Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 24 May 2020

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for E-Commerce skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited E-Commerce over the 6 months to 24 May 2020 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

E-Commerce (Electronic Commerce)
UK
6 months to
24 May 2020		 Same period 2019 Same period 2018
Rank 108 74 57
Rank change year-on-year -34 -17 +2
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 1,020 2,861 3,976
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.12% 3.12% 3.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.48% 3.57% 4.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 725 2,099 2,943
Median daily rate £475 £475 £463
Median daily rate % change year-on-year - +2.70% +2.78%
10th Percentile £313 £315 £313
90th Percentile £638 £615 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £425 £420
% change year-on-year -2.94% +1.19% +2.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 6 13
Median hourly rate £35.00 £39.00 £57.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year -10.26% -32.17% +88.52%
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £12.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +212.50% -36.84%

E-Commerce is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK
Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 41,109 80,039 87,632
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.35% 87.32% 86.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,896 52,725 57,819
Median daily rate £475 £475 £450
Median daily rate % change year-on-year - +5.56% +2.86%
10th Percentile £298 £304 £297
90th Percentile £668 £650 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £438 £420
% change year-on-year +2.86% +4.17% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,469 2,152 2,311
Median hourly rate £28.00 £24.50 £22.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +14.29% +11.36% -12.00%
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.70 £11.17
90th Percentile £54.00 £51.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £22.91 £23.00 £20.11
% change year-on-year -0.39% +14.40% -20.56%

E-Commerce
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing E-Commerce as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for E-Commerce in the UK

E-Commerce
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing E-Commerce.

Daily rate trend for E-Commerce in the UK

E-Commerce
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing E-Commerce over the 6 months to 24 May 2020.

Daily rate histogram for E-Commerce in the UK

E-Commerce
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing E-Commerce.

Hourly rate trend for E-Commerce in the UK

E-Commerce
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing E-Commerce over the 6 months to 24 May 2020.

Hourly rate histogram for E-Commerce in the UK

E-Commerce
Top 16 Contract 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 24 May 2020. 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
Job
Vacancies
England -33 983 £475 - 250
London -32 540 £500 - 70
UK excluding London -36 456 £413 -2.94% 190
North of England -27 126 £393 -1.88% 80
South East -37 95 £400 -11.11% 27
South West +20 82 £475 +2.15% 27
Midlands +6 77 £406 +4.84% 30
Yorkshire +23 64 £398 -0.63% 22
East Midlands +28 61 £406 +5.52% 12
Work from Home +3 58 £425 -10.53% 26
East of England -27 55 £425 -10.53% 16
North West -42 50 £375 -8.54% 52
Scotland +31 18 £388 -3.13% 8
West Midlands -7 16 £406 +1.56% 18
North East +21 12 £500 +17.65% 6
Wales +25 3 £375 +7.14% 2

For the 6 months to 24 May 2020, IT contractor jobs citing E-Commerce also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads with a requirement for E-Commerce.

1 412 (40.39%) Agile Software Development
2 274 (26.86%) Retail
3 257 (25.20%) JavaScript
4 192 (18.82%) HTML
5 175 (17.16%) Java
5 175 (17.16%) CSS
6 138 (13.53%) .NET
7 137 (13.43%) AWS
8 132 (12.94%) SQL
9 124 (12.16%) C#
10 115 (11.27%) Azure
11 114 (11.18%) User Experience
11 114 (11.18%) React
12 103 (10.10%) TDD
13 102 (10.00%) Microservices
14 99 (9.71%) Scrum
15 96 (9.41%) SQL Server
16 95 (9.31%) Stakeholder Management
17 94 (9.22%) DevOps
18 90 (8.82%) Analytics
18 90 (8.82%) Finance
19 89 (8.73%) Node.js
20 83 (8.14%) Docker
20 83 (8.14%) Python
21 81 (7.94%) MVC
22 80 (7.84%) Front End Development
23 77 (7.55%) HTML5
23 77 (7.55%) JIRA
24 76 (7.45%) Magento
25 75 (7.35%) BDD

E-Commerce
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 40 (3.92%) CMS
2 36 (3.53%) Apache Spark
3 28 (2.75%) WebSphere
4 24 (2.35%) Confluence
5 22 (2.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 21 (2.06%) Tomcat
7 17 (1.67%) Apache
8 13 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (0.69%) Headless CMS
9 7 (0.69%) Sitecore CMS
9 7 (0.69%) WebLogic
9 7 (0.69%) WordPress
10 6 (0.59%) EPiServer
11 5 (0.49%) IIS
11 5 (0.49%) Umbraco
12 4 (0.39%) Drupal
13 3 (0.29%) Apache Solr
13 3 (0.29%) nginx
13 3 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 27 (2.65%) Microsoft Excel
1 27 (2.65%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (1.96%) Sketch
3 12 (1.18%) Photoshop
4 8 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.69%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.59%) InVision
7 4 (0.39%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.29%) InDesign
9 2 (0.20%) Adobe Premiere
9 2 (0.20%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.20%) Figma
9 2 (0.20%) OmniGraffle
9 2 (0.20%) Zeplin
10 1 (0.098%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.098%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.098%) Blender
10 1 (0.098%) MODO
10 1 (0.098%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 76 (7.45%) Magento
2 27 (2.65%) Shopify
3 8 (0.78%) SAP Hybris
4 5 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
4 5 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.29%) BusinessWorks
5 3 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.29%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.20%) nopCommerce
6 2 (0.20%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.20%) SAP CS
7 1 (0.098%) OpenCart
7 1 (0.098%) Oracle Retail
7 1 (0.098%) RMDS
7 1 (0.098%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.098%) Salesforce.com CRM
7 1 (0.098%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.098%) SAP PLM
7 1 (0.098%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 137 (13.43%) AWS
2 115 (11.27%) Azure
3 36 (3.53%) SaaS
4 29 (2.84%) GCP
5 26 (2.55%) AWS Lambda
5 26 (2.55%) Serverless
6 22 (2.16%) Amazon EC2
7 21 (2.06%) GitHub
8 16 (1.57%) OpenShift
8 16 (1.57%) Power Platform
9 15 (1.47%) Azure Data Factory
10 12 (1.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 11 (1.08%) Amazon S3
12 10 (0.98%) Amazon EMR
12 10 (0.98%) Office 365
13 9 (0.88%) Google Analytics
14 7 (0.69%) AWS CloudFormation
15 6 (0.59%) Amazon ECS
15 6 (0.59%) Dynamics 365
16 5 (0.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.67%) HTTP
2 10 (0.98%) SSL
3 9 (0.88%) Firewall
4 6 (0.59%) Internet
5 5 (0.49%) Network Security
6 4 (0.39%) DMZ
6 4 (0.39%) Extranet
6 4 (0.39%) Intranet
6 4 (0.39%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.29%) DNS
7 3 (0.29%) LAN
7 3 (0.29%) RTMP
7 3 (0.29%) WAN
7 3 (0.29%) WLAN
8 2 (0.20%) 3G
8 2 (0.20%) 5G
8 2 (0.20%) Broadband
8 2 (0.20%) EIGRP
8 2 (0.20%) GPRS
8 2 (0.20%) UMTS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (9.41%) SQL Server
2 43 (4.22%) Big Data
3 36 (3.53%) Data Warehouse
3 36 (3.53%) MySQL
4 31 (3.04%) NoSQL
5 25 (2.45%) Data Lake
6 22 (2.16%) Hadoop
7 20 (1.96%) Relational Database
8 18 (1.76%) MongoDB
8 18 (1.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 16 (1.57%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 16 (1.57%) Power BI
10 14 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
11 13 (1.27%) BigQuery
12 12 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
13 11 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 10 (0.98%) Apache Cassandra
14 10 (0.98%) Spark SQL
15 9 (0.88%) Microsoft Analysis Services
15 9 (0.88%) Redis
Development Applications
1 77 (7.55%) JIRA
2 71 (6.96%) Git (software)
3 55 (5.39%) Jenkins
4 24 (2.35%) Maven
5 22 (2.16%) JUnit
6 20 (1.96%) Selenium
7 19 (1.86%) Cucumber
7 19 (1.86%) Mockito
8 18 (1.76%) SonarQube
9 15 (1.47%) DbUnit
9 15 (1.47%) jMock
10 14 (1.37%) TeamCity
11 13 (1.27%) Axure RP
11 13 (1.27%) Team Foundation Server
12 12 (1.18%) Grunt
13 11 (1.08%) GitLab
13 11 (1.08%) gulp
14 10 (0.98%) CircleCI
14 10 (0.98%) Jasmine
14 10 (0.98%) webpack
General
1 274 (26.86%) Retail
2 90 (8.82%) Finance
3 57 (5.59%) Marketing
4 45 (4.41%) Banking
5 41 (4.02%) Public Sector
6 36 (3.53%) Games
7 22 (2.16%) Investment Banking
8 21 (2.06%) Front Office
9 14 (1.37%) Law
10 13 (1.27%) Manufacturing
11 12 (1.18%) Telecoms
12 11 (1.08%) Back Office
12 11 (1.08%) German Language
13 10 (0.98%) Legal
14 6 (0.59%) Billing
15 5 (0.49%) Electronics
15 5 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (0.39%) Advertising
16 4 (0.39%) Automotive
16 4 (0.39%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 387 (37.94%) Developer
2 109 (10.69%) Analyst
3 77 (7.55%) Project Manager
4 74 (7.25%) Architect
5 67 (6.57%) Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 59 (5.78%) .NET Developer
7 56 (5.49%) E-Commerce Manager
8 55 (5.39%) Java Developer
9 47 (4.61%) Business Analyst
10 44 (4.31%) React Developer
11 42 (4.12%) C# Developer
12 41 (4.02%) JavaScript Developer
13 39 (3.82%) Product Owner
14 38 (3.73%) Senior Developer
15 36 (3.53%) E-Commerce Developer
16 33 (3.24%) E-Commerce Analyst
17 32 (3.14%) Designer
18 30 (2.94%) E-Commerce Project Manager
18 30 (2.94%) Full Stack Developer
19 29 (2.84%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (18.82%) HTML
2 175 (17.16%) CSS
3 138 (13.53%) .NET
4 114 (11.18%) React
5 89 (8.73%) Node.js
6 77 (7.55%) HTML5
7 67 (6.57%) AngularJS
8 66 (6.47%) Spring
9 63 (6.18%) Web Services
10 61 (5.98%) REST
11 51 (5.00%) Vue.js
12 49 (4.80%) CSS3
13 45 (4.41%) SOAP
14 43 (4.22%) jQuery
14 43 (4.22%) RESTful
15 36 (3.53%) Sass
16 35 (3.43%) Redux
17 31 (3.04%) ASP.NET
18 30 (2.94%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 28 (2.75%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 114 (11.18%) User Experience
2 59 (5.78%) Analytical Skills
3 55 (5.39%) Greenfield Project
4 48 (4.71%) Mobile App
5 26 (2.55%) iPad
6 21 (2.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 17 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
8 16 (1.57%) W3C
9 12 (1.18%) Public Cloud
10 10 (0.98%) Credit Risk
11 9 (0.88%) Algorithms
11 9 (0.88%) Management Information System
11 9 (0.88%) Virtual Team
12 8 (0.78%) Data Structures
12 8 (0.78%) EPoS
13 7 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (0.69%) Fixed Income
14 6 (0.59%) Data Centre
14 6 (0.59%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 44 (4.31%) Linux
2 28 (2.75%) Windows
3 25 (2.45%) Apple iOS
4 23 (2.25%) Android
5 12 (1.18%) Unix
6 8 (0.78%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.39%) Solaris
8 1 (0.098%) HPUX
8 1 (0.098%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.098%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.098%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.098%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 412 (40.39%) Agile Software Development
2 103 (10.10%) TDD
3 102 (10.00%) Microservices
4 99 (9.71%) Scrum
5 95 (9.31%) Stakeholder Management
6 94 (9.22%) DevOps
7 90 (8.82%) Analytics
8 81 (7.94%) MVC
9 80 (7.84%) Front End Development
10 75 (7.35%) BDD
11 72 (7.06%) Software Engineering
12 70 (6.86%) Problem-Solving
13 58 (5.69%) Project Management
14 57 (5.59%) Continuous Integration
15 55 (5.39%) SDLC
16 47 (4.61%) Test Automation
17 45 (4.41%) Business Intelligence
17 45 (4.41%) Requirements Gathering
18 42 (4.12%) CRM
19 39 (3.82%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 257 (25.20%) JavaScript
2 175 (17.16%) Java
3 132 (12.94%) SQL
4 124 (12.16%) C#
5 83 (8.14%) Python
6 66 (6.47%) PHP
7 30 (2.94%) TypeScript
8 27 (2.65%) Ruby
9 26 (2.55%) Scala
10 16 (1.57%) ES6
11 15 (1.47%) Groovy
12 14 (1.37%) Bash Shell
12 14 (1.37%) Java 8
12 14 (1.37%) Kotlin
12 14 (1.37%) T-SQL
13 11 (1.08%) Apple Swift
14 10 (0.98%) Go
15 9 (0.88%) Objective-C
16 8 (0.78%) C++
16 8 (0.78%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 49 (4.80%) Degree
2 13 (1.27%) Security Cleared
3 12 (1.18%) SC Cleared
4 6 (0.59%) Master's Degree
5 5 (0.49%) ISEB
6 3 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (0.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.20%) CCNA
7 2 (0.20%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.20%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.20%) PMP
7 2 (0.20%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.098%) BC Cleared
8 1 (0.098%) CCNP
8 1 (0.098%) CISM
8 1 (0.098%) CISSP
8 1 (0.098%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.098%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.098%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (4.71%) QA
2 12 (1.18%) GDPR
3 9 (0.88%) Data Quality
4 8 (0.78%) PMO
5 6 (0.59%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.29%) NIST
6 3 (0.29%) SLA
7 1 (0.098%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.098%) PSD2
System Software
1 83 (8.14%) Docker
2 15 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.27%) vSphere
4 8 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.20%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 75 (7.35%) Kubernetes
2 32 (3.14%) Terraform
3 26 (2.55%) Ansible
4 10 (0.98%) Puppet
5 8 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.59%) Istio
6 6 (0.59%) Nagios
7 5 (0.49%) Opscode Chef
8 4 (0.39%) CloudForms
9 2 (0.20%) Consul
9 2 (0.20%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.20%) NetIQ Identity Manager
9 2 (0.20%) Packer
9 2 (0.20%) Rancher
10 1 (0.098%) BladeLogic
10 1 (0.098%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.098%) Kibana
10 1 (0.098%) logstash
10 1 (0.098%) SCCM
10 1 (0.098%) SCOM
Vendors
1 60 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 44 (4.31%) SAP
3 42 (4.12%) hybris
3 42 (4.12%) Salesforce.com
4 40 (3.92%) Oracle
5 37 (3.63%) Adobe
6 27 (2.65%) Google
6 27 (2.65%) Tableau
7 21 (2.06%) Demandware
8 17 (1.67%) IBM
8 17 (1.67%) VMware
9 15 (1.47%) Databricks
10 10 (0.98%) Teradata
11 9 (0.88%) Red Hat
11 9 (0.88%) Terracotta
11 9 (0.88%) Zend
12 7 (0.69%) Sitecore
12 7 (0.69%) Splunk
13 6 (0.59%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 6 (0.59%) Zuora