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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 277 241 193
Rank change year-on-year -36 -48 -18
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 414 319 534
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.89% 1.08% 1.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 1.19% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 209 377
10th Percentile £325 £293 £300
25th Percentile £413 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £588
90th Percentile £703 £688 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +13.89% - -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 2 18
10th Percentile £22.08 £30.29 £10.42
25th Percentile £24.08 £32.23 £11.00
Median hourly rate £54.75 £35.46 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.42% +172.73% -75.12%
75th Percentile £75.75 £38.68 £15.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £40.62 £66.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.91 - £13.00
% change year-on-year - - -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 39,369 26,799 37,747
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.81% 90.74% 86.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,829 17,326 24,410
10th Percentile £318 £307 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £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 2,359 1,054 2,423
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.84 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.88 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £39.50 £29.90 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.11% -14.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £65.60 £62.25 £58.70
90th Percentile £78.25 £75.00 £71.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.56 £28.18 £35.00
% change year-on-year +47.46% -19.49% -6.17%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -28 386 £500 +5.26% 297
London -15 252 £500 -2.91% 122
Work from Home -4 158 £500 +25.00% 121
UK excluding London -46 127 £513 +13.89% 218
Midlands -29 46 £510 -1.92% 50
North of England -37 38 £513 +2.50% 65
West Midlands -33 35 £638 +34.21% 25
North West -17 26 £513 +13.26% 45
South East -58 25 £525 +40.00% 68
East of England -17 13 £350 -24.32% 19
Yorkshire -43 12 £550 +10.00% 16
East Midlands -28 11 £475 -8.65% 25
South West -31 4 £625 +66.67% 13
Scotland - 2 - - 4

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 (3.86%) CMS
2 10 (2.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 10 (2.42%) Confluence
3 3 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.48%) Apache
4 2 (0.48%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.48%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.24%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.24%) Kentico
5 1 (0.24%) nginx
5 1 (0.24%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.24%) Sitefinity
5 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (2.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.17%) Chatbot
3 8 (1.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (1.21%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.48%) Autodesk Smoke
6 2 (0.48%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.24%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.24%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.24%) Trello
Business Applications
1 47 (11.35%) Shopify
2 11 (2.66%) Magento
3 5 (1.21%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (1.21%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.72%) SAP Hybris
4 3 (0.72%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.48%) Endur
5 2 (0.48%) SAP MDG-F
6 1 (0.24%) Eikon
6 1 (0.24%) ION MarketView
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle Retail
6 1 (0.24%) SAP CAR
6 1 (0.24%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.24%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.24%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.24%) SAP Retail
6 1 (0.24%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.24%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 32 (7.73%) Azure
2 31 (7.49%) AWS
3 23 (5.56%) SaaS
4 17 (4.11%) Dynamics 365
5 15 (3.62%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
6 14 (3.38%) Datadog
6 14 (3.38%) Figma
7 12 (2.90%) GCP
8 11 (2.66%) BigCommerce
8 11 (2.66%) Serverless
9 9 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (2.17%) Power Platform
10 8 (1.93%) dbt
10 8 (1.93%) Google Tag Manager
11 7 (1.69%) Google Workspace
11 7 (1.69%) Miro
11 7 (1.69%) SAP Commerce Cloud
11 7 (1.69%) WhatsApp
12 6 (1.45%) Commercetools
12 6 (1.45%) Contentful
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.69%) Cisco IPT
2 2 (0.48%) Firewall
3 1 (0.24%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.24%) Internet
3 1 (0.24%) LAN
3 1 (0.24%) Network Security
3 1 (0.24%) RFID
3 1 (0.24%) RTMP
3 1 (0.24%) WAN
3 1 (0.24%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.14%) MySQL
2 8 (1.93%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (1.93%) Power BI
2 8 (1.93%) Redis
3 6 (1.45%) Metadata
4 5 (1.21%) Looker
4 5 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.21%) Relational Database
4 5 (1.21%) SQL Server
5 4 (0.97%) BigQuery
5 4 (0.97%) DynamoDB
5 4 (0.97%) Tableau
6 3 (0.72%) MongoDB
6 3 (0.72%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.48%) CockroachDB
7 2 (0.48%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.24%) Impala
Development Applications
1 28 (6.76%) Jenkins
2 24 (5.80%) JIRA
3 13 (3.14%) Git
4 10 (2.42%) Selenium
5 8 (1.93%) Cypress.io
6 6 (1.45%) GitLab
7 4 (0.97%) Maven
8 3 (0.72%) Appium
8 3 (0.72%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (0.72%) Charles Proxy
8 3 (0.72%) Fiddler
8 3 (0.72%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.48%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.48%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.48%) Hudson
9 2 (0.48%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.24%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.24%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.24%) Spock
10 1 (0.24%) webpack
General
1 141 (34.06%) Social Skills
2 120 (28.99%) Retail
3 63 (15.22%) Finance
4 56 (13.53%) Marketing
5 38 (9.18%) Organisational Skills
6 35 (8.45%) Analytical Skills
7 17 (4.11%) Presentation Skills
8 16 (3.86%) Legal
9 12 (2.90%) Electronics
9 12 (2.90%) Manufacturing
10 9 (2.17%) Banking
10 9 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.45%) Publishing
12 4 (0.97%) French Language
12 4 (0.97%) Front Office
13 3 (0.72%) Advertising
14 2 (0.48%) Public Sector
14 2 (0.48%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.48%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 86 (20.77%) Senior
2 59 (14.25%) Analyst
3 41 (9.90%) Architect
4 40 (9.66%) Business Analyst
4 40 (9.66%) Project Manager
5 35 (8.45%) E-Commerce Manager
6 34 (8.21%) Developer
7 33 (7.97%) Senior Manager
8 26 (6.28%) Senior Project Manager
9 24 (5.80%) Consultant
10 23 (5.56%) Lead
11 19 (4.59%) Designer
12 16 (3.86%) Data Engineer
13 15 (3.62%) Solutions Architect
14 12 (2.90%) E-Commerce Executive
14 12 (2.90%) Senior Designer
15 11 (2.66%) Account Executive
15 11 (2.66%) E-Commerce Project Manager
15 11 (2.66%) E-Commerce Specialist
15 11 (2.66%) Senior E-Commerce Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (10.87%) Node.js
2 37 (8.94%) GraphQL
3 33 (7.97%) React
4 32 (7.73%) Playwright
5 28 (6.76%) VML
6 27 (6.52%) REST
7 26 (6.28%) CSS
8 24 (5.80%) HTML
9 22 (5.31%) Middleware
10 21 (5.07%) Vitest
11 13 (3.14%) YAML
12 11 (2.66%) AngularJS
12 11 (2.66%) OpenTelemetry
13 10 (2.42%) Vue
14 9 (2.17%) HTML5
14 9 (2.17%) Next.js
14 9 (2.17%) Spring
15 8 (1.93%) .NET
15 8 (1.93%) Sass
16 7 (1.69%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 39 (9.42%) Cloud Native
1 39 (9.42%) Product Ownership
2 18 (4.35%) Mobile App
3 15 (3.62%) Virtual Team
4 14 (3.38%) Marketing Technology
5 12 (2.90%) Analytical Mindset
5 12 (2.90%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.17%) Client/Server
7 7 (1.69%) FMCG
7 7 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.45%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.45%) PMI
9 5 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (0.97%) e-Learning
10 4 (0.97%) EPoS
10 4 (0.97%) Learning Management System
11 3 (0.72%) Data Structures
11 3 (0.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.66%) Linux
2 8 (1.93%) Android
2 8 (1.93%) Windows
3 7 (1.69%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.97%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (34.54%) Agile
2 81 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
3 73 (17.63%) Stakeholder Management
4 57 (13.77%) CI/CD
5 52 (12.56%) User Experience
6 51 (12.32%) ERP
7 48 (11.59%) Project Management
8 47 (11.35%) Analytics
9 43 (10.39%) DevOps
10 42 (10.14%) Scrum
11 39 (9.42%) Customer Experience
12 38 (9.18%) Coaching
13 36 (8.70%) Time Management
14 34 (8.21%) Continuous Improvement
14 34 (8.21%) Mentoring
14 34 (8.21%) Roadmaps
15 33 (7.97%) B2C
16 32 (7.73%) Test Automation
17 29 (7.00%) B2B
17 29 (7.00%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 48 (11.59%) TypeScript
2 28 (6.76%) JavaScript
3 27 (6.52%) SQL
4 23 (5.56%) Python
5 17 (4.11%) Java
6 8 (1.93%) C#
6 8 (1.93%) PHP
7 4 (0.97%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.72%) Apex Code
8 3 (0.72%) SOQL
8 3 (0.72%) SOSL
9 2 (0.48%) Go
10 1 (0.24%) Bash
10 1 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.24%) Korn
10 1 (0.24%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.24%) Ruby
10 1 (0.24%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (5.56%) Degree
2 9 (2.17%) CSPO
2 9 (2.17%) PMI Certification
3 3 (0.72%) PMP
4 2 (0.48%) Analytics IQ
4 2 (0.48%) CBAP
4 2 (0.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.24%) APMP
5 1 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.24%) CISA
5 1 (0.24%) CISSP
5 1 (0.24%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.24%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.24%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (7.73%) QA
2 22 (5.31%) GDPR
3 15 (3.62%) Accessibility
4 13 (3.14%) Data Quality
5 10 (2.42%) PERC
6 9 (2.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 6 (1.45%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.97%) SLA
8 4 (0.97%) WCAG
9 2 (0.48%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.48%) PSD2
10 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.24%) NIST
10 1 (0.24%) PMO
System Software
1 30 (7.25%) Docker
2 6 (1.45%) Varnish
3 1 (0.24%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 30 (7.25%) 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 41 (9.90%) Adobe
1 41 (9.90%) Salesforce
2 39 (9.42%) SAP
3 36 (8.70%) Google
4 18 (4.35%) Microsoft
5 15 (3.62%) Oracle
6 14 (3.38%) Databricks
7 12 (2.90%) Sitecore
8 10 (2.42%) Tealium
9 6 (1.45%) OneTrust
10 5 (1.21%) mParticle
11 4 (0.97%) Netlify
12 3 (0.72%) Splunk
12 3 (0.72%) TikTok
13 2 (0.48%) Infor
13 2 (0.48%) ION Trading
13 2 (0.48%) Optimizely
13 2 (0.48%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 1 (0.24%) Botify
14 1 (0.24%) Instagram