.89%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.89%) PSD2
9 1 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 36 (16.00%) Docker
2 1 (0.44%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 37 (16.44%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.00%) Grafana
2 9 (4.00%) Prometheus
3 6 (2.67%) Terraform
4 2 (0.89%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.44%) Ansible
5 1 (0.44%) Istio
5 1 (0.44%) Puppet
Vendors
1 25 (11.11%) Google
2 24 (10.67%) Salesforce
3 21 (9.33%) Adobe
4 16 (7.11%) SAP
5 10 (4.44%) Tealium
6 8 (3.56%) Microsoft
6 8 (3.56%) Optimizely
7 7 (3.11%) OneTrust
8 6 (2.67%) Amplitude
8 6 (2.67%) Hotjar
8 6 (2.67%) Sitecore
9 5 (2.22%) mParticle
10 4 (1.78%) Wind River
11 3 (1.33%) Facebook
11 3 (1.33%) OpenAI
11 3 (1.33%) Oracle
11 3 (1.33%) Splunk
11 3 (1.33%) TikTok
12 2 (0.89%) Databricks
12 2 (0.89%) New Relic