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 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 278 252 198
Rank change year-on-year -26 -54 -28
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 414 304 525
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.93% 1.05% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 1.16% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 197 373
10th Percentile £325 £288 £286
25th Percentile £413 £355 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £588
90th Percentile £775 £660 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +13.89% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 4 17
10th Percentile £16.62 £32.87 £10.42
25th Percentile £22.50 £38.68 £11.00
Median hourly rate £36.71 £44.71 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.90% +243.88% -81.43%
75th Percentile £75.25 £50.00 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £52.25 £66.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.59 £52.50 £13.00
% change year-on-year -39.83% +303.85% -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 38,255 26,278 38,264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.62% 90.49% 86.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,265 17,064 24,859
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £636 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £485 £500
% change year-on-year - -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,246 966 2,352
10th Percentile £14.96 £15.00 £12.84
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.26 £16.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -1.54% -11.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.72 £70.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.07 £31.50 £31.65
% change year-on-year +8.14% -0.47% -12.69%

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 1 April 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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -30 383 £510 +13.39% 366
London -31 245 £500 - 169
Work from Home -10 153 £513 +36.67% 182
UK excluding London -26 127 £513 +13.89% 219
Midlands -31 50 £475 - 46
North of England -41 37 £513 +2.50% 77
West Midlands -26 36 £638 +226.92% 20
North West -24 23 £513 +2.50% 48
South East -59 23 £525 +46.34% 66
East of England -19 14 £350 -24.32% 19
East Midlands -24 14 £419 -19.47% 26
Yorkshire -42 14 £713 +40.74% 24
South West -25 4 £625 +66.67% 16
Scotland - 2 - - 1

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 18 (4.35%) CMS
2 10 (2.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 9 (2.17%) Confluence
4 4 (0.97%) Headless CMS
5 3 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.48%) Apache
6 2 (0.48%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.24%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.24%) Kentico
7 1 (0.24%) nginx
7 1 (0.24%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.24%) Sitefinity
7 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (2.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.17%) Chatbot
3 7 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (1.21%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.48%) Autodesk Smoke
7 1 (0.24%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.24%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.24%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.24%) Trello
Business Applications
1 44 (10.63%) Shopify
2 13 (3.14%) Magento
3 8 (1.93%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.97%) Endur
4 4 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.72%) SAP Hybris
6 2 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.48%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.24%) Eikon
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle Retail
7 1 (0.24%) Orchestrade
7 1 (0.24%) SAP CAR
7 1 (0.24%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.24%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.24%) SAP MDG-F
7 1 (0.24%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.24%) SAP Retail
7 1 (0.24%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.24%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 40 (9.66%) Azure
2 29 (7.00%) AWS
3 25 (6.04%) SaaS
4 17 (4.11%) Dynamics 365
5 14 (3.38%) Figma
6 13 (3.14%) Commercetools
6 13 (3.14%) Contentful
6 13 (3.14%) Datadog
6 13 (3.14%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 12 (2.90%) Algolia
8 11 (2.66%) GCP
9 10 (2.42%) Serverless
10 9 (2.17%) BigCommerce
11 8 (1.93%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (1.93%) Google Tag Manager
11 8 (1.93%) Power Platform
12 7 (1.69%) dbt
12 7 (1.69%) Google Workspace
12 7 (1.69%) Miro
12 7 (1.69%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.69%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.24%) Firewall
2 1 (0.24%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.24%) Internet
2 1 (0.24%) RFID
2 1 (0.24%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.90%) MySQL
2 8 (1.93%) Redis
3 7 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (1.69%) Power BI
4 6 (1.45%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.21%) Looker
5 5 (1.21%) Metadata
5 5 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.21%) Relational Database
6 4 (0.97%) BigQuery
6 4 (0.97%) DynamoDB
7 3 (0.72%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.72%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.72%) Tableau
8 2 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.48%) CockroachDB
8 2 (0.48%) Mixpanel
9 1 (0.24%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.24%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.24%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 28 (6.76%) Jenkins
2 22 (5.31%) JIRA
3 14 (3.38%) Git
4 8 (1.93%) Selenium
5 6 (1.45%) Cypress.io
5 6 (1.45%) GitLab
6 4 (0.97%) Maven
7 3 (0.72%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (0.72%) Charles Proxy
7 3 (0.72%) Fiddler
7 3 (0.72%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.48%) Appium
8 2 (0.48%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.48%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.48%) Visual Website Optimizer
8 2 (0.48%) WebDriver
8 2 (0.48%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.24%) NUnit
9 1 (0.24%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.24%) Robot Framework
General
1 135 (32.61%) Social Skills
2 113 (27.29%) Retail
3 62 (14.98%) Finance
4 56 (13.53%) Marketing
5 36 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (7.97%) Organisational Skills
7 16 (3.86%) Legal
8 13 (3.14%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (3.14%) Presentation Skills
9 12 (2.90%) Electronics
10 10 (2.42%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.93%) Banking
11 8 (1.93%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (1.93%) Publishing
12 6 (1.45%) Advertising
12 6 (1.45%) French Language
13 4 (0.97%) Front Office
14 2 (0.48%) Public Sector
14 2 (0.48%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.48%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 78 (18.84%) Senior
2 60 (14.49%) Analyst
3 46 (11.11%) Architect
4 41 (9.90%) Business Analyst
5 39 (9.42%) Project Manager
6 38 (9.18%) E-Commerce Manager
7 33 (7.97%) Developer
8 31 (7.49%) Senior Manager
9 26 (6.28%) Senior Project Manager
10 24 (5.80%) Consultant
11 22 (5.31%) Lead
12 17 (4.11%) Designer
13 14 (3.38%) Data Engineer
13 14 (3.38%) Solutions Architect
14 13 (3.14%) Web Manager
15 12 (2.90%) Account Executive
15 12 (2.90%) E-Commerce Executive
16 11 (2.66%) E-Commerce Project Manager
16 11 (2.66%) Senior E-Commerce Manager
17 10 (2.42%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (10.39%) Node.js
2 35 (8.45%) GraphQL
3 31 (7.49%) React
4 30 (7.25%) Playwright
5 25 (6.04%) CSS
6 24 (5.80%) REST
7 23 (5.56%) VML
8 22 (5.31%) HTML
9 21 (5.07%) Vitest
10 20 (4.83%) Middleware
11 13 (3.14%) YAML
12 12 (2.90%) .NET
13 11 (2.66%) AngularJS
13 11 (2.66%) OpenTelemetry
14 8 (1.93%) HTML5
14 8 (1.93%) Next.js
14 8 (1.93%) Sass
14 8 (1.93%) Vue
15 7 (1.69%) CSS3
15 7 (1.69%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 41 (9.90%) Product Ownership
2 38 (9.18%) Cloud Native
3 18 (4.35%) Mobile App
4 16 (3.86%) Onboarding
5 15 (3.62%) Virtual Team
6 14 (3.38%) Marketing Technology
7 13 (3.14%) Analytical Mindset
8 10 (2.42%) PMI
9 9 (2.17%) Client/Server
10 7 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.45%) FMCG
11 6 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.21%) Management Information System
13 4 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
13 4 (0.97%) e-Learning
13 4 (0.97%) EPoS
13 4 (0.97%) Learning Management System
14 3 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
14 3 (0.72%) Data Structures
15 2 (0.48%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.42%) Linux
2 8 (1.93%) Windows
3 7 (1.69%) Android
4 6 (1.45%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.97%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (34.54%) Agile
2 79 (19.08%) Problem-Solving
3 78 (18.84%) Stakeholder Management
4 57 (13.77%) CI/CD
5 55 (13.29%) User Experience
6 47 (11.35%) Analytics
7 46 (11.11%) ERP
7 46 (11.11%) Project Management
7 46 (11.11%) Scrum
8 45 (10.87%) DevOps
9 43 (10.39%) Coaching
10 38 (9.18%) Customer Experience
11 34 (8.21%) Roadmaps
12 33 (7.97%) B2C
12 33 (7.97%) Test Automation
12 33 (7.97%) Time Management
13 32 (7.73%) Continuous Improvement
13 32 (7.73%) Mentoring
14 28 (6.76%) CRM
14 28 (6.76%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 48 (11.59%) TypeScript
2 27 (6.52%) JavaScript
3 25 (6.04%) SQL
4 20 (4.83%) Python
5 13 (3.14%) Java
6 12 (2.90%) C#
7 8 (1.93%) PHP
8 4 (0.97%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.72%) Apex Code
9 3 (0.72%) SOQL
9 3 (0.72%) SOSL
10 2 (0.48%) Go
11 1 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.24%) Korn
11 1 (0.24%) Ruby
11 1 (0.24%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (5.56%) Degree
2 13 (3.14%) PMI Certification
3 6 (1.45%) CBAP
3 6 (1.45%) CSPO
4 3 (0.72%) PMP
5 2 (0.48%) Analytics IQ
5 2 (0.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.48%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.48%) MBA
6 1 (0.24%) APMP
6 1 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.24%) CFA
6 1 (0.24%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.24%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.24%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (8.21%) QA
2 21 (5.07%) GDPR
3 16 (3.86%) Accessibility
4 11 (2.66%) Data Quality
5 10 (2.42%) PERC
6 9 (2.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 9 (2.17%) PCI DSS
7 6 (1.45%) ISO 8583
7 6 (1.45%) PSD2
8 4 (0.97%) SLA
8 4 (0.97%) WCAG
9 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 29 (7.00%) Docker
2 6 (1.45%) Varnish
3 1 (0.24%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 28 (6.76%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.90%) Grafana
2 12 (2.90%) Prometheus
3 8 (1.93%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 4 (0.97%) Terraform
5 2 (0.48%) Ansible
5 2 (0.48%) MOM
6 1 (0.24%) Apache Ranger
Vendors
1 38 (9.18%) Adobe
1 38 (9.18%) Google
2 37 (8.94%) Salesforce
3 32 (7.73%) SAP
4 20 (4.83%) Microsoft
5 12 (2.90%) Databricks
5 12 (2.90%) Oracle
6 10 (2.42%) Sitecore
6 10 (2.42%) Tealium
7 6 (1.45%) OneTrust
8 5 (1.21%) mParticle
9 4 (0.97%) Optimizely
10 3 (0.72%) TikTok
10 3 (0.72%) Wind River
11 2 (0.48%) Amplitude
11 2 (0.48%) Hotjar
11 2 (0.48%) Netlify
11 2 (0.48%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 2 (0.48%) Splunk
12 1 (0.24%) MuleSoft