Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 22 January 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 22 January 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
22 Jan 2020		 Same period 2019 Same period 2018
Rank 103 71 63
Rank change year-on-year -32 -8 -6
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 1,700 3,368 3,564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 2.34% 3.38% 3.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.74% 3.87% 4.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,214 2,432 2,563
UK median daily rate £475 £465 £465
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +2.15% - +3.33%
10th Percentile £313 £313 £313
90th Percentile £613 £600 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £405 £425
% change year-on-year +4.87% -4.65% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 13 11
UK median hourly rate £20.00 £22.50 £33.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year -11.11% -31.82% +56.92%
10th Percentile £16.00 £11.03 £25.00
90th Percentile £56.25 £38.10 £43.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £25.00 £34.50
% change year-on-year +200.00% -27.54% +115.63%

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 61,939 87,021 85,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.26% 87.31% 86.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 40,268 57,475 57,404
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £450
Median daily rate % change year-on-year - +5.56% +5.88%
10th Percentile £285 £300 £281
90th Percentile £650 £650 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £430 £425 £405
% change year-on-year +1.18% +4.86% +1.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,053 2,203 2,037
UK median hourly rate £22.85 £23.34 £23.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year -2.10% +1.48% -0.41%
10th Percentile £12.05 £11.29 £11.25
90th Percentile £53.28 £50.00 £49.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £22.21 £23.50
% change year-on-year -5.43% -5.51% +4.44%

E-Commerce
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for E-Commerce in the UK

E-Commerce
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing E-Commerce.

Contractor daily rate trend for E-Commerce in the UK

E-Commerce
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing E-Commerce over the 6 months to 22 January 2020.

Contractor daily rate histogram for E-Commerce in the UK

E-Commerce
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing E-Commerce.

Contractor hourly rate trend for E-Commerce in the UK

E-Commerce
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing E-Commerce over the 6 months to 22 January 2020.

Contractor 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 22 January 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 -25 1,660 £475 +2.15% 819
London -20 936 £500 - 283
UK excluding London -39 731 £425 +4.87% 556
North of England -34 211 £401 +6.80% 214
South East -43 193 £450 +2.86% 102
North West -19 129 £401 +4.03% 137
East of England +3 115 £500 +11.11% 71
South West +11 100 £425 -8.11% 64
Midlands -30 96 £350 -15.15% 90
Yorkshire -43 74 £400 +6.67% 56
East Midlands +3 70 £350 -17.40% 37
West Midlands -33 25 £400 +1.27% 53
Scotland +24 13 £450 - 10
North East +5 8 £500 +19.05% 21
Wales +22 3 £325 -35.00% 10
Northern Ireland - 1 £400 -

For the 6 months to 22 January 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.

1 762 (44.82%) Agile Software Development
2 473 (27.82%) Retail
3 412 (24.24%) JavaScript
4 343 (20.18%) HTML
5 314 (18.47%) CSS
6 276 (16.24%) Java
7 237 (13.94%) AWS
8 234 (13.76%) Scrum
9 224 (13.18%) User Experience
10 216 (12.71%) TDD
11 189 (11.12%) DevOps
12 185 (10.88%) .NET
13 182 (10.71%) React
14 169 (9.94%) C#
15 165 (9.71%) Microservices
16 162 (9.53%) SQL
17 157 (9.24%) PHP
18 150 (8.82%) Finance
19 146 (8.59%) Stakeholder Management
20 137 (8.06%) AngularJS
20 137 (8.06%) Docker
21 134 (7.88%) BDD
21 134 (7.88%) JIRA
22 133 (7.82%) Node.js
23 130 (7.65%) Web Services
23 130 (7.65%) Front End Development
24 127 (7.47%) MVC
24 127 (7.47%) Marketing
25 126 (7.41%) Azure
26 124 (7.29%) Git (software)

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 87 (5.12%) CMS
2 66 (3.88%) WebSphere
3 60 (3.53%) Confluence
4 29 (1.71%) Apache
5 28 (1.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 27 (1.59%) Apache Spark
7 21 (1.24%) Elasticsearch
8 19 (1.12%) Sitecore CMS
9 13 (0.76%) BizTalk Server
9 13 (0.76%) SharePoint
9 13 (0.76%) WordPress
10 12 (0.71%) Drupal
11 9 (0.53%) Exchange Server 2010
11 9 (0.53%) Exchange Server 2013
11 9 (0.53%) MS Exchange
11 9 (0.53%) Umbraco
12 8 (0.47%) Tomcat
13 6 (0.35%) Headless CMS
14 5 (0.29%) ColdFusion
14 5 (0.29%) JBoss
Applications
1 47 (2.76%) Sketch
2 32 (1.88%) Photoshop
3 26 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
4 24 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
5 23 (1.35%) InVision
6 9 (0.53%) MS Visio
7 8 (0.47%) Marvel
7 8 (0.47%) Zeplin
8 7 (0.41%) Adobe Illustrator
9 6 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 5 (0.29%) Adobe XD
10 5 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
11 4 (0.24%) InDesign
11 4 (0.24%) UserZoom
12 3 (0.18%) Adobe After Effects
12 3 (0.18%) Figma
13 2 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
14 1 (0.059%) AutoCAD
14 1 (0.059%) Blender
14 1 (0.059%) GIMP
Business Applications
1 122 (7.18%) Magento
2 34 (2.00%) Shopify
3 22 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
4 15 (0.88%) SAP Hybris
5 11 (0.65%) SessionCam
6 10 (0.59%) Payment Gateway
7 6 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
7 6 (0.35%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.29%) Salesforce.com CRM
8 5 (0.29%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
9 4 (0.24%) osCommerce
10 3 (0.18%) BASE24
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle Retail
10 3 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
12 1 (0.059%) BusinessWorks
12 1 (0.059%) PeopleSoft Financials
12 1 (0.059%) SAP Oil and Gas
12 1 (0.059%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 237 (13.94%) AWS
2 126 (7.41%) Azure
3 59 (3.47%) Serverless
4 56 (3.29%) AWS Lambda
5 52 (3.06%) GCP
6 51 (3.00%) Amazon EC2
7 37 (2.18%) Google Analytics
8 28 (1.65%) GitHub
9 23 (1.35%) SaaS
10 20 (1.18%) Office 365
11 18 (1.06%) AWS CloudFormation
12 17 (1.00%) Power Platform
13 14 (0.82%) Amazon ECS
13 14 (0.82%) Amazon EMR
13 14 (0.82%) Amazon S3
14 11 (0.65%) Amazon SQS
14 11 (0.65%) Dynamics 365
15 9 (0.53%) npm
16 8 (0.47%) Adobe Analytics
16 8 (0.47%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 23 (1.35%) HTTP
2 16 (0.94%) Firewall
2 16 (0.94%) Internet
3 9 (0.53%) Cisco ASA
3 9 (0.53%) NaaS
3 9 (0.53%) SSL
4 7 (0.41%) DNS
4 7 (0.41%) TCP/IP
5 6 (0.35%) Network Security
6 4 (0.24%) Skype
7 3 (0.18%) ATM
7 3 (0.18%) DMZ
7 3 (0.18%) Extranet
7 3 (0.18%) Intranet
7 3 (0.18%) LAN
7 3 (0.18%) WAN
8 2 (0.12%) RTMP
8 2 (0.12%) SAN
8 2 (0.12%) SMS
8 2 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (6.94%) SQL Server
2 104 (6.12%) MySQL
3 45 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
4 43 (2.53%) Big Data
5 35 (2.06%) MongoDB
6 34 (2.00%) Relational Database
7 33 (1.94%) NoSQL
7 33 (1.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 32 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
9 24 (1.41%) Data Lake
10 23 (1.35%) Hadoop
11 17 (1.00%) Power BI
12 16 (0.94%) BigQuery
13 14 (0.82%) Amazon DynamoDB
14 13 (0.76%) Amazon Athena
15 12 (0.71%) Apache Cassandra
15 12 (0.71%) Apache Hive
16 11 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
16 11 (0.65%) SQL Server 2008
16 11 (0.65%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 134 (7.88%) JIRA
2 124 (7.29%) Git (software)
3 81 (4.76%) Jenkins
4 41 (2.41%) Selenium
5 39 (2.29%) Maven
6 36 (2.12%) Cucumber
7 31 (1.82%) JUnit
7 31 (1.82%) Mockito
8 30 (1.76%) Grunt
9 28 (1.65%) Jasmine
10 22 (1.29%) GitLab
11 21 (1.24%) Axure RP
11 21 (1.24%) Karma Test Runner
12 20 (1.18%) SonarQube
13 19 (1.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 19 (1.12%) DbUnit
13 19 (1.12%) jMock
14 18 (1.06%) Gradle
14 18 (1.06%) Mocha
15 16 (0.94%) webpack
General
1 473 (27.82%) Retail
2 150 (8.82%) Finance
3 127 (7.47%) Marketing
4 80 (4.71%) Games
5 44 (2.59%) Banking
6 31 (1.82%) Law
7 29 (1.71%) Public Sector
8 23 (1.35%) Front Office
9 22 (1.29%) Back Office
10 21 (1.24%) Telecoms
11 20 (1.18%) Legal
12 19 (1.12%) German Language
13 18 (1.06%) Advertising
14 16 (0.94%) Investment Banking
15 13 (0.76%) Manufacturing
16 12 (0.71%) Spanish Language
17 10 (0.59%) Italian Language
18 7 (0.41%) Financial Institution
19 6 (0.35%) French Language
20 5 (0.29%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 674 (39.65%) Developer
2 181 (10.65%) Analyst
3 124 (7.29%) Architect
4 109 (6.41%) Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 96 (5.65%) Business Analyst
6 95 (5.59%) Project Manager
7 90 (5.29%) Java Developer
8 86 (5.06%) .NET Developer
9 83 (4.88%) Designer
10 80 (4.71%) Senior Developer
11 78 (4.59%) PHP Developer
12 74 (4.35%) C# Developer
12 74 (4.35%) E-Commerce Manager
12 74 (4.35%) React Developer
13 66 (3.88%) JavaScript Developer
14 59 (3.47%) E-Commerce Analyst
15 57 (3.35%) UX Designer
16 56 (3.29%) E-Commerce Developer
17 54 (3.18%) DevOps Engineer
17 54 (3.18%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 343 (20.18%) HTML
2 314 (18.47%) CSS
3 185 (10.88%) .NET
4 182 (10.71%) React
5 137 (8.06%) AngularJS
6 133 (7.82%) Node.js
7 130 (7.65%) Web Services
8 121 (7.12%) HTML5
9 91 (5.35%) CSS3
9 91 (5.35%) RESTful
10 89 (5.24%) jQuery
10 89 (5.24%) Spring
11 87 (5.12%) REST
12 85 (5.00%) Sass
13 72 (4.24%) Vue.js
14 59 (3.47%) SOAP
15 54 (3.18%) ASP.NET
16 49 (2.88%) LAMP
17 47 (2.76%) Laravel
18 46 (2.71%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 224 (13.18%) User Experience
2 89 (5.24%) Analytical Skills
2 89 (5.24%) Greenfield Project
3 54 (3.18%) Mobile App
4 35 (2.06%) iPad
5 31 (1.82%) W3C
6 29 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 29 (1.71%) Management Information System
7 21 (1.24%) Data Structures
8 20 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
8 20 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
9 14 (0.82%) Virtual Team
10 12 (0.71%) Algorithms
10 12 (0.71%) Social Media
10 12 (0.71%) Vector Graphics
11 11 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
12 10 (0.59%) EPoS
13 9 (0.53%) Public Cloud
14 6 (0.35%) e-Learning
14 6 (0.35%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 63 (3.71%) Linux
2 44 (2.59%) Apple iOS
3 42 (2.47%) Windows
4 33 (1.94%) Android
5 17 (1.00%) Windows Server
6 15 (0.88%) Unix
7 10 (0.59%) Windows Server 2003
7 10 (0.59%) Windows Server 2012
8 9 (0.53%) Windows 8
8 9 (0.53%) Windows XP
9 4 (0.24%) AIX
9 4 (0.24%) CoreOS
9 4 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.12%) Solaris
11 1 (0.059%) HPUX
11 1 (0.059%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.059%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 762 (44.82%) Agile Software Development
2 234 (13.76%) Scrum
3 216 (12.71%) TDD
4 189 (11.12%) DevOps
5 165 (9.71%) Microservices
6 146 (8.59%) Stakeholder Management
7 134 (7.88%) BDD
8 130 (7.65%) Front End Development
9 127 (7.47%) MVC
10 123 (7.24%) Analytics
11 121 (7.12%) Problem-Solving
12 106 (6.24%) Continuous Integration
13 102 (6.00%) Test Automation
14 96 (5.65%) CRM
15 88 (5.18%) Kanban
16 82 (4.82%) Project Management
16 82 (4.82%) User Stories
17 81 (4.76%) Software Engineering
18 79 (4.65%) B2C
19 77 (4.53%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 412 (24.24%) JavaScript
2 276 (16.24%) Java
3 169 (9.94%) C#
4 162 (9.53%) SQL
5 157 (9.24%) PHP
6 108 (6.35%) Python
7 46 (2.71%) TypeScript
8 37 (2.18%) Scala
9 30 (1.76%) Java 8
10 27 (1.59%) Ruby
11 23 (1.35%) ES6
12 20 (1.18%) Kotlin
12 20 (1.18%) T-SQL
13 15 (0.88%) Apple Swift
13 15 (0.88%) C++
13 15 (0.88%) PowerShell
14 13 (0.76%) Bash Shell
15 12 (0.71%) Go
15 12 (0.71%) Objective-C
16 11 (0.65%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 62 (3.65%) Degree
2 15 (0.88%) Security Cleared
3 14 (0.82%) Master's Degree
4 12 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (0.59%) SC Cleared
7 9 (0.53%) CCNA
7 9 (0.53%) MCITP
7 9 (0.53%) MCSA
8 8 (0.47%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (0.41%) PMI Certification
10 6 (0.35%) ISEB
11 4 (0.24%) CISSP
12 3 (0.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (0.18%) CSSLP
12 3 (0.18%) ISSAP
12 3 (0.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 3 (0.18%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.18%) PMP
12 3 (0.18%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (3.76%) QA
2 16 (0.94%) PMO
3 9 (0.53%) Data Quality
4 7 (0.41%) GDPR
5 6 (0.35%) SLA
6 4 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.24%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.18%) EMIR
7 3 (0.18%) MiFID
8 2 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.12%) NIST
8 2 (0.12%) SEPA
8 2 (0.12%) WCAG
9 1 (0.059%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.059%) GAMP
9 1 (0.059%) GxP
9 1 (0.059%) ISO/IEC 19770
9 1 (0.059%) PSD2
System Software
1 137 (8.06%) Docker
2 21 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (0.94%) vSphere
4 12 (0.71%) Active Directory
5 9 (0.53%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.059%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.059%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 108 (6.35%) Kubernetes
2 60 (3.53%) Terraform
3 32 (1.88%) Ansible
4 17 (1.00%) Puppet
5 16 (0.94%) SCCM
6 11 (0.65%) SCOM
7 9 (0.53%) WSUS
8 8 (0.47%) Opscode Chef
9 7 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.18%) HP Quality Center
10 3 (0.18%) Istio
10 3 (0.18%) Rancher
11 2 (0.12%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.12%) Mesos
12 1 (0.059%) Consul
12 1 (0.059%) Grafana
12 1 (0.059%) Packer
12 1 (0.059%) Prometheus
12 1 (0.059%) Salt
Vendors
1 101 (5.94%) Salesforce.com
2 95 (5.59%) Google
3 81 (4.76%) hybris
4 73 (4.29%) Adobe
4 73 (4.29%) Microsoft
5 59 (3.47%) Demandware
6 50 (2.94%) SAP
7 44 (2.59%) IBM
7 44 (2.59%) Oracle
8 32 (1.88%) Tableau
9 30 (1.76%) VMware
10 26 (1.53%) Sitecore
11 14 (0.82%) Zend
12 12 (0.71%) Cisco
13 11 (0.65%) Hotjar
13 11 (0.65%) Meraki
13 11 (0.65%) Sony
13 11 (0.65%) Splunk
14 10 (0.59%) F5
15 8 (0.47%) Twitter
841 E-Commerce job vacancies Nationwide