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

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 235 192
Rank change year-on-year -36 -43 -40
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 393 335 534
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.95% 1.11% 1.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 1.23% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 215 371
10th Percentile £328 £281 £285
25th Percentile £405 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £581 £588
90th Percentile £773 £650 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +20.59% -10.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 4 19
10th Percentile £12.75 £32.87 £10.42
25th Percentile £24.61 £38.68 £12.00
Median hourly rate £35.91 £44.71 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.67% +243.88% -80.81%
75th Percentile £75.00 £50.00 £57.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £52.25 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.96 £52.50 £13.00
% change year-on-year -35.32% +303.85% -80.15%

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 35,800 27,183 38,766
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.50% 90.06% 86.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,707 16,972 25,287
10th Percentile £313 £305 £300
25th Percentile £412 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £723 £740 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £482 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -2.13% -1.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,144 882 2,256
10th Percentile £14.65 £15.62 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.24 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.61 £32.50 £33.03
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -1.61% -5.62%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.50 £59.44
90th Percentile £73.46 £75.48 £72.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.00 £34.36
% change year-on-year -21.41% -6.85% -1.84%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -31 368 £500 +11.11% 598
London -15 247 £500 +11.11% 187
Work from Home -12 148 £513 +28.13% 322
UK excluding London -53 107 £513 +20.59% 468
Midlands -35 40 £520 +30.00% 89
North of England -37 34 £531 +6.25% 114
West Midlands -34 30 £638 +112.50% 36
North West -23 20 £513 +7.89% 63
South East -51 16 £519 +51.46% 122
Yorkshire -50 14 £688 +35.80% 41
East of England -29 12 £350 -18.84% 58
East Midlands -27 10 £414 -16.88% 50
South West -17 6 £450 +20.00% 55
Scotland +13 2 - - 15

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 16 (4.07%) CMS
2 10 (2.54%) Confluence
3 9 (2.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (1.02%) Headless CMS
5 3 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.76%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.51%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.25%) Kentico
7 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.25%) Sitefinity
7 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (3.05%) Chatbot
2 10 (2.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.02%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.51%) 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 33 (8.40%) Shopify
2 11 (2.80%) Magento
3 7 (1.78%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (1.02%) Endur
5 3 (0.76%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.51%) SAP Hybris
6 2 (0.51%) 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 MDG
7 1 (0.25%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.25%) SAP Retail
7 1 (0.25%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 48 (12.21%) Azure
2 44 (11.20%) AWS
3 33 (8.40%) SaaS
4 18 (4.58%) GCP
5 17 (4.33%) Serverless
6 16 (4.07%) Dynamics 365
7 14 (3.56%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (3.56%) Commercetools
7 14 (3.56%) Figma
8 12 (3.05%) Algolia
8 12 (3.05%) Contentful
9 11 (2.80%) Datadog
10 10 (2.54%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
11 7 (1.78%) Contentsquare
11 7 (1.78%) dbt
11 7 (1.78%) Google Workspace
11 7 (1.78%) Miro
11 7 (1.78%) WhatsApp
12 6 (1.53%) BigCommerce
12 6 (1.53%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.78%) 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 10 (2.54%) MySQL
2 9 (2.29%) Redis
3 8 (2.04%) NoSQL
4 7 (1.78%) DynamoDB
4 7 (1.78%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (1.78%) SQL Server
5 6 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (1.53%) Mixpanel
5 6 (1.53%) Power BI
6 5 (1.27%) MongoDB
6 5 (1.27%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.02%) Metadata
8 3 (0.76%) BigQuery
8 3 (0.76%) Tableau
9 2 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.51%) CockroachDB
9 2 (0.51%) Couchbase
9 2 (0.51%) Looker
10 1 (0.25%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.25%) Bigtable
Development Applications
1 30 (7.63%) Jenkins
2 19 (4.83%) JIRA
3 11 (2.80%) Git
4 6 (1.53%) Visual Website Optimizer
5 5 (1.27%) Cypress.io
5 5 (1.27%) Selenium
6 4 (1.02%) SpecFlow
7 3 (0.76%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (0.76%) Charles Proxy
7 3 (0.76%) Fiddler
7 3 (0.76%) GitLab
7 3 (0.76%) Maven
8 2 (0.51%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.51%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.25%) Appium
9 1 (0.25%) NUnit
9 1 (0.25%) Vite
9 1 (0.25%) webpack
9 1 (0.25%) Zephyr
General
1 136 (34.61%) Social Skills
2 98 (24.94%) Retail
3 54 (13.74%) Finance
4 53 (13.49%) Marketing
5 40 (10.18%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (5.85%) Organisational Skills
7 16 (4.07%) Legal
8 12 (3.05%) Electronics
8 12 (3.05%) Manufacturing
9 11 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (2.54%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (1.53%) Banking
12 6 (1.53%) French Language
13 5 (1.27%) Advertising
14 4 (1.02%) Front Office
15 3 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 2 (0.51%) Publishing
16 2 (0.51%) Telecoms
17 1 (0.25%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 69 (17.56%) Senior
2 50 (12.72%) Analyst
3 45 (11.45%) Architect
4 35 (8.91%) E-Commerce Manager
4 35 (8.91%) Project Manager
5 34 (8.65%) Business Analyst
6 32 (8.14%) Developer
7 29 (7.38%) Consultant
8 25 (6.36%) Senior Manager
9 22 (5.60%) Senior Project Manager
10 21 (5.34%) Lead
11 16 (4.07%) Designer
12 13 (3.31%) Solutions Architect
12 13 (3.31%) Web Manager
13 12 (3.05%) Account Executive
13 12 (3.05%) E-Commerce Executive
13 12 (3.05%) Technical Consultant
14 11 (2.80%) Data Engineer
14 11 (2.80%) Senior E-Commerce Manager
14 11 (2.80%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (12.98%) Node.js
2 37 (9.41%) GraphQL
3 34 (8.65%) React
4 31 (7.89%) Playwright
5 24 (6.11%) Vitest
6 20 (5.09%) CSS
7 19 (4.83%) VML
8 18 (4.58%) HTML
9 15 (3.82%) .NET
10 14 (3.56%) Middleware
10 14 (3.56%) REST
11 13 (3.31%) YAML
12 10 (2.54%) AngularJS
13 9 (2.29%) OpenTelemetry
14 8 (2.04%) Next.js
14 8 (2.04%) Vue
15 6 (1.53%) PySpark
15 6 (1.53%) RabbitMQ
16 5 (1.27%) HTML5
16 5 (1.27%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 44 (11.20%) Cloud Native
2 38 (9.67%) Product Ownership
3 18 (4.58%) Mobile App
4 17 (4.33%) Onboarding
4 17 (4.33%) Virtual Team
5 15 (3.82%) Analytical Mindset
6 11 (2.80%) Marketing Technology
7 10 (2.54%) PMI
8 9 (2.29%) Client/Server
9 8 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.27%) FMCG
10 5 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.27%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.02%) e-Learning
11 4 (1.02%) Learning Management System
12 3 (0.76%) Data Structures
13 2 (0.51%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (0.51%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.29%) Linux
2 8 (2.04%) Windows
3 6 (1.53%) Android
3 6 (1.53%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.76%) Unix
5 1 (0.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (34.61%) Agile
2 75 (19.08%) Problem-Solving
3 74 (18.83%) Stakeholder Management
4 58 (14.76%) CI/CD
5 57 (14.50%) User Experience
6 51 (12.98%) Analytics
7 46 (11.70%) DevOps
8 44 (11.20%) Coaching
9 40 (10.18%) ERP
10 39 (9.92%) Scrum
11 38 (9.67%) Customer Experience
11 38 (9.67%) Mentoring
12 37 (9.41%) Project Management
13 36 (9.16%) Roadmaps
14 33 (8.40%) Test Automation
15 32 (8.14%) Continuous Improvement
16 31 (7.89%) B2C
16 31 (7.89%) CRM
17 28 (7.12%) Full-Stack Development
18 27 (6.87%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 54 (13.74%) TypeScript
2 35 (8.91%) SQL
3 30 (7.63%) JavaScript
4 27 (6.87%) Python
5 18 (4.58%) Java
6 17 (4.33%) C#
7 9 (2.29%) PHP
8 4 (1.02%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.51%) Apex Code
9 2 (0.51%) Go
10 1 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.25%) Korn
10 1 (0.25%) Ruby
10 1 (0.25%) SOQL
10 1 (0.25%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 23 (5.85%) Degree
2 13 (3.31%) PMI Certification
3 6 (1.53%) CBAP
4 4 (1.02%) AWS Certification
4 4 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.02%) CSPO
4 4 (1.02%) Master's Degree
5 3 (0.76%) PMP
6 2 (0.51%) MBA
7 1 (0.25%) Analytics IQ
7 1 (0.25%) APMP
7 1 (0.25%) CFA
7 1 (0.25%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.87%) QA
2 22 (5.60%) GDPR
3 16 (4.07%) Accessibility
4 10 (2.54%) PERC
5 9 (2.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 9 (2.29%) PCI DSS
6 8 (2.04%) Data Quality
7 6 (1.53%) ISO 8583
7 6 (1.53%) PSD2
8 4 (1.02%) WCAG
9 3 (0.76%) SLA
10 1 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 31 (7.89%) Docker
2 5 (1.27%) Varnish
3 1 (0.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 32 (8.14%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.54%) Grafana
2 10 (2.54%) Prometheus
3 8 (2.04%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 7 (1.78%) Terraform
5 2 (0.51%) Ansible
6 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 37 (9.41%) Google
2 35 (8.91%) Salesforce
3 34 (8.65%) Adobe
4 25 (6.36%) SAP
5 18 (4.58%) Microsoft
6 12 (3.05%) Databricks
7 11 (2.80%) Oracle
8 10 (2.54%) Tealium
9 8 (2.04%) Optimizely
10 7 (1.78%) Sitecore
11 6 (1.53%) Amplitude
11 6 (1.53%) Hotjar
11 6 (1.53%) OneTrust
12 5 (1.27%) mParticle
13 4 (1.02%) Wind River
14 3 (0.76%) OpenAI
14 3 (0.76%) TikTok
15 2 (0.51%) Netlify
15 2 (0.51%) Rollbar
15 2 (0.51%) Splunk