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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 277 236 193
Rank change year-on-year -41 -43 -16
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 415 324 527
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.91% 1.11% 1.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 1.22% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 209 375
10th Percentile £325 £294 £293
25th Percentile £413 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £588
90th Percentile £775 £688 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +13.89% - -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 3 18
10th Percentile £17.17 £31.58 £10.42
25th Percentile £22.50 £35.46 £11.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £41.91 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.52% +222.38% -80.15%
75th Percentile £75.00 £47.83 £15.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £51.38 £66.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.59 £52.50 £13.00
% change year-on-year -39.83% +303.85% -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 39,015 26,568 37,622
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.08% 90.69% 86.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,668 17,198 24,355
10th Percentile £316 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £635 £638
90th Percentile £725 £743 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £488 £500
% change year-on-year - -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,323 1,023 2,389
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.92 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.45 £18.51 £15.85
Median hourly rate £37.00 £30.78 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +20.21% -6.91% -8.79%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £78.25 £75.00 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.20 £29.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year +28.28% -12.12% -8.65%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -41 386 £513 +7.89% 361
London -25 249 £500 - 159
Work from Home +7 159 £513 +28.13% 138
UK excluding London -33 126 £513 +13.89% 225
Midlands -26 47 £510 +2.51% 46
West Midlands -29 36 £638 +218.75% 27
North of England -45 36 £513 +2.50% 79
South East -55 26 £525 +27.27% 70
North West -27 22 £513 +2.50% 46
East of England -19 14 £350 -24.32% 15
Yorkshire -42 14 £713 +42.50% 29
East Midlands -25 11 £475 -8.65% 19
South West -28 4 £625 +42.86% 14
Scotland - 2 - - 5

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 (2.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 8 (1.93%) Confluence
4 3 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.48%) Apache
5 2 (0.48%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.48%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.24%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.24%) Kentico
6 1 (0.24%) nginx
6 1 (0.24%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.24%) Sitefinity
6 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (2.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.17%) Chatbot
3 8 (1.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (1.20%) 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 48 (11.57%) Shopify
2 11 (2.65%) Magento
3 4 (0.96%) Endur
3 4 (0.96%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.72%) SAP Hybris
5 2 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.48%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.24%) Eikon
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle Retail
6 1 (0.24%) Orchestrade
6 1 (0.24%) SAP CAR
6 1 (0.24%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.24%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.24%) SAP MDG-F
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 40 (9.64%) Azure
2 31 (7.47%) AWS
3 23 (5.54%) SaaS
4 17 (4.10%) Dynamics 365
5 14 (3.37%) Figma
6 13 (3.13%) Commercetools
6 13 (3.13%) Contentful
6 13 (3.13%) Datadog
6 13 (3.13%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 12 (2.89%) Algolia
8 11 (2.65%) BigCommerce
8 11 (2.65%) GCP
8 11 (2.65%) Serverless
9 9 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (1.93%) dbt
10 8 (1.93%) Google Tag Manager
10 8 (1.93%) Power Platform
11 7 (1.69%) Google Workspace
11 7 (1.69%) Miro
11 7 (1.69%) WhatsApp
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 (3.13%) MySQL
2 8 (1.93%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (1.93%) Redis
3 7 (1.69%) Power BI
4 6 (1.45%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.20%) Looker
5 5 (1.20%) Metadata
5 5 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.20%) Relational Database
6 4 (0.96%) BigQuery
6 4 (0.96%) DynamoDB
7 3 (0.72%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.72%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.72%) Tableau
8 2 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.48%) CockroachDB
9 1 (0.24%) Big Data
9 1 (0.24%) Bigtable
9 1 (0.24%) Impala
Development Applications
1 28 (6.75%) Jenkins
2 21 (5.06%) JIRA
3 14 (3.37%) Git
4 10 (2.41%) Selenium
5 8 (1.93%) Cypress.io
6 6 (1.45%) GitLab
7 4 (0.96%) Maven
8 3 (0.72%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (0.72%) Charles Proxy
8 3 (0.72%) Fiddler
9 2 (0.48%) Appium
9 2 (0.48%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.48%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.48%) Hudson
9 2 (0.48%) WebDriver
9 2 (0.48%) Zephyr
10 1 (0.24%) NUnit
10 1 (0.24%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.24%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.24%) Spock
General
1 138 (33.25%) Social Skills
2 116 (27.95%) Retail
3 61 (14.70%) Finance
4 55 (13.25%) Marketing
5 37 (8.92%) Organisational Skills
6 34 (8.19%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (3.86%) Legal
7 16 (3.86%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (2.89%) Electronics
9 10 (2.41%) Manufacturing
10 9 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.93%) Banking
11 8 (1.93%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (1.93%) Publishing
12 6 (1.45%) Advertising
13 5 (1.20%) French Language
14 4 (0.96%) Front Office
15 2 (0.48%) Public Sector
15 2 (0.48%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.48%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 84 (20.24%) Senior
2 57 (13.73%) Analyst
3 48 (11.57%) Architect
4 40 (9.64%) Project Manager
5 39 (9.40%) Business Analyst
6 36 (8.67%) E-Commerce Manager
7 33 (7.95%) Senior Manager
8 32 (7.71%) Developer
9 26 (6.27%) Senior Project Manager
10 24 (5.78%) Consultant
11 21 (5.06%) Lead
12 18 (4.34%) Designer
13 16 (3.86%) Data Engineer
14 15 (3.61%) Solutions Architect
15 13 (3.13%) E-Commerce Executive
16 12 (2.89%) Account Executive
17 11 (2.65%) E-Commerce Project Manager
17 11 (2.65%) Senior Designer
17 11 (2.65%) Senior E-Commerce Manager
18 10 (2.41%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (10.36%) Node.js
2 37 (8.92%) GraphQL
3 32 (7.71%) Playwright
3 32 (7.71%) React
4 27 (6.51%) VML
5 25 (6.02%) CSS
5 25 (6.02%) REST
6 23 (5.54%) HTML
7 22 (5.30%) Middleware
8 21 (5.06%) Vitest
9 13 (3.13%) YAML
10 11 (2.65%) AngularJS
10 11 (2.65%) OpenTelemetry
11 10 (2.41%) .NET
11 10 (2.41%) Vue
12 9 (2.17%) Next.js
12 9 (2.17%) Spring
13 8 (1.93%) HTML5
13 8 (1.93%) Sass
14 7 (1.69%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 39 (9.40%) Cloud Native
2 36 (8.67%) Product Ownership
3 17 (4.10%) Mobile App
4 15 (3.61%) Virtual Team
5 14 (3.37%) Marketing Technology
6 12 (2.89%) Analytical Mindset
6 12 (2.89%) Onboarding
7 9 (2.17%) Client/Server
8 8 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.69%) FMCG
9 7 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.45%) PMI
11 5 (1.20%) Management Information System
12 4 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (0.96%) e-Learning
12 4 (0.96%) EPoS
12 4 (0.96%) Learning Management System
13 3 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.72%) Data Structures
14 2 (0.48%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.65%) Linux
2 8 (1.93%) Windows
3 7 (1.69%) Android
4 6 (1.45%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (33.01%) Agile
2 78 (18.80%) Problem-Solving
3 71 (17.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 56 (13.49%) CI/CD
5 52 (12.53%) User Experience
6 48 (11.57%) Project Management
7 47 (11.33%) Analytics
8 46 (11.08%) ERP
9 44 (10.60%) DevOps
10 41 (9.88%) Coaching
11 40 (9.64%) Scrum
12 38 (9.16%) Customer Experience
13 35 (8.43%) Time Management
14 34 (8.19%) Mentoring
14 34 (8.19%) Roadmaps
15 33 (7.95%) Test Automation
16 31 (7.47%) B2C
17 29 (6.99%) Continuous Improvement
18 27 (6.51%) AI
18 27 (6.51%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 48 (11.57%) TypeScript
2 26 (6.27%) JavaScript
2 26 (6.27%) SQL
3 21 (5.06%) Python
4 14 (3.37%) Java
5 10 (2.41%) C#
6 8 (1.93%) PHP
7 4 (0.96%) 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%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.24%) Korn
10 1 (0.24%) Ruby
10 1 (0.24%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (5.30%) Degree
2 9 (2.17%) PMI Certification
3 8 (1.93%) CSPO
4 3 (0.72%) PMP
5 2 (0.48%) Analytics IQ
5 2 (0.48%) CBAP
5 2 (0.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.24%) APMP
6 1 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.24%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.24%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.24%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (7.71%) QA
2 21 (5.06%) GDPR
3 15 (3.61%) Accessibility
4 12 (2.89%) Data Quality
5 10 (2.41%) PERC
6 9 (2.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (1.20%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.96%) SLA
8 4 (0.96%) WCAG
9 2 (0.48%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.48%) PSD2
10 1 (0.24%) PMO
System Software
1 29 (6.99%) Docker
2 6 (1.45%) Varnish
3 1 (0.24%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 29 (6.99%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.89%) Grafana
2 12 (2.89%) Prometheus
3 8 (1.93%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 4 (0.96%) Terraform
5 2 (0.48%) Ansible
5 2 (0.48%) MOM
6 1 (0.24%) Apache Ranger
Vendors
1 41 (9.88%) Adobe
2 39 (9.40%) Salesforce
3 37 (8.92%) Google
4 36 (8.67%) SAP
5 19 (4.58%) Microsoft
6 14 (3.37%) Databricks
7 12 (2.89%) Oracle
7 12 (2.89%) Sitecore
8 10 (2.41%) Tealium
9 6 (1.45%) OneTrust
10 5 (1.20%) mParticle
11 4 (0.96%) Netlify
12 3 (0.72%) TikTok
13 2 (0.48%) Optimizely
13 2 (0.48%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 2 (0.48%) Splunk
14 1 (0.24%) Cloudera
14 1 (0.24%) Dynatrace
14 1 (0.24%) MuleSoft
14 1 (0.24%) Solace