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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 189 151
Rank change year-on-year -5 -38 +44
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 295 181 279
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.46% 1.33% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.64% 1.44% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 106 214
10th Percentile £313 £281 £363
25th Percentile £399 £363 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -6.36% -1.43%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £669
90th Percentile £764 £694 £875
England median daily rate £518 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.50% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £39.00 - £47.63
25th Percentile £43.13 £30.75 £49.69
Median hourly rate £50.00 £31.50 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +58.73% -41.40% -6.52%
75th Percentile £62.50 £32.25 £57.19
90th Percentile £70.00 - £58.88
England median hourly rate £37.50 £15.50 £13.00
% change year-on-year +141.94% +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 17,959 12,532 14,428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.08% 92.33% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,817 8,377 10,112
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 £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 296 248 200
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.05
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.61
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -17.15% -13.73%
75th Percentile £56.25 £47.81 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.08 £71.31
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.78%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 11 August 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 -4 34 £500 -6.98% 52
West London -5 18 £480 +14.63% 14
North London -1 2 £456 -49.31% 1
South London - 1 £625 - 7
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 (3.05%) CMS
2 7 (2.37%) Confluence
3 4 (1.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (1.36%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.02%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.68%) Apache
5 2 (0.68%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.68%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.34%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.34%) Mule
6 1 (0.34%) nginx
6 1 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 19 (6.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (4.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (3.05%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 9 (3.05%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.36%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.68%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.34%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.34%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 20 (6.78%) Shopify
2 15 (5.08%) Magento
3 6 (2.03%) NetSuite
4 5 (1.69%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (1.36%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.68%) ION MarketView
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle SCM
7 1 (0.34%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.34%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.34%) SDL Web 8
7 1 (0.34%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 40 (13.56%) AWS
2 30 (10.17%) Azure
3 15 (5.08%) Figma
4 10 (3.39%) GCP
4 10 (3.39%) GitHub
5 9 (3.05%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
6 8 (2.71%) Power Platform
7 7 (2.37%) BigCommerce
7 7 (2.37%) Google Workspace
7 7 (2.37%) SaaS
8 6 (2.03%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (2.03%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (2.03%) Serverless
8 6 (2.03%) Snowflake
9 5 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.69%) dbt
9 5 (1.69%) Miro
9 5 (1.69%) WhatsApp
10 4 (1.36%) CloudFront
10 4 (1.36%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.36%) WAN
2 3 (1.02%) Firewall
2 3 (1.02%) Internet
3 2 (0.68%) HTTP
3 2 (0.68%) LAN
3 2 (0.68%) Network Security
3 2 (0.68%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.68%) VPN
3 2 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.34%) Wireless
4 1 (0.34%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.39%) NoSQL
2 9 (3.05%) Looker
3 7 (2.37%) BigQuery
3 7 (2.37%) MongoDB
3 7 (2.37%) MySQL
3 7 (2.37%) Power BI
4 6 (2.03%) Couchbase
5 5 (1.69%) Relational Database
5 5 (1.69%) Tableau
6 4 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.36%) Redis
6 4 (1.36%) Semantic Layer
7 3 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.02%) Metadata
8 2 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.68%) KDB
8 2 (0.68%) Power Query
8 2 (0.68%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.34%) Db2
9 1 (0.34%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 25 (8.47%) Jenkins
2 14 (4.75%) Git
3 11 (3.73%) JIRA
4 9 (3.05%) Cypress.io
5 8 (2.71%) Subversion
6 7 (2.37%) Selenium
7 6 (2.03%) Vite
8 5 (1.69%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.69%) GitLab
9 4 (1.36%) Eclipse
9 4 (1.36%) Maven
9 4 (1.36%) Zephyr
10 3 (1.02%) Appium
11 2 (0.68%) Claude Code
11 2 (0.68%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.34%) Bundler
12 1 (0.34%) MLflow
12 1 (0.34%) PHPUnit
12 1 (0.34%) Robot Framework
12 1 (0.34%) TestRail
General
1 138 (46.78%) Retail
2 107 (36.27%) Social Skills
3 55 (18.64%) Marketing
4 54 (18.31%) Finance
5 38 (12.88%) Analytical Skills
6 36 (12.20%) Organisational Skills
7 24 (8.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (4.41%) Manufacturing
9 11 (3.73%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (3.39%) Banking
11 7 (2.37%) Advertising
11 7 (2.37%) Legal
12 5 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.36%) Electronics
13 4 (1.36%) Public Sector
14 2 (0.68%) French Language
14 2 (0.68%) Front Office
14 2 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.68%) Publishing
14 2 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 64 (21.69%) Senior
2 38 (12.88%) Developer
3 27 (9.15%) Analyst
4 25 (8.47%) Designer
5 23 (7.80%) Lead
6 20 (6.78%) Project Manager
6 20 (6.78%) Senior Manager
7 17 (5.76%) Business Analyst
7 17 (5.76%) Product Manager
8 15 (5.08%) Architect
9 13 (4.41%) UI Designer
10 12 (4.07%) Solutions Architect
11 10 (3.39%) E-Commerce Manager
11 10 (3.39%) Marketing Manager
11 10 (3.39%) Senior Designer
11 10 (3.39%) Senior Developer
11 10 (3.39%) Senior Project Manager
12 9 (3.05%) Lead Designer
13 8 (2.71%) Java Developer
13 8 (2.71%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (10.85%) GraphQL
2 23 (7.80%) REST
3 22 (7.46%) React
4 17 (5.76%) Node.js
4 17 (5.76%) VML
5 14 (4.75%) Spring
6 13 (4.41%) Next.js
7 12 (4.07%) Middleware
8 11 (3.73%) CSS
8 11 (3.73%) Kafka
8 11 (3.73%) Playwright
9 10 (3.39%) Spring Boot
10 9 (3.05%) HTML
10 9 (3.05%) Jakarta EE
10 9 (3.05%) RESTful
11 6 (2.03%) AngularJS
11 6 (2.03%) jQuery
11 6 (2.03%) SOAP
11 6 (2.03%) Web Services
12 5 (1.69%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 28 (9.49%) Product Ownership
2 16 (5.42%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (5.08%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (4.41%) Cloud Native
5 12 (4.07%) Mobile App
6 9 (3.05%) Graphic Design
7 7 (2.37%) AI Agents
7 7 (2.37%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.03%) FMCG
8 6 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.03%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.69%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.36%) Marketing Technology
10 4 (1.36%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.36%) Taxonomies
11 3 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.02%) Smart Home
12 2 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.68%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.39%) Android
1 10 (3.39%) Apple iOS
2 8 (2.71%) Windows
3 5 (1.69%) Linux
3 5 (1.69%) Unix
4 2 (0.68%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (31.19%) Agile
2 60 (20.34%) Stakeholder Management
3 59 (20.00%) User Experience
4 56 (18.98%) Problem-Solving
5 38 (12.88%) CI/CD
6 37 (12.54%) Time Management
7 36 (12.20%) Customer Experience
8 35 (11.86%) Analytics
8 35 (11.86%) Scrum
9 33 (11.19%) DevOps
9 33 (11.19%) Roadmaps
10 32 (10.85%) CRM
11 31 (10.51%) AI
12 30 (10.17%) Migration
12 30 (10.17%) Project Management
13 29 (9.83%) Continuous Improvement
14 27 (9.15%) Release Management
15 25 (8.47%) Decision-Making
16 23 (7.80%) Mentoring
17 21 (7.12%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 28 (9.49%) SQL
2 25 (8.47%) Java
3 21 (7.12%) JavaScript
4 20 (6.78%) TypeScript
5 17 (5.76%) Python
6 5 (1.69%) Groovy
6 5 (1.69%) Kotlin
6 5 (1.69%) Swift
7 4 (1.36%) Bash
7 4 (1.36%) C#
7 4 (1.36%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.02%) Go
9 2 (0.68%) LookML
9 2 (0.68%) PHP
10 1 (0.34%) ABAP
10 1 (0.34%) DataWeave
10 1 (0.34%) Korn
10 1 (0.34%) SOQL
10 1 (0.34%) SOSL
10 1 (0.34%) XPath
Qualifications
1 33 (11.19%) Degree
2 5 (1.69%) CSPO
2 5 (1.69%) Master's Degree
3 3 (1.02%) MBA
4 2 (0.68%) Security Cleared
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%) PhD
5 1 (0.34%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.80%) QA
2 15 (5.08%) Data Quality
3 12 (4.07%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.69%) SLA
5 4 (1.36%) GDPR
6 3 (1.02%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.02%) PMO
7 2 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.68%) PSD2
8 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.34%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (5.42%) Docker
2 1 (0.34%) Sendmail
2 1 (0.34%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 17 (5.76%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.71%) Terraform
3 4 (1.36%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 3 (1.02%) Grafana
4 3 (1.02%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.68%) Bosun
5 2 (0.68%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.34%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 30 (10.17%) Salesforce
2 21 (7.12%) Adobe
2 21 (7.12%) Google
2 21 (7.12%) Microsoft
3 14 (4.75%) Oracle
4 11 (3.73%) SAP
5 7 (2.37%) New Relic
5 7 (2.37%) Sitecore
6 5 (1.69%) IBM
6 5 (1.69%) Splunk
7 4 (1.36%) Apple
7 4 (1.36%) Databricks
7 4 (1.36%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.36%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.02%) Braze
8 3 (1.02%) Netlify
9 2 (0.68%) ION Trading
9 2 (0.68%) Klarna
9 2 (0.68%) PayPal
9 2 (0.68%) Screaming Frog