E-Commerce Contracts in the South East

E-Commerce (Electronic Commerce)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 19 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 135 151
Rank change year-on-year +21 +16 -53
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 49 50 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.39% 1.03% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.54% 1.25% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 44 44
10th Percentile £277 £300 £301
25th Percentile £319 £346 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £388 £525
Median % change year-on-year +22.58% -26.19% -9.48%
75th Percentile £650 £538 £614
90th Percentile £725 £650 £741
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
Median hourly rate - £16.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - -68.00% -25.77%
England median hourly rate £15.50 £16.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -3.13% -68.00% +9.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,174 4,003 4,995
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 89.81% 82.52% 89.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,977 2,441 3,384
10th Percentile £250 £255 £250
25th Percentile £400 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £518
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.35% +3.60%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £623
90th Percentile £667 £700 £700
England median daily rate £511 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.64% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 305 315 239
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.00 £15.45
25th Percentile £15.25 £26.25 £21.24
Median hourly rate £23.00 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.90% +14.70% +96.08%
75th Percentile £51.10 £70.09 £64.13
90th Percentile £71.40 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £40.59
% change year-on-year -41.51% +5.94% +50.44%

E-Commerce
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for E-Commerce in the South East

E-Commerce
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing E-Commerce in the South East.

Daily rate trend for E-Commerce in the South East

E-Commerce
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing E-Commerce in the South East over the 6 months to 19 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for E-Commerce in the South East

E-Commerce
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing E-Commerce in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for E-Commerce in the South East

E-Commerce
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 19 August 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
Thames Valley +25 26 £700 +33.33% 99
Buckinghamshire - 20 £700 - 12
Hampshire +18 9 £444 -15.48% 26
Berkshire +12 6 £650 +10.64% 72
East Sussex +3 6 £413 -10.81% 8
Surrey -8 5 £400 +17.65% 14
Sussex - 2 - - 13
Kent - 1 £525 - 7
E-Commerce
England

E-Commerce
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 16 (32.65%) IBM Domino
1 16 (32.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (10.20%) CMS
3 4 (8.16%) Confluence
4 2 (4.08%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (32.65%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (14.29%) AWS
3 3 (6.12%) Adobe Analytics
3 3 (6.12%) CloudFront
3 3 (6.12%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 2 (4.08%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (4.08%) GCP
4 2 (4.08%) Google Ads
4 2 (4.08%) Google Data Studio
4 2 (4.08%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.04%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 16 (32.65%) Cisco IOS
1 16 (32.65%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.12%) Looker
1 3 (6.12%) Tableau
2 2 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.08%) Power BI
2 2 (4.08%) Qlik Sense
3 1 (2.04%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 4 (8.16%) JIRA
General
1 16 (32.65%) Games
2 13 (26.53%) Marketing
3 10 (20.41%) Retail
4 8 (16.33%) Social Skills
5 6 (12.24%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (6.12%) Automotive
6 3 (6.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (4.08%) Electronics
7 2 (4.08%) Finance
7 2 (4.08%) Manufacturing
7 2 (4.08%) Social Housing
7 2 (4.08%) Swedish Language
7 2 (4.08%) Telecoms
8 1 (2.04%) Advertising
8 1 (2.04%) French Language
8 1 (2.04%) Greek Language
8 1 (2.04%) Italian Language
8 1 (2.04%) Portuguese Language
8 1 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.04%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 16 (32.65%) Platform Engineer
2 8 (16.33%) Project Manager
3 6 (12.24%) Analyst
4 5 (10.20%) Architect
4 5 (10.20%) E-Commerce Manager
4 5 (10.20%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (8.16%) Digital Project Manager
6 3 (6.12%) .NET Developer
6 3 (6.12%) Business Analyst
6 3 (6.12%) Developer
6 3 (6.12%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) Digital Analyst
6 3 (6.12%) Digital Executive
6 3 (6.12%) E-Commerce Executive
6 3 (6.12%) E-Commerce Project Manager
6 3 (6.12%) Marketing Analyst
7 2 (4.08%) Data Analyst
7 2 (4.08%) Digital Marketing Analyst
7 2 (4.08%) Head of Digital
7 2 (4.08%) Head of E-Commerce
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.12%) .NET
1 3 (6.12%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.12%) Mobile App
1 3 (6.12%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (2.04%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.04%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 16 (32.65%) Android
1 16 (32.65%) Mac OS
1 16 (32.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (18.37%) CRM
1 9 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (16.33%) Agile
3 7 (14.29%) Analytics
3 7 (14.29%) B2C
4 6 (12.24%) Digital Marketing
5 5 (10.20%) Customer Experience
5 5 (10.20%) Project Management
6 4 (8.16%) Actionable Insight
6 4 (8.16%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (8.16%) Customer Engagement
6 4 (8.16%) Customer-Centricity
6 4 (8.16%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (6.12%) DevOps
7 3 (6.12%) Email Marketing
7 3 (6.12%) Marketing Analytics
7 3 (6.12%) Portfolio Management
7 3 (6.12%) Psychology
7 3 (6.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (6.12%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 16 (32.65%) PowerShell
2 6 (12.24%) SQL
3 3 (6.12%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (4.08%) PMI Certification
1 2 (4.08%) PMP
2 1 (2.04%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.08%) GDPR
1 2 (4.08%) QA
System Software
1 16 (32.65%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (32.65%) Microsoft Intune
1 16 (32.65%) SCCM
2 3 (6.12%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (32.65%) Cisco
1 16 (32.65%) Meraki
1 16 (32.65%) Microsoft
1 16 (32.65%) Splunk
2 3 (6.12%) Adobe
3 2 (4.08%) Google
3 2 (4.08%) TikTok
4 1 (2.04%) Criteo
4 1 (2.04%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.04%) Salesforce