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 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 176 149
Rank change year-on-year -16 -27 +15
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 245 187 291
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.36% 1.51% 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.54% 1.63% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 119 217
10th Percentile £313 £313 £343
25th Percentile £403 £373 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -6.36% -2.22%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £638 £688 £823
England median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £39.65 - -
25th Percentile £44.75 - £66.25
Median hourly rate £54.50 £29.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +87.93% -57.04% +92.86%
75th Percentile £65.38 - £68.75
90th Percentile £71.15 - -
England median hourly rate £46.00 £15.50 £13.00
% change year-on-year +196.77% +19.23% -80.15%

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 15,883 11,458 15,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.29% 92.24% 88.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,623 7,744 11,113
10th Percentile £356 £350 £343
25th Percentile £431 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £680
90th Percentile £758 £809 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 179 307
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.37 £15.77
25th Percentile £25.24 £22.83 £20.00
Median hourly rate £36.11 £34.00 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% +22.13% -25.10%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.85
England median hourly rate £45.78 £29.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +57.86% -20.55% +0.29%

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 19 May 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 19 May 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 19 May 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 +1 24 £475 -16.67% 57
West London -15 17 £288 -15.13% 7
North London - 1 £538 -
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 (3.27%) CMS
2 5 (2.04%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 5 (2.04%) Confluence
3 1 (0.41%) Apache
3 1 (0.41%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.41%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.41%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.41%) Kentico
3 1 (0.41%) nginx
3 1 (0.41%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.41%) Sitefinity
3 1 (0.41%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (4.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (2.86%) Chatbot
4 5 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (1.63%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.41%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.41%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.41%) Autodesk Smoke
6 1 (0.41%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.41%) Trello
Business Applications
1 35 (14.29%) Shopify
2 6 (2.45%) Magento
3 3 (1.22%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.82%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.41%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.41%) SAP CAR
5 1 (0.41%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.41%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.41%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.41%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.41%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.41%) SAP Retail
5 1 (0.41%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.41%) SDL Web 8
5 1 (0.41%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 18 (7.35%) AWS
1 18 (7.35%) Azure
2 14 (5.71%) Dynamics 365
3 13 (5.31%) Figma
3 13 (5.31%) SaaS
4 12 (4.90%) BigCommerce
5 9 (3.67%) Datadog
5 9 (3.67%) Power Platform
6 7 (2.86%) GCP
6 7 (2.86%) Google Workspace
6 7 (2.86%) Miro
6 7 (2.86%) Serverless
6 7 (2.86%) WhatsApp
7 6 (2.45%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (1.63%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
9 3 (1.22%) Power Automate
9 3 (1.22%) SAP Commerce Cloud
10 2 (0.82%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (0.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (0.82%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.41%) Firewall
1 1 (0.41%) Internet
1 1 (0.41%) LAN
1 1 (0.41%) Network Security
1 1 (0.41%) RFID
1 1 (0.41%) RTMP
1 1 (0.41%) WAN
1 1 (0.41%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.27%) Power BI
2 7 (2.86%) MySQL
3 5 (2.04%) Looker
4 4 (1.63%) BigQuery
4 4 (1.63%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.22%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.22%) Metadata
5 3 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.22%) Semantic Layer
5 3 (1.22%) Tableau
6 2 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.82%) CockroachDB
6 2 (0.82%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.82%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.82%) Redis
7 1 (0.41%) Big Data
7 1 (0.41%) Bigtable
7 1 (0.41%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (8.57%) Jenkins
2 12 (4.90%) Git
3 10 (4.08%) JIRA
3 10 (4.08%) Selenium
4 7 (2.86%) Cypress.io
5 6 (2.45%) GitLab
5 6 (2.45%) Vite
6 4 (1.63%) Maven
6 4 (1.63%) Subversion
7 3 (1.22%) Appium
7 3 (1.22%) Zephyr
8 2 (0.82%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.82%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.82%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.41%) Fiddler
9 1 (0.41%) NUnit
9 1 (0.41%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.41%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.41%) Spock
9 1 (0.41%) TeamCity
General
1 90 (36.73%) Social Skills
2 87 (35.51%) Retail
3 56 (22.86%) Finance
4 35 (14.29%) Marketing
4 35 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
5 22 (8.98%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (7.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (4.90%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (3.27%) Manufacturing
9 7 (2.86%) Banking
9 7 (2.86%) Electronics
9 7 (2.86%) Legal
10 4 (1.63%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.22%) Advertising
11 3 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.22%) French Language
11 3 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.82%) Front Office
12 2 (0.82%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.41%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 72 (29.39%) Senior
2 32 (13.06%) Project Manager
3 31 (12.65%) Senior Manager
4 29 (11.84%) Analyst
4 29 (11.84%) Developer
5 25 (10.20%) Senior Project Manager
6 21 (8.57%) Business Analyst
7 18 (7.35%) Designer
8 16 (6.53%) Lead
9 11 (4.49%) Consultant
9 11 (4.49%) Senior Designer
10 10 (4.08%) Product Manager
11 9 (3.67%) Architect
11 9 (3.67%) E-Commerce Analyst
11 9 (3.67%) E-Commerce Business Analyst
11 9 (3.67%) E-Commerce Manager
12 8 (3.27%) Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (3.27%) Product Designer
13 7 (2.86%) QA Engineer
13 7 (2.86%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (13.88%) GraphQL
2 24 (9.80%) Node.js
3 23 (9.39%) React
3 23 (9.39%) VML
4 21 (8.57%) Playwright
5 17 (6.94%) CSS
6 16 (6.53%) REST
7 14 (5.71%) HTML
8 12 (4.90%) Next.js
9 11 (4.49%) Middleware
9 11 (4.49%) Vitest
10 10 (4.08%) Spring
11 7 (2.86%) AngularJS
11 7 (2.86%) OpenTelemetry
11 7 (2.86%) Web Services
11 7 (2.86%) YAML
12 6 (2.45%) jQuery
12 6 (2.45%) Spring Boot
13 5 (2.04%) .NET
13 5 (2.04%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.98%) Product Ownership
2 18 (7.35%) Cloud Native
3 14 (5.71%) Mobile App
4 11 (4.49%) Virtual Team
5 7 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.45%) Marketing Technology
6 6 (2.45%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.04%) AI Agents
7 5 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.22%) FMCG
9 3 (1.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.82%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.82%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.82%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.82%) Mobile Banking
10 2 (0.82%) PMI
10 2 (0.82%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.08%) Android
2 9 (3.67%) Apple iOS
3 7 (2.86%) Linux
4 4 (1.63%) Unix
4 4 (1.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (38.37%) Agile
2 54 (22.04%) Problem-Solving
2 54 (22.04%) User Experience
3 42 (17.14%) Project Management
4 38 (15.51%) Stakeholder Management
5 36 (14.69%) Time Management
6 32 (13.06%) CI/CD
7 31 (12.65%) Analytics
8 29 (11.84%) Customer Experience
8 29 (11.84%) Release Management
9 26 (10.61%) Scrum
10 25 (10.20%) DevOps
11 24 (9.80%) Continuous Improvement
11 24 (9.80%) Workshop Facilitation
12 23 (9.39%) B2C
13 22 (8.98%) B2B
13 22 (8.98%) SDLC
14 20 (8.16%) Decision-Making
14 20 (8.16%) ERP
14 20 (8.16%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 28 (11.43%) TypeScript
2 25 (10.20%) JavaScript
3 16 (6.53%) Java
3 16 (6.53%) SQL
4 8 (3.27%) Python
5 4 (1.63%) C#
5 4 (1.63%) Kotlin
5 4 (1.63%) Swift
6 2 (0.82%) Go
6 2 (0.82%) PHP
7 1 (0.41%) Bash
7 1 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.41%) Korn
7 1 (0.41%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.41%) XPath
Qualifications
1 15 (6.12%) Degree
2 5 (2.04%) CSPO
3 2 (0.82%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.41%) CISA
4 1 (0.41%) CISSP
4 1 (0.41%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 1 (0.41%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.41%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.94%) QA
2 12 (4.90%) Accessibility
3 9 (3.67%) Data Quality
4 8 (3.27%) GDPR
5 4 (1.63%) SLA
6 3 (1.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (1.22%) PERC
6 3 (1.22%) WCAG
7 2 (0.82%) PMO
8 1 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.41%) NIST
8 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (6.94%) Docker
2 1 (0.41%) Sendmail
2 1 (0.41%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 17 (6.94%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.86%) Grafana
2 7 (2.86%) Prometheus
2 7 (2.86%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 1 (0.41%) Ansible
3 1 (0.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (9.39%) Adobe
1 23 (9.39%) Salesforce
1 23 (9.39%) SAP
2 15 (6.12%) Google
3 14 (5.71%) Microsoft
4 11 (4.49%) Sitecore
5 6 (2.45%) Tealium
6 4 (1.63%) Databricks
6 4 (1.63%) Netlify
6 4 (1.63%) Oracle
7 3 (1.22%) mParticle
7 3 (1.22%) OneTrust
7 3 (1.22%) Splunk
8 2 (0.82%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.82%) IBM
9 1 (0.41%) ATG
9 1 (0.41%) Cisco
9 1 (0.41%) Infor
9 1 (0.41%) ION Trading
9 1 (0.41%) Omniture