E-Commerce Manager Contract Job Trends

E-Commerce Manager
UK

The median E-Commerce Manager daily rate in the UK is £543, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 561 534 568
Rank change year-on-year -27 +34 +147
Contract jobs requiring an E-Commerce Manager 25 19 22
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.068% 0.056% 0.051%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.074% 0.060% 0.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 7 15
10th Percentile £325 £173 £285
25th Percentile £381 £254 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £318 £476
Median % change year-on-year +70.60% -33.12% -7.67%
75th Percentile £641 £394 £535
90th Percentile £650 £540 £595
UK excluding London median daily rate £593 £318 £476
% change year-on-year +86.32% -33.12% -11.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £46.25 £63.25
Median hourly rate - £47.50 £64.50
Median % change year-on-year - -26.36% -15.41%
75th Percentile - £48.75 £65.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 33,689 31,494 40,397
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.07% 92.77% 93.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,297 19,365 27,107
10th Percentile £293 £300 £285
25th Percentile £405 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £640
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,984 978 1,483
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.50 £15.02
25th Percentile £18.22 £21.01 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.25 £33.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.48% -26.67% +45.77%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.54 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -22.62% -29.62% +84.72%

E-Commerce Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'E-Commerce Manager' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

E-Commerce Manager job vacancy trend in the UK

E-Commerce Manager
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for E-Commerce Manager job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for E-Commerce Manager job vacancies in the UK

E-Commerce Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing E-Commerce Manager over the 6 months to 24 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for E-Commerce Manager in the UK

E-Commerce Manager
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for E-Commerce Manager job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for E-Commerce Manager job vacancies in the UK

E-Commerce Manager
Top 9 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing E-Commerce Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 24 December 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 -22 21 £600 +94.17% 53
UK excluding London -34 14 £593 +86.32% 31
London -13 7 £600 +100.00% 23
Work from Home +4 6 £675 +112.26% 37
South East -8 6 £593 +103.26% 4
West Midlands -21 6 - - 5
Midlands -39 6 - - 7
Yorkshire - 2 £563 - 7
North of England - 2 £563 - 20

E-Commerce Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 24 December 2025, E-Commerce Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring E-Commerce Manager in the job title.

1 25 (100.00%) E-Commerce
2 9 (36.00%) Agile
2 9 (36.00%) QA
3 8 (32.00%) Project Management
4 7 (28.00%) CRM
4 7 (28.00%) PMI Certification
4 7 (28.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (24.00%) JIRA
5 6 (24.00%) PRINCE2
6 5 (20.00%) Adobe
6 5 (20.00%) PMP
6 5 (20.00%) User Experience
7 4 (16.00%) Confluence
7 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (16.00%) Scrum
8 3 (12.00%) Analytics
8 3 (12.00%) CMS
8 3 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (12.00%) Customer Experience
8 3 (12.00%) ERP
8 3 (12.00%) Salesforce
8 3 (12.00%) SharePoint
8 3 (12.00%) Shopify
8 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 3 (12.00%) Waterfall
8 3 (12.00%) Web Operations
9 2 (8.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (8.00%) Autodesk Smoke
9 2 (8.00%) B2C
9 2 (8.00%) Bug Management

E-Commerce Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 4 (16.00%) Confluence
2 3 (12.00%) CMS
2 3 (12.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (8.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Autodesk Smoke
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Shopify
2 1 (4.00%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.00%) Contentsquare
1 2 (8.00%) Google Analytics
1 2 (8.00%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
1 2 (8.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
2 1 (4.00%) Adobe Analytics
2 1 (4.00%) AWS
2 1 (4.00%) Azure
2 1 (4.00%) BigCommerce
Development Applications
1 6 (24.00%) JIRA
2 1 (4.00%) Git
2 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.00%) Subversion
General
1 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Retail
3 4 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (16.00%) Automotive
3 4 (16.00%) French Language
3 4 (16.00%) Marketing
4 2 (8.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Electronics
5 1 (4.00%) Finance
5 1 (4.00%) Legal
5 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) Middleware
1 1 (4.00%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (8.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (8.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (8.00%) PMI
3 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (100.00%) E-Commerce
2 9 (36.00%) Agile
3 8 (32.00%) Project Management
4 7 (28.00%) CRM
4 7 (28.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (24.00%) PRINCE2
6 5 (20.00%) User Experience
7 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (16.00%) Scrum
8 3 (12.00%) Analytics
8 3 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (12.00%) Customer Experience
8 3 (12.00%) ERP
8 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 3 (12.00%) Waterfall
8 3 (12.00%) Web Operations
9 2 (8.00%) Bug Management
9 2 (8.00%) Customer Insight
9 2 (8.00%) Roadmaps
9 2 (8.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Qualifications
1 7 (28.00%) PMI Certification
2 5 (20.00%) PMP
3 2 (8.00%) Degree
4 1 (4.00%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (36.00%) QA
2 1 (4.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) Adobe
2 3 (12.00%) Salesforce
3 2 (8.00%) Google
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.00%) SAP
4 1 (4.00%) Oracle
4 1 (4.00%) Sitecore