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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 195 158
Rank change year-on-year +8 -37 +20
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 291 180 300
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.48% 1.33% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.66% 1.45% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 108 228
10th Percentile £313 £293 £350
25th Percentile £400 £332 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.07% -6.36% -2.22%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £633
90th Percentile £700 £691 £857
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 4
10th Percentile £39.65 £29.18 £50.38
25th Percentile £44.75 £29.44 £56.56
Median hourly rate £54.50 £30.25 £63.75
Median % change year-on-year +80.17% -52.55% +6.25%
75th Percentile £65.38 £31.44 £68.75
90th Percentile £71.15 £31.93 -
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 17,532 12,440 15,649
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.99% 92.14% 88.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,643 8,309 11,135
10th Percentile £360 £331 £340
25th Percentile £440 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -5.58%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £769 £798 £800
England median daily rate £525 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 274 234 293
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.96
25th Percentile £22.87 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £36.75 £32.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.84% +6.67% -27.31%
75th Percentile £58.98 £50.38 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.60 £68.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -6.07%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +10 27 £500 -9.30% 40
West London -9 16 £480 +41.18% 26
North London - 2 £456 - 1
South London - 1 £625 - 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 9 (3.09%) CMS
2 7 (2.41%) Confluence
3 4 (1.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (1.37%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.69%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.34%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.34%) Apache
5 1 (0.34%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.34%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.34%) Kentico
5 1 (0.34%) Mule
5 1 (0.34%) nginx
5 1 (0.34%) Sitefinity
5 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (4.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (3.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (2.75%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 8 (2.75%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (2.41%) Chatbot
5 4 (1.37%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.69%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 21 (7.22%) Shopify
2 14 (4.81%) Magento
3 6 (2.06%) NetSuite
4 5 (1.72%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (1.37%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.69%) SAP CRM
6 2 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.34%) ION MarketView
7 1 (0.34%) SAP CAR
7 1 (0.34%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.34%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.34%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.34%) SAP Retail
7 1 (0.34%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.34%) SDL Web 8
7 1 (0.34%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 31 (10.65%) AWS
2 30 (10.31%) Azure
3 21 (7.22%) Figma
4 10 (3.44%) SaaS
5 9 (3.09%) Power Platform
6 8 (2.75%) BigCommerce
6 8 (2.75%) GCP
6 8 (2.75%) GitHub
6 8 (2.75%) Google Workspace
6 8 (2.75%) Miro
6 8 (2.75%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 7 (2.41%) WhatsApp
8 6 (2.06%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (2.06%) Serverless
9 5 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (1.37%) Datadog
11 3 (1.03%) Adobe Analytics
11 3 (1.03%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.03%) CloudFront
11 3 (1.03%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.37%) Internet
2 2 (0.69%) LAN
2 2 (0.69%) WAN
3 1 (0.34%) Firewall
3 1 (0.34%) HTTP
3 1 (0.34%) Network Security
3 1 (0.34%) RFID
3 1 (0.34%) RTMP
3 1 (0.34%) Wireless
3 1 (0.34%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.44%) NoSQL
2 8 (2.75%) Power BI
3 7 (2.41%) Looker
3 7 (2.41%) MySQL
4 5 (1.72%) BigQuery
4 5 (1.72%) Couchbase
4 5 (1.72%) MongoDB
4 5 (1.72%) Relational Database
4 5 (1.72%) Tableau
5 4 (1.37%) Semantic Layer
5 4 (1.37%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.03%) Metadata
6 3 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.69%) Power Query
7 2 (0.69%) Redis
8 1 (0.34%) Db2
8 1 (0.34%) KDB
Development Applications
1 27 (9.28%) Jenkins
2 17 (5.84%) Git
3 10 (3.44%) JIRA
3 10 (3.44%) Selenium
4 9 (3.09%) Cypress.io
5 7 (2.41%) Subversion
6 6 (2.06%) GitLab
6 6 (2.06%) Vite
7 5 (1.72%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.37%) Eclipse
8 4 (1.37%) Maven
9 3 (1.03%) Appium
9 3 (1.03%) Zephyr
10 2 (0.69%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.69%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.69%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.34%) MLflow
11 1 (0.34%) NUnit
11 1 (0.34%) PHPUnit
11 1 (0.34%) Robot Framework
General
1 132 (45.36%) Retail
2 115 (39.52%) Social Skills
3 66 (22.68%) Finance
4 44 (15.12%) Marketing
5 41 (14.09%) Organisational Skills
6 33 (11.34%) Analytical Skills
7 23 (7.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (4.81%) Manufacturing
9 10 (3.44%) Banking
9 10 (3.44%) Legal
9 10 (3.44%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (2.41%) Advertising
11 4 (1.37%) Electronics
11 4 (1.37%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.03%) French Language
12 3 (1.03%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.69%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 69 (23.71%) Senior
2 32 (11.00%) Designer
3 30 (10.31%) Analyst
4 29 (9.97%) Developer
4 29 (9.97%) Project Manager
5 28 (9.62%) Senior Manager
6 23 (7.90%) Lead
7 21 (7.22%) Business Analyst
8 20 (6.87%) Senior Project Manager
9 17 (5.84%) Product Manager
10 14 (4.81%) Senior Designer
11 13 (4.47%) E-Commerce Manager
12 12 (4.12%) Architect
12 12 (4.12%) UI Designer
13 11 (3.78%) Marketing Manager
14 9 (3.09%) E-Commerce Analyst
14 9 (3.09%) E-Commerce Business Analyst
14 9 (3.09%) UX Designer
15 8 (2.75%) Product Designer
15 8 (2.75%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (10.65%) GraphQL
2 23 (7.90%) React
3 19 (6.53%) VML
4 18 (6.19%) REST
5 15 (5.15%) Node.js
6 14 (4.81%) Playwright
7 13 (4.47%) CSS
7 13 (4.47%) Middleware
7 13 (4.47%) Spring
8 12 (4.12%) Next.js
9 11 (3.78%) HTML
10 10 (3.44%) Kafka
11 9 (3.09%) J2EE
11 9 (3.09%) Spring Boot
12 8 (2.75%) RESTful
13 7 (2.41%) AngularJS
14 6 (2.06%) HTML5
14 6 (2.06%) jQuery
14 6 (2.06%) Web Services
15 5 (1.72%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 28 (9.62%) Product Ownership
2 13 (4.47%) Cloud Native
2 13 (4.47%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (3.78%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (3.09%) Mobile App
4 9 (3.09%) Virtual Team
5 8 (2.75%) Graphic Design
6 6 (2.06%) AI Agents
6 6 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.06%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.03%) FMCG
8 3 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.03%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.03%) Marketing Technology
8 3 (1.03%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.03%) Smart Home
8 3 (1.03%) Taxonomies
9 2 (0.69%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.78%) Android
2 10 (3.44%) Apple iOS
3 7 (2.41%) Linux
4 6 (2.06%) Windows
5 5 (1.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (34.71%) Agile
2 68 (23.37%) User Experience
3 61 (20.96%) Stakeholder Management
4 57 (19.59%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (14.78%) Time Management
6 41 (14.09%) Project Management
7 37 (12.71%) Scrum
8 36 (12.37%) CI/CD
9 34 (11.68%) Customer Experience
10 32 (11.00%) Analytics
10 32 (11.00%) Release Management
11 31 (10.65%) Continuous Improvement
12 30 (10.31%) AI
13 29 (9.97%) Roadmaps
14 28 (9.62%) CRM
15 27 (9.28%) DevOps
16 26 (8.93%) Workshop Facilitation
17 24 (8.25%) B2C
18 23 (7.90%) Migration
19 22 (7.56%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 25 (8.59%) Java
2 23 (7.90%) JavaScript
2 23 (7.90%) SQL
3 21 (7.22%) TypeScript
4 12 (4.12%) Python
5 5 (1.72%) Groovy
5 5 (1.72%) Kotlin
5 5 (1.72%) Swift
6 4 (1.37%) C#
7 3 (1.03%) Go
8 2 (0.69%) Bash
8 2 (0.69%) Korn
8 2 (0.69%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.34%) ABAP
9 1 (0.34%) DataWeave
9 1 (0.34%) PHP
9 1 (0.34%) R
9 1 (0.34%) Scala
9 1 (0.34%) XPath
Qualifications
1 30 (10.31%) Degree
2 5 (1.72%) CSPO
3 3 (1.03%) Master's Degree
4 2 (0.69%) MBA
5 1 (0.34%) CISA
5 1 (0.34%) CISSP
5 1 (0.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.34%) IIBA
5 1 (0.34%) ISEB
5 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (0.34%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.34%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.90%) QA
2 16 (5.50%) Accessibility
3 11 (3.78%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.72%) SLA
5 4 (1.37%) GDPR
6 3 (1.03%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.03%) PMO
7 2 (0.69%) PSD2
7 2 (0.69%) WCAG
8 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.34%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (4.12%) Docker
2 1 (0.34%) Sendmail
2 1 (0.34%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 14 (4.81%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.41%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 6 (2.06%) Terraform
4 3 (1.03%) Grafana
4 3 (1.03%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.34%) Ansible
5 1 (0.34%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 26 (8.93%) Salesforce
2 22 (7.56%) Adobe
3 18 (6.19%) Google
3 18 (6.19%) Microsoft
3 18 (6.19%) SAP
4 13 (4.47%) Oracle
5 7 (2.41%) Sitecore
6 6 (2.06%) IBM
7 5 (1.72%) Dynatrace
7 5 (1.72%) Splunk
8 4 (1.37%) Databricks
8 4 (1.37%) MuleSoft
8 4 (1.37%) Netlify
8 4 (1.37%) New Relic
9 2 (0.69%) Apple
9 2 (0.69%) Klarna
9 2 (0.69%) PayPal
9 2 (0.69%) Screaming Frog
10 1 (0.34%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.34%) Infor