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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 242 189
Rank change year-on-year -23 -53 +9
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 498 359 532
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.94% 1.09% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 1.21% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 209 384
10th Percentile £326 £293 £350
25th Percentile £413 £375 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -7.91% -
75th Percentile £603 £588 £610
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £531 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +11.84% +5.56% -13.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 12 12
10th Percentile - - £10.48
25th Percentile £22.50 £15.25 £11.00
Median hourly rate £54.75 £15.50 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +253.23% +19.23% -74.00%
75th Percentile £82.75 £15.75 £24.19
90th Percentile £95.00 - £58.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.91 £15.50 £13.00
% change year-on-year +131.68% +19.23% -74.00%

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 45,002 29,684 34,056
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.96% 90.46% 85.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,855 18,648 21,888
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.11%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £734 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,714 1,621 1,980
10th Percentile £14.64 £14.20 £13.69
25th Percentile £19.89 £17.33 £17.74
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.75 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.57 £40.33
% change year-on-year +86.55% -41.56% -

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 30 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 30 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for E-Commerce in the UK

E-Commerce
Top 13 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 30 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 -17 455 £500 +0.50% 337
London +11 303 £500 -1.48% 175
Work from Home -24 161 £450 -1.37% 142
UK excluding London -82 141 £531 +11.84% 203
North of England -63 47 £525 +13.51% 63
Midlands -31 39 £588 +25.33% 31
North West -36 37 £525 +10.53% 33
South East -92 27 £531 +11.84% 56
West Midlands -46 26 £650 +31.65% 16
East of England -11 18 £538 +7.50% 13
East Midlands -2 13 £465 +3.33% 15
South West -41 10 £525 +40.00% 30
Yorkshire -52 10 £500 +11.11% 27

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 18 (3.61%) CMS
2 12 (2.41%) Confluence
3 6 (1.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.80%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.60%) Anypoint
5 3 (0.60%) Apache
5 3 (0.60%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.40%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.40%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.40%) Mule
6 2 (0.40%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.40%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.20%) nginx
7 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 20 (4.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (3.01%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 14 (2.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (1.20%) Adobe After Effects
5 6 (1.20%) Chatbot
5 6 (1.20%) Final Cut Pro
5 6 (1.20%) Sketch
6 4 (0.80%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.40%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.20%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 43 (8.63%) Shopify
2 20 (4.02%) Magento
3 10 (2.01%) SAP CRM
4 9 (1.81%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (1.61%) Payment Gateway
6 7 (1.41%) NetSuite
7 6 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
8 5 (1.00%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.60%) SAP MDG
10 2 (0.40%) ION MarketView
10 2 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
10 2 (0.40%) SAP Hybris
10 2 (0.40%) SAP MDG-F
11 1 (0.20%) Carpe Diem
11 1 (0.20%) Elite 3E
11 1 (0.20%) SAP CAR
11 1 (0.20%) SAP Retail
11 1 (0.20%) SAP SD
11 1 (0.20%) SDL Web 8
11 1 (0.20%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 67 (13.45%) Azure
2 64 (12.85%) AWS
3 26 (5.22%) Figma
3 26 (5.22%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
4 24 (4.82%) GCP
5 17 (3.41%) GitHub
6 14 (2.81%) Power Platform
7 11 (2.21%) dbt
7 11 (2.21%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (1.81%) Miro
9 9 (1.81%) SaaS
9 9 (1.81%) Serverless
9 9 (1.81%) Snowflake
10 8 (1.61%) Algolia
10 8 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (1.41%) BigCommerce
11 7 (1.41%) Google Workspace
11 7 (1.41%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 6 (1.20%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.60%) HTTP
1 3 (0.60%) Internet
2 2 (0.40%) LAN
2 2 (0.40%) WAN
3 1 (0.20%) Broadband
3 1 (0.20%) Firewall
3 1 (0.20%) Network Security
3 1 (0.20%) RFID
3 1 (0.20%) Wireless
3 1 (0.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.61%) Power BI
2 12 (2.41%) NoSQL
3 10 (2.01%) Looker
4 9 (1.81%) Tableau
5 8 (1.61%) BigQuery
5 8 (1.61%) MongoDB
6 7 (1.41%) MySQL
7 6 (1.20%) Couchbase
8 5 (1.00%) Metadata
8 5 (1.00%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.00%) SQL Server
9 4 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (0.80%) Redis
9 4 (0.80%) SAP HANA
9 4 (0.80%) Semantic Layer
10 3 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.40%) KDB
Development Applications
1 28 (5.62%) Jenkins
2 25 (5.02%) Git
3 23 (4.62%) JIRA
4 10 (2.01%) Cypress.io
5 8 (1.61%) Selenium
5 8 (1.61%) Subversion
6 6 (1.20%) GitLab
6 6 (1.20%) Vite
7 5 (1.00%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.00%) Claude Code
8 4 (0.80%) Eclipse
8 4 (0.80%) Maven
8 4 (0.80%) Zephyr
9 3 (0.60%) Appium
10 2 (0.40%) Hudson
10 2 (0.40%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.20%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.20%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.20%) Spock
11 1 (0.20%) TestRail
General
1 236 (47.39%) Retail
2 187 (37.55%) Social Skills
3 79 (15.86%) Finance
4 74 (14.86%) Marketing
5 46 (9.24%) Analytical Skills
6 43 (8.63%) Organisational Skills
7 25 (5.02%) Manufacturing
8 23 (4.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (3.01%) Banking
10 11 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (2.01%) Legal
12 9 (1.81%) Publishing
13 8 (1.61%) Advertising
13 8 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.20%) French Language
15 4 (0.80%) Electronics
15 4 (0.80%) Public Sector
16 3 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
16 3 (0.60%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 88 (17.67%) Senior
2 57 (11.45%) Analyst
3 52 (10.44%) Developer
4 42 (8.43%) Architect
5 39 (7.83%) Designer
6 36 (7.23%) Business Analyst
6 36 (7.23%) Project Manager
7 34 (6.83%) Lead
8 26 (5.22%) Product Manager
9 24 (4.82%) Senior Manager
10 23 (4.62%) E-Commerce Manager
11 22 (4.42%) UI Designer
12 21 (4.22%) Solutions Architect
13 19 (3.82%) Senior Designer
14 15 (3.01%) Senior Developer
14 15 (3.01%) Senior Project Manager
15 14 (2.81%) Data Engineer
15 14 (2.81%) Programme Manager
15 14 (2.81%) Salesforce Developer
16 13 (2.61%) E-Commerce Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (9.04%) REST
2 44 (8.84%) React
3 40 (8.03%) Node.js
4 38 (7.63%) GraphQL
5 21 (4.22%) CSS
5 21 (4.22%) Middleware
6 20 (4.02%) HTML
7 19 (3.82%) Next.js
8 17 (3.41%) VML
9 16 (3.21%) Kafka
10 15 (3.01%) Playwright
10 15 (3.01%) Spring
11 14 (2.81%) SOAP
12 11 (2.21%) AngularJS
12 11 (2.21%) Spring Boot
13 10 (2.01%) HTML5
13 10 (2.01%) RESTful
14 9 (1.81%) Jakarta EE
14 9 (1.81%) Sass
15 8 (1.61%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 42 (8.43%) Product Ownership
2 25 (5.02%) Cloud Native
3 23 (4.62%) Mobile App
4 21 (4.22%) Self-Motivation
5 19 (3.82%) Distributed Systems
6 13 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (2.21%) Marketing Technology
8 10 (2.01%) AI Agents
9 9 (1.81%) Graphic Design
9 9 (1.81%) Management Information System
9 9 (1.81%) Onboarding
9 9 (1.81%) Virtual Team
10 8 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.41%) Animation
11 7 (1.41%) FMCG
12 6 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
14 4 (0.80%) Security Posture
14 4 (0.80%) Taxonomies
15 3 (0.60%) Digital Wallet
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.01%) Android
1 10 (2.01%) Apple iOS
2 8 (1.61%) Windows
3 7 (1.41%) Linux
4 5 (1.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (31.73%) Agile
2 100 (20.08%) Stakeholder Management
3 91 (18.27%) Problem-Solving
4 77 (15.46%) User Experience
5 69 (13.86%) CI/CD
6 64 (12.85%) Customer Experience
7 61 (12.25%) CRM
7 61 (12.25%) Roadmaps
8 55 (11.04%) Scrum
9 54 (10.84%) Analytics
10 51 (10.24%) AI
11 50 (10.04%) DevOps
12 46 (9.24%) Continuous Improvement
13 43 (8.63%) Project Management
14 42 (8.43%) B2C
14 42 (8.43%) Migration
15 40 (8.03%) ERP
16 39 (7.83%) Time Management
17 36 (7.23%) Workshop Facilitation
18 34 (6.83%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 38 (7.63%) SQL
2 36 (7.23%) JavaScript
3 34 (6.83%) TypeScript
4 28 (5.62%) Python
5 26 (5.22%) Java
6 6 (1.20%) Apex Code
6 6 (1.20%) C#
6 6 (1.20%) Kotlin
7 5 (1.00%) Groovy
7 5 (1.00%) SOQL
7 5 (1.00%) SOSL
7 5 (1.00%) Swift
8 4 (0.80%) ABAP
9 3 (0.60%) Go
10 2 (0.40%) Bash
10 2 (0.40%) DataWeave
10 2 (0.40%) Korn
10 2 (0.40%) PHP
10 2 (0.40%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 45 (9.04%) Degree
2 6 (1.20%) CSPO
2 6 (1.20%) Master's Degree
3 5 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (0.60%) MBA
4 3 (0.60%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.20%) Analytics IQ
5 1 (0.20%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.20%) CISA
5 1 (0.20%) CISSP
5 1 (0.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.20%) IIBA
5 1 (0.20%) ISEB
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (0.20%) PhD
5 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.20%) PMP
5 1 (0.20%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (6.83%) QA
2 24 (4.82%) Data Quality
3 23 (4.62%) Accessibility
4 11 (2.21%) GDPR
5 7 (1.41%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.20%) SLA
7 4 (0.80%) PMO
8 2 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.40%) PSD2
8 2 (0.40%) WCAG
9 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.20%) NIST
System Software
1 22 (4.42%) Docker
2 1 (0.20%) Sendmail
2 1 (0.20%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 22 (4.42%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.41%) Terraform
3 6 (1.20%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 3 (0.60%) Grafana
4 3 (0.60%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.40%) Bosun
5 2 (0.40%) CloudHub
5 2 (0.40%) MOM
6 1 (0.20%) Apache Ranger
Vendors
1 57 (11.45%) Salesforce
2 43 (8.63%) SAP
3 32 (6.43%) Microsoft
4 31 (6.22%) Adobe
5 30 (6.02%) Google
6 21 (4.22%) Oracle
7 17 (3.41%) Databricks
8 15 (3.01%) MuleSoft
9 9 (1.81%) Sitecore
10 7 (1.41%) New Relic
11 6 (1.20%) IBM
12 5 (1.00%) Braze
12 5 (1.00%) Dynatrace
12 5 (1.00%) ServiceNow
12 5 (1.00%) Splunk
13 3 (0.60%) Informatica
13 3 (0.60%) Netlify
14 2 (0.40%) Apple
14 2 (0.40%) Infor
14 2 (0.40%) ION Trading