E-Commerce Contract Job Trends

E-Commerce (Electronic Commerce)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring E-Commerce skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 260 197 199
Rank change year-on-year -63 +2 -76
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 371 453 552
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.02% 1.26% 1.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 1.45% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 312 367
10th Percentile £329 £300 £310
25th Percentile £404 £368 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £481 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% -12.50% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £595 £613
90th Percentile £789 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £400 £513
% change year-on-year +18.75% -21.95% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 3 9
10th Percentile £12.75 £42.78 £17.40
25th Percentile £15.25 £44.08 £47.75
Median hourly rate £15.50 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.37% -5.00% -29.82%
75th Percentile £26.52 £51.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £63.70 £52.75 £67.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.50 £52.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -70.48% +5.00% +376.19%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,257 31,288 39,893
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.04% 87.36% 88.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,268 18,944 26,694
10th Percentile £300 £309 £310
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £744 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,091 1,103 1,539
10th Percentile £14.61 £15.23 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.19 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -25.71% +25.00%
75th Percentile £45.61 £63.42 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.85 £32.39 £43.95
% change year-on-year -29.45% -26.30% +40.82%

E-Commerce
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing E-Commerce relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

E-Commerce job vacancy trend in the UK

E-Commerce
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing E-Commerce.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing E-Commerce

E-Commerce
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing E-Commerce over the 6 months to 3 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for E-Commerce in the UK

E-Commerce
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing E-Commerce.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing E-Commerce

E-Commerce
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing E-Commerce over the 6 months to 3 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for E-Commerce in the UK

E-Commerce
Top 15 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 within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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 -40 344 £500 +5.26% 379
London -30 213 £500 -1.96% 146
Work from Home -29 148 £575 +27.78% 197
UK excluding London -45 120 £475 +18.75% 319
South East -14 39 £555 +38.75% 122
North of England -36 37 £488 +21.88% 99
Yorkshire -14 23 £488 +62.50% 32
Midlands -27 21 £469 +17.19% 57
East of England -23 13 £475 +26.67% 10
North West -33 13 £475 +18.75% 58
West Midlands -36 12 £520 +48.57% 28
South West +3 10 £400 -23.81% 20
East Midlands -8 9 £425 -18.66% 29
Scotland +5 3 - - 4
North East -6 1 £900 - 11

E-Commerce
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 22 (5.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (4.85%) CMS
2 18 (4.85%) Confluence
3 5 (1.35%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.08%) Headless CMS
5 3 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.54%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.27%) Drupal
7 1 (0.27%) SAS
7 1 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (3.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.89%) Chatbot
4 6 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.27%) Autodesk Smoke
5 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.27%) Sketch
5 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 24 (6.47%) Shopify
2 15 (4.04%) Magento
3 13 (3.50%) Payment Gateway
4 6 (1.62%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (1.35%) Oracle Retail
6 4 (1.08%) Endur
7 3 (0.81%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.54%) SAP Hybris
9 1 (0.27%) Adobe Campaign
9 1 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
9 1 (0.27%) Eikon
9 1 (0.27%) Infor M3
9 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
9 1 (0.27%) Orchestrade
9 1 (0.27%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 50 (13.48%) Azure
2 37 (9.97%) SaaS
3 36 (9.70%) AWS
4 22 (5.93%) Microsoft 365
5 19 (5.12%) GCP
6 18 (4.85%) Figma
7 17 (4.58%) Serverless
8 16 (4.31%) Commercetools
8 16 (4.31%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
9 14 (3.77%) Contentful
9 14 (3.77%) Power Platform
10 12 (3.23%) Algolia
11 11 (2.96%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (2.43%) Dynamics 365
12 9 (2.43%) Google Analytics
13 7 (1.89%) Contentsquare
13 7 (1.89%) Datadog
13 7 (1.89%) SAP Commerce Cloud
14 5 (1.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (1.35%) Facebook Ads
Communications & Networking
1 22 (5.93%) Firewall
2 21 (5.66%) Cisco IOS
3 7 (1.89%) Cisco IPT
4 2 (0.54%) Internet
5 1 (0.27%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.31%) Tableau
2 14 (3.77%) Power BI
3 9 (2.43%) SQL Server
4 7 (1.89%) NoSQL
5 6 (1.62%) Mixpanel
6 5 (1.35%) DynamoDB
6 5 (1.35%) MySQL
6 5 (1.35%) Redis
7 4 (1.08%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.81%) BigQuery
8 3 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.54%) Couchbase
9 2 (0.54%) Looker
9 2 (0.54%) Power Query
9 2 (0.54%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.27%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.27%) Qlik Sense
10 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 32 (8.63%) Jenkins
2 26 (7.01%) JIRA
3 13 (3.50%) Git
4 6 (1.62%) Visual Website Optimizer
5 5 (1.35%) Selenium
6 4 (1.08%) Cucumber
6 4 (1.08%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.08%) SpecFlow
6 4 (1.08%) Storybook
7 3 (0.81%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.54%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.54%) Browser DevTools
8 2 (0.54%) Charles Proxy
8 2 (0.54%) Fiddler
8 2 (0.54%) GitLab
8 2 (0.54%) Postman
8 2 (0.54%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.27%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.27%) Gradle
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle APEX
General
1 118 (31.81%) Social Skills
2 85 (22.91%) Retail
3 57 (15.36%) Marketing
4 45 (12.13%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (9.70%) Finance
6 21 (5.66%) Games
7 15 (4.04%) French Language
7 15 (4.04%) Legal
8 12 (3.23%) Electronics
9 10 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (2.43%) Manufacturing
11 7 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (1.89%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.62%) Advertising
12 6 (1.62%) Banking
13 4 (1.08%) Automotive
13 4 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.81%) Front Office
14 3 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (12.40%) Analyst
2 42 (11.32%) Architect
3 40 (10.78%) Senior
4 34 (9.16%) Developer
5 32 (8.63%) Business Analyst
6 29 (7.82%) Consultant
7 24 (6.47%) E-Commerce Manager
8 21 (5.66%) Platform Engineer
9 20 (5.39%) Project Manager
10 16 (4.31%) Administrator
11 14 (3.77%) Lead
12 12 (3.23%) Designer
12 12 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
13 11 (2.96%) Technical Consultant
14 10 (2.70%) Senior Consultant
14 10 (2.70%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
14 10 (2.70%) Senior Technical Consultant
14 10 (2.70%) Senior Technical Specialist
14 10 (2.70%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
14 10 (2.70%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (13.21%) Node.js
2 34 (9.16%) GraphQL
3 24 (6.47%) Playwright
3 24 (6.47%) Vitest
4 20 (5.39%) React
5 18 (4.85%) HTML
6 15 (4.04%) CSS
7 14 (3.77%) YAML
8 12 (3.23%) .NET
9 10 (2.70%) Next.js
9 10 (2.70%) REST
10 9 (2.43%) RESTful
10 9 (2.43%) SOAP
11 8 (2.16%) HTML5
12 7 (1.89%) CSS3
12 7 (1.89%) Redux
12 7 (1.89%) VML
13 6 (1.62%) Bootstrap
13 6 (1.62%) OpenTelemetry
13 6 (1.62%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (11.59%) Product Ownership
2 39 (10.51%) Cloud Native
3 22 (5.93%) Mobile App
4 17 (4.58%) Onboarding
5 11 (2.96%) Analytical Mindset
6 9 (2.43%) Marketing Technology
7 8 (2.16%) PMI
8 7 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (1.89%) Social Media
9 5 (1.35%) Client/Server
9 5 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.35%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.08%) Learning Management System
11 3 (0.81%) e-Learning
11 3 (0.81%) Low-Code
12 2 (0.54%) Algorithms
12 2 (0.54%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.54%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 23 (6.20%) Android
2 22 (5.93%) Windows
3 21 (5.66%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.81%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.54%) Unix
6 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (32.61%) Agile
2 68 (18.33%) Analytics
3 61 (16.44%) Stakeholder Management
4 59 (15.90%) Problem-Solving
5 54 (14.56%) CI/CD
6 48 (12.94%) DevOps
7 47 (12.67%) User Experience
8 45 (12.13%) Coaching
9 42 (11.32%) CRM
10 40 (10.78%) Mentoring
11 35 (9.43%) Roadmaps
12 31 (8.36%) Scrum
12 31 (8.36%) Test Automation
13 29 (7.82%) B2C
13 29 (7.82%) ERP
14 28 (7.55%) A/B Testing
15 27 (7.28%) User Stories
16 26 (7.01%) Continuous Improvement
16 26 (7.01%) Customer Experience
17 25 (6.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 53 (14.29%) SQL
2 39 (10.51%) TypeScript
3 33 (8.89%) Python
4 26 (7.01%) JavaScript
5 21 (5.66%) PowerShell
6 17 (4.58%) Java
7 13 (3.50%) C#
8 7 (1.89%) PHP
9 4 (1.08%) Ruby
10 3 (0.81%) R
11 2 (0.54%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.27%) Perl
12 1 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 20 (5.39%) Degree
2 12 (3.23%) PMI Certification
3 6 (1.62%) CBAP
4 5 (1.35%) AWS Certification
4 5 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.08%) Master's Degree
5 4 (1.08%) PMP
6 3 (0.81%) CSPO
6 3 (0.81%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.54%) APMG
7 2 (0.54%) MBA
7 2 (0.54%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.27%) CFA
8 1 (0.27%) IIBA
8 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.27%) Security Cleared
8 1 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.20%) QA
2 20 (5.39%) GDPR
3 13 (3.50%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.43%) PCI DSS
4 9 (2.43%) PERC
5 8 (2.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 6 (1.62%) ISO 8583
6 6 (1.62%) PSD2
7 5 (1.35%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.81%) WCAG
9 2 (0.54%) SLA
10 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 31 (8.36%) Docker
2 22 (5.93%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.27%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 32 (8.63%) Kubernetes
2 22 (5.93%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (5.93%) SCCM
3 7 (1.89%) Grafana
3 7 (1.89%) Prometheus
3 7 (1.89%) Terraform
4 3 (0.81%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 2 (0.54%) Ansible
6 1 (0.27%) Istio
6 1 (0.27%) Puppet
Vendors
1 48 (12.94%) Salesforce
2 40 (10.78%) Microsoft
3 30 (8.09%) Google
4 23 (6.20%) Splunk
5 21 (5.66%) Cisco
5 21 (5.66%) Meraki
5 21 (5.66%) SAP
6 20 (5.39%) Adobe
7 13 (3.50%) Oracle
8 10 (2.70%) Optimizely
9 8 (2.16%) Tealium
10 7 (1.89%) Hotjar
10 7 (1.89%) OneTrust
11 6 (1.62%) Amplitude
11 6 (1.62%) Databricks
12 5 (1.35%) Facebook
12 5 (1.35%) Sitecore
12 5 (1.35%) TikTok
13 4 (1.08%) mParticle
13 4 (1.08%) Wind River