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 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 178 156 168
Rank change year-on-year -22 +12 -43
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 225 252 285
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.57% 1.66% 1.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.71% 1.85% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 184 184
10th Percentile £329 £302 £383
25th Percentile £422 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £575 £625 £623
90th Percentile £725 £713 £730
England median daily rate £500 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 5
10th Percentile £22.08 £42.34 £30.20
25th Percentile £24.61 £43.00 £47.75
Median hourly rate £31.50 £44.71 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.54% -22.25% -19.30%
75th Percentile £49.20 £47.04 £65.75
90th Percentile £65.80 £48.07 £69.50
England median hourly rate £15.50 £47.50 £50.25
% change year-on-year -67.37% -5.47% -29.47%

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 13,135 13,632 16,935
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.46% 90.03% 89.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,670 8,766 12,134
10th Percentile £343 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.65% -4.24%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £800 £792
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 164 235
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.65 £18.53
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.38
Median hourly rate £30.00 £36.65 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% +4.71% -10.83%
75th Percentile £48.00 £54.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.90 £80.75 £74.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%

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 16 December 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing E-Commerce in London over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

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 16 December 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
West London +8 34 £375 -14.29% 6
Central London -1 23 £525 -4.55% 9
East London - 2 £400 - 3
North London - 1 £900 - 4
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 8 (3.56%) Confluence
2 6 (2.67%) CMS
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%) SAS
5 1 (0.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.67%) Chatbot
2 6 (2.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.89%) Autodesk Smoke
5 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (9.78%) Shopify
2 10 (4.44%) Magento
3 5 (2.22%) Oracle Retail
4 4 (1.78%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (1.78%) Endur
4 4 (1.78%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.89%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.44%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.44%) Eikon
6 1 (0.44%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.44%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.44%) Orchestrade
6 1 (0.44%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 33 (14.67%) SaaS
2 25 (11.11%) AWS
3 19 (8.44%) Azure
4 13 (5.78%) Dynamics 365
4 13 (5.78%) GCP
5 12 (5.33%) Figma
5 12 (5.33%) Serverless
6 11 (4.89%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (3.56%) Datadog
7 8 (3.56%) Google Analytics
8 7 (3.11%) Contentsquare
9 5 (2.22%) Facebook Ads
9 5 (2.22%) Google Tag Manager
9 5 (2.22%) SAP Commerce Cloud
10 4 (1.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (1.78%) Cloudflare
10 4 (1.78%) Commercetools
10 4 (1.78%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
11 3 (1.33%) BigCommerce
11 3 (1.33%) Contentful
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.11%) Cisco IPT
2 2 (0.89%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.67%) Mixpanel
2 5 (2.22%) DynamoDB
2 5 (2.22%) NoSQL
3 4 (1.78%) Redis
3 4 (1.78%) Tableau
4 3 (1.33%) Power BI
4 3 (1.33%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.89%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.89%) Couchbase
5 2 (0.89%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.89%) MySQL
6 1 (0.44%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.44%) Essbase
6 1 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.44%) Power Query
6 1 (0.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 32 (14.22%) Jenkins
2 17 (7.56%) JIRA
3 7 (3.11%) Git
4 6 (2.67%) Visual Website Optimizer
5 4 (1.78%) Cucumber
5 4 (1.78%) Selenium
5 4 (1.78%) SpecFlow
6 3 (1.33%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (1.33%) Charles Proxy
6 3 (1.33%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.33%) Fiddler
7 2 (0.89%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.89%) GitLab
7 2 (0.89%) Postman
7 2 (0.89%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.44%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.44%) Gradle
8 1 (0.44%) Maven
8 1 (0.44%) Subversion
General
1 70 (31.11%) Social Skills
2 38 (16.89%) Retail
3 35 (15.56%) Marketing
4 32 (14.22%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (11.11%) Finance
6 15 (6.67%) Legal
7 12 (5.33%) Electronics
8 7 (3.11%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.67%) Advertising
9 6 (2.67%) Banking
10 4 (1.78%) French Language
10 4 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.33%) Front Office
11 3 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.89%) Back Office
12 2 (0.89%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.89%) Publishing
12 2 (0.89%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.89%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 38 (16.89%) Senior
2 29 (12.89%) Consultant
3 27 (12.00%) Analyst
4 23 (10.22%) Developer
5 21 (9.33%) Architect
6 18 (8.00%) Business Analyst
7 12 (5.33%) Technical Consultant
8 11 (4.89%) Senior Consultant
8 11 (4.89%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 11 (4.89%) Senior Technical Consultant
8 11 (4.89%) Senior Technical Specialist
8 11 (4.89%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
8 11 (4.89%) Technical Specialist
9 10 (4.44%) Designer
10 8 (3.56%) Cloud Specialist
10 8 (3.56%) Lead
10 8 (3.56%) Project Manager
10 8 (3.56%) UX Designer
11 7 (3.11%) E-Commerce Manager
11 7 (3.11%) Senior Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (20.89%) Node.js
2 38 (16.89%) GraphQL
3 26 (11.56%) Playwright
3 26 (11.56%) Vitest
4 16 (7.11%) React
5 15 (6.67%) YAML
6 12 (5.33%) HTML
7 10 (4.44%) CSS
8 7 (3.11%) Next.js
8 7 (3.11%) OpenTelemetry
9 6 (2.67%) .NET
10 5 (2.22%) HTML5
10 5 (2.22%) REST
10 5 (2.22%) RESTful
10 5 (2.22%) SOAP
11 4 (1.78%) CSS3
11 4 (1.78%) Middleware
11 4 (1.78%) VML
12 3 (1.33%) EDI
12 3 (1.33%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 37 (16.44%) Cloud Native
2 30 (13.33%) Product Ownership
3 18 (8.00%) Mobile App
4 14 (6.22%) Analytical Mindset
5 13 (5.78%) Onboarding
6 10 (4.44%) Marketing Technology
7 7 (3.11%) Social Media
8 6 (2.67%) PMI
9 5 (2.22%) Client/Server
9 5 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.33%) Low-Code
11 2 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.89%) Management Information System
12 1 (0.44%) Data Protection Act
12 1 (0.44%) Enterprise Software
12 1 (0.44%) FMCG
12 1 (0.44%) IVR
12 1 (0.44%) Learning Management System
12 1 (0.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.33%) Android
1 3 (1.33%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (37.33%) Agile
2 48 (21.33%) CI/CD
3 44 (19.56%) DevOps
4 41 (18.22%) Analytics
5 39 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
6 36 (16.00%) User Experience
7 35 (15.56%) Mentoring
7 35 (15.56%) Stakeholder Management
8 33 (14.67%) Coaching
9 28 (12.44%) Test Automation
10 24 (10.67%) A/B Testing
10 24 (10.67%) ERP
11 23 (10.22%) Customer Experience
12 22 (9.78%) UX Design
13 20 (8.89%) B2C
13 20 (8.89%) CRM
13 20 (8.89%) Roadmaps
13 20 (8.89%) Software Engineering
14 19 (8.44%) Process Improvement
15 18 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 40 (17.78%) TypeScript
2 27 (12.00%) SQL
3 19 (8.44%) JavaScript
4 18 (8.00%) Python
5 10 (4.44%) Java
6 7 (3.11%) C#
7 4 (1.78%) PHP
7 4 (1.78%) Ruby
8 2 (0.89%) R
9 1 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.44%) Go
9 1 (0.44%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (6.67%) 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%) ISTQB
4 2 (0.89%) MBA
5 1 (0.44%) CFA
5 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.89%) GDPR
2 13 (5.78%) QA
3 10 (4.44%) Accessibility
3 10 (4.44%) PERC
4 9 (4.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (1.78%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.33%) WCAG
7 2 (0.89%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.89%) ISO 8583
7 2 (0.89%) PSD2
7 2 (0.89%) SLA
8 1 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 33 (14.67%) Docker
2 1 (0.44%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 34 (15.11%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.56%) Grafana
2 8 (3.56%) Prometheus
3 5 (2.22%) Terraform
4 3 (1.33%) 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 23 (10.22%) Salesforce
3 16 (7.11%) Adobe
4 13 (5.78%) SAP
5 10 (4.44%) Tealium
6 9 (4.00%) Microsoft
6 9 (4.00%) Optimizely
7 8 (3.56%) OneTrust
7 8 (3.56%) Oracle
8 6 (2.67%) Amplitude
8 6 (2.67%) Hotjar
9 5 (2.22%) Facebook
9 5 (2.22%) mParticle
10 4 (1.78%) TikTok
10 4 (1.78%) Wind River
11 3 (1.33%) OpenAI
11 3 (1.33%) Sitecore
12 2 (0.89%) New Relic
12 2 (0.89%) Rollbar
12 2 (0.89%) Splunk