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 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 276 257 192
Rank change year-on-year -19 -65 -23
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 401 299 525
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.93% 1.02% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 1.13% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 194 375
10th Percentile £325 £281 £286
25th Percentile £413 £339 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £588
90th Percentile £775 £684 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £444 £475
% change year-on-year +15.49% -6.58% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 4 17
10th Percentile £14.41 £32.87 £10.42
25th Percentile £22.50 £38.68 £11.00
Median hourly rate £35.91 £44.71 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.67% +243.88% -81.75%
75th Percentile £75.25 £50.00 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £52.25 £66.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.00 £52.50 £13.00
% change year-on-year -39.05% +303.85% -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 37,265 26,485 38,452
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.97% 90.43% 86.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,631 17,037 25,025
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £723 £744 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -2.04% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,203 922 2,327
10th Percentile £14.97 £15.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.12
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +1.20% -8.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.52 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £70.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £31.76 £30.91
% change year-on-year -13.41% +2.74% -11.68%

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 19 March 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 19 March 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 19 March 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 -15 374 £500 +11.11% 382
London -7 238 £500 +11.11% 160
Work from Home -7 146 £513 +28.13% 210
UK excluding London -20 123 £513 +15.49% 249
Midlands -30 47 £463 +11.04% 63
North of England -43 37 £531 +6.25% 78
West Midlands -29 34 £638 +226.92% 32
North West -17 22 £513 +2.50% 44
South East -60 22 £525 +53.28% 67
Yorkshire -44 15 £600 +18.52% 25
East of England -12 14 £350 -24.32% 27
East Midlands -27 13 £413 -17.09% 31
South West -20 4 £625 +66.67% 15
Scotland - 2 - - 3

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 19 (4.74%) CMS
2 10 (2.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 10 (2.49%) Confluence
3 4 (1.00%) Headless CMS
4 3 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.50%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.25%) Apache
6 1 (0.25%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.25%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.25%) Kentico
6 1 (0.25%) Sitefinity
6 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (2.49%) Chatbot
1 10 (2.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.25%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.50%) Autodesk Smoke
6 1 (0.25%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.25%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.25%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.25%) Trello
Business Applications
1 41 (10.22%) Shopify
2 11 (2.74%) Magento
3 7 (1.75%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (1.00%) Endur
5 3 (0.75%) SAP Hybris
6 2 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.25%) Eikon
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle Retail
7 1 (0.25%) Orchestrade
7 1 (0.25%) SAP CAR
7 1 (0.25%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.25%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.25%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.25%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.25%) SAP Retail
7 1 (0.25%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.25%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 42 (10.47%) Azure
2 33 (8.23%) AWS
3 26 (6.48%) SaaS
4 16 (3.99%) Dynamics 365
5 14 (3.49%) Figma
6 13 (3.24%) Commercetools
6 13 (3.24%) Datadog
6 13 (3.24%) GCP
6 13 (3.24%) Serverless
7 12 (2.99%) Algolia
7 12 (2.99%) Contentful
7 12 (2.99%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 11 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (1.75%) BigCommerce
9 7 (1.75%) Google Workspace
9 7 (1.75%) Miro
9 7 (1.75%) Power Platform
9 7 (1.75%) WhatsApp
10 6 (1.50%) Contentsquare
10 6 (1.50%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.75%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.25%) Firewall
2 1 (0.25%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.25%) Internet
2 1 (0.25%) RFID
2 1 (0.25%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.74%) MySQL
2 9 (2.24%) Redis
3 7 (1.75%) Power BI
4 6 (1.50%) DynamoDB
4 6 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (1.50%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.25%) Metadata
5 5 (1.25%) NoSQL
5 5 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.25%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.75%) Looker
6 3 (0.75%) Mixpanel
6 3 (0.75%) MongoDB
6 3 (0.75%) Tableau
7 2 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.50%) CockroachDB
7 2 (0.50%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.25%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.25%) Bigtable
8 1 (0.25%) Impala
Development Applications
1 28 (6.98%) Jenkins
2 22 (5.49%) JIRA
3 13 (3.24%) Git
4 7 (1.75%) Selenium
5 6 (1.50%) Cypress.io
5 6 (1.50%) GitLab
6 4 (1.00%) Maven
6 4 (1.00%) SpecFlow
7 3 (0.75%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (0.75%) Charles Proxy
7 3 (0.75%) Fiddler
7 3 (0.75%) Visual Website Optimizer
8 2 (0.50%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.50%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.50%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.25%) Appium
9 1 (0.25%) Spock
9 1 (0.25%) Vite
9 1 (0.25%) webpack
9 1 (0.25%) Zephyr
General
1 133 (33.17%) Social Skills
2 105 (26.18%) Retail
3 55 (13.72%) Finance
4 53 (13.22%) Marketing
5 33 (8.23%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (7.23%) Organisational Skills
7 16 (3.99%) Legal
8 12 (2.99%) Electronics
9 11 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (2.49%) Manufacturing
11 7 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (1.50%) Advertising
12 6 (1.50%) Banking
12 6 (1.50%) French Language
12 6 (1.50%) Publishing
13 4 (1.00%) Front Office
14 2 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.50%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.25%) German Language
Job Titles
1 70 (17.46%) Senior
2 52 (12.97%) Analyst
3 46 (11.47%) Architect
4 39 (9.73%) Project Manager
5 38 (9.48%) E-Commerce Manager
6 36 (8.98%) Business Analyst
7 33 (8.23%) Developer
8 27 (6.73%) Senior Manager
9 26 (6.48%) Consultant
10 24 (5.99%) Senior Project Manager
11 21 (5.24%) Lead
12 17 (4.24%) Designer
13 14 (3.49%) Solutions Architect
14 13 (3.24%) Web Manager
15 12 (2.99%) Account Executive
15 12 (2.99%) E-Commerce Executive
15 12 (2.99%) E-Commerce Project Manager
16 11 (2.74%) Data Engineer
16 11 (2.74%) Senior E-Commerce Manager
17 10 (2.49%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (11.47%) Node.js
2 35 (8.73%) GraphQL
3 32 (7.98%) React
4 30 (7.48%) Playwright
5 24 (5.99%) CSS
6 22 (5.49%) REST
7 21 (5.24%) HTML
7 21 (5.24%) Vitest
8 20 (4.99%) VML
9 19 (4.74%) Middleware
10 14 (3.49%) .NET
11 13 (3.24%) YAML
12 11 (2.74%) AngularJS
12 11 (2.74%) OpenTelemetry
13 8 (2.00%) HTML5
13 8 (2.00%) Next.js
13 8 (2.00%) Sass
13 8 (2.00%) Vue
14 7 (1.75%) CSS3
14 7 (1.75%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 42 (10.47%) Product Ownership
2 37 (9.23%) Cloud Native
3 18 (4.49%) Mobile App
4 16 (3.99%) Onboarding
5 15 (3.74%) Virtual Team
6 14 (3.49%) Marketing Technology
7 13 (3.24%) Analytical Mindset
8 10 (2.49%) PMI
9 9 (2.24%) Client/Server
10 6 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.25%) FMCG
11 5 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.25%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.00%) e-Learning
12 4 (1.00%) EPoS
12 4 (1.00%) Learning Management System
13 3 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.75%) Data Structures
13 3 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.49%) Linux
2 8 (2.00%) Windows
3 6 (1.50%) Android
4 5 (1.25%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (34.66%) Agile
2 76 (18.95%) Stakeholder Management
3 74 (18.45%) Problem-Solving
4 56 (13.97%) CI/CD
5 54 (13.47%) User Experience
6 47 (11.72%) DevOps
7 46 (11.47%) Analytics
7 46 (11.47%) Scrum
8 43 (10.72%) ERP
8 43 (10.72%) Project Management
9 42 (10.47%) Coaching
10 39 (9.73%) Customer Experience
11 34 (8.48%) Roadmaps
12 33 (8.23%) Continuous Improvement
12 33 (8.23%) Mentoring
12 33 (8.23%) Test Automation
13 31 (7.73%) B2C
14 29 (7.23%) CRM
14 29 (7.23%) Time Management
15 25 (6.23%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 49 (12.22%) TypeScript
2 28 (6.98%) JavaScript
3 24 (5.99%) SQL
4 20 (4.99%) Python
5 14 (3.49%) Java
6 13 (3.24%) C#
7 7 (1.75%) PHP
8 4 (1.00%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.75%) Apex Code
9 3 (0.75%) SOQL
9 3 (0.75%) SOSL
10 2 (0.50%) Go
11 1 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.25%) Korn
11 1 (0.25%) Ruby
11 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (5.74%) Degree
2 14 (3.49%) PMI Certification
3 6 (1.50%) CBAP
4 4 (1.00%) CSPO
4 4 (1.00%) PMP
5 2 (0.50%) Analytics IQ
5 2 (0.50%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.50%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.50%) MBA
6 1 (0.25%) APMP
6 1 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.25%) CFA
6 1 (0.25%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (8.48%) QA
2 22 (5.49%) GDPR
3 16 (3.99%) Accessibility
4 10 (2.49%) PERC
5 9 (2.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 9 (2.24%) Data Quality
5 9 (2.24%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.50%) ISO 8583
6 6 (1.50%) PSD2
7 4 (1.00%) SLA
7 4 (1.00%) WCAG
8 1 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 29 (7.23%) Docker
2 5 (1.25%) Varnish
3 1 (0.25%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 29 (7.23%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.99%) Grafana
2 12 (2.99%) Prometheus
3 8 (2.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 4 (1.00%) Terraform
5 2 (0.50%) Ansible
5 2 (0.50%) MOM
6 1 (0.25%) Apache Ranger
Vendors
1 39 (9.73%) Google
2 35 (8.73%) Adobe
3 31 (7.73%) Salesforce
4 26 (6.48%) SAP
5 19 (4.74%) Microsoft
6 12 (2.99%) Oracle
7 10 (2.49%) Databricks
7 10 (2.49%) Tealium
8 8 (2.00%) Sitecore
9 6 (1.50%) OneTrust
10 5 (1.25%) mParticle
10 5 (1.25%) Optimizely
11 4 (1.00%) Wind River
12 3 (0.75%) Amplitude
12 3 (0.75%) Hotjar
12 3 (0.75%) TikTok
13 2 (0.50%) Netlify
13 2 (0.50%) OpenAI
13 2 (0.50%) Rollbar
13 2 (0.50%) Splunk