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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 157 154
Rank change year-on-year -10 -3 -24
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 232 218 297
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.57% 1.58% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.72% 1.74% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 157 189
10th Percentile £355 £291 £350
25th Percentile £425 £370 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% -0.50%
75th Percentile £563 £623 £600
90th Percentile £700 £711 £655
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 £27.89 £44.71 £34.75
% change year-on-year -37.61% +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 13,482 12,521 16,487
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.03% 90.48% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,929 7,934 11,797
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 £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 155 336
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.75 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.90 £24.88 £19.83
Median hourly rate £34.14 £35.00 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.47% +14.75% -18.67%
75th Percentile £56.00 £53.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.75 £79.50 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.31 £36.42
% change year-on-year -26.69% -5.80% +4.05%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 +12 39 £375 -10.45% 7
Central London -6 23 £475 -5.00% 31
East London - 2 £400 - 2
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 (2.59%) CMS
2 5 (2.16%) Confluence
3 3 (1.29%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.86%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.86%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.43%) Kentico
5 1 (0.43%) Sitefinity
5 1 (0.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (3.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.59%) Chatbot
3 4 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.29%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.86%) Autodesk Smoke
5 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.43%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.43%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.43%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.43%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (10.34%) Shopify
2 4 (1.72%) Endur
2 4 (1.72%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.29%) Magento
4 1 (0.43%) Eikon
4 1 (0.43%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.43%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 40 (17.24%) SaaS
2 30 (12.93%) AWS
3 18 (7.76%) Azure
4 16 (6.90%) Figma
5 15 (6.47%) Serverless
6 14 (6.03%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (5.60%) Dynamics 365
8 12 (5.17%) GCP
9 10 (4.31%) Datadog
10 7 (3.02%) Contentsquare
10 7 (3.02%) Google Analytics
11 6 (2.59%) BigCommerce
12 5 (2.16%) Google Tag Manager
13 4 (1.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (1.72%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
14 3 (1.29%) Amazon S3
14 3 (1.29%) Amazon SQS
14 3 (1.29%) Cloudflare
14 3 (1.29%) Commercetools
14 3 (1.29%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.02%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.43%) Internet
2 1 (0.43%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.02%) DynamoDB
2 6 (2.59%) Mixpanel
3 5 (2.16%) NoSQL
4 4 (1.72%) Redis
4 4 (1.72%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.72%) Tableau
5 3 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.29%) Power BI
6 2 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.86%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.86%) CockroachDB
6 2 (0.86%) Couchbase
6 2 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.86%) Metadata
6 2 (0.86%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.86%) MySQL
7 1 (0.43%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.43%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.43%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 34 (14.66%) Jenkins
2 7 (3.02%) JIRA
3 6 (2.59%) Git
3 6 (2.59%) Visual Website Optimizer
4 4 (1.72%) Cypress.io
4 4 (1.72%) SpecFlow
5 3 (1.29%) Browser DevTools
5 3 (1.29%) Charles Proxy
5 3 (1.29%) Fiddler
6 2 (0.86%) GitLab
6 2 (0.86%) Postman
6 2 (0.86%) Selenium
7 1 (0.43%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.43%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.43%) NUnit
7 1 (0.43%) WebDriver
General
1 71 (30.60%) Social Skills
2 40 (17.24%) Retail
3 35 (15.09%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (13.79%) Marketing
5 31 (13.36%) Finance
6 19 (8.19%) Organisational Skills
7 17 (7.33%) Legal
8 12 (5.17%) Electronics
9 5 (2.16%) Advertising
9 5 (2.16%) French Language
9 5 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.72%) Banking
10 4 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.72%) Front Office
11 3 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.29%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.86%) Publishing
13 1 (0.43%) Law
13 1 (0.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (23.28%) Senior
2 30 (12.93%) Analyst
3 29 (12.50%) Consultant
4 19 (8.19%) Business Analyst
5 18 (7.76%) Developer
6 17 (7.33%) Project Manager
7 15 (6.47%) Designer
8 13 (5.60%) Architect
8 13 (5.60%) Senior Manager
8 13 (5.60%) Senior Project Manager
8 13 (5.60%) Technical Consultant
9 12 (5.17%) Senior Consultant
9 12 (5.17%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 12 (5.17%) Senior Technical Consultant
9 12 (5.17%) Senior Technical Specialist
9 12 (5.17%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
9 12 (5.17%) Technical Specialist
10 10 (4.31%) Lead
11 9 (3.88%) Senior Designer
11 9 (3.88%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (21.12%) Node.js
2 40 (17.24%) GraphQL
3 30 (12.93%) Playwright
4 28 (12.07%) Vitest
5 20 (8.62%) React
6 16 (6.90%) YAML
7 15 (6.47%) HTML
8 14 (6.03%) CSS
9 11 (4.74%) VML
10 10 (4.31%) .NET
11 8 (3.45%) OpenTelemetry
12 7 (3.02%) Next.js
13 6 (2.59%) REST
14 5 (2.16%) HTML5
14 5 (2.16%) Middleware
14 5 (2.16%) RESTful
15 4 (1.72%) CSS3
15 4 (1.72%) NumPy
16 3 (1.29%) Lambda Expressions
16 3 (1.29%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 37 (15.95%) Cloud Native
2 23 (9.91%) Product Ownership
3 18 (7.76%) Mobile App
4 14 (6.03%) Analytical Mindset
5 13 (5.60%) Onboarding
6 9 (3.88%) Marketing Technology
7 6 (2.59%) PMI
7 6 (2.59%) Social Media
8 5 (2.16%) Client/Server
8 5 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.72%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.86%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.86%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.86%) FMCG
10 2 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.86%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.43%) Culture of Ownership
11 1 (0.43%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.72%) Android
2 3 (1.29%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (40.09%) Agile
2 53 (22.84%) CI/CD
3 47 (20.26%) User Experience
4 46 (19.83%) Analytics
5 45 (19.40%) Problem-Solving
6 44 (18.97%) DevOps
7 43 (18.53%) Stakeholder Management
8 33 (14.22%) Coaching
8 33 (14.22%) Mentoring
9 28 (12.07%) Test Automation
10 26 (11.21%) Customer Experience
11 25 (10.78%) A/B Testing
12 23 (9.91%) Full-Stack Development
12 23 (9.91%) UX Design
13 22 (9.48%) Project Management
14 20 (8.62%) B2B
14 20 (8.62%) ERP
14 20 (8.62%) Process Improvement
14 20 (8.62%) Software Engineering
15 19 (8.19%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 46 (19.83%) TypeScript
2 27 (11.64%) SQL
3 21 (9.05%) JavaScript
4 19 (8.19%) Python
5 10 (4.31%) C#
5 10 (4.31%) Java
6 3 (1.29%) PHP
7 2 (0.86%) R
7 2 (0.86%) Ruby
8 1 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.43%) Go
8 1 (0.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (4.74%) Degree
2 6 (2.59%) PMI Certification
3 4 (1.72%) AWS Certification
3 4 (1.72%) Master's Degree
4 2 (0.86%) APMG
4 2 (0.86%) CBAP
4 2 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.86%) MBA
5 1 (0.43%) CFA
5 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.19%) GDPR
2 14 (6.03%) Accessibility
3 12 (5.17%) QA
4 10 (4.31%) PERC
5 8 (3.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (1.72%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.29%) Data Quality
7 3 (1.29%) WCAG
8 2 (0.86%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.86%) PSD2
9 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 35 (15.09%) Docker
2 1 (0.43%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 36 (15.52%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.88%) Grafana
2 9 (3.88%) Prometheus
3 5 (2.16%) Terraform
4 3 (1.29%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.43%) Ansible
Vendors
1 25 (10.78%) Google
2 23 (9.91%) Salesforce
3 21 (9.05%) Adobe
4 16 (6.90%) SAP
5 10 (4.31%) Tealium
6 8 (3.45%) Microsoft
6 8 (3.45%) Optimizely
7 7 (3.02%) OneTrust
8 6 (2.59%) Amplitude
8 6 (2.59%) Hotjar
8 6 (2.59%) Sitecore
9 5 (2.16%) mParticle
10 4 (1.72%) Wind River
11 3 (1.29%) Facebook
11 3 (1.29%) OpenAI
11 3 (1.29%) Oracle
11 3 (1.29%) TikTok
12 2 (0.86%) New Relic
12 2 (0.86%) Rollbar
12 2 (0.86%) Splunk