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 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 270 260 185
Rank change year-on-year -10 -75 -4
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 422 298 531
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.88% 1.02% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 1.12% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 195 382
10th Percentile £325 £281 £300
25th Percentile £411 £360 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £583 £575 £588
90th Percentile £645 £683 £686
UK excluding London median daily rate £504 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +12.00% - -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 3 17
10th Percentile £22.50 - £10.42
25th Percentile £28.81 £15.25 £11.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £15.50 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +254.84% +19.23% -80.15%
75th Percentile £76.00 £22.38 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £26.35 £64.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.91 £15.50 £13.00
% change year-on-year +131.68% +19.23% -86.32%

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 40,582 26,548 36,652
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.29% 91.02% 86.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,477 17,040 23,631
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.88% -2.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +4.21% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,387 1,106 2,443
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.35 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.80 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £28.17 £36.05
Median % change year-on-year +50.90% -21.86% +0.13%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.70 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -32.93% +7.14%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -25 388 £500 +2.04% 345
London -1 246 £500 -2.91% 145
Work from Home -4 152 £500 +25.00% 158
UK excluding London -29 136 £504 +12.00% 238
Midlands -27 50 £475 -8.65% 56
North of England -43 36 £513 +2.50% 70
West Midlands -25 34 £638 +21.43% 33
North West -23 26 £513 +36.67% 47
South East -75 24 £521 +43.79% 74
East of England -17 18 £350 -24.32% 17
East Midlands -18 16 £465 -6.53% 23
Yorkshire -51 10 £600 +18.52% 18
South West -37 6 £625 +66.67% 13
Scotland - 2 - - 6

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 (4.03%) CMS
2 9 (2.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 8 (1.90%) Confluence
4 2 (0.47%) Apache
4 2 (0.47%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.47%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.47%) WordPress
5 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.24%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.24%) Kentico
5 1 (0.24%) nginx
5 1 (0.24%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.24%) Sitefinity
5 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (3.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.90%) Chatbot
3 8 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.71%) Adobe After Effects
6 2 (0.47%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.47%) Final Cut Pro
6 2 (0.47%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.47%) Sketch
7 1 (0.24%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.24%) Autodesk Smoke
7 1 (0.24%) Trello
Business Applications
1 48 (11.37%) Shopify
2 15 (3.55%) Magento
3 7 (1.66%) SAP CRM
4 5 (1.18%) Payment Gateway
4 5 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.71%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.71%) SAP Hybris
5 3 (0.71%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.47%) SAP MDG-F
7 1 (0.24%) Carpe Diem
7 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.24%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.24%) ION MarketView
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle Retail
7 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.24%) SAP CAR
7 1 (0.24%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.24%) SAP Retail
7 1 (0.24%) SDL Web 8
7 1 (0.24%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 35 (8.29%) Azure
2 32 (7.58%) AWS
3 22 (5.21%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
4 16 (3.79%) Dynamics 365
4 16 (3.79%) Figma
5 14 (3.32%) SaaS
6 11 (2.61%) BigCommerce
6 11 (2.61%) Power Platform
7 10 (2.37%) Serverless
8 9 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (2.13%) Datadog
8 9 (2.13%) GCP
9 7 (1.66%) Google Workspace
9 7 (1.66%) Miro
9 7 (1.66%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 7 (1.66%) WhatsApp
10 6 (1.42%) dbt
10 6 (1.42%) Google Tag Manager
10 6 (1.42%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 5 (1.18%) Algolia
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.24%) Firewall
1 1 (0.24%) Internet
1 1 (0.24%) LAN
1 1 (0.24%) Network Security
1 1 (0.24%) RFID
1 1 (0.24%) RTMP
1 1 (0.24%) WAN
1 1 (0.24%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.61%) MySQL
2 10 (2.37%) Power BI
3 8 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (1.66%) Metadata
5 6 (1.42%) Redis
6 5 (1.18%) Looker
6 5 (1.18%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.18%) SQL Server
7 4 (0.95%) BigQuery
7 4 (0.95%) DynamoDB
7 4 (0.95%) Tableau
8 3 (0.71%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.71%) Semantic Layer
9 2 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.47%) CockroachDB
9 2 (0.47%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.47%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 21 (4.98%) Jenkins
1 21 (4.98%) JIRA
2 20 (4.74%) Git
3 10 (2.37%) Selenium
4 8 (1.90%) Cypress.io
5 7 (1.66%) Vite
6 6 (1.42%) GitLab
7 4 (0.95%) Maven
7 4 (0.95%) Subversion
8 3 (0.71%) Appium
8 3 (0.71%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.47%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.47%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.47%) Hudson
9 2 (0.47%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.24%) Fiddler
10 1 (0.24%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.24%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.24%) Spock
10 1 (0.24%) TeamCity
General
1 152 (36.02%) Retail
2 146 (34.60%) Social Skills
3 69 (16.35%) Finance
4 58 (13.74%) Marketing
5 43 (10.19%) Organisational Skills
6 30 (7.11%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (4.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (3.32%) Manufacturing
8 14 (3.32%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (2.37%) Banking
10 9 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (2.13%) Legal
11 7 (1.66%) Electronics
11 7 (1.66%) Publishing
12 5 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.18%) French Language
13 4 (0.95%) Advertising
13 4 (0.95%) Public Sector
14 3 (0.71%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 91 (21.56%) Senior
2 61 (14.45%) Analyst
3 45 (10.66%) Project Manager
4 43 (10.19%) Developer
5 42 (9.95%) Business Analyst
6 39 (9.24%) Senior Manager
7 33 (7.82%) E-Commerce Manager
8 31 (7.35%) Architect
9 30 (7.11%) Senior Project Manager
10 25 (5.92%) Lead
11 22 (5.21%) Designer
12 15 (3.55%) Consultant
13 14 (3.32%) Data Engineer
14 13 (3.08%) E-Commerce Analyst
14 13 (3.08%) E-Commerce Business Analyst
14 13 (3.08%) Senior Designer
14 13 (3.08%) Technical Analyst
15 12 (2.84%) Digital Analyst
15 12 (2.84%) Product Manager
16 11 (2.61%) Senior E-Commerce Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (9.95%) React
2 41 (9.72%) Node.js
3 40 (9.48%) GraphQL
4 31 (7.35%) REST
5 29 (6.87%) VML
6 23 (5.45%) CSS
7 22 (5.21%) Playwright
8 21 (4.98%) HTML
9 20 (4.74%) Middleware
10 14 (3.32%) Next.js
11 11 (2.61%) AngularJS
11 11 (2.61%) Vitest
12 10 (2.37%) Spring
13 9 (2.13%) SOAP
13 9 (2.13%) Vue
14 8 (1.90%) .NET
14 8 (1.90%) HTML5
15 7 (1.66%) OpenTelemetry
15 7 (1.66%) Web Services
15 7 (1.66%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (8.06%) Product Ownership
2 26 (6.16%) Cloud Native
3 15 (3.55%) Mobile App
4 12 (2.84%) Marketing Technology
4 12 (2.84%) Virtual Team
5 9 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (2.13%) Management Information System
6 8 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (1.90%) Onboarding
7 7 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.42%) AI Agents
8 6 (1.42%) FMCG
9 5 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.95%) Client/Server
10 4 (0.95%) EPoS
11 3 (0.71%) e-Learning
11 3 (0.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (0.71%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.08%) Linux
2 10 (2.37%) Android
2 10 (2.37%) Windows
3 9 (2.13%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.95%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (32.70%) Agile
2 85 (20.14%) Problem-Solving
3 69 (16.35%) Stakeholder Management
4 67 (15.88%) User Experience
5 52 (12.32%) Project Management
6 51 (12.09%) CI/CD
6 51 (12.09%) ERP
7 45 (10.66%) Analytics
8 44 (10.43%) Scrum
9 40 (9.48%) Customer Experience
10 39 (9.24%) Time Management
11 38 (9.00%) B2C
12 37 (8.77%) Roadmaps
13 36 (8.53%) DevOps
14 35 (8.29%) Continuous Improvement
15 34 (8.06%) CRM
16 30 (7.11%) AI
16 30 (7.11%) Mentoring
17 29 (6.87%) Release Management
18 28 (6.64%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 40 (9.48%) TypeScript
2 37 (8.77%) JavaScript
3 25 (5.92%) SQL
4 20 (4.74%) Python
5 16 (3.79%) Java
6 7 (1.66%) C#
7 6 (1.42%) PHP
7 6 (1.42%) Shell Script
8 5 (1.18%) Apex Code
8 5 (1.18%) SOQL
8 5 (1.18%) SOSL
9 4 (0.95%) Kotlin
9 4 (0.95%) Swift
10 3 (0.71%) Go
11 2 (0.47%) Korn
12 1 (0.24%) Bash
12 1 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.24%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.24%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.24%) XPath
Qualifications
1 26 (6.16%) Degree
2 8 (1.90%) CSPO
3 4 (0.95%) PMI Certification
4 2 (0.47%) Analytics IQ
4 2 (0.47%) PMP
4 2 (0.47%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.24%) APMP
5 1 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.24%) CISA
5 1 (0.24%) CISSP
5 1 (0.24%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (0.24%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (6.64%) QA
2 17 (4.03%) Data Quality
3 15 (3.55%) Accessibility
3 15 (3.55%) GDPR
4 5 (1.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 5 (1.18%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.95%) SLA
6 3 (0.71%) PERC
6 3 (0.71%) WCAG
7 2 (0.47%) PMO
8 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.24%) NIST
System Software
1 19 (4.50%) Docker
2 5 (1.18%) Varnish
3 1 (0.24%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 18 (4.27%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.66%) Grafana
2 7 (1.66%) Prometheus
2 7 (1.66%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 2 (0.47%) MOM
4 1 (0.24%) Ansible
4 1 (0.24%) Apache Ranger
4 1 (0.24%) Terraform
Vendors
1 46 (10.90%) Salesforce
2 43 (10.19%) SAP
3 36 (8.53%) Adobe
4 30 (7.11%) Google
5 23 (5.45%) Microsoft
6 19 (4.50%) Oracle
7 14 (3.32%) Databricks
8 12 (2.84%) Sitecore
9 6 (1.42%) Tealium
10 5 (1.18%) MuleSoft
11 4 (0.95%) Netlify
12 3 (0.71%) mParticle
12 3 (0.71%) OneTrust
12 3 (0.71%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 3 (0.71%) Splunk
12 3 (0.71%) TikTok
13 2 (0.47%) Dynatrace
13 2 (0.47%) IBM
13 2 (0.47%) Infor
14 1 (0.24%) Optimizely