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 27 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 267 222 194
Rank change year-on-year -45 -28 -55
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 371 356 531
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.97% 1.14% 1.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 1.29% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 237 363
10th Percentile £325 £281 £285
25th Percentile £402 £348 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £572 £588 £591
90th Percentile £755 £650 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +20.00% -20.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 4 12
10th Percentile £12.75 £32.87 £10.68
25th Percentile £15.45 £38.68 £13.00
Median hourly rate £28.31 £44.71 £34.75
Median % change year-on-year -36.68% +28.65% -48.71%
75th Percentile £56.23 £50.00 £62.38
90th Percentile £73.50 £52.25 £68.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.00 £52.50 £13.00
% change year-on-year -71.43% +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 33,264 27,700 38,783
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.38% 89.09% 87.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,060 16,780 25,534
10th Percentile £305 £306 £300
25th Percentile £408 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £643
90th Percentile £723 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,011 875 1,974
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.50
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.00 £16.88
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -9.72% +12.50%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.71 £30.43 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.80% -18.85% +44.23%

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 27 January 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 27 January 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 27 January 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 -36 343 £500 +11.11% 537
London -6 225 £500 +8.11% 122
Work from Home -19 149 £550 +37.50% 376
UK excluding London -50 109 £480 +20.00% 475
Midlands -37 39 £480 +60.00% 46
North of England -38 30 £513 +28.13% 117
West Midlands -24 29 £525 +75.00% 20
South East -49 22 £519 +51.46% 167
Yorkshire -29 19 £519 +3.75% 34
East of England -17 12 £350 -6.67% 63
North West -30 11 £513 +28.13% 71
East Midlands -18 10 £425 -18.47% 26
Scotland +14 5 - - 9
South West -14 4 £450 -5.26% 54

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 17 (4.58%) CMS
2 11 (2.96%) Confluence
3 5 (1.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.81%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.54%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.54%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.27%) Kentico
6 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.27%) Sitefinity
6 1 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 15 (4.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.62%) Chatbot
3 6 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.54%) Autodesk Smoke
4 2 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.27%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.27%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.27%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 30 (8.09%) Shopify
2 13 (3.50%) Payment Gateway
3 10 (2.70%) Magento
4 4 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (1.08%) Endur
4 4 (1.08%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.81%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.27%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.27%) Eikon
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Retail
6 1 (0.27%) Orchestrade
6 1 (0.27%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 48 (12.94%) Azure
2 41 (11.05%) SaaS
3 38 (10.24%) AWS
4 20 (5.39%) Serverless
5 19 (5.12%) Figma
6 15 (4.04%) Commercetools
6 15 (4.04%) Dynamics 365
6 15 (4.04%) GCP
7 14 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (3.77%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 13 (3.50%) Contentful
9 12 (3.23%) Algolia
10 10 (2.70%) Datadog
11 8 (2.16%) Google Analytics
12 7 (1.89%) Contentsquare
12 7 (1.89%) dbt
12 7 (1.89%) Power Platform
13 6 (1.62%) BigCommerce
13 6 (1.62%) Google Ads
14 5 (1.35%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.89%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.27%) Firewall
2 1 (0.27%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.27%) Internet
2 1 (0.27%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.43%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.16%) Redis
2 8 (2.16%) Tableau
3 7 (1.89%) DynamoDB
3 7 (1.89%) MySQL
3 7 (1.89%) NoSQL
3 7 (1.89%) Power BI
4 6 (1.62%) Mixpanel
4 6 (1.62%) Relational Database
5 5 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.08%) Metadata
6 4 (1.08%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.54%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.54%) Couchbase
8 2 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.54%) Looker
8 2 (0.54%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 35 (9.43%) Jenkins
2 16 (4.31%) JIRA
3 10 (2.70%) Git
4 6 (1.62%) Cypress.io
4 6 (1.62%) Visual Website Optimizer
5 4 (1.08%) SpecFlow
5 4 (1.08%) Storybook
6 3 (0.81%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (0.81%) Charles Proxy
6 3 (0.81%) Fiddler
6 3 (0.81%) GitLab
6 3 (0.81%) Selenium
6 3 (0.81%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.54%) Postman
8 1 (0.27%) Appium
8 1 (0.27%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.27%) Gradle
8 1 (0.27%) Vite
8 1 (0.27%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.27%) webpack
General
1 109 (29.38%) Social Skills
2 77 (20.75%) Retail
3 50 (13.48%) Marketing
4 44 (11.86%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (11.32%) Finance
6 20 (5.39%) Organisational Skills
7 17 (4.58%) Legal
8 13 (3.50%) Electronics
9 11 (2.96%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (2.96%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (2.43%) Manufacturing
11 7 (1.89%) French Language
12 6 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.35%) Advertising
13 5 (1.35%) Banking
13 5 (1.35%) Telecoms
14 4 (1.08%) Front Office
14 4 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 2 (0.54%) Publishing
16 1 (0.27%) Billing
Job Titles
1 61 (16.44%) Senior
2 54 (14.56%) Analyst
3 40 (10.78%) Architect
4 38 (10.24%) Business Analyst
5 31 (8.36%) Consultant
6 29 (7.82%) Developer
7 28 (7.55%) E-Commerce Manager
8 24 (6.47%) Project Manager
9 16 (4.31%) Lead
10 14 (3.77%) Senior Manager
11 13 (3.50%) Designer
11 13 (3.50%) Technical Consultant
11 13 (3.50%) Web Manager
12 12 (3.23%) Account Executive
12 12 (3.23%) Senior Consultant
12 12 (3.23%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
12 12 (3.23%) Senior Technical Consultant
12 12 (3.23%) Senior Technical Specialist
12 12 (3.23%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
12 12 (3.23%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (15.36%) Node.js
2 42 (11.32%) GraphQL
3 31 (8.36%) Playwright
4 28 (7.55%) Vitest
5 27 (7.28%) React
6 19 (5.12%) VML
7 18 (4.85%) HTML
8 17 (4.58%) CSS
9 16 (4.31%) YAML
10 15 (4.04%) .NET
11 13 (3.50%) REST
12 11 (2.96%) Next.js
13 9 (2.43%) HTML5
14 8 (2.16%) CSS3
14 8 (2.16%) OpenTelemetry
14 8 (2.16%) RESTful
15 7 (1.89%) EDI
15 7 (1.89%) Middleware
15 7 (1.89%) Redux
16 6 (1.62%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 41 (11.05%) Cloud Native
2 38 (10.24%) Product Ownership
3 20 (5.39%) Mobile App
4 19 (5.12%) Onboarding
5 14 (3.77%) Analytical Mindset
6 10 (2.70%) Marketing Technology
6 10 (2.70%) PMI
7 9 (2.43%) Client/Server
8 8 (2.16%) Virtual Team
9 6 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (1.62%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.62%) Social Media
10 5 (1.35%) FMCG
10 5 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.08%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.08%) e-Learning
11 4 (1.08%) Learning Management System
12 3 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.35%) Windows
2 4 (1.08%) Android
2 4 (1.08%) Apple iOS
2 4 (1.08%) Linux
3 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (34.23%) Agile
2 70 (18.87%) Stakeholder Management
3 62 (16.71%) Problem-Solving
4 61 (16.44%) Analytics
5 59 (15.90%) CI/CD
6 55 (14.82%) User Experience
7 49 (13.21%) DevOps
8 48 (12.94%) Coaching
9 38 (10.24%) CRM
9 38 (10.24%) ERP
9 38 (10.24%) Mentoring
10 36 (9.70%) Scrum
11 32 (8.63%) Test Automation
12 29 (7.82%) Continuous Improvement
12 29 (7.82%) Customer Experience
13 28 (7.55%) Project Management
14 27 (7.28%) Roadmaps
15 26 (7.01%) A/B Testing
16 25 (6.74%) Full-Stack Development
16 25 (6.74%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 50 (13.48%) TypeScript
2 47 (12.67%) SQL
3 31 (8.36%) Python
4 27 (7.28%) JavaScript
5 15 (4.04%) C#
6 14 (3.77%) Java
7 10 (2.70%) PHP
8 4 (1.08%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.81%) R
10 2 (0.54%) Go
10 2 (0.54%) Ruby
11 1 (0.27%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.27%) Perl
11 1 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 20 (5.39%) Degree
2 13 (3.50%) PMI Certification
3 6 (1.62%) CBAP
4 5 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.08%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.08%) CSPO
5 4 (1.08%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.81%) PMP
7 2 (0.54%) APMG
7 2 (0.54%) MBA
8 1 (0.27%) Analytics IQ
8 1 (0.27%) APMP
8 1 (0.27%) CFA
8 1 (0.27%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.27%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.20%) QA
2 20 (5.39%) GDPR
3 14 (3.77%) Accessibility
4 10 (2.70%) PERC
5 9 (2.43%) PCI DSS
6 8 (2.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 8 (2.16%) Data Quality
7 6 (1.62%) ISO 8583
7 6 (1.62%) PSD2
8 4 (1.08%) WCAG
9 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 36 (9.70%) Docker
2 5 (1.35%) Varnish
3 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 37 (9.97%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.43%) Grafana
2 9 (2.43%) Prometheus
3 8 (2.16%) Terraform
4 2 (0.54%) Ansible
4 2 (0.54%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.27%) Istio
5 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.27%) Puppet
5 1 (0.27%) SCCM
Vendors
1 44 (11.86%) Salesforce
2 33 (8.89%) Adobe
2 33 (8.89%) Google
3 21 (5.66%) Microsoft
3 21 (5.66%) SAP
4 11 (2.96%) Oracle
5 10 (2.70%) Tealium
6 8 (2.16%) Databricks
6 8 (2.16%) Optimizely
7 7 (1.89%) OneTrust
7 7 (1.89%) TikTok
8 6 (1.62%) Amplitude
8 6 (1.62%) Hotjar
8 6 (1.62%) Sitecore
9 5 (1.35%) mParticle
10 4 (1.08%) Wind River
11 3 (0.81%) Facebook
11 3 (0.81%) OpenAI
11 3 (0.81%) Splunk
12 2 (0.54%) Rollbar