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 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 268 223 191
Rank change year-on-year -45 -32 -37
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 398 352 547
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.98% 1.15% 1.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% 1.28% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 231 372
10th Percentile £325 £281 £288
25th Percentile £411 £336 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £520
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -13.46% -0.95%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £588
90th Percentile £759 £650 £640
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £425 £488
% change year-on-year +16.18% -12.82% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 4 18
10th Percentile £12.75 £32.87 £10.42
25th Percentile £24.61 £38.68 -
Median hourly rate £34.50 £44.71 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.84% +243.88% -80.81%
75th Percentile £70.00 £50.00 £59.25
90th Percentile £76.00 £52.25 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.59 £52.50 £13.00
% change year-on-year -39.83% +303.85% -80.15%

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 35,252 27,502 38,622
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.92% 89.66% 87.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,364 16,881 25,241
10th Percentile £310 £306 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -2.04% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,119 838 2,150
10th Percentile £14.53 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.05 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £60.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.08 £72.97
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £30.78 £35.00
% change year-on-year -18.29% -12.06% +6.22%

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 18 February 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 18 February 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 18 February 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 -33 374 £500 +11.11% 319
London -8 256 £500 +11.11% 132
Work from Home -12 155 £513 +28.13% 196
UK excluding London -61 105 £494 +16.18% 230
Midlands -38 37 £475 +18.75% 47
North of England -37 32 £531 +8.97% 64
West Midlands -37 27 £535 +78.33% 21
North West -19 19 £513 +17.14% 40
South East -48 18 £513 +13.89% 75
East of England -26 14 £350 -6.67% 19
Yorkshire -43 13 £825 +62.96% 19
East Midlands -17 10 £425 -18.27% 26
South West -21 4 £450 +9.09% 22
Scotland +9 3 - - 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 14 (3.52%) CMS
2 10 (2.51%) Confluence
3 7 (1.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.75%) Headless CMS
4 3 (0.75%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.50%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.25%) Kentico
6 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.25%) Sitefinity
6 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (2.76%) Chatbot
1 11 (2.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.01%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.50%) Autodesk Smoke
5 1 (0.25%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.25%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.25%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.25%) Trello
Business Applications
1 29 (7.29%) Shopify
2 8 (2.01%) Magento
2 8 (2.01%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (1.01%) Endur
4 3 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.75%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.75%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.50%) SAP Hybris
5 2 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.25%) Eikon
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle Retail
6 1 (0.25%) Orchestrade
6 1 (0.25%) SAP CAR
6 1 (0.25%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.25%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.25%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.25%) SAP Retail
6 1 (0.25%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 45 (11.31%) Azure
2 44 (11.06%) AWS
3 43 (10.80%) SaaS
4 20 (5.03%) Figma
5 19 (4.77%) Serverless
6 16 (4.02%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (3.77%) Commercetools
7 15 (3.77%) Dynamics 365
7 15 (3.77%) GCP
8 13 (3.27%) Contentful
9 12 (3.02%) Algolia
10 10 (2.51%) Datadog
10 10 (2.51%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
11 7 (1.76%) Contentsquare
11 7 (1.76%) dbt
11 7 (1.76%) Power Platform
12 6 (1.51%) BigCommerce
12 6 (1.51%) Google Analytics
13 5 (1.26%) Google Workspace
13 5 (1.26%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.76%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.25%) Firewall
2 1 (0.25%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.25%) Internet
2 1 (0.25%) RFID
2 1 (0.25%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.26%) Redis
1 9 (2.26%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.01%) MySQL
2 8 (2.01%) NoSQL
3 7 (1.76%) DynamoDB
3 7 (1.76%) Power BI
4 6 (1.51%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (1.51%) Mixpanel
4 6 (1.51%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (1.51%) Relational Database
5 5 (1.26%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.01%) Metadata
6 4 (1.01%) Tableau
7 3 (0.75%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.50%) CockroachDB
8 2 (0.50%) Couchbase
8 2 (0.50%) Looker
8 2 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 36 (9.05%) Jenkins
2 19 (4.77%) JIRA
3 11 (2.76%) Git
4 6 (1.51%) Cypress.io
4 6 (1.51%) Visual Website Optimizer
5 4 (1.01%) Selenium
5 4 (1.01%) SpecFlow
6 3 (0.75%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (0.75%) Charles Proxy
6 3 (0.75%) Fiddler
6 3 (0.75%) GitLab
7 2 (0.50%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.50%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.25%) Appium
8 1 (0.25%) Maven
8 1 (0.25%) NUnit
8 1 (0.25%) Vite
8 1 (0.25%) webpack
8 1 (0.25%) Zephyr
General
1 135 (33.92%) Social Skills
2 90 (22.61%) Retail
3 56 (14.07%) Marketing
4 54 (13.57%) Finance
5 42 (10.55%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (6.03%) Organisational Skills
7 18 (4.52%) Legal
8 13 (3.27%) Electronics
9 12 (3.02%) Manufacturing
10 11 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
11 10 (2.51%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (1.51%) Banking
13 6 (1.51%) French Language
14 5 (1.26%) Advertising
15 4 (1.01%) Front Office
16 3 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 2 (0.50%) Publishing
18 1 (0.25%) Billing
18 1 (0.25%) Games
Job Titles
1 70 (17.59%) Senior
2 52 (13.07%) Analyst
3 43 (10.80%) Architect
4 36 (9.05%) Business Analyst
4 36 (9.05%) E-Commerce Manager
5 34 (8.54%) Project Manager
6 29 (7.29%) Consultant
7 28 (7.04%) Developer
8 23 (5.78%) Senior Manager
9 20 (5.03%) Designer
9 20 (5.03%) Senior Project Manager
10 17 (4.27%) Lead
11 13 (3.27%) Solutions Architect
11 13 (3.27%) Technical Consultant
11 13 (3.27%) Web Manager
12 12 (3.02%) Senior Consultant
12 12 (3.02%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
12 12 (3.02%) Senior Technical Specialist
12 12 (3.02%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
12 12 (3.02%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (14.07%) Node.js
2 43 (10.80%) GraphQL
3 34 (8.54%) Playwright
4 31 (7.79%) React
5 28 (7.04%) Vitest
6 19 (4.77%) VML
7 17 (4.27%) CSS
7 17 (4.27%) HTML
8 16 (4.02%) .NET
8 16 (4.02%) YAML
9 13 (3.27%) REST
10 11 (2.76%) Middleware
11 9 (2.26%) Next.js
12 8 (2.01%) OpenTelemetry
13 7 (1.76%) AngularJS
13 7 (1.76%) Vue
14 6 (1.51%) PySpark
14 6 (1.51%) RabbitMQ
15 5 (1.26%) HTML5
15 5 (1.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 48 (12.06%) Cloud Native
2 38 (9.55%) Product Ownership
3 20 (5.03%) Mobile App
4 17 (4.27%) Onboarding
5 15 (3.77%) Analytical Mindset
6 14 (3.52%) Virtual Team
7 11 (2.76%) Marketing Technology
8 10 (2.51%) PMI
9 9 (2.26%) Client/Server
10 7 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.26%) FMCG
11 5 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.26%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.26%) Social Media
12 4 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.01%) Data Structures
12 4 (1.01%) e-Learning
12 4 (1.01%) Learning Management System
13 3 (0.75%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.76%) Linux
2 6 (1.51%) Windows
3 5 (1.26%) Android
3 5 (1.26%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.25%) Unix
4 1 (0.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (34.67%) Agile
2 77 (19.35%) Stakeholder Management
3 69 (17.34%) Problem-Solving
4 64 (16.08%) User Experience
5 62 (15.58%) CI/CD
6 58 (14.57%) Analytics
7 48 (12.06%) Coaching
8 47 (11.81%) DevOps
9 41 (10.30%) ERP
10 40 (10.05%) Mentoring
11 39 (9.80%) Customer Experience
12 37 (9.30%) Scrum
13 36 (9.05%) CRM
13 36 (9.05%) Project Management
13 36 (9.05%) Roadmaps
14 34 (8.54%) Continuous Improvement
15 33 (8.29%) Test Automation
16 30 (7.54%) B2C
17 29 (7.29%) UX Design
18 28 (7.04%) A/B Testing
Programming Languages
1 55 (13.82%) TypeScript
2 41 (10.30%) SQL
3 29 (7.29%) JavaScript
4 28 (7.04%) Python
5 18 (4.52%) Java
6 17 (4.27%) C#
7 9 (2.26%) PHP
8 4 (1.01%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.50%) Go
10 1 (0.25%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.25%) Korn
10 1 (0.25%) Perl
10 1 (0.25%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 24 (6.03%) Degree
2 13 (3.27%) PMI Certification
3 6 (1.51%) CBAP
4 5 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.01%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.01%) CSPO
5 4 (1.01%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.75%) PMP
7 2 (0.50%) APMG
7 2 (0.50%) MBA
8 1 (0.25%) Analytics IQ
8 1 (0.25%) APMP
8 1 (0.25%) CFA
8 1 (0.25%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (6.28%) QA
2 21 (5.28%) GDPR
3 18 (4.52%) Accessibility
4 10 (2.51%) PCI DSS
4 10 (2.51%) PERC
5 8 (2.01%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 8 (2.01%) Data Quality
6 6 (1.51%) ISO 8583
6 6 (1.51%) PSD2
7 4 (1.01%) WCAG
8 1 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 35 (8.79%) Docker
2 5 (1.26%) Varnish
3 1 (0.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 36 (9.05%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.26%) Grafana
2 9 (2.26%) Prometheus
3 7 (1.76%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 7 (1.76%) Terraform
4 2 (0.50%) Ansible
5 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 38 (9.55%) Google
2 36 (9.05%) Salesforce
3 34 (8.54%) Adobe
4 26 (6.53%) SAP
5 17 (4.27%) Microsoft
6 11 (2.76%) Oracle
7 10 (2.51%) Tealium
8 9 (2.26%) Databricks
8 9 (2.26%) Optimizely
9 7 (1.76%) OneTrust
9 7 (1.76%) Sitecore
10 6 (1.51%) Amplitude
10 6 (1.51%) Hotjar
11 5 (1.26%) mParticle
11 5 (1.26%) TikTok
12 4 (1.01%) Wind River
13 3 (0.75%) OpenAI
14 2 (0.50%) Netlify
14 2 (0.50%) Rollbar
14 2 (0.50%) Splunk