E-Commerce Contracts in the North West

E-Commerce (Electronic Commerce)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring E-Commerce skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited E-Commerce over the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 77 128
Rank change year-on-year -34 +51 -34
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 13 60 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.67% 2.27% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 2.65% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 43 28
10th Percentile £333 £363 £386
25th Percentile £344 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -12.20% +2.50%
75th Percentile £500 £563 £575
90th Percentile £568 £588 -
England median daily rate £490 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -2.00% -6.98% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 0
Median hourly rate - £13.00 -
England median hourly rate £15.50 £13.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year +19.23% -80.15% +2.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,749 2,266 2,764
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.15% 85.64% 90.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,136 1,444 1,937
10th Percentile £300 £308 £313
25th Percentile £388 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £561 £588 £588
90th Percentile £661 £689 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 252 138
10th Percentile £17.44 £10.96 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.25 £13.50 £22.44
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.90 £35.02
Median % change year-on-year +30.55% -28.90% +51.88%
75th Percentile £63.40 £46.18 £48.56
90th Percentile £84.50 £62.50 £66.00
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.77
% change year-on-year -21.23% -0.73% +47.08%

E-Commerce
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing E-Commerce as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for E-Commerce in the North West

E-Commerce
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing E-Commerce in the North West.

Daily rate trend for E-Commerce in the North West

E-Commerce
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing E-Commerce in the North West over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for E-Commerce in the North West

E-Commerce
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing E-Commerce in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for E-Commerce in the North West

E-Commerce
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 22 May 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
Manchester -24 9 £375 -16.67% 294
Merseyside - 4 - - 65
E-Commerce
England

E-Commerce
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (30.77%) IBM Domino
Business Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Magento
1 3 (23.08%) Sage 200
2 2 (15.38%) NetSuite
3 1 (7.69%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) Power Platform
2 2 (15.38%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) Google Analytics
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
3 1 (7.69%) Azure
3 1 (7.69%) GCP
3 1 (7.69%) Google Tag Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) Power BI
1 6 (46.15%) Tableau
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (15.38%) BigQuery
2 2 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (7.69%) Looker
3 1 (7.69%) Mixpanel
3 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Postman
1 1 (7.69%) SpecFlow
General
1 5 (38.46%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Retail
4 2 (15.38%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) Architect
2 3 (23.08%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (15.38%) .NET Architect
3 2 (15.38%) .NET Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.69%) .NET Developer
4 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET MVC Developer
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Developer
4 1 (7.69%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (7.69%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (7.69%) C# Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Data Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Head of Business Intelligence
4 1 (7.69%) Software Tester
4 1 (7.69%) SQL Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) .NET
2 3 (23.08%) .NET Framework
3 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET
3 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (7.69%) CSS
3 1 (7.69%) Gherkin
3 1 (7.69%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
1 1 (7.69%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (46.15%) Analytics
3 5 (38.46%) A/B Testing
3 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (30.77%) Customer Engagement
5 3 (23.08%) Decision-Making
5 3 (23.08%) Open Source
5 3 (23.08%) Roadmaps
5 3 (23.08%) Strategic Roadmap
5 3 (23.08%) Visualisation
5 3 (23.08%) Web Development
6 2 (15.38%) Actionable Insight
6 2 (15.38%) ERP
7 1 (7.69%) Agile
7 1 (7.69%) B2C
7 1 (7.69%) Data Modelling
7 1 (7.69%) ETL
7 1 (7.69%) Migration
7 1 (7.69%) MVC
7 1 (7.69%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) C#
1 4 (30.77%) SQL
2 3 (23.08%) PHP
3 1 (7.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.69%) Python
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) Hotjar
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft