E-Commerce Manager Contract Job Trends

E-Commerce Manager
UK

The median E-Commerce Manager daily rate in the UK is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 611 500 565
Rank change year-on-year -111 +65 +85
Contract jobs requiring an E-Commerce Manager 30 17 25
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.061% 0.058% 0.058%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.066% 0.063% 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 10 19
10th Percentile £503 - £297
25th Percentile £570 £375 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £431 £475
Median % change year-on-year +39.13% -9.21% -13.83%
75th Percentile £713 £547 £575
90th Percentile £768 £578 £608
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £538 £423
% change year-on-year +11.63% +27.22% -29.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £61.25
25th Percentile - - £63.13
Median hourly rate - - £67.50
75th Percentile - - £68.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 45,716 26,993 40,308
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 92.36% 92.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,851 17,397 26,006
10th Percentile £325 £287 £280
25th Percentile £413 £403 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,052 1,108 2,874
10th Percentile £15.05 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.75 £17.87 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.30 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.04% -24.55% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67.50 £58.75 £61.60
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.32 £40.00
% change year-on-year +77.73% -36.70% -5.88%

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 7 June 2026.

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 11 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 7 June 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
England -93 27 £600 +9.09% 20
UK excluding London -83 17 £600 +11.63% 18
Midlands -41 10 - -
West Midlands -48 10 - -
London -69 10 £600 +9.09% 7
Work from Home -55 5 £500 -1.23% 3
North of England - 5 £600 - 4
North West - 4 £600 - 4
South East -56 1 £518 -5.91% 8
South West - 1 £750 - 2
Yorkshire - 1 £825 -

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

For the 6 months to 7 June 2026, 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 30 (100.00%) E-Commerce
2 18 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 17 (56.67%) Agile
4 11 (36.67%) B2C
5 10 (33.33%) Project Management
6 7 (23.33%) Supplier Management
7 6 (20.00%) Degree
7 6 (20.00%) Project Planning
7 6 (20.00%) Roadmaps
8 5 (16.67%) ERP
8 5 (16.67%) Product Management
9 4 (13.33%) Logistics
9 4 (13.33%) Programme Management
9 4 (13.33%) Re-Platforming
9 4 (13.33%) Scrum
9 4 (13.33%) Strategic Roadmap
10 3 (10.00%) B2B
10 3 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
10 3 (10.00%) Customer Experience
10 3 (10.00%) EJB
10 3 (10.00%) Migration
10 3 (10.00%) Oracle
10 3 (10.00%) PMI Certification
10 3 (10.00%) PRINCE2
10 3 (10.00%) Scorecard
10 3 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 3 (10.00%) TikTok
10 3 (10.00%) Waterfall
11 2 (6.67%) Adobe
11 2 (6.67%) Analytics

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 1 (3.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.33%) Autodesk Smoke
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Magento
1 1 (3.33%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (3.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.33%) Contentsquare
1 1 (3.33%) Google Analytics
1 1 (3.33%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
1 1 (3.33%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) Firewall
1 1 (3.33%) LAN
1 1 (3.33%) Network Security
1 1 (3.33%) WAN
1 1 (3.33%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 16 (53.33%) Retail
2 11 (36.67%) Social Skills
3 6 (20.00%) Marketing
4 5 (16.67%) Finance
5 4 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (13.33%) Manufacturing
6 3 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (3.33%) Legal
7 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.00%) EJB
2 2 (6.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) FMCG
2 2 (6.67%) EPoS
3 1 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.33%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.33%) PMI
3 1 (3.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (100.00%) E-Commerce
2 18 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 17 (56.67%) Agile
4 11 (36.67%) B2C
5 10 (33.33%) Project Management
6 7 (23.33%) Supplier Management
7 6 (20.00%) Project Planning
7 6 (20.00%) Roadmaps
8 5 (16.67%) ERP
8 5 (16.67%) Product Management
9 4 (13.33%) Logistics
9 4 (13.33%) Programme Management
9 4 (13.33%) Re-Platforming
9 4 (13.33%) Scrum
9 4 (13.33%) Strategic Roadmap
10 3 (10.00%) Customer Experience
10 3 (10.00%) Migration
10 3 (10.00%) Scorecard
10 3 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 3 (10.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 6 (20.00%) Degree
2 3 (10.00%) PMI Certification
3 2 (6.67%) PMP
4 1 (3.33%) APMP
4 1 (3.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) PMO
1 1 (3.33%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (10.00%) Oracle
1 3 (10.00%) TikTok
2 2 (6.67%) Adobe
2 2 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.67%) Salesforce
2 2 (6.67%) SAP
3 1 (3.33%) Cisco
3 1 (3.33%) Google
3 1 (3.33%) SolarWinds