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 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 266 190 203
Rank change year-on-year -76 +13 -81
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 375 484 560
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.04% 1.33% 1.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% 1.53% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 335 377
10th Percentile £334 £302 £305
25th Percentile £405 £381 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £619
90th Percentile £775 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +7.78% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 4 9
10th Percentile £12.75 £43.21 £41.90
25th Percentile £15.25 £45.17 -
Median hourly rate £15.50 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.37% -5.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £24.61 £50.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £63.00 £52.25 £67.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.50 £52.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -70.48% +5.00% +376.19%

All Process and 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 32,237 31,694 40,485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.44% 86.89% 88.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,185 19,077 27,186
10th Percentile £300 £310 £308
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -3.18%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,109 1,149 1,555
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.22 £14.31
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.24 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +27.14%
75th Percentile £45.46 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.85 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -29.69% -26.97% +48.33%

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 26 November 2025.

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 26 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for E-Commerce in the UK

E-Commerce
Top 15 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 26 November 2025. 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 -45 347 £500 - 381
London -30 212 £500 -4.76% 138
Work from Home -43 143 £600 +33.33% 194
UK excluding London -60 124 £485 +7.78% 295
South East -17 42 £638 +54.55% 114
North of England -38 38 £488 +21.88% 74
Yorkshire -19 23 £488 +14.71% 22
Midlands -38 18 £469 -10.29% 61
East of England -20 15 £475 +26.67% 15
North West -28 14 £475 +18.75% 45
South West -2 11 £400 -25.58% 20
West Midlands -35 10 £520 +9.47% 33
East Midlands -5 8 £425 -18.66% 27
Scotland -2 3 - - 7
North East -7 1 £900 - 8

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 25 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (6.13%) CMS
3 17 (4.53%) Confluence
4 8 (2.13%) Headless CMS
5 5 (1.33%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.53%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.27%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.27%) Drupal
8 1 (0.27%) Mule
8 1 (0.27%) SAS
8 1 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (3.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.60%) Chatbot
3 6 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.27%) Autodesk Smoke
4 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.27%) Sketch
4 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (5.87%) Shopify
2 17 (4.53%) Magento
3 13 (3.47%) Payment Gateway
4 6 (1.60%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (1.33%) Oracle Retail
6 4 (1.07%) Endur
7 3 (0.80%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.27%) Adobe Campaign
8 1 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.27%) Eikon
8 1 (0.27%) Infor M3
8 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.27%) Orchestrade
8 1 (0.27%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.27%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 47 (12.53%) Azure
2 40 (10.67%) AWS
3 36 (9.60%) SaaS
4 25 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
5 21 (5.60%) Serverless
6 20 (5.33%) GCP
7 17 (4.53%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 16 (4.27%) Commercetools
8 16 (4.27%) Figma
9 15 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (3.73%) Contentful
11 12 (3.20%) Algolia
11 12 (3.20%) Power Platform
12 9 (2.40%) Google Analytics
13 7 (1.87%) Amazon S3
13 7 (1.87%) Contentsquare
13 7 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (1.60%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (1.60%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (1.60%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 25 (6.67%) Firewall
2 24 (6.40%) Cisco IOS
3 7 (1.87%) Cisco IPT
4 2 (0.53%) Internet
5 1 (0.27%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.27%) HTTP
5 1 (0.27%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.27%) Tableau
2 12 (3.20%) Power BI
3 9 (2.40%) DynamoDB
3 9 (2.40%) SQL Server
4 7 (1.87%) NoSQL
5 6 (1.60%) Mixpanel
6 5 (1.33%) MySQL
6 5 (1.33%) Redis
7 4 (1.07%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.07%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.80%) BigQuery
8 3 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.53%) Couchbase
9 2 (0.53%) Looker
9 2 (0.53%) Power Query
9 2 (0.53%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.27%) Big Data
10 1 (0.27%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 31 (8.27%) Jenkins
2 27 (7.20%) JIRA
3 16 (4.27%) Git
4 6 (1.60%) Visual Website Optimizer
5 5 (1.33%) Selenium
6 4 (1.07%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.07%) Cucumber
6 4 (1.07%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.07%) GitLab
6 4 (1.07%) SpecFlow
6 4 (1.07%) Storybook
7 3 (0.80%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.53%) Browser DevTools
8 2 (0.53%) Charles Proxy
8 2 (0.53%) Fiddler
8 2 (0.53%) Gradle
8 2 (0.53%) Maven
8 2 (0.53%) Postman
8 2 (0.53%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle APEX
General
1 117 (31.20%) Social Skills
2 90 (24.00%) Retail
3 58 (15.47%) Marketing
4 45 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (8.80%) Finance
6 24 (6.40%) Games
7 16 (4.27%) French Language
8 14 (3.73%) Legal
9 11 (2.93%) Electronics
10 10 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (2.67%) Manufacturing
10 10 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (2.13%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.87%) Advertising
12 7 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.07%) Automotive
13 4 (1.07%) Banking
13 4 (1.07%) Publishing
14 3 (0.80%) Front Office
14 3 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 47 (12.53%) Architect
2 42 (11.20%) Analyst
3 38 (10.13%) Developer
3 38 (10.13%) Senior
4 29 (7.73%) Business Analyst
5 27 (7.20%) Consultant
6 24 (6.40%) Platform Engineer
7 22 (5.87%) E-Commerce Manager
8 20 (5.33%) Project Manager
9 17 (4.53%) Administrator
10 16 (4.27%) Solutions Architect
11 14 (3.73%) Designer
12 13 (3.47%) Lead
13 10 (2.67%) E-Commerce Architect
13 10 (2.67%) Technical Consultant
14 9 (2.40%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
14 9 (2.40%) Senior Technical Consultant
14 9 (2.40%) Senior Technical Specialist
14 9 (2.40%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
14 9 (2.40%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (12.80%) Node.js
2 33 (8.80%) GraphQL
3 22 (5.87%) Playwright
3 22 (5.87%) Vitest
4 20 (5.33%) React
5 19 (5.07%) HTML
6 16 (4.27%) CSS
7 13 (3.47%) YAML
8 12 (3.20%) .NET
8 12 (3.20%) REST
9 11 (2.93%) SOAP
10 10 (2.67%) Next.js
11 9 (2.40%) RESTful
12 8 (2.13%) HTML5
13 7 (1.87%) CSS3
13 7 (1.87%) OAuth
13 7 (1.87%) Redux
13 7 (1.87%) VML
14 6 (1.60%) Bootstrap
14 6 (1.60%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 39 (10.40%) Cloud Native
1 39 (10.40%) Product Ownership
2 22 (5.87%) Mobile App
3 15 (4.00%) Onboarding
4 9 (2.40%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (2.13%) PMI
6 7 (1.87%) Social Media
7 5 (1.33%) Client/Server
7 5 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.33%) Marketing Technology
7 5 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.33%) Virtual Team
8 3 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (0.80%) Learning Management System
8 3 (0.80%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.53%) e-Learning
9 2 (0.53%) IVR
9 2 (0.53%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 26 (6.93%) Android
2 25 (6.67%) Windows
3 24 (6.40%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.80%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.53%) Unix
6 1 (0.27%) Linux
6 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (32.53%) Agile
2 64 (17.07%) Analytics
3 61 (16.27%) Problem-Solving
3 61 (16.27%) Stakeholder Management
4 54 (14.40%) CI/CD
5 47 (12.53%) DevOps
6 44 (11.73%) Mentoring
7 43 (11.47%) User Experience
8 42 (11.20%) CRM
9 41 (10.93%) Coaching
10 35 (9.33%) Roadmaps
11 32 (8.53%) B2C
12 31 (8.27%) Test Automation
13 29 (7.73%) Customer Experience
13 29 (7.73%) Scrum
14 28 (7.47%) A/B Testing
14 28 (7.47%) B2B
15 26 (6.93%) ERP
16 24 (6.40%) User Stories
17 23 (6.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 50 (13.33%) SQL
2 37 (9.87%) TypeScript
3 32 (8.53%) Python
4 29 (7.73%) JavaScript
5 24 (6.40%) PowerShell
6 19 (5.07%) Java
7 13 (3.47%) C#
8 8 (2.13%) PHP
9 4 (1.07%) Apex Code
9 4 (1.07%) Ruby
10 3 (0.80%) R
11 1 (0.27%) DataWeave
11 1 (0.27%) Perl
11 1 (0.27%) SOQL
11 1 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 19 (5.07%) Degree
2 12 (3.20%) PMI Certification
3 9 (2.40%) AWS Certification
4 6 (1.60%) CBAP
5 5 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.07%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.07%) PMP
7 3 (0.80%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.53%) APMG
8 2 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.53%) CSPO
8 2 (0.53%) MBA
8 2 (0.53%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.27%) CFA
9 1 (0.27%) IIBA
9 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.27%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.13%) QA
2 17 (4.53%) GDPR
3 13 (3.47%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.40%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.13%) PERC
6 6 (1.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 6 (1.60%) ISO 8583
6 6 (1.60%) PSD2
7 3 (0.80%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.80%) WCAG
8 2 (0.53%) SLA
9 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.27%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 30 (8.00%) Docker
2 25 (6.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.27%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 31 (8.27%) Kubernetes
2 25 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (6.67%) SCCM
3 8 (2.13%) Terraform
4 6 (1.60%) Grafana
4 6 (1.60%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.80%) Ansible
5 3 (0.80%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 2 (0.53%) Istio
6 2 (0.53%) Puppet
7 1 (0.27%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 51 (13.60%) Salesforce
2 42 (11.20%) Microsoft
3 30 (8.00%) Google
4 27 (7.20%) Splunk
5 24 (6.40%) Cisco
5 24 (6.40%) Meraki
6 21 (5.60%) SAP
7 17 (4.53%) Adobe
8 13 (3.47%) Oracle
9 10 (2.67%) Optimizely
10 7 (1.87%) Hotjar
11 6 (1.60%) Amplitude
11 6 (1.60%) Sitecore
12 5 (1.33%) Facebook
12 5 (1.33%) MuleSoft
12 5 (1.33%) OneTrust
12 5 (1.33%) Tealium
12 5 (1.33%) TikTok
13 4 (1.07%) Databricks
13 4 (1.07%) Wind River