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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 191 155
Rank change year-on-year +15 -36 +37
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 302 186 282
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.52% 1.37% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.71% 1.48% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 112 215
10th Percentile £313 £297 £363
25th Percentile £400 £349 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% -7.73% -
75th Percentile £600 £591 £650
90th Percentile £763 £699 £874
England median daily rate £500 £498 £525
% change year-on-year +0.50% -5.24% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £39.65 - £49.00
25th Percentile £44.75 £30.75 £53.13
Median hourly rate £54.50 £31.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.02% -47.50% -
75th Percentile £65.38 £32.25 £64.38
90th Percentile £71.15 - £67.00
England median hourly rate £46.00 £15.50 £13.00
% change year-on-year +196.77% +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 17,663 12,532 14,574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.96% 92.17% 88.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,664 8,387 10,335
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 289 242 212
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.75 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.33% -12.50% -18.07%
75th Percentile £57.00 £49.31 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.23 £71.25
England median hourly rate £46.62 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +85.35% -39.40% -2.35%

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 29 July 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 29 July 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 29 July 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 +3 30 £500 -6.98% 16
West London -7 16 £480 +41.18% 9
North London 0 2 £456 -49.31%
South London - 1 £625 - 5
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 (2.98%) CMS
2 6 (1.99%) 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
Applications
1 18 (5.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (4.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (2.98%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 9 (2.98%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.99%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.99%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.66%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.33%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.33%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 21 (6.95%) Shopify
2 15 (4.97%) Magento
3 6 (1.99%) NetSuite
4 5 (1.66%) 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 36 (11.92%) AWS
2 33 (10.93%) Azure
3 17 (5.63%) Figma
4 10 (3.31%) GCP
4 10 (3.31%) GitHub
5 9 (2.98%) Power Platform
6 7 (2.32%) BigCommerce
6 7 (2.32%) Google Workspace
6 7 (2.32%) Miro
6 7 (2.32%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
6 7 (2.32%) Serverless
7 6 (1.99%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (1.99%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (1.99%) WhatsApp
8 5 (1.66%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (1.66%) SaaS
8 5 (1.66%) Snowflake
9 4 (1.32%) CloudFront
9 4 (1.32%) Datadog
9 4 (1.32%) dbt
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 11 (3.64%) NoSQL
2 8 (2.65%) Looker
2 8 (2.65%) MongoDB
2 8 (2.65%) Power BI
3 7 (2.32%) BigQuery
3 7 (2.32%) MySQL
4 6 (1.99%) Couchbase
5 5 (1.66%) Relational Database
5 5 (1.66%) Tableau
6 4 (1.32%) Redis
6 4 (1.32%) Semantic Layer
7 3 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (0.99%) Metadata
7 3 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.99%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.66%) KDB
8 2 (0.66%) Power Query
9 1 (0.33%) Bigtable
9 1 (0.33%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 27 (8.94%) Jenkins
2 15 (4.97%) Git
3 11 (3.64%) JIRA
4 9 (2.98%) Cypress.io
5 8 (2.65%) Selenium
5 8 (2.65%) Subversion
6 6 (1.99%) GitLab
6 6 (1.99%) Vite
7 5 (1.66%) 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 (46.69%) Retail
2 117 (38.74%) Social Skills
3 61 (20.20%) Finance
4 53 (17.55%) Marketing
5 38 (12.58%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (12.58%) Organisational Skills
6 23 (7.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (4.64%) Manufacturing
8 11 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (3.31%) Banking
10 9 (2.98%) Legal
11 7 (2.32%) Advertising
12 5 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.32%) Electronics
13 4 (1.32%) Public Sector
14 2 (0.66%) French Language
14 2 (0.66%) Front Office
14 2 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.66%) Publishing
14 2 (0.66%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 65 (21.52%) Senior
2 33 (10.93%) Developer
3 28 (9.27%) Designer
4 27 (8.94%) Analyst
5 25 (8.28%) Project Manager
6 24 (7.95%) Lead
7 22 (7.28%) Senior Manager
8 18 (5.96%) Business Analyst
8 18 (5.96%) Product Manager
9 16 (5.30%) Architect
10 13 (4.30%) Senior Project Manager
10 13 (4.30%) UI Designer
11 12 (3.97%) E-Commerce Manager
11 12 (3.97%) Senior Designer
12 11 (3.64%) Marketing Manager
12 11 (3.64%) Solutions Architect
13 9 (2.98%) Lead Designer
13 9 (2.98%) Senior Developer
14 8 (2.65%) Technical Manager
14 8 (2.65%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (10.60%) GraphQL
2 22 (7.28%) REST
3 21 (6.95%) React
4 17 (5.63%) Node.js
4 17 (5.63%) VML
5 14 (4.64%) Spring
6 13 (4.30%) Next.js
6 13 (4.30%) Playwright
7 12 (3.97%) CSS
7 12 (3.97%) Middleware
8 11 (3.64%) Kafka
9 10 (3.31%) HTML
9 10 (3.31%) Spring Boot
10 9 (2.98%) Jakarta EE
10 9 (2.98%) RESTful
11 6 (1.99%) AngularJS
11 6 (1.99%) HTML5
11 6 (1.99%) jQuery
11 6 (1.99%) Web Services
12 5 (1.66%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 27 (8.94%) Product Ownership
2 15 (4.97%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (4.97%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (4.30%) Mobile App
4 12 (3.97%) Cloud Native
5 9 (2.98%) Graphic Design
6 7 (2.32%) Virtual Team
7 6 (1.99%) AI Agents
7 6 (1.99%) FMCG
7 6 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.99%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.66%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.32%) Marketing Technology
9 4 (1.32%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.32%) Taxonomies
10 3 (0.99%) Smart Home
11 2 (0.66%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.66%) Digital Wallet
11 2 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.31%) Android
1 10 (3.31%) Apple iOS
2 6 (1.99%) Windows
3 5 (1.66%) Linux
3 5 (1.66%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (31.79%) Agile
2 62 (20.53%) Stakeholder Management
2 62 (20.53%) User Experience
3 59 (19.54%) Problem-Solving
4 41 (13.58%) CI/CD
5 39 (12.91%) Time Management
6 36 (11.92%) Roadmaps
6 36 (11.92%) Scrum
7 35 (11.59%) Analytics
7 35 (11.59%) Customer Experience
7 35 (11.59%) Project Management
8 34 (11.26%) CRM
9 33 (10.93%) DevOps
10 31 (10.26%) AI
11 29 (9.60%) Release Management
12 28 (9.27%) Continuous Improvement
13 27 (8.94%) Migration
14 23 (7.62%) Decision-Making
14 23 (7.62%) Workshop Facilitation
15 21 (6.95%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 25 (8.28%) Java
1 25 (8.28%) SQL
2 21 (6.95%) JavaScript
3 19 (6.29%) TypeScript
4 13 (4.30%) Python
5 5 (1.66%) Groovy
5 5 (1.66%) Kotlin
5 5 (1.66%) Swift
6 3 (0.99%) Go
7 2 (0.66%) Bash
7 2 (0.66%) C#
7 2 (0.66%) Korn
7 2 (0.66%) PHP
7 2 (0.66%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.33%) ABAP
8 1 (0.33%) DataWeave
8 1 (0.33%) LookML
8 1 (0.33%) R
8 1 (0.33%) Scala
8 1 (0.33%) XPath
Qualifications
1 34 (11.26%) Degree
2 5 (1.66%) CSPO
2 5 (1.66%) 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 (7.95%) QA
2 16 (5.30%) Data Quality
3 13 (4.30%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.66%) 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 (5.30%) Docker
2 1 (0.33%) Sendmail
2 1 (0.33%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 17 (5.63%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.65%) Terraform
3 6 (1.99%) 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 26 (8.61%) Salesforce
2 21 (6.95%) Adobe
2 21 (6.95%) Microsoft
3 19 (6.29%) Google
4 16 (5.30%) SAP
5 13 (4.30%) Oracle
6 7 (2.32%) New Relic
6 7 (2.32%) Sitecore
7 6 (1.99%) Databricks
7 6 (1.99%) IBM
8 5 (1.66%) Dynatrace
8 5 (1.66%) Splunk
9 4 (1.32%) MuleSoft
10 3 (0.99%) Braze
10 3 (0.99%) Netlify
11 2 (0.66%) Apple
11 2 (0.66%) ION Trading
11 2 (0.66%) Klarna
11 2 (0.66%) PayPal
11 2 (0.66%) Screaming Frog