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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 246 187
Rank change year-on-year -35 -59 +7
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 451 324 556
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.88% 1.06% 1.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 1.16% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 188 411
10th Percentile £325 £281 £313
25th Percentile £413 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -0.47%
75th Percentile £600 £577 £600
90th Percentile £700 £716 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +13.16% +5.56% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 8 15
10th Percentile £22.50 - £10.42
25th Percentile £28.81 £15.25 £10.71
Median hourly rate £54.75 £15.50 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +253.23% +19.23% -74.00%
75th Percentile £78.25 £15.75 £32.38
90th Percentile £95.00 £19.73 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.91 £15.50 £11.00
% change year-on-year +131.68% +40.91% -78.00%

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 43,613 27,816 36,814
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.98% 90.91% 85.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,139 17,565 23,448
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £414 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £504 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.18% -4.00% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £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 2,612 1,364 2,554
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.74
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.49 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +4.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.95 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £25.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.00% -34.42% +8.91%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 -21 415 £500 - 272
London +4 274 £490 -4.85% 130
Work from Home -24 133 £500 +11.11% 102
UK excluding London -85 133 £538 +13.16% 194
Midlands -33 41 £488 +2.63% 37
North of England -71 38 £600 +20.00% 58
North West -33 31 £600 +4.35% 36
West Midlands -35 28 £638 +29.11% 18
South East -89 26 £531 +11.84% 68
East of England -19 20 £350 -30.00% 9
East Midlands -9 13 £465 -2.11% 19
South West -33 7 £625 +66.67% 12
Yorkshire -58 7 £600 +26.32% 17
Scotland -12 1 - - 5

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 15 (3.33%) CMS
2 9 (2.00%) Confluence
3 6 (1.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (0.89%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.44%) Apache
6 2 (0.44%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.44%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.44%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.44%) WordPress
7 1 (0.22%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.22%) Kentico
7 1 (0.22%) nginx
7 1 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.22%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 12 (2.66%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 11 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (1.55%) Chatbot
6 6 (1.33%) Adobe After Effects
6 6 (1.33%) Final Cut Pro
6 6 (1.33%) Sketch
7 4 (0.89%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.22%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.22%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 39 (8.65%) Shopify
2 20 (4.43%) Magento
3 7 (1.55%) NetSuite
3 7 (1.55%) Payment Gateway
3 7 (1.55%) SAP CRM
3 7 (1.55%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (1.11%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.67%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.44%) SAP Hybris
7 2 (0.44%) SAP MDG-F
8 1 (0.22%) ION MarketView
8 1 (0.22%) Oracle Retail
8 1 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.22%) SAP CAR
8 1 (0.22%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.22%) SAP Retail
8 1 (0.22%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.22%) SDL Web 8
8 1 (0.22%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 54 (11.97%) Azure
2 52 (11.53%) AWS
3 25 (5.54%) Figma
4 21 (4.66%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
5 20 (4.43%) GCP
6 13 (2.88%) Power Platform
6 13 (2.88%) SaaS
7 10 (2.22%) BigCommerce
7 10 (2.22%) GitHub
8 9 (2.00%) dbt
9 8 (1.77%) Google Workspace
9 8 (1.77%) Serverless
10 7 (1.55%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (1.55%) Miro
10 7 (1.55%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 7 (1.55%) WhatsApp
11 6 (1.33%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (1.33%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (1.11%) Algolia
12 5 (1.11%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.89%) Internet
2 1 (0.22%) Firewall
2 1 (0.22%) LAN
2 1 (0.22%) Network Security
2 1 (0.22%) RFID
2 1 (0.22%) RTMP
2 1 (0.22%) WAN
2 1 (0.22%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.66%) Power BI
2 11 (2.44%) NoSQL
3 10 (2.22%) MySQL
4 9 (2.00%) Looker
5 8 (1.77%) Relational Database
6 7 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (1.55%) Metadata
6 7 (1.55%) Tableau
7 6 (1.33%) BigQuery
8 5 (1.11%) Couchbase
8 5 (1.11%) MongoDB
8 5 (1.11%) Redis
8 5 (1.11%) SQL Server
9 4 (0.89%) Semantic Layer
10 3 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.67%) SAP HANA
10 3 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.22%) Bigtable
Development Applications
1 24 (5.32%) Jenkins
2 23 (5.10%) Git
3 18 (3.99%) JIRA
4 10 (2.22%) Selenium
5 8 (1.77%) Cypress.io
6 6 (1.33%) GitLab
6 6 (1.33%) Vite
7 5 (1.11%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.11%) Subversion
8 4 (0.89%) Eclipse
8 4 (0.89%) Maven
9 3 (0.67%) Appium
9 3 (0.67%) Zephyr
10 2 (0.44%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.44%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.44%) Hudson
10 2 (0.44%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.22%) PHPUnit
11 1 (0.22%) Spock
11 1 (0.22%) TeamCity
General
1 192 (42.57%) Retail
2 175 (38.80%) Social Skills
3 83 (18.40%) Finance
4 61 (13.53%) Marketing
5 46 (10.20%) Organisational Skills
6 34 (7.54%) Analytical Skills
7 24 (5.32%) Manufacturing
8 23 (5.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (2.88%) Banking
10 10 (2.22%) Legal
10 10 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (1.55%) French Language
11 7 (1.55%) Publishing
12 6 (1.33%) Advertising
13 5 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.89%) Electronics
14 4 (0.89%) Public Sector
15 3 (0.67%) Retail Banking
16 2 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 96 (21.29%) Senior
2 61 (13.53%) Analyst
3 43 (9.53%) Project Manager
4 40 (8.87%) Developer
5 37 (8.20%) Business Analyst
5 37 (8.20%) Designer
5 37 (8.20%) Senior Manager
6 35 (7.76%) Architect
7 29 (6.43%) Lead
8 28 (6.21%) Senior Project Manager
9 26 (5.76%) E-Commerce Manager
10 20 (4.43%) Senior Designer
11 19 (4.21%) Product Manager
12 17 (3.77%) UI Designer
13 16 (3.55%) E-Commerce Business Analyst
14 15 (3.33%) E-Commerce Analyst
15 14 (3.10%) Technical Analyst
16 13 (2.88%) Data Engineer
16 13 (2.88%) Marketing Manager
17 12 (2.66%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (8.87%) React
2 35 (7.76%) GraphQL
3 33 (7.32%) REST
4 31 (6.87%) Node.js
5 23 (5.10%) VML
6 21 (4.66%) Middleware
7 20 (4.43%) CSS
8 19 (4.21%) HTML
9 14 (3.10%) Next.js
9 14 (3.10%) Playwright
9 14 (3.10%) Spring
10 13 (2.88%) Kafka
11 11 (2.44%) AngularJS
11 11 (2.44%) SOAP
12 10 (2.22%) Spring Boot
13 9 (2.00%) .NET
13 9 (2.00%) HTML5
13 9 (2.00%) J2EE
14 7 (1.55%) RESTful
14 7 (1.55%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 40 (8.87%) Product Ownership
2 22 (4.88%) Cloud Native
3 17 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (2.66%) Mobile App
6 10 (2.22%) AI Agents
6 10 (2.22%) Marketing Technology
6 10 (2.22%) Virtual Team
7 9 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (2.00%) Management Information System
8 7 (1.55%) Animation
8 7 (1.55%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.33%) Graphic Design
10 5 (1.11%) EPoS
10 5 (1.11%) FMCG
11 4 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.67%) Smart Home
12 3 (0.67%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.66%) Linux
2 11 (2.44%) Android
2 11 (2.44%) Windows
3 10 (2.22%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (31.26%) Agile
2 89 (19.73%) Stakeholder Management
3 84 (18.63%) Problem-Solving
4 77 (17.07%) User Experience
5 54 (11.97%) CI/CD
6 53 (11.75%) Project Management
7 47 (10.42%) Analytics
7 47 (10.42%) B2C
7 47 (10.42%) CRM
7 47 (10.42%) Roadmaps
7 47 (10.42%) Scrum
8 44 (9.76%) Customer Experience
9 43 (9.53%) Time Management
10 42 (9.31%) AI
11 39 (8.65%) Continuous Improvement
12 38 (8.43%) Migration
13 35 (7.76%) DevOps
13 35 (7.76%) Workshop Facilitation
14 33 (7.32%) Release Management
15 32 (7.10%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 35 (7.76%) SQL
2 34 (7.54%) JavaScript
3 32 (7.10%) TypeScript
4 28 (6.21%) Python
5 26 (5.76%) Java
6 7 (1.55%) C#
7 6 (1.33%) Kotlin
8 5 (1.11%) Apex Code
8 5 (1.11%) Groovy
8 5 (1.11%) Shell Script
8 5 (1.11%) SOQL
8 5 (1.11%) SOSL
8 5 (1.11%) Swift
9 4 (0.89%) PHP
10 3 (0.67%) ABAP
10 3 (0.67%) Go
11 2 (0.44%) Bash
11 2 (0.44%) Korn
11 2 (0.44%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 38 (8.43%) Degree
2 5 (1.11%) CSPO
3 2 (0.44%) Analytics IQ
3 2 (0.44%) Master's Degree
3 2 (0.44%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.22%) CISA
4 1 (0.22%) CISSP
4 1 (0.22%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.22%) ISEB
4 1 (0.22%) MBA
4 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.22%) PMP
4 1 (0.22%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (6.21%) QA
2 23 (5.10%) Accessibility
3 17 (3.77%) Data Quality
4 11 (2.44%) GDPR
5 7 (1.55%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.89%) PMO
6 4 (0.89%) SLA
7 2 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.44%) PSD2
7 2 (0.44%) WCAG
8 1 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.22%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (3.33%) Docker
2 4 (0.89%) Varnish
3 1 (0.22%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 16 (3.55%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.55%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 6 (1.33%) Terraform
4 3 (0.67%) Grafana
4 3 (0.67%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.44%) MOM
6 1 (0.22%) Ansible
6 1 (0.22%) Apache Ranger
Vendors
1 51 (11.31%) Salesforce
2 40 (8.87%) SAP
3 34 (7.54%) Adobe
4 31 (6.87%) Google
5 25 (5.54%) Oracle
6 24 (5.32%) Microsoft
7 16 (3.55%) Databricks
8 11 (2.44%) Sitecore
9 9 (2.00%) MuleSoft
10 6 (1.33%) IBM
11 5 (1.11%) Dynatrace
11 5 (1.11%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.11%) Splunk
12 4 (0.89%) Netlify
12 4 (0.89%) New Relic
13 2 (0.44%) Braze
13 2 (0.44%) Confluent
13 2 (0.44%) mParticle
13 2 (0.44%) OpenAI
13 2 (0.44%) TikTok