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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 237 186
Rank change year-on-year -28 -51 +16
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 530 365 500
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.97% 1.11% 1.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 1.22% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 205 361
10th Percentile £325 £305 £318
25th Percentile £419 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £495 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £621 £575 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £475 £425
% change year-on-year +13.16% +11.76% -19.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 15 3
10th Percentile £13.48 - £22.05
25th Percentile £22.50 £15.25 £31.13
Median hourly rate £52.50 £15.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +238.71% -67.37% -5.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £15.75 £54.38
90th Percentile £90.00 £24.61 £57.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.46 £15.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year +96.48% -3.13% -68.00%

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 46,112 29,840 32,750
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.63% 90.46% 85.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,098 18,520 20,299
10th Percentile £325 £300 £312
25th Percentile £425 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,038 1,780 1,507
10th Percentile £13.87 £14.23 £14.70
25th Percentile £17.38 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +2.87%
75th Percentile £67.50 £45.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.03 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +76.89% -47.37% +8.65%

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 10 September 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 September 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 10 September 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 -18 489 £525 +5.00% 645
London -1 310 £500 -2.91% 331
Work from Home -20 168 £500 +3.63% 251
UK excluding London -85 165 £538 +13.16% 375
North of England -60 54 £550 +22.22% 124
North West -30 45 £560 +17.89% 84
Midlands -23 43 £550 +13.40% 60
South East -80 35 £525 +5.00% 112
West Midlands -23 28 £650 +23.81% 35
East of England -23 19 £500 +5.26% 25
South West -39 15 £525 -44.74% 40
East Midlands -7 14 £475 -1.04% 25
Yorkshire -55 9 £425 -5.56% 35

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 25 (4.72%) CMS
2 19 (3.58%) Confluence
3 7 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.13%) Apache
4 6 (1.13%) WordPress
5 4 (0.75%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.75%) WebSphere
6 3 (0.57%) Anypoint
6 3 (0.57%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.38%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.38%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.38%) Mule
7 2 (0.38%) Sitecore CMS
7 2 (0.38%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.19%) Drupal
8 1 (0.19%) EPiServer
8 1 (0.19%) Mendix
8 1 (0.19%) nginx
8 1 (0.19%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 24 (4.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.83%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 14 (2.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (1.13%) Adobe After Effects
5 6 (1.13%) Final Cut Pro
5 6 (1.13%) MS Visio
5 6 (1.13%) Sketch
6 3 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.38%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.19%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 39 (7.36%) Shopify
2 20 (3.77%) Magento
3 13 (2.45%) Payment Gateway
4 11 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
5 10 (1.89%) SAP CRM
6 9 (1.70%) Dynamics CRM
7 7 (1.32%) NetSuite
8 6 (1.13%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.38%) ION MarketView
9 2 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.38%) SAP MDG
9 2 (0.38%) SAP MDG-F
10 1 (0.19%) Carpe Diem
10 1 (0.19%) Elite 3E
10 1 (0.19%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
10 1 (0.19%) SAP Hybris
10 1 (0.19%) SAP Retail
10 1 (0.19%) SAP SD
10 1 (0.19%) SDL Web 8
10 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 79 (14.91%) Azure
2 77 (14.53%) AWS
3 29 (5.47%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
4 26 (4.91%) GCP
5 23 (4.34%) Figma
6 20 (3.77%) GitHub
7 16 (3.02%) Power Platform
7 16 (3.02%) SaaS
8 15 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (2.45%) dbt
9 13 (2.45%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (2.45%) Serverless
9 13 (2.45%) Snowflake
10 11 (2.08%) Algolia
11 9 (1.70%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 8 (1.51%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (1.32%) Azure Functions
13 7 (1.32%) Azure Service Bus
13 7 (1.32%) BigCommerce
13 7 (1.32%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.32%) HTTP
2 4 (0.75%) WAN
3 3 (0.57%) Firewall
3 3 (0.57%) Internet
4 2 (0.38%) LAN
4 2 (0.38%) Network Security
4 2 (0.38%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.38%) VPN
4 2 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.19%) Broadband
5 1 (0.19%) DNS
5 1 (0.19%) Wireless
5 1 (0.19%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (2.83%) Power BI
2 13 (2.45%) Looker
3 12 (2.26%) NoSQL
4 11 (2.08%) BigQuery
5 9 (1.70%) MongoDB
5 9 (1.70%) Tableau
6 8 (1.51%) SQL Server
7 6 (1.13%) Couchbase
7 6 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (1.13%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (1.13%) Redis
8 5 (0.94%) Metadata
8 5 (0.94%) Relational Database
8 5 (0.94%) SAP HANA
9 4 (0.75%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.75%) Semantic Layer
10 3 (0.57%) MySQL
10 3 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.57%) Power Query
11 2 (0.38%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 26 (4.91%) Git
1 26 (4.91%) JIRA
2 24 (4.53%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.51%) Subversion
4 7 (1.32%) Cypress.io
5 6 (1.13%) Claude Code
5 6 (1.13%) Vite
6 5 (0.94%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.94%) GitLab
7 4 (0.75%) Eclipse
7 4 (0.75%) Selenium
8 3 (0.57%) Hudson
8 3 (0.57%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.38%) Appium
9 2 (0.38%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.19%) Bundler
10 1 (0.19%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.19%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.19%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.19%) Spock
General
1 248 (46.79%) Retail
2 184 (34.72%) Social Skills
3 83 (15.66%) Marketing
4 78 (14.72%) Finance
5 53 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
6 40 (7.55%) Organisational Skills
7 26 (4.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (4.53%) Manufacturing
9 20 (3.77%) Banking
10 11 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (1.70%) Legal
11 9 (1.70%) Publishing
12 8 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (1.32%) Advertising
13 7 (1.32%) French Language
14 4 (0.75%) Electronics
14 4 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (0.75%) Public Sector
15 3 (0.57%) Billing
15 3 (0.57%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 90 (16.98%) Senior
2 59 (11.13%) Analyst
3 56 (10.57%) Developer
4 51 (9.62%) Architect
5 37 (6.98%) Business Analyst
6 34 (6.42%) Designer
7 33 (6.23%) Project Manager
8 28 (5.28%) Lead
9 27 (5.09%) E-Commerce Manager
9 27 (5.09%) Product Manager
10 25 (4.72%) Solutions Architect
11 21 (3.96%) UI Designer
12 19 (3.58%) Consultant
13 18 (3.40%) Senior Manager
14 17 (3.21%) Data Engineer
14 17 (3.21%) Salesforce Developer
15 16 (3.02%) Senior Designer
15 16 (3.02%) Senior Developer
16 14 (2.64%) E-Commerce Business Analyst
16 14 (2.64%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (9.43%) REST
2 43 (8.11%) React
3 42 (7.92%) Node.js
4 34 (6.42%) GraphQL
5 25 (4.72%) Kafka
6 20 (3.77%) Next.js
7 18 (3.40%) Spring
7 18 (3.40%) Spring Boot
7 18 (3.40%) Terraform
8 17 (3.21%) SOAP
8 17 (3.21%) VML
9 15 (2.83%) HTML
10 14 (2.64%) .NET
10 14 (2.64%) Middleware
11 12 (2.26%) CSS
12 10 (1.89%) Lightning Web Components
12 10 (1.89%) RESTful
13 9 (1.70%) HTML5
14 8 (1.51%) PySpark
15 7 (1.32%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 51 (9.62%) Product Ownership
2 32 (6.04%) Cloud Native
3 28 (5.28%) Distributed Systems
4 26 (4.91%) Mobile App
5 21 (3.96%) Self-Motivation
6 15 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
7 14 (2.64%) Management Information System
8 11 (2.08%) AI Agents
8 11 (2.08%) Marketing Technology
8 11 (2.08%) Onboarding
9 9 (1.70%) FMCG
9 9 (1.70%) Graphic Design
9 9 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.32%) Animation
11 6 (1.13%) Credit Risk
12 5 (0.94%) Security Posture
13 4 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (0.75%) Social Media
14 3 (0.57%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.89%) Android
1 10 (1.89%) Apple iOS
2 7 (1.32%) Windows
3 5 (0.94%) Linux
4 2 (0.38%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (29.62%) Agile
2 124 (23.40%) Stakeholder Management
3 86 (16.23%) Problem-Solving
4 84 (15.85%) CI/CD
5 76 (14.34%) Customer Experience
6 74 (13.96%) User Experience
7 68 (12.83%) CRM
8 65 (12.26%) Scrum
9 62 (11.70%) AI
9 62 (11.70%) Roadmaps
10 58 (10.94%) DevOps
11 57 (10.75%) Analytics
12 54 (10.19%) Continuous Improvement
13 49 (9.25%) Migration
14 48 (9.06%) Event-Driven
15 45 (8.49%) B2C
16 42 (7.92%) ERP
16 42 (7.92%) Project Management
17 38 (7.17%) Software Engineering
18 35 (6.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 48 (9.06%) SQL
2 38 (7.17%) Python
3 34 (6.42%) TypeScript
4 33 (6.23%) JavaScript
5 28 (5.28%) Java
6 15 (2.83%) C#
7 10 (1.89%) Apex Code
8 8 (1.51%) Kotlin
9 7 (1.32%) SOQL
9 7 (1.32%) SOSL
10 5 (0.94%) ABAP
10 5 (0.94%) Groovy
10 5 (0.94%) PHP
10 5 (0.94%) Swift
11 4 (0.75%) Bash
11 4 (0.75%) LookML
11 4 (0.75%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.57%) Go
12 3 (0.57%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 44 (8.30%) Degree
2 7 (1.32%) Master's Degree
3 6 (1.13%) CSPO
3 6 (1.13%) Security Cleared
4 5 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (0.75%) MBA
6 3 (0.57%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.38%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.38%) PMP
8 1 (0.19%) Analytics IQ
8 1 (0.19%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.19%) CISA
8 1 (0.19%) CISSP
8 1 (0.19%) IIBA
8 1 (0.19%) ISEB
8 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.19%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (6.04%) QA
2 26 (4.91%) Data Quality
3 25 (4.72%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.70%) GDPR
5 6 (1.13%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.75%) PMO
7 2 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.38%) PSD2
7 2 (0.38%) SLA
8 1 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.19%) NIST
8 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (3.96%) Docker
2 3 (0.57%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.19%) Sendmail
3 1 (0.19%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 28 (5.28%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.38%) Bosun
2 2 (0.38%) CloudHub
2 2 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
2 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.19%) Apache Ranger
Vendors
1 68 (12.83%) Salesforce
2 46 (8.68%) SAP
3 44 (8.30%) Microsoft
4 31 (5.85%) Adobe
5 24 (4.53%) Google
6 21 (3.96%) Oracle
7 18 (3.40%) MuleSoft
8 15 (2.83%) Databricks
9 8 (1.51%) Sitecore
9 8 (1.51%) Splunk
10 7 (1.32%) IBM
10 7 (1.32%) New Relic
11 6 (1.13%) ServiceNow
12 5 (0.94%) Braze
12 5 (0.94%) Dynatrace
13 4 (0.75%) Adyen
13 4 (0.75%) Apple
13 4 (0.75%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 4 (0.75%) TikTok
14 3 (0.57%) Informatica