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 16 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 496 558 642
Rank change year-on-year +62 +84 +162
Contract jobs citing BigCommerce 22 31 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.074% 0.071% 0.063%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.20% 0.22% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +11.11%
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +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 11,220 14,106 20,252
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.80% 32.38% 36.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,577 9,935 14,645
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £619 £631 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 277 356 327
10th Percentile £15.13 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.06 £20.00
Median hourly rate £27.76 £21.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.12% -38.57% +59.09%
75th Percentile £47.12 £43.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 £19.95 £27.10
% change year-on-year -5.41% -26.38% +40.82%

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 6 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 16 June 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 +47 22 £500 +17.65% 167
London +55 21 £500 - 49
Work from Home +30 5 £500 - 35
UK excluding London +41 1 £500 +17.65% 125
North of England +15 1 £500 +25.00% 31
Yorkshire - 1 £500 - 13

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 (4.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (4.55%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.55%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (4.55%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (4.55%) Blender
2 1 (4.55%) Chatbot
2 1 (4.55%) CINEMA 4D
2 1 (4.55%) Final Cut Pro
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 22 (100.00%) Shopify
2 3 (13.64%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 9 (40.91%) GCP
2 2 (9.09%) AWS
2 2 (9.09%) Azure
2 2 (9.09%) Cloud Run
2 2 (9.09%) Cloudflare
2 2 (9.09%) Datadog
2 2 (9.09%) GitHub
2 2 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 2 (9.09%) SAP Commerce Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) Asana
3 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (4.55%) Figma
3 1 (4.55%) Google Analytics
3 1 (4.55%) Google Data Studio
3 1 (4.55%) Google Tag Manager
3 1 (4.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) BigQuery
1 1 (4.55%) Looker
1 1 (4.55%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Git
1 3 (13.64%) Jenkins
2 2 (9.09%) CircleCI
2 2 (9.09%) Cypress.io
2 2 (9.09%) Grunt
2 2 (9.09%) JIRA
2 2 (9.09%) JMeter
2 2 (9.09%) Terragrunt
2 2 (9.09%) webpack
3 1 (4.55%) ESLint
3 1 (4.55%) GitLab
3 1 (4.55%) Gradle
3 1 (4.55%) Maven
General
1 19 (86.36%) Retail
2 16 (72.73%) Social Skills
3 7 (31.82%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (22.73%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (18.18%) Marketing
7 3 (13.64%) Advertising
7 3 (13.64%) Finance
8 2 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (4.55%) Games
Job Titles
1 5 (22.73%) Senior
2 4 (18.18%) Analyst
2 4 (18.18%) Business Analyst
3 3 (13.64%) Architect
3 3 (13.64%) GCP Architect
3 3 (13.64%) Senior Analyst
3 3 (13.64%) Senior Business Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) SAP Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Business Change Project Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Business Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Business Project Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (4.55%) E-Commerce Manager
5 1 (4.55%) SEO Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (86.36%) VML
2 3 (13.64%) CSS
2 3 (13.64%) Sass
3 2 (9.09%) CSS3
3 2 (9.09%) GraphQL
3 2 (9.09%) HTML
3 2 (9.09%) HTML5
3 2 (9.09%) Jest
3 2 (9.09%) LESS
3 2 (9.09%) Node.js
3 2 (9.09%) Semantic HTML
4 1 (4.55%) Bootstrap
4 1 (4.55%) Framer.js
4 1 (4.55%) J2EE
4 1 (4.55%) jQuery
4 1 (4.55%) REST
4 1 (4.55%) Spring
4 1 (4.55%) Spring MVC
4 1 (4.55%) SwiftUI
4 1 (4.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.55%) AI Agents
3 1 (4.55%) Animation
3 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.55%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Android
1 1 (4.55%) Apple iOS
1 1 (4.55%) Linux
1 1 (4.55%) Unix
1 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (86.36%) B2B
1 19 (86.36%) Customer Acquisition
2 11 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 11 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (40.91%) Agile
4 7 (31.82%) Mentoring
4 7 (31.82%) Time Management
5 6 (27.27%) Artificial Intelligence
5 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (22.73%) Observability
6 5 (22.73%) Workshop Facilitation
7 4 (18.18%) Acceptance Criteria
7 4 (18.18%) Business Process Mapping
7 4 (18.18%) Commercial Awareness
7 4 (18.18%) Decision-Making
7 4 (18.18%) Software Delivery
7 4 (18.18%) User Stories
8 3 (13.64%) Business Analysis
8 3 (13.64%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 5 (22.73%) Java
2 4 (18.18%) JavaScript
3 3 (13.64%) TypeScript
4 2 (9.09%) C#
4 2 (9.09%) PHP
5 1 (4.55%) Kotlin
5 1 (4.55%) Objective-C
5 1 (4.55%) Python
5 1 (4.55%) SQL
5 1 (4.55%) Swift
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) Degree
2 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.55%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) Accessibility
2 2 (9.09%) QA
3 1 (4.55%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) Terraform
2 2 (9.09%) Ansible
2 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 2 (9.09%) Progress Chef
2 2 (9.09%) Puppet
2 2 (9.09%) Salt
Vendors
1 21 (95.45%) Adobe
1 21 (95.45%) Salesforce
1 21 (95.45%) SAP
2 19 (86.36%) Sitecore
3 3 (13.64%) Google
3 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
3 3 (13.64%) WooCommerce
4 2 (9.09%) New Relic
5 1 (4.55%) Sun