E-Commerce Contracts in the UK excluding London

E-Commerce (Electronic Commerce)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 269 218 187
Rank change year-on-year -51 -31 -58
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 74 178 291
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.57% 0.88% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 1.04% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 137 200
10th Percentile £280 £284 £313
25th Percentile £300 £363 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £588
90th Percentile £575 £600 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 15 3
10th Percentile - £10.42 £70.70
25th Percentile £15.25 £10.71 £78.88
Median hourly rate £15.50 £13.00 £95.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% -86.32% +41.03%
75th Percentile £15.75 - £98.75
90th Percentile - £14.80 £99.50
UK median hourly rate £22.25 £13.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year +71.15% -80.15% +27.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,649 17,108 20,638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.51% 84.43% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,262 10,200 14,248
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.04%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 838 2,053 1,261
10th Percentile £14.10 £12.31 £10.75
25th Percentile £17.26 £15.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.66 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.82 £73.71
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%

E-Commerce
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing E-Commerce as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for E-Commerce in the UK excluding London

E-Commerce
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing E-Commerce in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for E-Commerce in the UK excluding London

E-Commerce
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing E-Commerce in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

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

E-Commerce
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing E-Commerce in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for E-Commerce in the UK excluding London

E-Commerce
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-Commerce within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 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
South East +33 35 £363 -19.44% 283
North of England -38 14 £438 -2.78% 256
Midlands +9 13 £498 +81.74% 97
North West -40 9 £375 -16.67% 167
West Midlands +9 8 £475 -5.00% 51
South West +42 5 £375 -30.88% 42
East of England +6 5 £457 +7.41% 53
East Midlands +6 5 £498 +121.11% 40
Yorkshire +8 3 £500 +25.00% 62
North East -2 2 - - 33
Wales 0 1 £288 -4.17% 13
Northern Ireland -10 1 £450 -20.00% 9
E-Commerce
UK

E-Commerce
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (6.76%) CMS
2 3 (4.05%) Confluence
3 1 (1.35%) Joomla!
Applications
1 2 (2.70%) Adobe XD
1 2 (2.70%) Sketch
2 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.35%) Trello
2 1 (1.35%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 5 (6.76%) Magento
2 3 (4.05%) Sage 200
3 2 (2.70%) NetSuite
4 1 (1.35%) BASE24
4 1 (1.35%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (1.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 13 (17.57%) AWS
2 8 (10.81%) SAP Commerce Cloud
3 6 (8.11%) Azure
4 5 (6.76%) Power Platform
5 3 (4.05%) Adobe Analytics
5 3 (4.05%) CloudFront
5 3 (4.05%) Figma
5 3 (4.05%) GCP
5 3 (4.05%) Google Analytics
6 2 (2.70%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.70%) Google Ads
6 2 (2.70%) Google Data Studio
7 1 (1.35%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.35%) Bloomreach
7 1 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.35%) SaaS
7 1 (1.35%) Serverless
7 1 (1.35%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.35%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.35%) ATM
1 1 (1.35%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.11%) Tableau
2 5 (6.76%) Power BI
3 4 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (5.41%) Looker
4 2 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (2.70%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.70%) MySQL
4 2 (2.70%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (1.35%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.35%) Mixpanel
5 1 (1.35%) NonStop SQL
5 1 (1.35%) PowerPivot
5 1 (1.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (6.76%) JIRA
2 4 (5.41%) Git
3 2 (2.70%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.35%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.35%) GitLab
4 1 (1.35%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.35%) Postman
4 1 (1.35%) SpecFlow
General
1 29 (39.19%) Social Skills
2 20 (27.03%) Marketing
3 14 (18.92%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (18.92%) Retail
4 6 (8.11%) Finance
5 3 (4.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (4.05%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.70%) Brand Awareness
6 2 (2.70%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.70%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.35%) Advertising
7 1 (1.35%) Banking
7 1 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.35%) Electronics
7 1 (1.35%) French Language
7 1 (1.35%) Games
7 1 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.35%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 16 (21.62%) Developer
2 10 (13.51%) Analyst
2 10 (13.51%) Project Manager
3 7 (9.46%) Digital Executive
3 7 (9.46%) E-Commerce Executive
4 6 (8.11%) Business Analyst
5 5 (6.76%) Architect
5 5 (6.76%) Senior
6 4 (5.41%) .NET Developer
6 4 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (5.41%) E-Commerce Manager
6 4 (5.41%) Lead
6 4 (5.41%) PHP Developer
6 4 (5.41%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (4.05%) Data Analyst
7 3 (4.05%) Designer
7 3 (4.05%) Digital Project Manager
7 3 (4.05%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (4.05%) Marketing Analyst
7 3 (4.05%) Marketing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (13.51%) CSS
2 9 (12.16%) HTML
3 8 (10.81%) .NET
4 3 (4.05%) .NET Core
4 3 (4.05%) .NET Framework
4 3 (4.05%) CSS3
4 3 (4.05%) HTML5
4 3 (4.05%) React
4 3 (4.05%) React Native
4 3 (4.05%) Redux
5 2 (2.70%) Ajax
5 2 (2.70%) Gherkin
5 2 (2.70%) KnockoutJS
5 2 (2.70%) Node.js
5 2 (2.70%) RequireJS
5 2 (2.70%) RESTful
6 1 (1.35%) ASP.NET
6 1 (1.35%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (1.35%) Laravel
6 1 (1.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.41%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.05%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (4.05%) Social Media
3 2 (2.70%) Blog
3 2 (2.70%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.70%) Digital Media
3 2 (2.70%) Digital Signage
4 1 (1.35%) APACS
4 1 (1.35%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.35%) FMCG
4 1 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.35%) Manufacturing Execution System
4 1 (1.35%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.35%) PMI
4 1 (1.35%) Tandem
4 1 (1.35%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.35%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (24.32%) Analytics
2 16 (21.62%) Agile
2 16 (21.62%) Digital Marketing
3 15 (20.27%) CRM
4 13 (17.57%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (13.51%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 10 (13.51%) Email Marketing
5 10 (13.51%) User Experience
6 8 (10.81%) Business Intelligence
6 8 (10.81%) ERP
6 8 (10.81%) Psychology
6 8 (10.81%) SEO
7 7 (9.46%) Migration
8 6 (8.11%) Collaborative Working
8 6 (8.11%) DevOps
8 6 (8.11%) Project Delivery
8 6 (8.11%) Project Management
9 5 (6.76%) Actionable Insight
9 5 (6.76%) Decision-Making
9 5 (6.76%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 11 (14.86%) JavaScript
1 11 (14.86%) SQL
2 8 (10.81%) C#
2 8 (10.81%) PHP
3 5 (6.76%) Python
4 3 (4.05%) TypeScript
5 2 (2.70%) Java
6 1 (1.35%) Bash
6 1 (1.35%) C++
6 1 (1.35%) COBOL
6 1 (1.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.35%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.35%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (8.11%) Degree
2 1 (1.35%) CBAP
2 1 (1.35%) IIBA
2 1 (1.35%) Master's Degree
2 1 (1.35%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.05%) QA
2 2 (2.70%) GDPR
3 1 (1.35%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (2.70%) Docker
2 1 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (5.41%) Terraform
2 1 (1.35%) Ansible
2 1 (1.35%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (10.81%) Adobe
2 5 (6.76%) Google
3 2 (2.70%) Facebook
3 2 (2.70%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.70%) Oracle
3 2 (2.70%) TikTok
4 1 (1.35%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.35%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.35%) Hotjar
4 1 (1.35%) HP
4 1 (1.35%) Optimizely
4 1 (1.35%) Qualtrics
4 1 (1.35%) VMware