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

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 242 178
Rank change year-on-year -29 -64 +16
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 461 344 577
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.89% 1.08% 1.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 1.19% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 198 426
10th Percentile £334 £281 £313
25th Percentile £413 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £716
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 44,015 28,835 36,960
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.96% 90.69% 85.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,345 18,178 23,579
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.18% -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 2,643 1,429 2,511
10th Percentile £14.81 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.79 £17.50 £16.18
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -2.41%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £24.83 £38.12
% change year-on-year +77.04% -34.86% +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 6 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 6 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 6 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 -33 425 £500 - 482
London 0 282 £490 -4.85% 259
Work from Home -30 136 £500 +9.59% 199
UK excluding London -102 135 £538 +13.16% 273
North of England -68 41 £575 +15.00% 92
Midlands -35 39 £500 +5.26% 48
North West -27 34 £550 -4.35% 63
West Midlands -39 26 £638 +29.11% 24
South East -76 26 £531 +11.84% 88
East of England -22 21 £438 -12.50% 15
East Midlands -11 13 £465 -2.11% 24
South West -32 7 £625 +66.67% 18
Yorkshire -57 7 £600 +26.32% 24
Scotland -14 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 (3.47%) CMS
2 10 (2.17%) Confluence
3 6 (1.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (0.87%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.43%) Apache
6 2 (0.43%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.43%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.43%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.43%) 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 (2.82%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 13 (2.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (1.52%) Chatbot
5 6 (1.30%) Adobe After Effects
5 6 (1.30%) Final Cut Pro
5 6 (1.30%) Sketch
6 4 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.43%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.22%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 40 (8.68%) Shopify
2 20 (4.34%) Magento
3 8 (1.74%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (1.52%) NetSuite
4 7 (1.52%) Payment Gateway
4 7 (1.52%) SAP CRM
5 6 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
6 5 (1.08%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.65%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.43%) SAP Hybris
8 2 (0.43%) 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 (12.80%) Azure
2 56 (12.15%) AWS
3 27 (5.86%) Figma
4 22 (4.77%) GCP
5 21 (4.56%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
6 14 (3.04%) Power Platform
7 13 (2.82%) SaaS
8 12 (2.60%) GitHub
9 10 (2.17%) dbt
10 9 (1.95%) BigCommerce
11 8 (1.74%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (1.74%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (1.74%) Google Workspace
11 8 (1.74%) Miro
11 8 (1.74%) Serverless
12 7 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (1.52%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 7 (1.52%) WhatsApp
13 6 (1.30%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (1.30%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.87%) Internet
2 2 (0.43%) LAN
2 2 (0.43%) 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 13 (2.82%) Power BI
2 11 (2.39%) NoSQL
3 9 (1.95%) Looker
3 9 (1.95%) MySQL
4 8 (1.74%) Tableau
5 7 (1.52%) Metadata
5 7 (1.52%) Relational Database
6 6 (1.30%) BigQuery
6 6 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (1.30%) SQL Server
7 5 (1.08%) Couchbase
7 5 (1.08%) MongoDB
8 4 (0.87%) Redis
8 4 (0.87%) SAP HANA
8 4 (0.87%) Semantic Layer
9 3 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.22%) Bigtable
Development Applications
1 26 (5.64%) Jenkins
2 25 (5.42%) Git
3 19 (4.12%) JIRA
4 10 (2.17%) Selenium
5 8 (1.74%) Cypress.io
6 6 (1.30%) GitLab
6 6 (1.30%) Subversion
6 6 (1.30%) Vite
7 5 (1.08%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.87%) Eclipse
8 4 (0.87%) Maven
9 3 (0.65%) Appium
9 3 (0.65%) Zephyr
10 2 (0.43%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.43%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.43%) Hudson
10 2 (0.43%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.22%) NUnit
11 1 (0.22%) PHPUnit
11 1 (0.22%) TeamCity
General
1 203 (44.03%) Retail
2 184 (39.91%) Social Skills
3 84 (18.22%) Finance
4 63 (13.67%) Marketing
5 45 (9.76%) Organisational Skills
6 36 (7.81%) Analytical Skills
7 25 (5.42%) Manufacturing
8 23 (4.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (3.04%) Banking
10 11 (2.39%) Legal
11 10 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (1.52%) Advertising
12 7 (1.52%) French Language
12 7 (1.52%) Publishing
13 5 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.87%) Electronics
14 4 (0.87%) Public Sector
15 3 (0.65%) Retail Banking
15 3 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 92 (19.96%) Senior
2 60 (13.02%) Analyst
3 41 (8.89%) Project Manager
4 40 (8.68%) Developer
5 39 (8.46%) Designer
6 37 (8.03%) Architect
6 37 (8.03%) Business Analyst
7 35 (7.59%) Senior Manager
8 31 (6.72%) Lead
9 26 (5.64%) Senior Project Manager
10 25 (5.42%) E-Commerce Manager
11 21 (4.56%) Product Manager
12 20 (4.34%) Senior Designer
13 18 (3.90%) UI Designer
14 16 (3.47%) E-Commerce Business Analyst
15 15 (3.25%) E-Commerce Analyst
15 15 (3.25%) Solutions Architect
16 14 (3.04%) Technical Analyst
17 13 (2.82%) Data Engineer
17 13 (2.82%) Marketing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (8.68%) React
2 35 (7.59%) GraphQL
2 35 (7.59%) REST
3 33 (7.16%) Node.js
4 21 (4.56%) Middleware
4 21 (4.56%) VML
5 20 (4.34%) CSS
6 19 (4.12%) HTML
7 14 (3.04%) Next.js
7 14 (3.04%) Playwright
7 14 (3.04%) Spring
8 13 (2.82%) Kafka
9 12 (2.60%) SOAP
10 11 (2.39%) AngularJS
11 10 (2.17%) Spring Boot
12 9 (1.95%) .NET
12 9 (1.95%) HTML5
12 9 (1.95%) J2EE
13 7 (1.52%) RESTful
13 7 (1.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (9.33%) Product Ownership
2 23 (4.99%) Cloud Native
3 18 (3.90%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (3.25%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (2.82%) Mobile App
6 10 (2.17%) AI Agents
6 10 (2.17%) Marketing Technology
6 10 (2.17%) Virtual Team
7 9 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (1.74%) Management Information System
9 7 (1.52%) Animation
9 7 (1.52%) Graphic Design
9 7 (1.52%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.08%) EPoS
10 5 (1.08%) FMCG
11 4 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.65%) Smart Home
12 3 (0.65%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.39%) Android
1 11 (2.39%) Linux
2 10 (2.17%) Apple iOS
2 10 (2.17%) Windows
3 5 (1.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (31.89%) Agile
2 93 (20.17%) Stakeholder Management
3 86 (18.66%) Problem-Solving
4 79 (17.14%) User Experience
5 57 (12.36%) CI/CD
6 51 (11.06%) Project Management
6 51 (11.06%) Roadmaps
7 50 (10.85%) CRM
8 49 (10.63%) Scrum
9 48 (10.41%) Analytics
9 48 (10.41%) Customer Experience
10 47 (10.20%) B2C
11 46 (9.98%) AI
12 42 (9.11%) Continuous Improvement
12 42 (9.11%) Time Management
13 40 (8.68%) Migration
14 39 (8.46%) DevOps
15 35 (7.59%) Workshop Facilitation
16 33 (7.16%) ERP
17 32 (6.94%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (7.81%) SQL
2 34 (7.38%) JavaScript
3 33 (7.16%) TypeScript
4 28 (6.07%) Python
5 26 (5.64%) Java
6 8 (1.74%) C#
7 6 (1.30%) Kotlin
8 5 (1.08%) Apex Code
8 5 (1.08%) Groovy
8 5 (1.08%) SOQL
8 5 (1.08%) SOSL
8 5 (1.08%) Swift
9 4 (0.87%) ABAP
9 4 (0.87%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.65%) Go
10 3 (0.65%) PHP
11 2 (0.43%) Bash
11 2 (0.43%) Korn
11 2 (0.43%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 41 (8.89%) Degree
2 5 (1.08%) CSPO
3 3 (0.65%) Master's Degree
4 2 (0.43%) Analytics IQ
4 2 (0.43%) MBA
4 2 (0.43%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.22%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.22%) CISA
5 1 (0.22%) CISSP
5 1 (0.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.22%) IIBA
5 1 (0.22%) ISEB
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.22%) PMP
5 1 (0.22%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (6.94%) QA
2 22 (4.77%) Accessibility
3 17 (3.69%) Data Quality
4 11 (2.39%) GDPR
5 7 (1.52%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.87%) PMO
6 4 (0.87%) SLA
7 2 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.43%) PSD2
7 2 (0.43%) WCAG
8 1 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.22%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (3.25%) Docker
2 3 (0.65%) Varnish
3 1 (0.22%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 16 (3.47%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.52%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 7 (1.52%) Terraform
3 3 (0.65%) Grafana
3 3 (0.65%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.43%) MOM
5 1 (0.22%) Ansible
5 1 (0.22%) Apache Ranger
Vendors
1 50 (10.85%) Salesforce
2 40 (8.68%) SAP
3 33 (7.16%) Adobe
4 31 (6.72%) Google
5 25 (5.42%) Microsoft
6 24 (5.21%) Oracle
7 16 (3.47%) Databricks
8 10 (2.17%) MuleSoft
8 10 (2.17%) Sitecore
9 6 (1.30%) IBM
10 5 (1.08%) Dynatrace
10 5 (1.08%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.08%) Splunk
11 4 (0.87%) Netlify
11 4 (0.87%) New Relic
12 2 (0.43%) Braze
12 2 (0.43%) Confluent
12 2 (0.43%) mParticle
12 2 (0.43%) OpenAI
12 2 (0.43%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud