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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 240 182
Rank change year-on-year -25 -58 +14
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 459 339 573
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.89% 1.08% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 1.19% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 195 422
10th Percentile £325 £281 £313
25th Percentile £413 £357 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £578 £600
90th Percentile £700 £720 £718
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 10 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 £29.33 £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 43,799 28,390 37,058
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.01% 90.78% 85.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,227 17,909 23,638
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -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 2,638 1,396 2,532
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.21 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +3.45%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £24.66 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.26% -35.31% +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 3 July 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 3 July 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 3 July 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 -26 422 £500 - 482
London +10 279 £489 -5.10% 259
Work from Home -25 137 £500 +11.11% 199
UK excluding London -95 135 £538 +13.16% 273
North of England -64 41 £600 +20.00% 92
Midlands -36 39 £488 +2.63% 48
North West -26 34 £575 - 63
West Midlands -44 26 £638 +29.11% 24
South East -84 26 £531 +11.84% 88
East of England -15 21 £363 -27.50% 15
East Midlands -7 13 £465 -2.11% 24
South West -31 7 £625 +66.67% 18
Yorkshire -58 7 £600 +26.32% 24
Scotland -6 1 - - 6

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 16 (3.49%) CMS
2 10 (2.18%) Confluence
3 6 (1.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (0.87%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.65%) 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%) Anypoint
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 13 (2.83%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 12 (2.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (2.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (1.53%) Chatbot
6 6 (1.31%) Adobe After Effects
6 6 (1.31%) Final Cut Pro
6 6 (1.31%) Sketch
7 4 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.44%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.22%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 38 (8.28%) Shopify
2 21 (4.58%) Magento
3 8 (1.74%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (1.53%) NetSuite
4 7 (1.53%) Payment Gateway
4 7 (1.53%) SAP CRM
5 6 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
6 5 (1.09%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.65%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.44%) SAP Hybris
8 2 (0.44%) SAP MDG-F
9 1 (0.22%) Carpe Diem
9 1 (0.22%) Elite 3E
9 1 (0.22%) ION MarketView
9 1 (0.22%) Oracle Retail
9 1 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.22%) SAP CAR
9 1 (0.22%) SAP Retail
9 1 (0.22%) SDL Web 8
9 1 (0.22%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 59 (12.85%) Azure
2 56 (12.20%) AWS
3 27 (5.88%) Figma
4 22 (4.79%) GCP
5 21 (4.58%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
6 13 (2.83%) Power Platform
6 13 (2.83%) SaaS
7 12 (2.61%) GitHub
8 10 (2.18%) dbt
9 9 (1.96%) BigCommerce
10 8 (1.74%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (1.74%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (1.74%) Google Workspace
10 8 (1.74%) Miro
10 8 (1.74%) Serverless
11 7 (1.53%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (1.53%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 7 (1.53%) WhatsApp
12 6 (1.31%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (1.31%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.87%) Internet
2 2 (0.44%) LAN
2 2 (0.44%) WAN
3 1 (0.22%) Firewall
3 1 (0.22%) Network Security
3 1 (0.22%) RFID
3 1 (0.22%) RTMP
3 1 (0.22%) Wireless
3 1 (0.22%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.61%) Power BI
2 11 (2.40%) NoSQL
3 10 (2.18%) MySQL
4 9 (1.96%) Looker
5 8 (1.74%) Relational Database
6 7 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (1.53%) Metadata
6 7 (1.53%) Tableau
7 6 (1.31%) BigQuery
7 6 (1.31%) SQL Server
8 5 (1.09%) Couchbase
8 5 (1.09%) MongoDB
8 5 (1.09%) Redis
9 4 (0.87%) SAP HANA
9 4 (0.87%) Semantic Layer
10 3 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.22%) Bigtable
Development Applications
1 26 (5.66%) Jenkins
2 25 (5.45%) Git
3 19 (4.14%) JIRA
4 10 (2.18%) Selenium
5 8 (1.74%) Cypress.io
6 6 (1.31%) GitLab
6 6 (1.31%) Subversion
6 6 (1.31%) Vite
7 5 (1.09%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.87%) Eclipse
8 4 (0.87%) Maven
9 3 (0.65%) Appium
9 3 (0.65%) 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%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.22%) Spock
General
1 200 (43.57%) Retail
2 182 (39.65%) Social Skills
3 85 (18.52%) Finance
4 63 (13.73%) Marketing
5 47 (10.24%) Organisational Skills
6 35 (7.63%) Analytical Skills
7 25 (5.45%) Manufacturing
8 23 (5.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (2.83%) Banking
10 11 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (2.18%) Legal
12 7 (1.53%) French Language
12 7 (1.53%) Publishing
13 6 (1.31%) Advertising
14 5 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.87%) Electronics
15 4 (0.87%) Public Sector
16 3 (0.65%) Retail Banking
16 3 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 93 (20.26%) Senior
2 62 (13.51%) Analyst
3 42 (9.15%) Project Manager
4 40 (8.71%) Developer
5 39 (8.50%) Designer
6 38 (8.28%) Business Analyst
7 36 (7.84%) Architect
7 36 (7.84%) Senior Manager
8 31 (6.75%) Lead
9 27 (5.88%) Senior Project Manager
10 25 (5.45%) E-Commerce Manager
11 20 (4.36%) Senior Designer
12 19 (4.14%) Product Manager
13 18 (3.92%) UI Designer
14 16 (3.49%) E-Commerce Business Analyst
15 15 (3.27%) E-Commerce Analyst
15 15 (3.27%) Technical Analyst
16 13 (2.83%) Data Engineer
16 13 (2.83%) Marketing Manager
16 13 (2.83%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (8.71%) React
2 35 (7.63%) GraphQL
2 35 (7.63%) REST
3 33 (7.19%) Node.js
4 23 (5.01%) VML
5 21 (4.58%) Middleware
6 20 (4.36%) CSS
7 19 (4.14%) HTML
8 14 (3.05%) Next.js
8 14 (3.05%) Playwright
8 14 (3.05%) Spring
9 13 (2.83%) Kafka
10 12 (2.61%) SOAP
11 11 (2.40%) AngularJS
12 10 (2.18%) Spring Boot
13 9 (1.96%) .NET
13 9 (1.96%) HTML5
13 9 (1.96%) J2EE
14 7 (1.53%) RESTful
14 7 (1.53%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 44 (9.59%) Product Ownership
2 23 (5.01%) Cloud Native
3 18 (3.92%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (3.27%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (2.40%) Mobile App
7 10 (2.18%) AI Agents
7 10 (2.18%) Marketing Technology
7 10 (2.18%) Virtual Team
8 9 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (1.96%) Management Information System
9 7 (1.53%) Animation
9 7 (1.53%) Graphic Design
9 7 (1.53%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.31%) FMCG
11 5 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.09%) EPoS
12 4 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
13 3 (0.65%) Smart Home
13 3 (0.65%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.61%) Linux
2 11 (2.40%) Android
2 11 (2.40%) Windows
3 10 (2.18%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (32.24%) Agile
2 93 (20.26%) Stakeholder Management
3 86 (18.74%) Problem-Solving
4 78 (16.99%) User Experience
5 57 (12.42%) CI/CD
6 52 (11.33%) Project Management
7 50 (10.89%) CRM
7 50 (10.89%) Scrum
8 49 (10.68%) Roadmaps
9 47 (10.24%) B2C
10 46 (10.02%) Analytics
10 46 (10.02%) Customer Experience
11 44 (9.59%) Time Management
12 43 (9.37%) AI
13 41 (8.93%) Continuous Improvement
13 41 (8.93%) Migration
14 39 (8.50%) DevOps
15 36 (7.84%) Workshop Facilitation
16 33 (7.19%) ERP
16 33 (7.19%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (7.63%) SQL
2 34 (7.41%) JavaScript
3 33 (7.19%) TypeScript
4 28 (6.10%) Python
5 26 (5.66%) Java
6 8 (1.74%) C#
7 6 (1.31%) Kotlin
8 5 (1.09%) Apex Code
8 5 (1.09%) Groovy
8 5 (1.09%) Shell Script
8 5 (1.09%) SOQL
8 5 (1.09%) SOSL
8 5 (1.09%) Swift
9 4 (0.87%) ABAP
9 4 (0.87%) PHP
10 3 (0.65%) Go
11 2 (0.44%) Bash
11 2 (0.44%) Korn
11 2 (0.44%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.22%) XPath
Qualifications
1 41 (8.93%) Degree
2 5 (1.09%) CSPO
3 2 (0.44%) Analytics IQ
3 2 (0.44%) Master's Degree
3 2 (0.44%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.22%) Azure Certification
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%) IIBA
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 31 (6.75%) QA
2 22 (4.79%) Accessibility
3 17 (3.70%) Data Quality
4 11 (2.40%) GDPR
5 7 (1.53%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.87%) PMO
6 4 (0.87%) 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 (3.27%) Docker
2 4 (0.87%) Varnish
3 1 (0.22%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 16 (3.49%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.53%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 7 (1.53%) Terraform
3 3 (0.65%) Grafana
3 3 (0.65%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.44%) MOM
5 1 (0.22%) Ansible
5 1 (0.22%) Apache Ranger
Vendors
1 50 (10.89%) Salesforce
2 40 (8.71%) SAP
3 34 (7.41%) Adobe
4 31 (6.75%) Google
5 25 (5.45%) Microsoft
5 25 (5.45%) Oracle
6 16 (3.49%) Databricks
7 10 (2.18%) MuleSoft
7 10 (2.18%) Sitecore
8 6 (1.31%) IBM
9 5 (1.09%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.09%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.09%) Splunk
10 4 (0.87%) Netlify
10 4 (0.87%) New Relic
11 2 (0.44%) Braze
11 2 (0.44%) Confluent
11 2 (0.44%) mParticle
11 2 (0.44%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.44%) TikTok