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 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 185 162
Rank change year-on-year -4 -23 -1
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 254 171 285
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.38% 1.42% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 1.53% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 105 212
10th Percentile £313 £311 £350
25th Percentile £400 £385 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -6.36% -1.12%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £623
90th Percentile £644 £665 £872
England median daily rate £500 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £39.65 - £61.25
25th Percentile £44.75 - £63.13
Median hourly rate £54.50 £29.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +87.93% -57.04% +92.86%
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% -82.72%

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 16,241 11,146 15,435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.51% 92.25% 88.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,846 7,494 11,093
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £434 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.25% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 187 312
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.95
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.60 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.81 £27.92
Median % change year-on-year +21.73% +10.33% -29.54%
75th Percentile £58.84 £48.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.73 £63.10 £66.98
England median hourly rate £46.43 £28.18 £36.50
% change year-on-year +64.76% -22.79% -2.46%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 28 May 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 24 £475 -10.80% 60
West London -13 18 £480 +41.70% 7
North London - 1 £538 -
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 (2.36%) CMS
2 5 (1.97%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 5 (1.97%) Confluence
3 2 (0.79%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.39%) Apache
4 1 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.39%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.39%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.39%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.39%) Kentico
4 1 (0.39%) nginx
4 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.39%) Sitefinity
4 1 (0.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (4.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (2.76%) Chatbot
4 5 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (1.57%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.79%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.39%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.39%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.39%) Autodesk Smoke
7 1 (0.39%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.39%) Trello
Business Applications
1 33 (12.99%) Shopify
2 9 (3.54%) Magento
3 6 (2.36%) NetSuite
4 3 (1.18%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (1.18%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.39%) ION MarketView
6 1 (0.39%) SAP CAR
6 1 (0.39%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.39%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.39%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.39%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.39%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.39%) SAP Retail
6 1 (0.39%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.39%) SDL Web 8
6 1 (0.39%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 19 (7.48%) AWS
1 19 (7.48%) Azure
2 14 (5.51%) Figma
3 13 (5.12%) SaaS
4 12 (4.72%) Dynamics 365
5 11 (4.33%) BigCommerce
6 9 (3.54%) Power Platform
7 8 (3.15%) Datadog
8 7 (2.76%) GCP
8 7 (2.76%) Google Workspace
8 7 (2.76%) Miro
8 7 (2.76%) Serverless
8 7 (2.76%) WhatsApp
9 6 (2.36%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (1.57%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
11 3 (1.18%) SAP Commerce Cloud
12 2 (0.79%) Amazon S3
12 2 (0.79%) GitHub
12 2 (0.79%) Google Analytics
12 2 (0.79%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.39%) Firewall
1 1 (0.39%) Internet
1 1 (0.39%) LAN
1 1 (0.39%) Network Security
1 1 (0.39%) RFID
1 1 (0.39%) RTMP
1 1 (0.39%) WAN
1 1 (0.39%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.15%) Power BI
2 7 (2.76%) MySQL
3 6 (2.36%) Looker
4 4 (1.57%) BigQuery
4 4 (1.57%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.57%) Tableau
5 3 (1.18%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.18%) Metadata
5 3 (1.18%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.18%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.18%) Semantic Layer
6 2 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.79%) CockroachDB
6 2 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.79%) Redis
6 2 (0.79%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.39%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 20 (7.87%) Jenkins
2 13 (5.12%) Git
3 10 (3.94%) JIRA
3 10 (3.94%) Selenium
4 7 (2.76%) Cypress.io
5 6 (2.36%) GitLab
5 6 (2.36%) Vite
6 4 (1.57%) Maven
6 4 (1.57%) Subversion
7 3 (1.18%) Appium
7 3 (1.18%) Zephyr
8 2 (0.79%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.79%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.79%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.79%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.39%) Fiddler
9 1 (0.39%) NUnit
9 1 (0.39%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.39%) Spock
9 1 (0.39%) TeamCity
General
1 96 (37.80%) Retail
2 95 (37.40%) Social Skills
3 62 (24.41%) Finance
4 38 (14.96%) Organisational Skills
5 37 (14.57%) Marketing
6 28 (11.02%) Analytical Skills
7 22 (8.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (4.72%) Manufacturing
9 11 (4.33%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (3.54%) Legal
11 7 (2.76%) Electronics
12 6 (2.36%) Banking
13 4 (1.57%) Public Sector
14 3 (1.18%) Advertising
14 3 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (1.18%) French Language
14 3 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.79%) Front Office
15 2 (0.79%) Telecoms
16 1 (0.39%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 72 (28.35%) Senior
2 32 (12.60%) Project Manager
3 31 (12.20%) Senior Manager
4 29 (11.42%) Developer
5 27 (10.63%) Analyst
6 25 (9.84%) Senior Project Manager
7 22 (8.66%) Designer
8 19 (7.48%) Business Analyst
9 18 (7.09%) Lead
10 12 (4.72%) Product Manager
11 11 (4.33%) Senior Designer
12 10 (3.94%) E-Commerce Manager
13 9 (3.54%) Architect
14 8 (3.15%) Consultant
14 8 (3.15%) E-Commerce Analyst
14 8 (3.15%) E-Commerce Business Analyst
14 8 (3.15%) Marketing Manager
15 7 (2.76%) Full-Stack Developer
15 7 (2.76%) Senior Developer
15 7 (2.76%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (13.39%) GraphQL
2 22 (8.66%) VML
3 21 (8.27%) React
4 20 (7.87%) Node.js
5 19 (7.48%) Playwright
6 17 (6.69%) REST
7 15 (5.91%) CSS
8 12 (4.72%) HTML
9 11 (4.33%) Middleware
9 11 (4.33%) Spring
10 10 (3.94%) Next.js
11 9 (3.54%) Vitest
12 7 (2.76%) AngularJS
12 7 (2.76%) Spring Boot
12 7 (2.76%) Web Services
13 6 (2.36%) J2EE
13 6 (2.36%) jQuery
13 6 (2.36%) OpenTelemetry
13 6 (2.36%) YAML
14 5 (1.97%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.87%) Product Ownership
2 16 (6.30%) Cloud Native
3 13 (5.12%) Mobile App
4 11 (4.33%) Virtual Team
5 7 (2.76%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.36%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.97%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.57%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.57%) Marketing Technology
9 3 (1.18%) FMCG
9 3 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.18%) Smart Home
10 2 (0.79%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.79%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.79%) PMI
10 2 (0.79%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.33%) Android
2 10 (3.94%) Apple iOS
3 7 (2.76%) Linux
4 4 (1.57%) Unix
4 4 (1.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (37.01%) Agile
2 60 (23.62%) User Experience
3 54 (21.26%) Problem-Solving
4 43 (16.93%) Stakeholder Management
5 42 (16.54%) Project Management
6 38 (14.96%) Time Management
7 32 (12.60%) Analytics
7 32 (12.60%) CI/CD
8 30 (11.81%) Continuous Improvement
8 30 (11.81%) Customer Experience
8 30 (11.81%) Release Management
9 27 (10.63%) Scrum
10 24 (9.45%) B2C
10 24 (9.45%) DevOps
10 24 (9.45%) Workshop Facilitation
11 22 (8.66%) SDLC
12 21 (8.27%) B2B
12 21 (8.27%) CRM
12 21 (8.27%) Decision-Making
13 20 (7.87%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 25 (9.84%) JavaScript
2 24 (9.45%) TypeScript
3 17 (6.69%) Java
3 17 (6.69%) SQL
4 10 (3.94%) Python
5 5 (1.97%) Kotlin
5 5 (1.97%) Swift
6 4 (1.57%) C#
7 2 (0.79%) Go
7 2 (0.79%) Korn
7 2 (0.79%) PHP
8 1 (0.39%) Bash
8 1 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.39%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.39%) R
8 1 (0.39%) Scala
8 1 (0.39%) XPath
Qualifications
1 16 (6.30%) Degree
2 5 (1.97%) CSPO
3 2 (0.79%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.39%) CISA
4 1 (0.39%) CISSP
4 1 (0.39%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 1 (0.39%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.39%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.69%) QA
2 13 (5.12%) Accessibility
3 11 (4.33%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.97%) GDPR
5 4 (1.57%) SLA
6 3 (1.18%) WCAG
7 2 (0.79%) PERC
7 2 (0.79%) PMO
8 1 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.39%) NIST
8 1 (0.39%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (6.69%) Docker
2 1 (0.39%) Sendmail
2 1 (0.39%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 16 (6.30%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.76%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 6 (2.36%) Grafana
3 6 (2.36%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.39%) Ansible
4 1 (0.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (9.84%) Salesforce
2 22 (8.66%) SAP
3 21 (8.27%) Adobe
4 15 (5.91%) Google
5 14 (5.51%) Microsoft
6 10 (3.94%) Sitecore
7 8 (3.15%) Oracle
8 4 (1.57%) Databricks
8 4 (1.57%) Netlify
8 4 (1.57%) Splunk
9 3 (1.18%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.18%) IBM
9 3 (1.18%) Tealium
10 2 (0.79%) mParticle
10 2 (0.79%) New Relic
11 1 (0.39%) Botify
11 1 (0.39%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.39%) OneTrust
11 1 (0.39%) Optimizely
11 1 (0.39%) ServiceNow