BigCommerce Contracts

BigCommerce
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring BigCommerce skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited BigCommerce over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 493 569 675
Rank change year-on-year +76 +106 +147
Contract jobs citing BigCommerce 26 31 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.089% 0.071% 0.064%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.24% 0.22% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 2
10th Percentile £494 £405 £303
25th Percentile - - £336
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £394
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £509 - £448
90th Percentile £531 - £479
UK excluding London median daily rate - £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% +11.11%

All Cloud Skills
UK

BigCommerce falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 10,997 14,094 22,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.61% 32.33% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,640 10,005 15,924
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £634 £650
90th Percentile £734 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 348 350
10th Percentile £15.28 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.05 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.43 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.60% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £48.56 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £62.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.53 £17.72 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.47% -28.03% +31.31%

BigCommerce
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing BigCommerce as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for BigCommerce in the UK

BigCommerce
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BigCommerce.

Daily rate trend for BigCommerce in the UK

BigCommerce
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BigCommerce within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +56 24 £500 +11.11% 31
London +39 24 £500 - 14
Work from Home +51 6 £500 - 17

BigCommerce
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (3.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (3.85%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Adobe After Effects
1 2 (7.69%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (7.69%) Blender
1 2 (7.69%) CINEMA 4D
1 2 (7.69%) Final Cut Pro
2 1 (3.85%) Chatbot
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 20 (76.92%) Shopify
2 5 (19.23%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (3.85%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 6 (23.08%) GCP
1 6 (23.08%) IBM Blueworks
2 3 (11.54%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
3 2 (7.69%) Cloud Run
3 2 (7.69%) Datadog
3 2 (7.69%) Figma
3 2 (7.69%) GitHub
3 2 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (7.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (3.85%) Asana
4 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (3.85%) Google Analytics
4 1 (3.85%) Google Data Studio
4 1 (3.85%) Google Tag Manager
4 1 (3.85%) SaaS
4 1 (3.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) BigQuery
1 1 (3.85%) Looker
1 1 (3.85%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (19.23%) Jenkins
2 3 (11.54%) Git
3 2 (7.69%) Bitbucket
3 2 (7.69%) CircleCI
3 2 (7.69%) Cypress.io
3 2 (7.69%) Grunt
3 2 (7.69%) JIRA
3 2 (7.69%) JMeter
3 2 (7.69%) Terragrunt
3 2 (7.69%) webpack
4 1 (3.85%) ESLint
4 1 (3.85%) GitLab
4 1 (3.85%) Gradle
4 1 (3.85%) Maven
General
1 19 (73.08%) Retail
2 14 (53.85%) Social Skills
3 8 (30.77%) Finance
4 5 (19.23%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (19.23%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (11.54%) Marketing
7 2 (7.69%) Advertising
7 2 (7.69%) Games
7 2 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (7.69%) Multimedia
7 2 (7.69%) Publishing
8 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (23.08%) Process Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Senior
3 4 (15.38%) Architect
4 3 (11.54%) Analyst
4 3 (11.54%) Business Analyst
4 3 (11.54%) GCP Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Designer
5 2 (7.69%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Release Manager
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Business Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Designer
5 2 (7.69%) Technical Manager
6 1 (3.85%) Business Change Project Manager
6 1 (3.85%) Change Project Manager
6 1 (3.85%) Interaction Designer
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Interaction Designer
6 1 (3.85%) Senior UI Designer
6 1 (3.85%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (73.08%) VML
2 3 (11.54%) CSS
2 3 (11.54%) GraphQL
2 3 (11.54%) Sass
3 2 (7.69%) CSS3
3 2 (7.69%) Framer.js
3 2 (7.69%) HTML
3 2 (7.69%) HTML5
3 2 (7.69%) Jest
3 2 (7.69%) LESS
3 2 (7.69%) Node.js
3 2 (7.69%) Semantic HTML
4 1 (3.85%) J2EE
4 1 (3.85%) jQuery
4 1 (3.85%) Next.js
4 1 (3.85%) REST
4 1 (3.85%) Spring
4 1 (3.85%) Spring MVC
4 1 (3.85%) SwiftUI
4 1 (3.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Cloud Native
1 3 (11.54%) Product Ownership
1 3 (11.54%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (7.69%) Animation
3 1 (3.85%) AI Agents
3 1 (3.85%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.85%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Android
1 1 (3.85%) Apple iOS
1 1 (3.85%) Linux
1 1 (3.85%) Unix
1 1 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (73.08%) B2B
1 19 (73.08%) Customer Acquisition
2 18 (69.23%) E-Commerce
3 13 (50.00%) Agile
4 9 (34.62%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (26.92%) Project Management
5 7 (26.92%) Scrum
5 7 (26.92%) Time Management
6 6 (23.08%) ERP
6 6 (23.08%) Order to Cash
6 6 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (19.23%) Artificial Intelligence
7 5 (19.23%) DevOps
7 5 (19.23%) Mentoring
8 4 (15.38%) Agile Project Management
8 4 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (15.38%) User Experience
8 4 (15.38%) Workshop Facilitation
9 3 (11.54%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 5 (19.23%) Java
2 4 (15.38%) JavaScript
3 3 (11.54%) TypeScript
4 2 (7.69%) C#
4 2 (7.69%) PHP
5 1 (3.85%) Kotlin
5 1 (3.85%) Objective-C
5 1 (3.85%) Python
5 1 (3.85%) SQL
5 1 (3.85%) Swift
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) Degree
2 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.85%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (15.38%) Accessibility
1 4 (15.38%) QA
2 1 (3.85%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) Terraform
2 2 (7.69%) Ansible
2 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.69%) Progress Chef
2 2 (7.69%) Puppet
2 2 (7.69%) Salt
Vendors
1 19 (73.08%) Adobe
1 19 (73.08%) Salesforce
1 19 (73.08%) SAP
1 19 (73.08%) Sitecore
2 6 (23.08%) IBM
3 5 (19.23%) Oracle
4 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
4 2 (7.69%) New Relic
5 1 (3.85%) Google
5 1 (3.85%) Sun
5 1 (3.85%) WooCommerce