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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 273 250 192
Rank change year-on-year -23 -58 -7
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 438 301 525
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.89% 1.04% 1.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 1.15% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 192 379
10th Percentile £325 £281 £300
25th Percentile £408 £357 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £592 £577 £598
90th Percentile £696 £699 £704
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +10.81% +2.78% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 4 19
10th Percentile £22.50 - £10.42
25th Percentile £28.81 £15.25 £11.00
Median hourly rate £54.75 £15.50 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +253.23% +19.23% -82.72%
75th Percentile £78.25 £19.06 £32.38
90th Percentile £95.00 £25.03 £62.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.91 £15.50 £13.00
% change year-on-year +131.68% +19.23% -86.32%

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 41,610 26,282 36,757
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.67% 91.03% 85.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,026 16,812 23,631
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,481 1,100 2,513
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.30 £27.97 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.26% -23.38% -1.35%
75th Percentile £67.84 £57.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.88 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -33.82% +8.57%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 30 May 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 -21 403 £500 +1.52% 393
London -4 254 £500 -2.91% 198
Work from Home -23 147 £500 +17.65% 158
UK excluding London -43 143 £513 +10.81% 230
Midlands -23 50 £475 -4.52% 49
North of England -61 38 £513 - 68
West Midlands -40 35 £638 +21.43% 31
North West -33 28 £513 -10.87% 43
South East -77 26 £521 +15.83% 79
East of England -19 20 £350 -27.27% 18
East Midlands -14 15 £465 -2.11% 18
Yorkshire -59 10 £600 +18.52% 18
South West -35 7 £625 +66.67% 10
Scotland -1 2 - - 3

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 17 (3.88%) CMS
2 10 (2.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 8 (1.83%) Confluence
4 2 (0.46%) Apache
4 2 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.46%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.46%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.46%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.46%) WordPress
5 1 (0.23%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.23%) Kentico
5 1 (0.23%) nginx
5 1 (0.23%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.23%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 13 (2.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.83%) Chatbot
3 8 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 4 (0.91%) Adobe After Effects
5 4 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.68%) Final Cut Pro
6 3 (0.68%) Sketch
7 2 (0.46%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.23%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.23%) Autodesk Smoke
8 1 (0.23%) Trello
Business Applications
1 47 (10.73%) Shopify
2 18 (4.11%) Magento
3 7 (1.60%) NetSuite
3 7 (1.60%) SAP CRM
4 6 (1.37%) Payment Gateway
5 5 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
6 4 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
7 3 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.68%) SAP Hybris
7 3 (0.68%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.46%) SAP MDG-F
9 1 (0.23%) Carpe Diem
9 1 (0.23%) Elite 3E
9 1 (0.23%) ION MarketView
9 1 (0.23%) Oracle Retail
9 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.23%) SAP CAR
9 1 (0.23%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.23%) SAP Retail
9 1 (0.23%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 37 (8.45%) AWS
1 37 (8.45%) Azure
2 21 (4.79%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
3 18 (4.11%) Figma
4 15 (3.42%) SaaS
5 12 (2.74%) Dynamics 365
6 11 (2.51%) BigCommerce
6 11 (2.51%) GCP
6 11 (2.51%) Power Platform
7 10 (2.28%) Serverless
8 9 (2.05%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (1.83%) Datadog
9 8 (1.83%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 7 (1.60%) dbt
10 7 (1.60%) Google Workspace
10 7 (1.60%) Miro
10 7 (1.60%) SAP Commerce Cloud
10 7 (1.60%) WhatsApp
11 6 (1.37%) Google Tag Manager
12 5 (1.14%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.23%) Firewall
1 1 (0.23%) Internet
1 1 (0.23%) LAN
1 1 (0.23%) Network Security
1 1 (0.23%) RFID
1 1 (0.23%) RTMP
1 1 (0.23%) WAN
1 1 (0.23%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.51%) MySQL
2 10 (2.28%) Power BI
3 8 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (1.60%) Metadata
5 6 (1.37%) Looker
5 6 (1.37%) Redis
5 6 (1.37%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.14%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.14%) Tableau
7 4 (0.91%) BigQuery
7 4 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.91%) DynamoDB
7 4 (0.91%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.68%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.68%) Semantic Layer
9 2 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.46%) CockroachDB
9 2 (0.46%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 21 (4.79%) Git
1 21 (4.79%) JIRA
2 20 (4.57%) Jenkins
3 10 (2.28%) Selenium
4 8 (1.83%) Cypress.io
5 7 (1.60%) Vite
6 6 (1.37%) GitLab
7 4 (0.91%) Maven
7 4 (0.91%) Subversion
8 3 (0.68%) Appium
8 3 (0.68%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.46%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.46%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.46%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.46%) Hudson
9 2 (0.46%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.23%) Fiddler
10 1 (0.23%) NUnit
10 1 (0.23%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.23%) TeamCity
General
1 164 (37.44%) Retail
2 155 (35.39%) Social Skills
3 75 (17.12%) Finance
4 60 (13.70%) Marketing
5 45 (10.27%) Organisational Skills
6 33 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
7 21 (4.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (4.57%) Manufacturing
9 13 (2.97%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (2.28%) Legal
11 9 (2.05%) Banking
12 8 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (1.60%) Electronics
13 7 (1.60%) Publishing
14 6 (1.37%) French Language
15 4 (0.91%) Advertising
15 4 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.91%) Public Sector
16 3 (0.68%) Retail Banking
17 2 (0.46%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 92 (21.00%) Senior
2 61 (13.93%) Analyst
3 45 (10.27%) Project Manager
4 43 (9.82%) Developer
5 40 (9.13%) Business Analyst
6 39 (8.90%) Senior Manager
7 33 (7.53%) Architect
8 32 (7.31%) E-Commerce Manager
9 30 (6.85%) Senior Project Manager
10 28 (6.39%) Lead
11 26 (5.94%) Designer
12 14 (3.20%) Data Engineer
12 14 (3.20%) Product Manager
12 14 (3.20%) Senior Designer
13 13 (2.97%) Consultant
13 13 (2.97%) E-Commerce Analyst
13 13 (2.97%) E-Commerce Business Analyst
14 12 (2.74%) Digital Analyst
14 12 (2.74%) Technical Analyst
15 11 (2.51%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (9.36%) React
2 40 (9.13%) GraphQL
3 38 (8.68%) Node.js
4 33 (7.53%) REST
5 28 (6.39%) VML
6 22 (5.02%) CSS
7 21 (4.79%) Middleware
8 20 (4.57%) HTML
8 20 (4.57%) Playwright
9 13 (2.97%) Next.js
10 11 (2.51%) AngularJS
10 11 (2.51%) Spring
11 9 (2.05%) .NET
11 9 (2.05%) SOAP
11 9 (2.05%) Vitest
12 8 (1.83%) HTML5
12 8 (1.83%) Vue
13 7 (1.60%) Sass
13 7 (1.60%) Spring Boot
13 7 (1.60%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 33 (7.53%) Product Ownership
2 24 (5.48%) Cloud Native
3 14 (3.20%) Mobile App
4 12 (2.74%) Virtual Team
5 11 (2.51%) Marketing Technology
6 10 (2.28%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (2.05%) Management Information System
8 8 (1.83%) AI Agents
8 8 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (1.60%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.37%) FMCG
11 5 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (0.91%) Client/Server
12 4 (0.91%) EPoS
13 3 (0.68%) Animation
13 3 (0.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 3 (0.68%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.97%) Linux
2 11 (2.51%) Android
3 10 (2.28%) Apple iOS
3 10 (2.28%) Windows
4 4 (0.91%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (31.51%) Agile
2 86 (19.63%) Problem-Solving
3 76 (17.35%) Stakeholder Management
4 73 (16.67%) User Experience
5 52 (11.87%) CI/CD
5 52 (11.87%) Project Management
6 49 (11.19%) ERP
7 46 (10.50%) Analytics
8 44 (10.05%) Scrum
9 43 (9.82%) B2C
10 42 (9.59%) CRM
10 42 (9.59%) Customer Experience
11 41 (9.36%) Roadmaps
12 40 (9.13%) Continuous Improvement
12 40 (9.13%) Time Management
13 35 (7.99%) DevOps
14 33 (7.53%) AI
15 30 (6.85%) Migration
15 30 (6.85%) Release Management
16 29 (6.62%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 37 (8.45%) JavaScript
1 37 (8.45%) TypeScript
2 25 (5.71%) SQL
3 23 (5.25%) Python
4 17 (3.88%) Java
5 8 (1.83%) C#
6 6 (1.37%) PHP
6 6 (1.37%) Shell Script
7 5 (1.14%) Apex Code
7 5 (1.14%) Kotlin
7 5 (1.14%) SOQL
7 5 (1.14%) SOSL
7 5 (1.14%) Swift
8 3 (0.68%) Go
9 2 (0.46%) Korn
10 1 (0.23%) Bash
10 1 (0.23%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.23%) R
10 1 (0.23%) Scala
10 1 (0.23%) XPath
Qualifications
1 28 (6.39%) Degree
2 7 (1.60%) CSPO
3 4 (0.91%) PMI Certification
4 2 (0.46%) Analytics IQ
4 2 (0.46%) PMP
4 2 (0.46%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.23%) APMP
5 1 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.23%) CISA
5 1 (0.23%) CISSP
5 1 (0.23%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (0.23%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (6.39%) QA
2 18 (4.11%) Data Quality
3 17 (3.88%) Accessibility
4 12 (2.74%) GDPR
5 5 (1.14%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.91%) SLA
7 3 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.68%) WCAG
8 2 (0.46%) PERC
8 2 (0.46%) PMO
9 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.23%) NIST
System Software
1 19 (4.34%) Docker
2 5 (1.14%) Varnish
3 1 (0.23%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 17 (3.88%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.60%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 6 (1.37%) Grafana
3 6 (1.37%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.46%) MOM
5 1 (0.23%) Ansible
5 1 (0.23%) Apache Ranger
5 1 (0.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 48 (10.96%) Salesforce
2 43 (9.82%) SAP
3 37 (8.45%) Adobe
4 29 (6.62%) Google
5 25 (5.71%) Microsoft
6 22 (5.02%) Oracle
7 13 (2.97%) Databricks
8 12 (2.74%) Sitecore
9 7 (1.60%) MuleSoft
10 4 (0.91%) Netlify
10 4 (0.91%) Splunk
11 3 (0.68%) Dynatrace
11 3 (0.68%) IBM
11 3 (0.68%) mParticle
11 3 (0.68%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 3 (0.68%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.68%) Tealium
11 3 (0.68%) TikTok
12 2 (0.46%) Infor
12 2 (0.46%) New Relic