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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 268 250 185
Rank change year-on-year -18 -65 +17
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 499 344 504
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.93% 1.05% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 1.16% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 264 198 374
10th Percentile £325 £301 £322
25th Percentile £412 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% -9.09% +2.33%
75th Percentile £607 £595 £624
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £425
% change year-on-year +10.53% +11.76% -18.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 12 5
10th Percentile £18.88 - -
25th Percentile £22.50 £15.25 £11.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £15.50 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +222.58% -3.13% -68.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £15.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £95.00 - £55.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £15.50 £11.00
% change year-on-year +61.29% +40.91% -78.00%

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 45,331 29,700 33,127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.72% 90.46% 85.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,838 18,524 21,130
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £730 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,836 1,729 1,767
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.31 £17.33 £18.14
Median hourly rate £41.63 £25.15 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +65.54% -38.57% -0.24%
75th Percentile £67.99 £49.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £24.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +83.17% -43.53% +17.65%

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 August 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 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for E-Commerce in the UK

E-Commerce
Top 13 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 August 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 -32 454 £525 +5.00% 413
London +7 296 £500 -2.91% 189
Work from Home -19 163 £476 +0.21% 173
UK excluding London -105 145 £525 +10.53% 291
North of England -54 46 £550 +22.22% 93
Midlands -25 42 £550 +11.39% 48
North West -20 37 £550 +15.79% 54
West Midlands -36 27 £650 +23.81% 21
South East -79 27 £525 +10.53% 93
East of England -15 18 £500 +5.26% 14
East Midlands -6 14 £475 +11.76% 27
South West -37 13 £525 -44.74% 31
Yorkshire -51 9 £500 +11.11% 32

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 18 (3.61%) CMS
2 17 (3.41%) Confluence
3 5 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.80%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (0.80%) Apache
4 4 (0.80%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.60%) Anypoint
5 3 (0.60%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.40%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.40%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.40%) Mule
6 2 (0.40%) Sitecore CMS
6 2 (0.40%) WordPress
7 1 (0.20%) Mendix
7 1 (0.20%) nginx
7 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.20%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 22 (4.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (3.01%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 13 (2.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (1.20%) Adobe After Effects
5 6 (1.20%) Final Cut Pro
5 6 (1.20%) MS Visio
5 6 (1.20%) Sketch
6 3 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.40%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.40%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.20%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 40 (8.02%) Shopify
2 20 (4.01%) Magento
3 10 (2.00%) SAP CRM
3 10 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
4 9 (1.80%) Payment Gateway
5 7 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (1.40%) NetSuite
6 5 (1.00%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.40%) ION MarketView
7 2 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.40%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.40%) SAP MDG-F
8 1 (0.20%) Carpe Diem
8 1 (0.20%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle SCM
8 1 (0.20%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
8 1 (0.20%) SAP Hybris
8 1 (0.20%) SDL Web 8
8 1 (0.20%) Sprinklr
8 1 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 69 (13.83%) AWS
1 69 (13.83%) Azure
2 28 (5.61%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
3 25 (5.01%) GCP
4 23 (4.61%) Figma
5 17 (3.41%) GitHub
6 15 (3.01%) Power Platform
7 14 (2.81%) SaaS
8 12 (2.40%) dbt
8 12 (2.40%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (2.20%) Snowflake
10 10 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (1.80%) Algolia
12 7 (1.40%) BigCommerce
12 7 (1.40%) Datadog
12 7 (1.40%) Miro
12 7 (1.40%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 7 (1.40%) Serverless
13 6 (1.20%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (1.20%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.80%) WAN
2 3 (0.60%) Firewall
2 3 (0.60%) HTTP
2 3 (0.60%) Internet
3 2 (0.40%) LAN
3 2 (0.40%) Network Security
3 2 (0.40%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.40%) VPN
3 2 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.20%) Broadband
4 1 (0.20%) Wireless
4 1 (0.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (2.81%) Power BI
2 13 (2.61%) Looker
3 11 (2.20%) NoSQL
4 9 (1.80%) BigQuery
4 9 (1.80%) MongoDB
4 9 (1.80%) Tableau
5 7 (1.40%) SQL Server
6 6 (1.20%) Couchbase
6 6 (1.20%) MySQL
6 6 (1.20%) Redis
7 5 (1.00%) Metadata
7 5 (1.00%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.80%) SAP HANA
8 4 (0.80%) Semantic Layer
9 3 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.40%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.40%) KDB
Development Applications
1 26 (5.21%) Jenkins
2 25 (5.01%) Git
3 24 (4.81%) JIRA
4 8 (1.60%) Cypress.io
4 8 (1.60%) Subversion
5 6 (1.20%) Claude Code
5 6 (1.20%) Vite
6 5 (1.00%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.00%) GitLab
6 5 (1.00%) Selenium
7 4 (0.80%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.60%) Maven
8 3 (0.60%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.40%) Appium
9 2 (0.40%) Hudson
9 2 (0.40%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.20%) Bundler
10 1 (0.20%) MLflow
10 1 (0.20%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.20%) TestRail
General
1 242 (48.50%) Retail
2 175 (35.07%) Social Skills
3 75 (15.03%) Finance
4 72 (14.43%) Marketing
5 48 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
6 39 (7.82%) Organisational Skills
7 24 (4.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 23 (4.61%) Manufacturing
9 18 (3.61%) Banking
10 11 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (1.80%) Publishing
12 8 (1.60%) Advertising
12 8 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.60%) Legal
13 6 (1.20%) French Language
14 4 (0.80%) Electronics
14 4 (0.80%) Public Sector
15 3 (0.60%) Billing
15 3 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.60%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 92 (18.44%) Senior
2 60 (12.02%) Analyst
3 59 (11.82%) Developer
4 41 (8.22%) Architect
5 37 (7.41%) Business Analyst
6 35 (7.01%) Designer
7 33 (6.61%) Project Manager
8 31 (6.21%) Lead
9 27 (5.41%) Product Manager
10 23 (4.61%) Solutions Architect
11 22 (4.41%) E-Commerce Manager
11 22 (4.41%) UI Designer
12 20 (4.01%) Senior Manager
13 18 (3.61%) Consultant
13 18 (3.61%) Salesforce Developer
14 17 (3.41%) Senior Designer
14 17 (3.41%) Senior Developer
15 15 (3.01%) Data Engineer
16 14 (2.81%) E-Commerce Business Analyst
17 13 (2.61%) E-Commerce Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (9.42%) REST
2 44 (8.82%) React
3 42 (8.42%) Node.js
4 36 (7.21%) GraphQL
5 18 (3.61%) Kafka
5 18 (3.61%) Next.js
6 17 (3.41%) CSS
6 17 (3.41%) HTML
6 17 (3.41%) Middleware
6 17 (3.41%) Spring
6 17 (3.41%) VML
7 16 (3.21%) SOAP
7 16 (3.21%) Terraform
8 14 (2.81%) Spring Boot
9 11 (2.20%) Playwright
10 10 (2.00%) .NET
10 10 (2.00%) RESTful
11 9 (1.80%) AngularJS
11 9 (1.80%) HTML5
11 9 (1.80%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 48 (9.62%) Product Ownership
2 25 (5.01%) Cloud Native
3 24 (4.81%) Mobile App
4 21 (4.21%) Self-Motivation
5 20 (4.01%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (3.01%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (2.61%) Management Information System
8 11 (2.20%) AI Agents
8 11 (2.20%) Onboarding
9 10 (2.00%) Marketing Technology
10 9 (1.80%) Graphic Design
10 9 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (1.60%) FMCG
12 7 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.40%) Animation
13 5 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (1.00%) Security Posture
14 4 (0.80%) Credit Risk
14 4 (0.80%) Virtual Team
15 3 (0.60%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.00%) Windows
2 9 (1.80%) Android
2 9 (1.80%) Apple iOS
3 7 (1.40%) Linux
4 4 (0.80%) Unix
5 2 (0.40%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (31.26%) Agile
2 109 (21.84%) Stakeholder Management
3 85 (17.03%) Problem-Solving
4 72 (14.43%) CI/CD
4 72 (14.43%) User Experience
5 66 (13.23%) Customer Experience
6 62 (12.42%) Scrum
7 61 (12.22%) CRM
8 55 (11.02%) DevOps
8 55 (11.02%) Roadmaps
9 54 (10.82%) AI
10 53 (10.62%) Analytics
11 48 (9.62%) Continuous Improvement
12 47 (9.42%) Migration
13 40 (8.02%) B2C
13 40 (8.02%) ERP
13 40 (8.02%) Project Management
14 39 (7.82%) Event-Driven
15 37 (7.41%) Order Management
16 35 (7.01%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 45 (9.02%) SQL
2 37 (7.41%) TypeScript
3 36 (7.21%) JavaScript
4 35 (7.01%) Python
5 27 (5.41%) Java
6 11 (2.20%) C#
7 9 (1.80%) Apex Code
8 8 (1.60%) SOQL
8 8 (1.60%) SOSL
9 7 (1.40%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.00%) Groovy
10 5 (1.00%) Swift
11 4 (0.80%) ABAP
11 4 (0.80%) Bash
11 4 (0.80%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.60%) Go
12 3 (0.60%) LookML
12 3 (0.60%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.40%) DataWeave
13 2 (0.40%) PHP
Qualifications
1 42 (8.42%) Degree
2 7 (1.40%) Master's Degree
3 6 (1.20%) CSPO
4 5 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (0.80%) MBA
5 4 (0.80%) Security Cleared
6 2 (0.40%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.20%) Analytics IQ
7 1 (0.20%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.20%) CISA
7 1 (0.20%) CISSP
7 1 (0.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.20%) IIBA
7 1 (0.20%) ISEB
7 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.20%) PhD
7 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.20%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (6.41%) QA
2 24 (4.81%) Data Quality
3 21 (4.21%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.80%) GDPR
5 6 (1.20%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.00%) SLA
7 4 (0.80%) PMO
8 2 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.40%) PSD2
9 1 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.20%) NIST
9 1 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (4.61%) Docker
2 1 (0.20%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.20%) Sendmail
2 1 (0.20%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 26 (5.21%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.60%) Grafana
2 3 (0.60%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.40%) Bosun
3 2 (0.40%) CloudHub
3 2 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.40%) MOM
3 2 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.40%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (0.20%) Apache Ranger
Vendors
1 64 (12.83%) Salesforce
2 43 (8.62%) SAP
3 36 (7.21%) Microsoft
4 28 (5.61%) Adobe
5 26 (5.21%) Google
6 23 (4.61%) Oracle
7 16 (3.21%) MuleSoft
8 14 (2.81%) Databricks
9 8 (1.60%) Sitecore
10 7 (1.40%) IBM
10 7 (1.40%) New Relic
11 6 (1.20%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.20%) Splunk
12 5 (1.00%) Braze
12 5 (1.00%) Dynatrace
13 4 (0.80%) Apple
14 3 (0.60%) Informatica
14 3 (0.60%) OpenAI
15 2 (0.40%) Netlify
15 2 (0.40%) Screaming Frog