E-Commerce Contract Job Trends in the North of England

E-Commerce (Electronic Commerce)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring E-Commerce skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 167 139 116
Rank change year-on-year -28 -23 -18
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 37 23 70
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.78% 0.65% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 0.75% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 13 48
10th Percentile £400 £300 £305
25th Percentile £413 £375 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% -20.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £534 - £631
90th Percentile £850 £475 £688
England median daily rate £500 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £14.50 - -
Median hourly rate £15.00 - £13.00
75th Percentile £15.50 - £25.06
90th Percentile - - £46.78
England median hourly rate £15.50 £47.50 £50.25
% change year-on-year -67.37% -5.47% -28.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,183 3,073 4,081
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.42% 86.83% 88.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,776 1,746 2,707
10th Percentile £215 £263 £300
25th Percentile £363 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £669 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 150 189
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.20 £15.74
25th Percentile £19.32 £17.12 £17.75
Median hourly rate £29.30 £27.44 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.77% -8.53% +34.83%
75th Percentile £52.50 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £68.90 £67.57 £62.35
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +22.57%

E-Commerce
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

E-Commerce job vacancy trend in the North of England

E-Commerce
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing E-Commerce.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing E-Commerce

E-Commerce
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing E-Commerce in the North of England over the 6 months to 22 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for E-Commerce in the North of England

E-Commerce
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing E-Commerce.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing E-Commerce

E-Commerce
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 22 December 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
Yorkshire -22 25 £469 +56.25% 48
North West -35 11 £488 +21.88% 94
North East -6 1 £900 - 10
E-Commerce
England

E-Commerce
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (13.51%) CMS
2 2 (5.41%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (5.41%) Confluence
3 1 (2.70%) Drupal
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.70%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (2.70%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (8.11%) Magento
3 2 (5.41%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 15 (40.54%) Azure
2 7 (18.92%) AWS
3 6 (16.22%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
4 5 (13.51%) Figma
5 4 (10.81%) dbt
5 4 (10.81%) GCP
5 4 (10.81%) Serverless
6 3 (8.11%) Algolia
6 3 (8.11%) Commercetools
6 3 (8.11%) Contentful
7 2 (5.41%) Google Analytics
7 2 (5.41%) SaaS
8 1 (2.70%) Adobe Analytics
8 1 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (2.70%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.70%) Contentsquare
8 1 (2.70%) GitHub
8 1 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.70%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.41%) MySQL
2 1 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.70%) BigQuery
2 1 (2.70%) Looker
2 1 (2.70%) Power BI
2 1 (2.70%) Redis
2 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Storybook
2 2 (5.41%) JIRA
3 1 (2.70%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.70%) Git
3 1 (2.70%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.70%) Vite
3 1 (2.70%) webpack
General
1 17 (45.95%) Retail
2 13 (35.14%) Social Skills
3 8 (21.62%) Marketing
4 3 (8.11%) Finance
5 1 (2.70%) Brand Awareness
5 1 (2.70%) Legal
5 1 (2.70%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (18.92%) Senior
2 6 (16.22%) Lead
3 4 (10.81%) Analyst
3 4 (10.81%) Business Analyst
3 4 (10.81%) Data Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) Data Scientist
3 4 (10.81%) Senior Manager
3 4 (10.81%) Technical Leader
4 3 (8.11%) Architect
4 3 (8.11%) Developer
4 3 (8.11%) E-Commerce Architect
4 3 (8.11%) E-Commerce Manager
4 3 (8.11%) Project Manager
5 2 (5.41%) Project Implementation Manager
5 2 (5.41%) Salesforce Technical Leader
5 2 (5.41%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Senior Project Manager
5 2 (5.41%) Senior Software Project Manager
5 2 (5.41%) Software Implementation Manager
5 2 (5.41%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.51%) Bootstrap
1 5 (13.51%) HTML
1 5 (13.51%) Node.js
1 5 (13.51%) React
2 4 (10.81%) CSS
2 4 (10.81%) CSS3
2 4 (10.81%) Express.js
2 4 (10.81%) HTML5
2 4 (10.81%) Next.js
2 4 (10.81%) Redux
2 4 (10.81%) RESTful
3 2 (5.41%) Laravel
3 2 (5.41%) Pandas
3 2 (5.41%) PySpark
3 2 (5.41%) pytest
3 2 (5.41%) scikit-learn
3 2 (5.41%) TensorFlow
3 2 (5.41%) Vue
3 2 (5.41%) XGBoost
4 1 (2.70%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.41%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (5.41%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.70%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.70%) Apple iOS
1 1 (2.70%) Windows
1 1 (2.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (43.24%) Analytics
2 9 (24.32%) Agile
3 6 (16.22%) ERP
3 6 (16.22%) SEO
3 6 (16.22%) User Experience
4 5 (13.51%) B2C
4 5 (13.51%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (10.81%) CI/CD
5 4 (10.81%) Coaching
5 4 (10.81%) Data Science
5 4 (10.81%) DevSecOps
5 4 (10.81%) Impact Assessments
5 4 (10.81%) Logistics
5 4 (10.81%) Machine Learning
5 4 (10.81%) MLOps
5 4 (10.81%) Performance Analysis
5 4 (10.81%) Progressive Web App
5 4 (10.81%) Project Management
5 4 (10.81%) Roadmaps
5 4 (10.81%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 8 (21.62%) Python
1 8 (21.62%) SQL
2 2 (5.41%) PHP
3 1 (2.70%) C#
3 1 (2.70%) Go
3 1 (2.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (5.41%) Degree
1 2 (5.41%) Postgraduate
2 1 (2.70%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.70%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.11%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.41%) QA
3 1 (2.70%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.70%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (2.70%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (2.70%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (16.22%) Salesforce
2 5 (13.51%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.11%) Google
4 2 (5.41%) Adobe
4 2 (5.41%) Databricks
5 1 (2.70%) Hotjar
5 1 (2.70%) Optimizely
5 1 (2.70%) Sitecore