E-Commerce Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

E-Commerce (Electronic Commerce)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring E-Commerce skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 109 111
Rank change year-on-year -32 +2 -12
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 12 27 35
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.44% 1.00% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 1.20% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 11 27
10th Percentile £413 £275 £395
25th Percentile £441 £300 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £400 £488
Median % change year-on-year +21.25% -17.95% +8.33%
75th Percentile £538 £597 £594
90th Percentile - £600 £650
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,405 2,241 2,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 88.55% 83.15% 85.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,547 1,412 1,744
10th Percentile £249 £251 £250
25th Percentile £363 £375 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £698 £700
England median daily rate £512 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.48% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 69 104
10th Percentile £13.82 £14.57 £13.79
25th Percentile £17.87 £15.50 £17.72
Median hourly rate £21.30 £23.60 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.75% -14.18% +56.61%
75th Percentile £26.51 £42.25 £52.06
90th Percentile £42.13 £55.05 £68.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +41.67%

E-Commerce
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing E-Commerce relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

E-Commerce job vacancy trend in the Midlands

E-Commerce
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing E-Commerce.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing E-Commerce

E-Commerce
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing E-Commerce in the Midlands over the 6 months to 4 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for E-Commerce in the Midlands

E-Commerce
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing E-Commerce.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing E-Commerce

E-Commerce
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 October 2025. 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 Midlands -25 9 £525 +31.25% 34
East Midlands -6 3 £475 - 20
E-Commerce
England

E-Commerce
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (16.67%) Confluence
2 1 (8.33%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (8.33%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (25.00%) SaaS
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (8.33%) AWS
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (8.33%) Figma
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) Git
General
1 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (16.67%) Finance
1 2 (16.67%) Retail
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Legal
2 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
2 1 (8.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Project Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Business Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Data Analytics Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Data Scientist
3 1 (8.33%) Designer
3 1 (8.33%) Developer
3 1 (8.33%) E-Commerce Manager
3 1 (8.33%) E-Commerce Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Salesforce Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Business Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Designer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior UX Designer
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Architect
3 1 (8.33%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) .NET
1 1 (8.33%) EDI
1 1 (8.33%) Gherkin
1 1 (8.33%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (8.33%) Middleware
1 1 (8.33%) PySpark
1 1 (8.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Mobile App
2 1 (8.33%) Algorithms
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (8.33%) IoT
2 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing Execution System
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Agile
2 7 (58.33%) ERP
3 5 (41.67%) Analytics
3 5 (41.67%) CRM
3 5 (41.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 5 (41.67%) Waterfall
4 4 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (25.00%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
5 3 (25.00%) Data Analytics
5 3 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 2 (16.67%) Business Analysis
6 2 (16.67%) Business Case
6 2 (16.67%) Data Modelling
6 2 (16.67%) Decision-Making
6 2 (16.67%) Machine Learning
6 2 (16.67%) Migration
6 2 (16.67%) PLM
6 2 (16.67%) Prototyping
6 2 (16.67%) User Experience
6 2 (16.67%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) Apex Code
3 1 (8.33%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (8.33%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Databricks
2 1 (8.33%) JD Edwards
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Optimizely
2 1 (8.33%) Pardot
2 1 (8.33%) QAD
2 1 (8.33%) Salesforce
2 1 (8.33%) SAP