E-business Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Electronic Business (eBusiness)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring E-business skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 384 310 369
Rank change year-on-year -74 +59 +106
Contract jobs citing E-business 10 29 34
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.055% 0.21% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.064% 0.24% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 27 29
10th Percentile £493 £513 £543
25th Percentile £618 £531 £611
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £670 £600 £645
Median % change year-on-year +11.67% -6.98% +6.61%
75th Percentile - £638 -
90th Percentile - £643 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -13.33% -4.00% +10.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £86.75
Median hourly rate - - £88.50
75th Percentile - - £90.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £90.50
% change year-on-year - - +389.19%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

E-business 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,617 12,154 16,854
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 85.23% 88.03% 87.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,576 7,108 10,751
10th Percentile £223 £235 £250
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £685 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,689 687 1,278
10th Percentile £14.37 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.23 £20.00 £16.94
Median hourly rate £23.83 £30.45 £43.83
Median % change year-on-year -21.76% -30.52% +51.12%
75th Percentile £55.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.02 £73.85 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -19.75% +15.71%

E-business
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing E-business relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

E-business job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

E-business
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing E-business.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing E-business

E-business
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing E-business in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for E-business in the UK excluding London

E-business
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing E-business.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing E-business

E-business
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing E-business within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
South East -37 8 £670 +11.67%
Scotland -1 2 £485 -7.62%
E-business
UK

E-business
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 (80.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) Azure
1 8 (80.00%) Azure DevOps
1 8 (80.00%) Microsoft 365
1 8 (80.00%) Power Platform
1 8 (80.00%) SaaS
2 3 (30.00%) Miro
3 2 (20.00%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (80.00%) Oracle Reports
1 8 (80.00%) Power BI
2 6 (60.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
General
1 6 (60.00%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Integration Manager
1 5 (50.00%) Oracle Project Manager
1 5 (50.00%) Project Manager
2 3 (30.00%) Delivery Manager
2 3 (30.00%) Integration Project Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) Support Consultant
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Contingency Planning
1 8 (80.00%) DevOps
1 8 (80.00%) Matrix Organization
1 8 (80.00%) PRINCE2
1 8 (80.00%) Waterfall
2 7 (70.00%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 3 (30.00%) Agile
5 3 (30.00%) Scrum
6 2 (20.00%) Data Management
6 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Data Management
6 2 (20.00%) Migration
6 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
7 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
7 1 (10.00%) Conflict Resolution
7 1 (10.00%) Validation
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Oracle