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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 266 253 177
Rank change year-on-year -13 -76 +12
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 445 316 561
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.87% 1.05% 1.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 1.16% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 185 411
10th Percentile £325 £281 £313
25th Percentile £412 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £581 £600
90th Percentile £699 £720 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +10.53% +5.56% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 7 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 £21.05 £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 43,234 27,342 36,961
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.93% 91.04% 85.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,976 17,315 23,545
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.09% -4.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £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 2,595 1,301 2,587
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.65
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.79 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +7.14%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £72.50 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £25.08 £38.12
% change year-on-year +77.47% -34.22% +17.29%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -19 409 £500 - 362
London +12 267 £490 -4.85% 186
UK excluding London -80 134 £525 +10.53% 221
Work from Home -29 131 £488 +8.44% 143
Midlands -23 43 £488 -2.01% 39
North of England -73 37 £600 +20.00% 77
North West -35 31 £600 +4.35% 46
West Midlands -33 30 £638 +21.43% 17
South East -84 25 £525 +13.51% 70
East of England -19 21 £350 -27.27% 12
East Midlands -10 13 £465 -2.11% 22
South West -33 7 £625 +66.67% 12
Yorkshire -57 6 £600 +20.00% 19
Scotland -14 1 - - 3

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 (3.37%) CMS
2 9 (2.02%) Confluence
3 7 (1.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.67%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.45%) Apache
5 2 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.45%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.45%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.45%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.45%) WordPress
6 1 (0.22%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.22%) Kentico
6 1 (0.22%) nginx
6 1 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.22%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 11 (2.47%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 10 (2.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.57%) Chatbot
4 7 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (1.35%) Adobe After Effects
5 6 (1.35%) Final Cut Pro
5 6 (1.35%) Sketch
6 4 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.22%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.22%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 40 (8.99%) Shopify
2 20 (4.49%) Magento
3 7 (1.57%) NetSuite
3 7 (1.57%) Payment Gateway
3 7 (1.57%) SAP CRM
3 7 (1.57%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (1.12%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.67%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.45%) SAP Hybris
7 2 (0.45%) SAP MDG-F
8 1 (0.22%) Carpe Diem
8 1 (0.22%) Elite 3E
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 ERP
8 1 (0.22%) SAP Retail
8 1 (0.22%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 47 (10.56%) AWS
1 47 (10.56%) Azure
2 24 (5.39%) Figma
3 20 (4.49%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
4 17 (3.82%) GCP
5 14 (3.15%) SaaS
6 13 (2.92%) Power Platform
7 10 (2.25%) BigCommerce
8 9 (2.02%) GitHub
9 8 (1.80%) Google Workspace
9 8 (1.80%) Serverless
10 7 (1.57%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (1.57%) dbt
10 7 (1.57%) Miro
10 7 (1.57%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 7 (1.57%) WhatsApp
11 6 (1.35%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (1.12%) Algolia
12 5 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (1.12%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.90%) 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 (2.70%) Power BI
2 11 (2.47%) MySQL
3 9 (2.02%) NoSQL
4 8 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (1.80%) Looker
5 7 (1.57%) Relational Database
5 7 (1.57%) Tableau
6 6 (1.35%) Metadata
6 6 (1.35%) Redis
7 5 (1.12%) SQL Server
8 4 (0.90%) BigQuery
8 4 (0.90%) Couchbase
8 4 (0.90%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.67%) Semantic Layer
9 3 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.45%) SAP HANA
11 1 (0.22%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 21 (4.72%) Git
2 19 (4.27%) Jenkins
2 19 (4.27%) JIRA
3 10 (2.25%) Selenium
4 8 (1.80%) Cypress.io
5 6 (1.35%) GitLab
5 6 (1.35%) Vite
6 4 (0.90%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.90%) Maven
6 4 (0.90%) Subversion
7 3 (0.67%) Appium
7 3 (0.67%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.67%) Zephyr
8 2 (0.45%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.45%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.45%) Hudson
8 2 (0.45%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.22%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.22%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.22%) Spock
General
1 183 (41.12%) Retail
2 168 (37.75%) Social Skills
3 82 (18.43%) Finance
4 58 (13.03%) Marketing
5 46 (10.34%) Organisational Skills
6 32 (7.19%) Analytical Skills
7 24 (5.39%) Manufacturing
8 22 (4.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (2.70%) Banking
10 11 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (2.25%) Legal
12 7 (1.57%) French Language
12 7 (1.57%) Publishing
13 6 (1.35%) Advertising
13 6 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.90%) Electronics
14 4 (0.90%) Public Sector
15 3 (0.67%) Retail Banking
16 2 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 94 (21.12%) Senior
2 63 (14.16%) Analyst
3 44 (9.89%) Project Manager
4 39 (8.76%) Business Analyst
4 39 (8.76%) Developer
5 38 (8.54%) Senior Manager
6 36 (8.09%) Designer
7 34 (7.64%) Architect
8 29 (6.52%) Lead
8 29 (6.52%) Senior Project Manager
9 27 (6.07%) E-Commerce Manager
10 20 (4.49%) Senior Designer
11 19 (4.27%) Product Manager
12 16 (3.60%) E-Commerce Business Analyst
12 16 (3.60%) UI Designer
13 15 (3.37%) E-Commerce Analyst
14 14 (3.15%) Technical Analyst
15 12 (2.70%) Marketing Manager
15 12 (2.70%) Solutions Architect
16 11 (2.47%) E-Commerce Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (8.76%) React
2 33 (7.42%) GraphQL
3 32 (7.19%) REST
4 30 (6.74%) Node.js
5 24 (5.39%) VML
6 21 (4.72%) Middleware
7 20 (4.49%) CSS
8 18 (4.04%) HTML
9 13 (2.92%) Next.js
9 13 (2.92%) Playwright
9 13 (2.92%) Spring
10 12 (2.70%) Kafka
11 11 (2.47%) AngularJS
11 11 (2.47%) SOAP
12 9 (2.02%) .NET
12 9 (2.02%) Spring Boot
13 8 (1.80%) HTML5
14 7 (1.57%) J2EE
14 7 (1.57%) Sass
14 7 (1.57%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 36 (8.09%) Product Ownership
2 22 (4.94%) Cloud Native
3 16 (3.60%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (3.15%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (2.92%) Mobile App
6 11 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (2.25%) AI Agents
7 10 (2.25%) Management Information System
7 10 (2.25%) Marketing Technology
7 10 (2.25%) Virtual Team
8 8 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (1.57%) Animation
9 7 (1.57%) FMCG
9 7 (1.57%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.12%) EPoS
10 5 (1.12%) Graphic Design
11 4 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.90%) Client/Server
11 4 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.92%) Linux
2 11 (2.47%) Android
2 11 (2.47%) Windows
3 10 (2.25%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (30.56%) Agile
2 88 (19.78%) Stakeholder Management
3 81 (18.20%) Problem-Solving
4 77 (17.30%) User Experience
5 51 (11.46%) CI/CD
5 51 (11.46%) Project Management
6 47 (10.56%) B2C
6 47 (10.56%) Roadmaps
7 45 (10.11%) CRM
8 44 (9.89%) Customer Experience
8 44 (9.89%) Scrum
9 43 (9.66%) Analytics
10 42 (9.44%) Time Management
11 40 (8.99%) AI
12 37 (8.31%) Continuous Improvement
12 37 (8.31%) Migration
13 36 (8.09%) Workshop Facilitation
14 34 (7.64%) ERP
15 32 (7.19%) DevOps
15 32 (7.19%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (7.64%) JavaScript
2 31 (6.97%) TypeScript
3 29 (6.52%) SQL
4 25 (5.62%) Python
5 23 (5.17%) Java
6 7 (1.57%) C#
7 6 (1.35%) Kotlin
7 6 (1.35%) Shell Script
8 5 (1.12%) Apex Code
8 5 (1.12%) PHP
8 5 (1.12%) SOQL
8 5 (1.12%) SOSL
8 5 (1.12%) Swift
9 4 (0.90%) Groovy
10 2 (0.45%) ABAP
10 2 (0.45%) Bash
10 2 (0.45%) Go
10 2 (0.45%) Korn
10 2 (0.45%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (7.87%) Degree
2 5 (1.12%) CSPO
3 2 (0.45%) Analytics IQ
3 2 (0.45%) 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%) Master's Degree
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 27 (6.07%) QA
2 24 (5.39%) Accessibility
3 16 (3.60%) Data Quality
4 11 (2.47%) GDPR
5 7 (1.57%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.90%) PMO
6 4 (0.90%) SLA
7 2 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.45%) PSD2
7 2 (0.45%) WCAG
8 1 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.22%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (3.15%) Docker
2 5 (1.12%) Varnish
3 1 (0.22%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 15 (3.37%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.57%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 5 (1.12%) Terraform
4 3 (0.67%) Grafana
4 3 (0.67%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.45%) MOM
6 1 (0.22%) Ansible
6 1 (0.22%) Apache Ranger
Vendors
1 49 (11.01%) Salesforce
2 40 (8.99%) SAP
3 34 (7.64%) Adobe
4 29 (6.52%) Google
5 24 (5.39%) Oracle
6 22 (4.94%) Microsoft
7 13 (2.92%) Databricks
8 11 (2.47%) Sitecore
9 9 (2.02%) MuleSoft
10 5 (1.12%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.90%) Dynatrace
11 4 (0.90%) IBM
11 4 (0.90%) Netlify
11 4 (0.90%) Splunk
12 3 (0.67%) New Relic
12 3 (0.67%) TikTok
13 2 (0.45%) Braze
13 2 (0.45%) Confluent
13 2 (0.45%) mParticle
13 2 (0.45%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud