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 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 163 154
Rank change year-on-year -10 -9 -20
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 247 212 281
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.52% 1.58% 1.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.69% 1.74% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 145 189
10th Percentile £350 £293 £323
25th Percentile £413 £358 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £572 £600 £588
90th Percentile £644 £701 £638
England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 5
10th Percentile £22.08 £31.58 £30.20
25th Percentile £29.10 £35.46 £47.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £41.91 £64.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.52% -35.02% -7.86%
75th Percentile £59.38 £45.33 £68.75
90th Percentile £65.80 £47.38 -
England median hourly rate £35.20 £44.71 £13.00
% change year-on-year -21.26% +243.88% -81.75%

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 14,655 12,200 16,269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.11% 90.98% 88.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,838 8,002 11,621
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% - -7.41%
75th Percentile £650 £679 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 162 351
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.45 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.02 £24.66 £19.49
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.71% +17.50% -16.08%
75th Percentile £56.13 £53.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £69.42 £77.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £29.61 £35.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -15.40% +6.06% -6.46%

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 7 March 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 7 March 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 7 March 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 +8 34 £375 +10.29% 10
Central London -12 21 £475 -9.52% 53
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 8 (3.24%) CMS
2 6 (2.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 5 (2.02%) Confluence
4 4 (1.62%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.40%) Kentico
5 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.40%) Sitefinity
5 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (4.45%) Chatbot
2 7 (2.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.62%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.81%) Autodesk Smoke
6 1 (0.40%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.40%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.40%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.40%) Trello
Business Applications
1 25 (10.12%) Shopify
2 4 (1.62%) Endur
3 3 (1.21%) Magento
3 3 (1.21%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.40%) Eikon
5 1 (0.40%) Orchestrade
5 1 (0.40%) SAP CAR
5 1 (0.40%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.40%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.40%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.40%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.40%) SAP Retail
5 1 (0.40%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.40%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 30 (12.15%) SaaS
2 26 (10.53%) AWS
3 21 (8.50%) Azure
4 14 (5.67%) Dynamics 365
5 13 (5.26%) Datadog
5 13 (5.26%) Figma
5 13 (5.26%) GCP
5 13 (5.26%) Serverless
6 12 (4.86%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (2.83%) Contentsquare
7 7 (2.83%) Google Workspace
7 7 (2.83%) Miro
7 7 (2.83%) WhatsApp
8 6 (2.43%) BigCommerce
8 6 (2.43%) Power Platform
9 5 (2.02%) Google Analytics
10 4 (1.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (1.62%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
11 3 (1.21%) Cloudflare
11 3 (1.21%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.83%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.40%) Internet
2 1 (0.40%) RFID
2 1 (0.40%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.83%) DynamoDB
2 6 (2.43%) Mixpanel
2 6 (2.43%) MySQL
2 6 (2.43%) NoSQL
2 6 (2.43%) Power BI
3 5 (2.02%) Redis
3 5 (2.02%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.21%) Looker
5 3 (1.21%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.21%) Tableau
6 2 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.81%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.81%) CockroachDB
6 2 (0.81%) Couchbase
6 2 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.81%) Metadata
7 1 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.40%) Bigtable
7 1 (0.40%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 30 (12.15%) Jenkins
2 9 (3.64%) JIRA
3 6 (2.43%) Git
3 6 (2.43%) Visual Website Optimizer
4 5 (2.02%) Selenium
5 4 (1.62%) Cypress.io
5 4 (1.62%) Maven
5 4 (1.62%) SpecFlow
6 3 (1.21%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (1.21%) Charles Proxy
6 3 (1.21%) Fiddler
6 3 (1.21%) GitLab
7 2 (0.81%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.81%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.40%) Appium
8 1 (0.40%) NUnit
8 1 (0.40%) Zephyr
General
1 86 (34.82%) Social Skills
2 54 (21.86%) Retail
3 47 (19.03%) Finance
4 32 (12.96%) Marketing
5 31 (12.55%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (8.10%) Organisational Skills
7 16 (6.48%) Legal
8 12 (4.86%) Electronics
9 6 (2.43%) Advertising
10 5 (2.02%) Banking
10 5 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (2.02%) French Language
10 5 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.62%) Front Office
11 4 (1.62%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.81%) Publishing
13 2 (0.81%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.40%) Law
Job Titles
1 57 (23.08%) Senior
2 30 (12.15%) Analyst
3 26 (10.53%) Consultant
4 23 (9.31%) Project Manager
5 22 (8.91%) Developer
6 18 (7.29%) Senior Manager
6 18 (7.29%) Senior Project Manager
7 17 (6.88%) Business Analyst
8 16 (6.48%) Designer
9 14 (5.67%) Architect
10 13 (5.26%) Lead
11 11 (4.45%) E-Commerce Manager
11 11 (4.45%) Technical Consultant
12 10 (4.05%) Senior Consultant
12 10 (4.05%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
12 10 (4.05%) Senior Designer
12 10 (4.05%) Senior Technical Consultant
12 10 (4.05%) Senior Technical Specialist
12 10 (4.05%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
12 10 (4.05%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (17.81%) Node.js
2 35 (14.17%) GraphQL
3 31 (12.55%) Playwright
4 25 (10.12%) Vitest
5 20 (8.10%) React
6 19 (7.69%) CSS
7 16 (6.48%) HTML
8 15 (6.07%) YAML
9 11 (4.45%) OpenTelemetry
9 11 (4.45%) VML
10 10 (4.05%) .NET
10 10 (4.05%) REST
11 7 (2.83%) AngularJS
11 7 (2.83%) Middleware
12 6 (2.43%) Next.js
12 6 (2.43%) Spring
13 5 (2.02%) Bootstrap
13 5 (2.02%) HTML5
13 5 (2.02%) Sass
13 5 (2.02%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 35 (14.17%) Cloud Native
2 22 (8.91%) Product Ownership
3 16 (6.48%) Mobile App
4 14 (5.67%) Analytical Mindset
5 13 (5.26%) Onboarding
6 11 (4.45%) Virtual Team
7 9 (3.64%) Marketing Technology
8 6 (2.43%) PMI
9 5 (2.02%) Client/Server
9 5 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.81%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.81%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.81%) FMCG
10 2 (0.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.81%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.81%) Social Media
10 2 (0.81%) Taxonomies
11 1 (0.40%) Motion Graphics
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.43%) Android
1 6 (2.43%) Linux
2 5 (2.02%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.62%) Unix
3 4 (1.62%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (39.27%) Agile
2 54 (21.86%) Problem-Solving
3 49 (19.84%) CI/CD
4 48 (19.43%) User Experience
5 42 (17.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 41 (16.60%) Analytics
7 40 (16.19%) DevOps
8 32 (12.96%) Customer Experience
9 31 (12.55%) Mentoring
10 30 (12.15%) Coaching
10 30 (12.15%) Test Automation
11 27 (10.93%) Project Management
12 23 (9.31%) Full-Stack Development
13 21 (8.50%) B2C
13 21 (8.50%) Continuous Improvement
13 21 (8.50%) ERP
13 21 (8.50%) Time Management
13 21 (8.50%) UX Design
14 20 (8.10%) A/B Testing
14 20 (8.10%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 43 (17.41%) TypeScript
2 28 (11.34%) JavaScript
3 25 (10.12%) SQL
4 17 (6.88%) Java
5 15 (6.07%) Python
6 10 (4.05%) C#
7 3 (1.21%) PHP
8 1 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.40%) Go
8 1 (0.40%) Korn
8 1 (0.40%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 11 (4.45%) Degree
2 6 (2.43%) PMI Certification
3 4 (1.62%) AWS Certification
4 3 (1.21%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.81%) CBAP
5 2 (0.81%) MBA
6 1 (0.40%) CFA
6 1 (0.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.29%) GDPR
2 15 (6.07%) QA
3 14 (5.67%) Accessibility
4 10 (4.05%) PERC
5 7 (2.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (1.62%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.62%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.62%) SLA
6 4 (1.62%) WCAG
7 2 (0.81%) ISO 8583
7 2 (0.81%) PSD2
8 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 31 (12.55%) Docker
2 1 (0.40%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 32 (12.96%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.86%) Grafana
2 12 (4.86%) Prometheus
3 8 (3.24%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 4 (1.62%) Terraform
5 1 (0.40%) Ansible
Vendors
1 29 (11.74%) Google
2 23 (9.31%) Adobe
3 19 (7.69%) Salesforce
4 17 (6.88%) SAP
5 10 (4.05%) Tealium
6 9 (3.64%) Microsoft
7 8 (3.24%) Optimizely
8 6 (2.43%) Amplitude
8 6 (2.43%) Hotjar
8 6 (2.43%) OneTrust
8 6 (2.43%) Sitecore
9 5 (2.02%) mParticle
10 4 (1.62%) Databricks
10 4 (1.62%) Wind River
11 3 (1.21%) OpenAI
12 2 (0.81%) Netlify
12 2 (0.81%) New Relic
12 2 (0.81%) Rollbar
12 2 (0.81%) Splunk
13 1 (0.40%) Solace