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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 267 248 192
Rank change year-on-year -19 -56 +10
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 496 354 546
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.94% 1.08% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 1.20% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 204 400
10th Percentile £326 £293 £325
25th Percentile £413 £372 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £600 £583 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £475 £438
% change year-on-year +13.16% +8.57% -14.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 12 13
10th Percentile £22.50 - £10.54
25th Percentile £24.08 £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 £48.75
90th Percentile £95.00 - £67.00
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 44,871 29,543 34,928
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.02% 90.39% 85.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,803 18,563 22,435
10th Percentile £325 £300 £306
25th Percentile £419 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.46%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,660 1,589 2,131
10th Percentile £14.85 £14.20 £13.46
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.44 £17.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -6.98%
75th Percentile £68.13 £50.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.00 £69.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £24.34 £40.00
% change year-on-year +82.83% -39.15% -1.95%

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 24 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 24 July 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 24 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 -26 452 £500 - 384
London +7 301 £489 -3.69% 200
Work from Home -16 154 £450 - 169
UK excluding London -98 141 £538 +13.16% 234
North of England -56 47 £550 +15.79% 68
Midlands -25 39 £563 +20.00% 42
North West -26 38 £550 +29.41% 38
West Midlands -43 26 £650 +31.65% 24
South East -88 26 £531 +3.66% 70
East of England -13 20 £519 +3.75% 9
East Midlands -2 13 £465 +3.33% 18
Yorkshire -51 9 £550 +15.79% 29
South West -48 8 £525 +40.00% 30
Scotland -10 1 - - 7

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 (3.43%) CMS
2 12 (2.42%) Confluence
3 6 (1.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.81%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.60%) Anypoint
5 3 (0.60%) Apache
6 2 (0.40%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.40%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.40%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.40%) Mule
6 2 (0.40%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.20%) nginx
7 1 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (3.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (3.02%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 14 (2.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (1.41%) Chatbot
6 6 (1.21%) Adobe After Effects
6 6 (1.21%) Final Cut Pro
6 6 (1.21%) Sketch
7 3 (0.60%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.40%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.20%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 43 (8.67%) Shopify
2 20 (4.03%) Magento
3 10 (2.02%) SAP CRM
4 9 (1.81%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (1.61%) Payment Gateway
6 7 (1.41%) NetSuite
7 6 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
8 5 (1.01%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.60%) SAP MDG
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%) ION MarketView
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 65 (13.10%) Azure
2 64 (12.90%) AWS
3 29 (5.85%) Figma
4 25 (5.04%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
5 24 (4.84%) GCP
6 17 (3.43%) GitHub
7 13 (2.62%) Power Platform
8 12 (2.42%) SaaS
9 11 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (2.02%) dbt
11 9 (1.81%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (1.81%) Miro
11 9 (1.81%) Serverless
12 8 (1.61%) Algolia
12 8 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (1.61%) Google Workspace
12 8 (1.61%) Snowflake
13 7 (1.41%) BigCommerce
13 7 (1.41%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 7 (1.41%) WhatsApp
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 12 (2.42%) NoSQL
1 12 (2.42%) Power BI
2 9 (1.81%) Looker
3 8 (1.61%) BigQuery
3 8 (1.61%) MongoDB
3 8 (1.61%) MySQL
3 8 (1.61%) Tableau
4 6 (1.21%) Couchbase
5 5 (1.01%) Metadata
5 5 (1.01%) Relational Database
5 5 (1.01%) SQL Server
6 4 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.81%) Redis
6 4 (0.81%) SAP HANA
6 4 (0.81%) Semantic Layer
7 3 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.40%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 28 (5.65%) Jenkins
2 26 (5.24%) Git
3 22 (4.44%) JIRA
4 10 (2.02%) Cypress.io
5 8 (1.61%) Selenium
5 8 (1.61%) Subversion
6 6 (1.21%) GitLab
6 6 (1.21%) Vite
7 5 (1.01%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.01%) Claude Code
8 4 (0.81%) Eclipse
8 4 (0.81%) Maven
8 4 (0.81%) Zephyr
9 3 (0.60%) Appium
10 2 (0.40%) Hudson
11 1 (0.20%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.20%) PHPUnit
11 1 (0.20%) Spock
11 1 (0.20%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.20%) WebDriver
General
1 237 (47.78%) Retail
2 193 (38.91%) Social Skills
3 81 (16.33%) Finance
4 71 (14.31%) Marketing
5 43 (8.67%) Analytical Skills
6 42 (8.47%) Organisational Skills
7 24 (4.84%) Manufacturing
8 22 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (3.02%) Banking
10 11 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (2.02%) Legal
12 9 (1.81%) Publishing
13 8 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (1.41%) Advertising
15 6 (1.21%) French Language
16 4 (0.81%) Electronics
16 4 (0.81%) Public Sector
17 3 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
17 3 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
17 3 (0.60%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 92 (18.55%) Senior
2 55 (11.09%) Analyst
3 51 (10.28%) Developer
4 42 (8.47%) Architect
5 41 (8.27%) Designer
6 40 (8.06%) Project Manager
7 35 (7.06%) Lead
8 34 (6.85%) Business Analyst
9 29 (5.85%) Senior Manager
10 28 (5.65%) E-Commerce Manager
11 26 (5.24%) Product Manager
12 22 (4.44%) UI Designer
13 21 (4.23%) Solutions Architect
14 19 (3.83%) Senior Designer
14 19 (3.83%) Senior Project Manager
15 15 (3.02%) Senior Developer
16 14 (2.82%) Programme Manager
16 14 (2.82%) Salesforce Developer
17 13 (2.62%) Data Engineer
17 13 (2.62%) E-Commerce Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (9.07%) React
1 45 (9.07%) REST
2 39 (7.86%) Node.js
3 37 (7.46%) GraphQL
4 22 (4.44%) Middleware
5 20 (4.03%) CSS
6 19 (3.83%) HTML
7 18 (3.63%) Next.js
8 17 (3.43%) Kafka
8 17 (3.43%) VML
9 16 (3.23%) Spring
10 15 (3.02%) Playwright
11 14 (2.82%) SOAP
12 12 (2.42%) Spring Boot
13 11 (2.22%) AngularJS
13 11 (2.22%) RESTful
14 10 (2.02%) HTML5
15 9 (1.81%) Jakarta EE
15 9 (1.81%) Sass
16 8 (1.61%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 42 (8.47%) Product Ownership
2 26 (5.24%) Cloud Native
3 22 (4.44%) Mobile App
4 20 (4.03%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (3.63%) Distributed Systems
6 13 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (2.02%) AI Agents
7 10 (2.02%) Marketing Technology
7 10 (2.02%) Virtual Team
8 9 (1.81%) Graphic Design
8 9 (1.81%) Onboarding
9 8 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (1.61%) Management Information System
10 7 (1.41%) Animation
10 7 (1.41%) FMCG
11 5 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.01%) EPoS
12 4 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (0.81%) Security Posture
13 3 (0.60%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.02%) Android
1 10 (2.02%) Apple iOS
1 10 (2.02%) Linux
2 9 (1.81%) Windows
3 5 (1.01%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (32.46%) Agile
2 100 (20.16%) Stakeholder Management
3 90 (18.15%) Problem-Solving
4 80 (16.13%) User Experience
5 68 (13.71%) CI/CD
6 63 (12.70%) Customer Experience
7 62 (12.50%) Roadmaps
8 60 (12.10%) CRM
9 55 (11.09%) Scrum
10 54 (10.89%) Analytics
11 52 (10.48%) AI
12 48 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
12 48 (9.68%) DevOps
13 47 (9.48%) Project Management
14 44 (8.87%) B2C
15 41 (8.27%) Migration
16 39 (7.86%) ERP
16 39 (7.86%) Time Management
17 38 (7.66%) Workshop Facilitation
18 33 (6.65%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 37 (7.46%) SQL
2 35 (7.06%) JavaScript
3 33 (6.65%) TypeScript
4 28 (5.65%) Python
5 27 (5.44%) Java
6 6 (1.21%) Apex Code
6 6 (1.21%) C#
6 6 (1.21%) Kotlin
7 5 (1.01%) Groovy
7 5 (1.01%) SOQL
7 5 (1.01%) SOSL
7 5 (1.01%) Swift
8 4 (0.81%) ABAP
9 3 (0.60%) Go
9 3 (0.60%) Shell Script
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
Qualifications
1 48 (9.68%) Degree
2 6 (1.21%) CSPO
2 6 (1.21%) Master's Degree
3 5 (1.01%) 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 (6.85%) QA
2 26 (5.24%) Accessibility
3 22 (4.44%) Data Quality
4 11 (2.22%) GDPR
5 7 (1.41%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.21%) SLA
7 4 (0.81%) 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 21 (4.23%) Docker
2 1 (0.20%) Sendmail
2 1 (0.20%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 21 (4.23%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.42%) Terraform
3 7 (1.41%) 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%) Ansible
6 1 (0.20%) Apache Ranger
Vendors
1 55 (11.09%) Salesforce
2 43 (8.67%) SAP
3 31 (6.25%) Adobe
3 31 (6.25%) Google
3 31 (6.25%) Microsoft
4 22 (4.44%) Oracle
5 17 (3.43%) Databricks
6 15 (3.02%) MuleSoft
7 8 (1.61%) Sitecore
8 7 (1.41%) New Relic
9 6 (1.21%) IBM
10 5 (1.01%) Braze
10 5 (1.01%) Dynatrace
10 5 (1.01%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.01%) Splunk
11 4 (0.81%) Netlify
12 3 (0.60%) Informatica
13 2 (0.40%) Apple
13 2 (0.40%) Confluent
13 2 (0.40%) Infor