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

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 267 215 198
Rank change year-on-year -52 -17 -57
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 369 380 514
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.01% 1.19% 1.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 1.34% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 257 350
10th Percentile £325 £295 £300
25th Percentile £413 £363 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £569 £588 £600
90th Percentile £748 £688 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +18.75% -20.00% +0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 9
10th Percentile £12.75 £42.78 -
25th Percentile £14.06 £44.08 £13.00
Median hourly rate £21.45 £47.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -54.85% -5.94% -27.86%
75th Percentile £42.30 £51.25 £61.25
90th Percentile £69.30 £52.75 £67.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £12.75 £52.50 £13.00
% change year-on-year -75.71% +303.85% -

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 32,180 28,256 37,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.89% 88.57% 87.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,310 17,164 24,974
10th Percentile £304 £306 £305
25th Percentile £406 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £724 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,978 898 1,563
10th Percentile £14.59 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £42.19
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -22.97% +23.04%
75th Percentile £55.00 £62.12 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £75.00 £77.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.83 £30.41 £44.50
% change year-on-year -21.64% -31.67% +62.56%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -42 340 £500 +11.11% 458
London -10 223 £500 +1.27% 88
Work from Home -12 152 £525 +23.53% 352
UK excluding London -44 107 £475 +18.75% 423
Midlands -24 38 £475 +58.33% 44
North of England -21 35 £500 +25.00% 99
West Midlands -27 28 £523 +74.17% 26
South East -41 22 £525 +57.30% 141
Yorkshire -29 21 £494 - 39
North West -28 14 £500 +25.00% 48
East Midlands -11 10 £425 -18.66% 18
East of England -30 8 £475 +26.67% 69
Scotland +7 4 - - 10
South West -17 3 £400 -20.00% 42

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 (4.61%) CMS
2 12 (3.25%) Confluence
3 5 (1.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (1.08%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.81%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.54%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 14 (3.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.63%) Chatbot
3 6 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.54%) Autodesk Smoke
5 1 (0.27%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.27%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.27%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 29 (7.86%) Shopify
2 13 (3.52%) Payment Gateway
3 12 (3.25%) 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 2 (0.54%) Oracle Retail
6 2 (0.54%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.27%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.27%) Eikon
7 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.27%) Orchestrade
7 1 (0.27%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 50 (13.55%) Azure
2 40 (10.84%) SaaS
3 38 (10.30%) AWS
4 19 (5.15%) Serverless
5 18 (4.88%) GCP
6 17 (4.61%) Figma
7 15 (4.07%) Commercetools
7 15 (4.07%) Dynamics 365
8 13 (3.52%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (3.52%) Contentful
8 13 (3.52%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
9 12 (3.25%) Algolia
10 10 (2.71%) Datadog
11 8 (2.17%) Google Analytics
12 7 (1.90%) Contentsquare
12 7 (1.90%) Power Platform
12 7 (1.90%) SAP Commerce Cloud
13 6 (1.63%) dbt
14 5 (1.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (1.36%) BigCommerce
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.90%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.27%) Firewall
2 1 (0.27%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.44%) SQL Server
1 9 (2.44%) Tableau
2 8 (2.17%) MySQL
2 8 (2.17%) Redis
3 7 (1.90%) DynamoDB
3 7 (1.90%) NoSQL
3 7 (1.90%) Power BI
4 6 (1.63%) Mixpanel
5 5 (1.36%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (1.08%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.54%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.54%) CockroachDB
8 2 (0.54%) Couchbase
8 2 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.54%) Metadata
8 2 (0.54%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 35 (9.49%) Jenkins
2 20 (5.42%) JIRA
3 12 (3.25%) Git
4 6 (1.63%) Visual Website Optimizer
5 5 (1.36%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.08%) SpecFlow
6 4 (1.08%) Storybook
7 3 (0.81%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (0.81%) Charles Proxy
7 3 (0.81%) Fiddler
7 3 (0.81%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.54%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.54%) GitLab
8 2 (0.54%) Postman
9 1 (0.27%) Appium
9 1 (0.27%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.27%) Gradle
9 1 (0.27%) Selenium
9 1 (0.27%) Vite
9 1 (0.27%) webpack
General
1 107 (29.00%) Social Skills
2 78 (21.14%) Retail
3 46 (12.47%) Marketing
4 42 (11.38%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (11.11%) Finance
6 17 (4.61%) Legal
7 16 (4.34%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (3.52%) Electronics
9 11 (2.98%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (2.71%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (1.90%) French Language
12 6 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (1.63%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.63%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.08%) Advertising
13 4 (1.08%) Banking
13 4 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.81%) Front Office
15 2 (0.54%) Automotive
15 2 (0.54%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 56 (15.18%) Senior
2 49 (13.28%) Analyst
3 43 (11.65%) Architect
4 37 (10.03%) Business Analyst
5 33 (8.94%) Developer
6 32 (8.67%) Consultant
7 26 (7.05%) E-Commerce Manager
8 23 (6.23%) Project Manager
9 15 (4.07%) Lead
10 13 (3.52%) Technical Consultant
11 12 (3.25%) Data Engineer
11 12 (3.25%) Senior Consultant
11 12 (3.25%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
11 12 (3.25%) Senior Technical Consultant
11 12 (3.25%) Senior Technical Specialist
11 12 (3.25%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
11 12 (3.25%) Solutions Architect
11 12 (3.25%) Technical Specialist
11 12 (3.25%) Web Manager
12 11 (2.98%) E-Commerce Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (15.18%) Node.js
2 41 (11.11%) GraphQL
3 29 (7.86%) Playwright
4 28 (7.59%) Vitest
5 23 (6.23%) React
6 18 (4.88%) HTML
7 16 (4.34%) VML
7 16 (4.34%) YAML
8 14 (3.79%) CSS
8 14 (3.79%) REST
9 12 (3.25%) .NET
10 11 (2.98%) Next.js
11 9 (2.44%) HTML5
12 8 (2.17%) CSS3
12 8 (2.17%) OpenTelemetry
13 7 (1.90%) EDI
13 7 (1.90%) Middleware
13 7 (1.90%) Redux
13 7 (1.90%) RESTful
13 7 (1.90%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 40 (10.84%) Cloud Native
2 37 (10.03%) Product Ownership
3 21 (5.69%) Mobile App
4 19 (5.15%) Onboarding
5 13 (3.52%) Analytical Mindset
6 10 (2.71%) Marketing Technology
6 10 (2.71%) PMI
7 8 (2.17%) Client/Server
8 7 (1.90%) Virtual Team
9 6 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (1.63%) Social Media
10 5 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.08%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.08%) e-Learning
11 4 (1.08%) FMCG
11 4 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.08%) Learning Management System
11 4 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.08%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.08%) Apple iOS
2 3 (0.81%) Android
2 3 (0.81%) Windows
3 2 (0.54%) Linux
4 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (33.60%) Agile
2 67 (18.16%) Stakeholder Management
3 65 (17.62%) Analytics
4 59 (15.99%) CI/CD
5 58 (15.72%) Problem-Solving
6 50 (13.55%) DevOps
7 49 (13.28%) User Experience
8 48 (13.01%) Coaching
9 43 (11.65%) Mentoring
10 41 (11.11%) ERP
11 39 (10.57%) CRM
12 32 (8.67%) Scrum
13 30 (8.13%) Test Automation
14 28 (7.59%) Customer Experience
15 27 (7.32%) Continuous Improvement
15 27 (7.32%) Project Management
16 26 (7.05%) Roadmaps
17 25 (6.78%) A/B Testing
18 24 (6.50%) Logistics
19 23 (6.23%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 51 (13.82%) SQL
2 45 (12.20%) TypeScript
3 35 (9.49%) Python
4 26 (7.05%) JavaScript
5 14 (3.79%) Java
6 13 (3.52%) C#
7 11 (2.98%) PHP
8 3 (0.81%) R
9 2 (0.54%) Go
9 2 (0.54%) Ruby
9 2 (0.54%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.27%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.27%) Perl
10 1 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 19 (5.15%) Degree
2 14 (3.79%) PMI Certification
3 6 (1.63%) CBAP
4 5 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.08%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.08%) CSPO
5 4 (1.08%) Master's Degree
5 4 (1.08%) PMP
6 2 (0.54%) APMG
6 2 (0.54%) MBA
6 2 (0.54%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.27%) APMP
7 1 (0.27%) CFA
7 1 (0.27%) IIBA
7 1 (0.27%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.27%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.69%) QA
2 20 (5.42%) GDPR
3 14 (3.79%) Accessibility
4 10 (2.71%) PERC
5 9 (2.44%) PCI DSS
6 8 (2.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 7 (1.90%) Data Quality
8 6 (1.63%) ISO 8583
8 6 (1.63%) PSD2
9 3 (0.81%) WCAG
10 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 37 (10.03%) Docker
2 4 (1.08%) Varnish
3 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 38 (10.30%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.44%) Grafana
2 9 (2.44%) Prometheus
3 8 (2.17%) 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 42 (11.38%) Salesforce
2 32 (8.67%) Google
3 30 (8.13%) Adobe
4 23 (6.23%) SAP
5 21 (5.69%) Microsoft
6 10 (2.71%) Oracle
6 10 (2.71%) Tealium
7 8 (2.17%) Optimizely
8 7 (1.90%) Databricks
8 7 (1.90%) OneTrust
9 6 (1.63%) Amplitude
9 6 (1.63%) Hotjar
9 6 (1.63%) TikTok
10 5 (1.36%) mParticle
10 5 (1.36%) Sitecore
11 4 (1.08%) Wind River
12 3 (0.81%) Facebook
12 3 (0.81%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.81%) Splunk
13 2 (0.54%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud