Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 27 October 2021

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for E-Commerce skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited E-Commerce over the 6 months to 27 October 2021 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

E-Commerce (Electronic Commerce)
UK
6 months to
27 Oct 2021		 Same period 2020 Same period 2019
Rank 101 148 85
Rank change year-on-year +47 -63 -15
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 2,109 598 2,326
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.47% 1.85% 2.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.78% 2.12% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,540 420 1,728
10th Percentile £363 £274 £313
25th Percentile £425 £363 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £600 £550 £550
90th Percentile £688 £613 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £423 £438
% change year-on-year +12.43% -3.43% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 10
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.95 £19.20
25th Percentile £25.00 £23.02 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £30.85 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year -2.76% +13.21% +39.74%
75th Percentile £35.00 £37.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £60.60 £47.20 £62.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.41 £28.83 £27.25
% change year-on-year -1.45% +5.79% +31.33%

E-Commerce is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK
Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 75,931 28,184 73,486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.07% 87.06% 87.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 52,858 19,135 49,289
10th Percentile £320 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £613 £575 £575
90th Percentile £700 £663 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £440 £438
% change year-on-year +5.11% +0.57% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,703 820 2,172
10th Percentile £12.25 £11.64 £11.80
25th Percentile £14.68 £15.48 £14.90
Median hourly rate £24.79 £25.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.84% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £49.50 £45.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £64.00 £57.17 £52.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.50 £22.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -8.89% +4.65% +10.91%

E-Commerce
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing E-Commerce as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for E-Commerce in the UK

E-Commerce
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing E-Commerce.

Daily rate trend for E-Commerce in the UK

E-Commerce
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing E-Commerce over the 6 months to 27 October 2021.

Daily rate histogram for E-Commerce in the UK

E-Commerce
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing E-Commerce.

Hourly rate trend for E-Commerce in the UK

E-Commerce
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing E-Commerce over the 6 months to 27 October 2021.

Hourly rate histogram for E-Commerce in the UK

E-Commerce
Top 17 Contract 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 October 2021. 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
Job
Vacancies
England +45 1,785 £525 +16.67% 674
London +11 1,019 £538 +18.13% 271
Work from Home +9 753 £500 +17.65% 152
UK excluding London +67 687 £475 +12.43% 429
South East +24 189 £488 +5.41% 81
North of England +23 158 £473 +18.13% 140
Midlands 0 112 £425 -5.56% 88
East of England +23 109 £550 +57.14% 49
South West +23 100 £475 +31.03% 46
North West +20 99 £454 +21.17% 89
West Midlands -29 54 £450 +2.86% 46
East Midlands +9 53 £403 -12.97% 41
Yorkshire -20 53 £500 +19.05% 46
Scotland -77 14 £500 +66.67% 14
North East -7 6 £513 -8.48% 5
Wales -28 3 £375 +15.38% 8
Northern Ireland - 1 £500 - 4

For the 6 months to 27 October 2021, IT contractor jobs citing E-Commerce also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads with a requirement for E-Commerce.

1 791 (37.51%) Agile Software Development
2 538 (25.51%) Retail
3 441 (20.91%) Social Skills
4 426 (20.20%) JavaScript
5 364 (17.26%) DevOps
6 337 (15.98%) Java
7 327 (15.50%) React
8 287 (13.61%) Azure
9 278 (13.18%) AWS
10 267 (12.66%) Microservices
11 257 (12.19%) Scrum
12 254 (12.04%) Node.js
13 233 (11.05%) HTML
14 232 (11.00%) Finance
15 229 (10.86%) CSS
16 214 (10.15%) TDD
17 212 (10.05%) Marketing
18 210 (9.96%) SQL
19 200 (9.48%) Stakeholder Management
20 197 (9.34%) User Experience
21 183 (8.68%) Kubernetes
22 177 (8.39%) Docker
23 172 (8.16%) Salesforce.com
24 169 (8.01%) Python
25 168 (7.97%) Full Stack Development
26 159 (7.54%) JIRA
27 156 (7.40%) TypeScript
28 153 (7.25%) Mobile App
29 152 (7.21%) Git (software)
30 151 (7.16%) Front End Development

E-Commerce
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 107 (5.07%) CMS
2 58 (2.75%) Confluence
3 51 (2.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 27 (1.28%) IBM Domino
5 25 (1.19%) Apache
6 23 (1.09%) WebSphere
7 22 (1.04%) WordPress
8 21 (1.00%) Apache Spark
9 18 (0.85%) Jupyter
10 16 (0.76%) Headless CMS
10 16 (0.76%) Tomcat
11 15 (0.71%) SharePoint
12 12 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
13 11 (0.52%) Apache Solr
13 11 (0.52%) Drupal
13 11 (0.52%) nginx
14 10 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
15 9 (0.43%) OpenStack
16 8 (0.38%) IIS
16 8 (0.38%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 56 (2.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (1.85%) Sketch
3 31 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
4 27 (1.28%) InVision
5 18 (0.85%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 18 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 17 (0.81%) Zeplin
7 16 (0.76%) MS Visio
8 15 (0.71%) Figma
9 12 (0.57%) Photoshop
10 8 (0.38%) Adobe XD
11 7 (0.33%) Marvel
12 6 (0.28%) Chatbot
12 6 (0.28%) OmniGraffle
13 5 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
14 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
15 3 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
16 1 (0.047%) InDesign
16 1 (0.047%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 120 (5.69%) Magento
2 52 (2.47%) Shopify
3 43 (2.04%) SAP Hybris
4 24 (1.14%) Payment Gateway
5 13 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
6 7 (0.33%) BusinessWorks
7 6 (0.28%) Adobe Campaign
8 5 (0.24%) NetSuite
9 4 (0.19%) Salesforce.com CRM
9 4 (0.19%) SAP CRM
9 4 (0.19%) Social Studio
9 4 (0.19%) Workfront
10 3 (0.14%) Sprinklr
11 2 (0.095%) BASE24
11 2 (0.095%) Dynamics CRM
11 2 (0.095%) Oracle ERP
11 2 (0.095%) SAP ERP
11 2 (0.095%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
11 2 (0.095%) Workday HCM
12 1 (0.047%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 287 (13.61%) Azure
2 278 (13.18%) AWS
3 140 (6.64%) GCP
4 130 (6.16%) Serverless
5 73 (3.46%) SaaS
6 65 (3.08%) AWS Lambda
7 51 (2.42%) Power Platform
8 45 (2.13%) GitHub
9 40 (1.90%) PaaS
10 35 (1.66%) Google Analytics
11 33 (1.56%) Azure Service Bus
12 32 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
13 25 (1.19%) IaaS
14 23 (1.09%) npm
15 20 (0.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 19 (0.90%) Dynamics 365
17 14 (0.66%) Adobe Analytics
18 13 (0.62%) Salesforce Service Cloud
19 12 (0.57%) Azure Functions
20 10 (0.47%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 45 (2.13%) HTTP
2 39 (1.85%) Internet
3 19 (0.90%) Firewall
4 16 (0.76%) DNS
5 14 (0.66%) TCP/IP
6 9 (0.43%) WAN
7 8 (0.38%) Intranet
7 8 (0.38%) SAN
7 8 (0.38%) SMS
8 7 (0.33%) FTP
8 7 (0.33%) SSL
9 5 (0.24%) Network Security
9 5 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (0.19%) iSCSI
10 4 (0.19%) LAN
10 4 (0.19%) MVNO
10 4 (0.19%) NAS
10 4 (0.19%) NetScaler
11 2 (0.095%) ATM
11 2 (0.095%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (3.37%) MySQL
2 65 (3.08%) NoSQL
3 54 (2.56%) Relational Database
4 52 (2.47%) SQL Server
5 50 (2.37%) Power BI
6 46 (2.18%) Big Data
7 40 (1.90%) MongoDB
8 38 (1.80%) Tableau
9 31 (1.47%) RDBMS
9 31 (1.47%) Redis
10 26 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
11 22 (1.04%) BigQuery
12 21 (1.00%) Apache Cassandra
13 16 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
14 15 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
14 15 (0.71%) Data Lake
15 13 (0.62%) Cloud Spanner
16 12 (0.57%) Hadoop
16 12 (0.57%) MariaDB
17 10 (0.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 159 (7.54%) JIRA
2 152 (7.21%) Git (software)
3 135 (6.40%) Jenkins
4 45 (2.13%) Maven
5 43 (2.04%) Mockito
5 43 (2.04%) Selenium
6 38 (1.80%) JUnit
7 33 (1.56%) Cypress.io
7 33 (1.56%) webpack
8 28 (1.33%) Bitbucket
9 26 (1.23%) CircleCI
9 26 (1.23%) gulp
10 23 (1.09%) SonarQube
11 20 (0.95%) Cucumber
12 19 (0.90%) Grunt
12 19 (0.90%) Travis CI
12 19 (0.90%) WebDriver
13 17 (0.81%) Subversion
14 16 (0.76%) Postman
14 16 (0.76%) TeamCity
General
1 538 (25.51%) Retail
2 441 (20.91%) Social Skills
3 232 (11.00%) Finance
4 212 (10.05%) Marketing
5 109 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
6 79 (3.75%) Presentation Skills
7 42 (1.99%) Telecoms
8 36 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
9 35 (1.66%) Automotive
10 32 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
11 29 (1.38%) Pharmaceutical
12 28 (1.33%) Manufacturing
13 26 (1.23%) Advertising
14 25 (1.19%) Public Sector
15 24 (1.14%) Banking
15 24 (1.14%) Front Office
16 23 (1.09%) Games
17 18 (0.85%) Billing
18 16 (0.76%) Publishing
19 15 (0.71%) Law
Job Titles
1 620 (29.40%) Developer
2 279 (13.23%) Architect
3 221 (10.48%) Analyst
4 157 (7.44%) Business Analyst
5 150 (7.11%) Solutions Architect
6 138 (6.54%) React Developer
7 136 (6.45%) Project Manager
8 109 (5.17%) Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 93 (4.41%) Senior Developer
10 77 (3.65%) E-Commerce Manager
11 75 (3.56%) Java Developer
12 72 (3.41%) Data Engineer
12 72 (3.41%) Full Stack Developer
13 69 (3.27%) E-Commerce Analyst
14 63 (2.99%) Designer
15 61 (2.89%) E-Commerce Architect
15 61 (2.89%) JavaScript Developer
16 60 (2.84%) E-Commerce Business Analyst
17 50 (2.37%) .NET Developer
18 49 (2.32%) E-Commerce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 327 (15.50%) React
2 254 (12.04%) Node.js
3 233 (11.05%) HTML
4 229 (10.86%) CSS
5 149 (7.06%) .NET
6 136 (6.45%) GraphQL
7 120 (5.69%) REST
8 91 (4.31%) RESTful
9 90 (4.27%) Spring
10 77 (3.65%) Web Services
11 76 (3.60%) HTML5
12 71 (3.37%) Redux
13 66 (3.13%) .NET Core
14 65 (3.08%) CSS3
15 64 (3.03%) AngularJS
15 64 (3.03%) JSON
16 62 (2.94%) Sass
17 61 (2.89%) Kafka
18 60 (2.84%) jQuery
19 48 (2.28%) Vue.js
Miscellaneous
1 197 (9.34%) User Experience
2 153 (7.25%) Mobile App
3 89 (4.22%) Greenfield Project
4 87 (4.13%) iPad
5 56 (2.66%) FMCG
6 53 (2.51%) Virtual Team
7 52 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
8 34 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
9 28 (1.33%) Management Information System
10 25 (1.19%) Public Cloud
11 24 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 24 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
12 23 (1.09%) Social Media
13 21 (1.00%) Cloud Native
14 20 (0.95%) Data Structures
15 15 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
16 14 (0.66%) Data Centre
16 14 (0.66%) Digital Media
17 13 (0.62%) Private Cloud
18 11 (0.52%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 81 (3.84%) Linux
2 39 (1.85%) Windows
3 36 (1.71%) Apple iOS
3 36 (1.71%) Unix
4 31 (1.47%) Android
5 10 (0.47%) Debian
6 9 (0.43%) VMS
7 6 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (0.24%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.24%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.19%) Windows Server
10 3 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.047%) CentOS
11 1 (0.047%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 791 (37.51%) Agile Software Development
2 364 (17.26%) DevOps
3 267 (12.66%) Microservices
4 257 (12.19%) Scrum
5 214 (10.15%) TDD
6 200 (9.48%) Stakeholder Management
7 168 (7.97%) Full Stack Development
8 151 (7.16%) Front End Development
9 143 (6.78%) Analytics
9 143 (6.78%) Problem-Solving
9 143 (6.78%) Test Automation
10 140 (6.64%) CRM
11 130 (6.16%) B2B
12 129 (6.12%) Project Management
13 122 (5.78%) B2C
14 120 (5.69%) Software Engineering
15 116 (5.50%) BDD
16 108 (5.12%) SDLC
17 107 (5.07%) Project Delivery
18 96 (4.55%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 426 (20.20%) JavaScript
2 337 (15.98%) Java
3 210 (9.96%) SQL
4 169 (8.01%) Python
5 156 (7.40%) TypeScript
6 137 (6.50%) C#
7 88 (4.17%) PHP
8 70 (3.32%) ES6
9 65 (3.08%) Java 11
10 53 (2.51%) Scala
11 36 (1.71%) Go
12 33 (1.56%) Kotlin
12 33 (1.56%) Ruby
13 27 (1.28%) VBA
14 23 (1.09%) Java 8
15 21 (1.00%) ES7
16 19 (0.90%) Groovy
17 15 (0.71%) Apple Swift
18 13 (0.62%) C++
19 11 (0.52%) Perl
Qualifications
1 71 (3.37%) Degree
2 22 (1.04%) Security Cleared
3 19 (0.90%) SC Cleared
4 8 (0.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (0.38%) Master's Degree
5 7 (0.33%) PMP
6 5 (0.24%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.19%) AWS Certification
7 4 (0.19%) CISSP
7 4 (0.19%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.14%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.14%) ISEB
8 3 (0.14%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.14%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 2 (0.095%) APMP
9 2 (0.095%) CCNP
9 2 (0.095%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 1 (0.047%) CCNA
10 1 (0.047%) CISM
10 1 (0.047%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (4.46%) QA
2 56 (2.66%) Accessibility
3 14 (0.66%) SLA
4 13 (0.62%) GDPR
5 12 (0.57%) PMO
6 7 (0.33%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.24%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.095%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.095%) NIST
8 2 (0.095%) PSD2
8 2 (0.095%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.095%) WCAG
9 1 (0.047%) COBIT
9 1 (0.047%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.047%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.047%) Section 508
9 1 (0.047%) WAI
System Software
1 177 (8.39%) Docker
2 15 (0.71%) Active Directory
2 15 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.19%) NFS
4 3 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.047%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.047%) Firmware
5 1 (0.047%) GlusterFS
5 1 (0.047%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.047%) iptables
5 1 (0.047%) OpenAM
5 1 (0.047%) OpenDJ
5 1 (0.047%) OpenIDM
5 1 (0.047%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 183 (8.68%) Kubernetes
2 147 (6.97%) Terraform
3 50 (2.37%) Ansible
4 25 (1.19%) Grafana
5 23 (1.09%) Puppet
6 18 (0.85%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.38%) Opscode Chef
8 7 (0.33%) BladeLogic
9 6 (0.28%) FortiGate
10 5 (0.24%) HP Quality Center
11 4 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.14%) Kibana
13 2 (0.095%) HAProxy
13 2 (0.095%) Istio
13 2 (0.095%) Oozie
14 1 (0.047%) logstash
14 1 (0.047%) Mesos
14 1 (0.047%) Microsoft Intune
14 1 (0.047%) SCOM
14 1 (0.047%) WMI
Vendors
1 172 (8.16%) Salesforce.com
2 130 (6.16%) hybris
3 122 (5.78%) Google
4 115 (5.45%) SAP
5 111 (5.26%) Adobe
6 75 (3.56%) Microsoft
7 50 (2.37%) Oracle
8 35 (1.66%) IBM
9 32 (1.52%) MuleSoft
10 27 (1.28%) Demandware
10 27 (1.28%) Xerox
11 25 (1.19%) Alteryx
12 24 (1.14%) Dataiku
13 23 (1.09%) VMware
14 20 (0.95%) New Relic
15 15 (0.71%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
16 14 (0.66%) Sitecore
17 12 (0.57%) Databricks
18 10 (0.47%) Cisco
18 10 (0.47%) Dynatrace
736 E-Commerce job vacancies Nationwide