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 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 222 200
Rank change year-on-year -43 -22 -60
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 372 364 523
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.00% 1.14% 1.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 1.29% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 245 356
10th Percentile £325 £288 £293
25th Percentile £405 £363 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £569 £588 £596
90th Percentile £750 £688 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +18.75% -20.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 9
10th Percentile £12.75 £42.78 -
25th Percentile £14.50 £44.08 £13.00
Median hourly rate £24.61 £47.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.19% -5.94% -27.86%
75th Percentile £35.91 £51.25 £61.25
90th Percentile £68.60 £52.75 £67.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £13.88 £52.50 £13.00
% change year-on-year -73.57% +303.85% -

All Process & 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 32,749 28,251 37,925
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.79% 88.81% 87.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,723 17,176 25,071
10th Percentile £304 £306 £304
25th Percentile £406 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £723 £739 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,987 905 1,714
10th Percentile £14.52 £15.62 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.75 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -18.75% +16.65%
75th Percentile £56.38 £62.50 £64.50
90th Percentile £69.25 £74.82 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.00 £30.78 £41.00
% change year-on-year -22.03% -24.93% +41.38%

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 17 January 2026.

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 17 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for E-Commerce in the UK

E-Commerce
Top 14 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 17 January 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 -38 343 £500 +11.11% 549
London -10 226 £500 - 100
Work from Home -7 151 £523 +30.63% 406
UK excluding London -33 107 £475 +18.75% 506
Midlands -19 39 £475 +58.33% 47
North of England -43 30 £510 +27.56% 138
West Midlands -26 29 £523 +74.17% 21
South East -32 22 £519 +55.43% 163
Yorkshire -33 19 £519 - 50
East of England -23 11 £413 +10.00% 74
North West -26 11 £510 +27.56% 72
East Midlands -19 10 £425 -18.66% 26
Scotland +7 4 - - 12
South West -13 4 £450 -10.00% 51

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 16 (4.30%) CMS
2 11 (2.96%) Confluence
3 5 (1.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.81%) Headless CMS
4 3 (0.81%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.54%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 15 (4.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.61%) Chatbot
3 6 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.54%) Autodesk Smoke
5 1 (0.27%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.27%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.27%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 31 (8.33%) Shopify
2 13 (3.49%) Payment Gateway
3 10 (2.69%) Magento
4 4 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (1.08%) Endur
4 4 (1.08%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.81%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.54%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.27%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.27%) Eikon
7 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle Retail
7 1 (0.27%) Orchestrade
7 1 (0.27%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 50 (13.44%) Azure
2 40 (10.75%) SaaS
3 37 (9.95%) AWS
4 19 (5.11%) Serverless
5 17 (4.57%) Figma
5 17 (4.57%) GCP
6 15 (4.03%) Commercetools
6 15 (4.03%) Dynamics 365
7 14 (3.76%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 13 (3.49%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (3.49%) Contentful
9 12 (3.23%) Algolia
10 10 (2.69%) Datadog
11 8 (2.15%) Google Analytics
11 8 (2.15%) Power Platform
12 7 (1.88%) Contentsquare
12 7 (1.88%) dbt
12 7 (1.88%) SAP Commerce Cloud
13 6 (1.61%) BigCommerce
13 6 (1.61%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.88%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.27%) Firewall
2 1 (0.27%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.27%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.42%) SQL Server
1 9 (2.42%) Tableau
2 8 (2.15%) MySQL
2 8 (2.15%) Power BI
2 8 (2.15%) Redis
3 7 (1.88%) DynamoDB
3 7 (1.88%) NoSQL
4 6 (1.61%) Mixpanel
4 6 (1.61%) Relational Database
5 5 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (1.08%) Metadata
6 4 (1.08%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.54%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.54%) Couchbase
8 2 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.54%) Looker
8 2 (0.54%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 34 (9.14%) Jenkins
2 17 (4.57%) JIRA
3 9 (2.42%) Git
4 6 (1.61%) Cypress.io
4 6 (1.61%) Visual Website Optimizer
5 4 (1.08%) SpecFlow
5 4 (1.08%) Storybook
6 3 (0.81%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (0.81%) Charles Proxy
6 3 (0.81%) Fiddler
6 3 (0.81%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.54%) GitLab
7 2 (0.54%) Postman
7 2 (0.54%) Selenium
8 1 (0.27%) Appium
8 1 (0.27%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.27%) Gradle
8 1 (0.27%) NUnit
8 1 (0.27%) Vite
8 1 (0.27%) webpack
General
1 110 (29.57%) Social Skills
2 79 (21.24%) Retail
3 50 (13.44%) Marketing
4 44 (11.83%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (10.75%) Finance
6 19 (5.11%) Organisational Skills
7 17 (4.57%) Legal
8 13 (3.49%) Electronics
9 12 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
10 11 (2.96%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (2.42%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.61%) French Language
12 6 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.34%) Banking
13 5 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (1.34%) Telecoms
14 4 (1.08%) Advertising
14 4 (1.08%) Front Office
15 2 (0.54%) Publishing
16 1 (0.27%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 58 (15.59%) Senior
2 55 (14.78%) Analyst
3 43 (11.56%) Architect
4 41 (11.02%) Business Analyst
5 32 (8.60%) Consultant
6 30 (8.06%) Developer
7 27 (7.26%) E-Commerce Manager
8 23 (6.18%) Project Manager
9 15 (4.03%) Lead
10 13 (3.49%) Technical Consultant
10 13 (3.49%) Web Manager
11 12 (3.23%) Account Executive
11 12 (3.23%) Senior Consultant
11 12 (3.23%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
11 12 (3.23%) Senior Manager
11 12 (3.23%) Senior Technical Consultant
11 12 (3.23%) Senior Technical Specialist
11 12 (3.23%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
11 12 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
11 12 (3.23%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (14.78%) Node.js
2 41 (11.02%) GraphQL
3 30 (8.06%) Playwright
4 28 (7.53%) Vitest
5 23 (6.18%) React
6 19 (5.11%) VML
7 18 (4.84%) HTML
8 16 (4.30%) YAML
9 15 (4.03%) CSS
10 14 (3.76%) REST
11 13 (3.49%) .NET
12 11 (2.96%) Next.js
13 10 (2.69%) HTML5
14 8 (2.15%) CSS3
14 8 (2.15%) OpenTelemetry
15 7 (1.88%) EDI
15 7 (1.88%) Middleware
15 7 (1.88%) Redux
15 7 (1.88%) RESTful
15 7 (1.88%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 39 (10.48%) Cloud Native
1 39 (10.48%) Product Ownership
2 20 (5.38%) Mobile App
3 19 (5.11%) Onboarding
4 14 (3.76%) Analytical Mindset
5 10 (2.69%) Marketing Technology
5 10 (2.69%) PMI
6 9 (2.42%) Client/Server
7 7 (1.88%) Virtual Team
8 6 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (1.61%) Social Media
9 5 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.34%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.08%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.08%) e-Learning
10 4 (1.08%) FMCG
10 4 (1.08%) Learning Management System
10 4 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.08%) Apple iOS
1 4 (1.08%) Windows
2 3 (0.81%) Android
2 3 (0.81%) Linux
3 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (33.33%) Agile
2 70 (18.82%) Stakeholder Management
3 64 (17.20%) Analytics
4 59 (15.86%) Problem-Solving
5 56 (15.05%) CI/CD
6 50 (13.44%) User Experience
7 48 (12.90%) Coaching
8 47 (12.63%) DevOps
9 40 (10.75%) Mentoring
10 39 (10.48%) CRM
10 39 (10.48%) ERP
11 35 (9.41%) Scrum
12 31 (8.33%) Test Automation
13 28 (7.53%) Customer Experience
13 28 (7.53%) Roadmaps
14 27 (7.26%) Continuous Improvement
14 27 (7.26%) Project Management
15 25 (6.72%) A/B Testing
15 25 (6.72%) Process Improvement
15 25 (6.72%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 50 (13.44%) SQL
2 46 (12.37%) TypeScript
3 33 (8.87%) Python
4 26 (6.99%) JavaScript
5 15 (4.03%) Java
6 13 (3.49%) C#
7 10 (2.69%) PHP
8 3 (0.81%) R
8 3 (0.81%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.54%) Go
9 2 (0.54%) Ruby
10 1 (0.27%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.27%) Perl
10 1 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 17 (4.57%) Degree
2 13 (3.49%) PMI Certification
3 6 (1.61%) CBAP
4 5 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.08%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.08%) CSPO
5 4 (1.08%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.81%) PMP
7 2 (0.54%) APMG
7 2 (0.54%) MBA
8 1 (0.27%) Analytics IQ
8 1 (0.27%) APMP
8 1 (0.27%) CFA
8 1 (0.27%) IIBA
8 1 (0.27%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.27%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.65%) QA
2 20 (5.38%) GDPR
3 14 (3.76%) Accessibility
4 10 (2.69%) PERC
5 9 (2.42%) PCI DSS
6 8 (2.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 8 (2.15%) Data Quality
7 6 (1.61%) ISO 8583
7 6 (1.61%) PSD2
8 3 (0.81%) WCAG
9 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 36 (9.68%) Docker
2 5 (1.34%) Varnish
3 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 37 (9.95%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.42%) Grafana
2 9 (2.42%) Prometheus
3 8 (2.15%) Terraform
4 2 (0.54%) Ansible
4 2 (0.54%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.27%) Istio
5 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.27%) Puppet
5 1 (0.27%) SCCM
Vendors
1 44 (11.83%) Salesforce
2 33 (8.87%) Adobe
2 33 (8.87%) Google
3 24 (6.45%) SAP
4 21 (5.65%) Microsoft
5 10 (2.69%) Oracle
5 10 (2.69%) Tealium
6 8 (2.15%) Databricks
6 8 (2.15%) Optimizely
7 7 (1.88%) OneTrust
8 6 (1.61%) Amplitude
8 6 (1.61%) Hotjar
8 6 (1.61%) Sitecore
8 6 (1.61%) TikTok
9 5 (1.34%) mParticle
10 4 (1.08%) Wind River
11 3 (0.81%) Facebook
11 3 (0.81%) OpenAI
11 3 (0.81%) Splunk
12 2 (0.54%) Rollbar