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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 253 198
Rank change year-on-year -9 -55 +5
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 513 354 502
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.96% 1.08% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% 1.20% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 203 365
10th Percentile £325 £298 £320
25th Percentile £418 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £495 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £606 £575 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £475 £425
% change year-on-year +13.16% +11.76% -19.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 13 4
10th Percentile £18.88 - £12.50
25th Percentile £22.50 £15.25 £14.75
Median hourly rate £50.00 £15.50 £31.75
Median % change year-on-year +222.58% -51.18% -36.50%
75th Percentile £75.00 £15.75 £51.56
90th Percentile £89.00 - £56.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £15.50 £13.50
% change year-on-year +61.29% +14.81% -73.00%

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 45,369 29,617 32,996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.56% 90.44% 85.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,730 18,446 20,728
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% -3.67%
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 2,902 1,758 1,607
10th Percentile £14.10 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.78 £17.30 £18.82
Median hourly rate £41.09 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.39% -40.82% +2.41%
75th Percentile £67.88 £47.09 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.25 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.56 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +92.49% -47.37% +14.67%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -18 472 £525 +6.06% 1,086
London -2 300 £500 - 680
Work from Home -9 168 £500 +5.26% 423
UK excluding London -71 159 £538 +13.16% 480
North of England -59 53 £555 +23.33% 181
North West -31 45 £560 +17.89% 103
Midlands -22 44 £569 +12.62% 71
South East -80 31 £525 +10.53% 132
West Midlands -29 29 £650 +23.81% 35
East of England -18 18 £500 +5.26% 28
East Midlands -3 14 £475 -2.06% 36
South West -36 14 £525 -44.74% 41
Yorkshire -48 8 £500 +11.11% 68

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 21 (4.09%) CMS
2 18 (3.51%) Confluence
3 5 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.78%) Apache
4 4 (0.78%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.58%) Anypoint
5 3 (0.58%) WordPress
6 2 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.39%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.39%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.39%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.39%) Mule
6 2 (0.39%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.19%) Drupal
7 1 (0.19%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.19%) Mendix
7 1 (0.19%) nginx
7 1 (0.19%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.19%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.19%) Umbraco
Applications
1 23 (4.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.92%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 14 (2.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (2.34%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (1.17%) Adobe After Effects
5 6 (1.17%) Final Cut Pro
5 6 (1.17%) MS Visio
5 6 (1.17%) Sketch
6 3 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.39%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.19%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 39 (7.60%) Shopify
2 19 (3.70%) Magento
3 12 (2.34%) Payment Gateway
4 10 (1.95%) SAP CRM
4 10 (1.95%) SAP S/4HANA
5 9 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
6 7 (1.36%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.97%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.39%) ION MarketView
8 2 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.39%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.39%) SAP MDG-F
9 1 (0.19%) Carpe Diem
9 1 (0.19%) Elite 3E
9 1 (0.19%) Oracle SCM
9 1 (0.19%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
9 1 (0.19%) SAP Hybris
9 1 (0.19%) SAP SD
9 1 (0.19%) SDL Web 8
9 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 73 (14.23%) AWS
2 71 (13.84%) Azure
3 28 (5.46%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
4 23 (4.48%) Figma
4 23 (4.48%) GCP
5 16 (3.12%) GitHub
6 15 (2.92%) SaaS
7 14 (2.73%) Power Platform
8 12 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (2.34%) dbt
8 12 (2.34%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (2.34%) Snowflake
9 10 (1.95%) Serverless
10 9 (1.75%) Algolia
11 7 (1.36%) BigCommerce
11 7 (1.36%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (1.36%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 6 (1.17%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (1.17%) Entra ID
12 6 (1.17%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.36%) HTTP
2 4 (0.78%) WAN
3 3 (0.58%) Firewall
3 3 (0.58%) Internet
4 2 (0.39%) LAN
4 2 (0.39%) Network Security
4 2 (0.39%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.39%) VPN
4 2 (0.39%) 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 13 (2.53%) Power BI
2 12 (2.34%) Looker
3 11 (2.14%) NoSQL
4 9 (1.75%) BigQuery
4 9 (1.75%) MongoDB
4 9 (1.75%) Tableau
5 7 (1.36%) SQL Server
6 6 (1.17%) Couchbase
6 6 (1.17%) Redis
7 5 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (0.97%) Metadata
7 5 (0.97%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.78%) MySQL
8 4 (0.78%) SAP HANA
8 4 (0.78%) Semantic Layer
9 3 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.39%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.39%) KDB
Development Applications
1 25 (4.87%) JIRA
2 24 (4.68%) Git
2 24 (4.68%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.56%) Cypress.io
3 8 (1.56%) Subversion
4 6 (1.17%) Claude Code
4 6 (1.17%) Vite
5 5 (0.97%) Bitbucket
5 5 (0.97%) GitLab
5 5 (0.97%) Selenium
6 4 (0.78%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.58%) Zephyr
8 2 (0.39%) Appium
8 2 (0.39%) Hudson
8 2 (0.39%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.19%) Bundler
9 1 (0.19%) Maven
9 1 (0.19%) MLflow
9 1 (0.19%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.19%) TestRail
General
1 239 (46.59%) Retail
2 182 (35.48%) Social Skills
3 74 (14.42%) Marketing
4 73 (14.23%) Finance
5 49 (9.55%) Analytical Skills
6 40 (7.80%) Organisational Skills
7 26 (5.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 23 (4.48%) Manufacturing
9 20 (3.90%) Banking
10 11 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (1.75%) Publishing
12 8 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.56%) Legal
13 7 (1.36%) Advertising
13 7 (1.36%) French Language
14 4 (0.78%) Electronics
14 4 (0.78%) Public Sector
15 3 (0.58%) Billing
15 3 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.58%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 89 (17.35%) Senior
2 61 (11.89%) Analyst
3 57 (11.11%) Developer
4 45 (8.77%) Architect
5 37 (7.21%) Business Analyst
6 34 (6.63%) Designer
7 33 (6.43%) Project Manager
8 28 (5.46%) Product Manager
9 27 (5.26%) Lead
10 26 (5.07%) E-Commerce Manager
11 25 (4.87%) Solutions Architect
12 21 (4.09%) UI Designer
13 19 (3.70%) Consultant
14 18 (3.51%) Senior Manager
15 17 (3.31%) Salesforce Developer
16 16 (3.12%) Senior Designer
16 16 (3.12%) Senior Developer
17 14 (2.73%) Data Engineer
17 14 (2.73%) E-Commerce Business Analyst
17 14 (2.73%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (9.55%) REST
2 40 (7.80%) Node.js
2 40 (7.80%) React
3 34 (6.63%) GraphQL
4 22 (4.29%) Kafka
5 19 (3.70%) Spring
6 18 (3.51%) Spring Boot
6 18 (3.51%) Terraform
7 17 (3.31%) Next.js
7 17 (3.31%) VML
8 16 (3.12%) HTML
9 15 (2.92%) SOAP
10 14 (2.73%) .NET
10 14 (2.73%) CSS
10 14 (2.73%) Middleware
11 10 (1.95%) RESTful
12 9 (1.75%) HTML5
12 9 (1.75%) Playwright
13 8 (1.56%) Lightning Web Components
14 7 (1.36%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 51 (9.94%) Product Ownership
2 30 (5.85%) Cloud Native
3 26 (5.07%) Mobile App
4 24 (4.68%) Distributed Systems
5 21 (4.09%) Self-Motivation
6 15 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (2.53%) Management Information System
7 13 (2.53%) Onboarding
8 11 (2.14%) AI Agents
9 10 (1.95%) Marketing Technology
10 9 (1.75%) Graphic Design
10 9 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (1.56%) FMCG
12 7 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.36%) Animation
13 6 (1.17%) Credit Risk
14 5 (0.97%) Security Posture
15 4 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
16 3 (0.58%) EPoS
16 3 (0.58%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.95%) Android
1 10 (1.95%) Apple iOS
2 8 (1.56%) Windows
3 6 (1.17%) Linux
4 2 (0.39%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (30.60%) Agile
2 119 (23.20%) Stakeholder Management
3 83 (16.18%) Problem-Solving
4 78 (15.20%) CI/CD
5 74 (14.42%) User Experience
6 71 (13.84%) Customer Experience
7 64 (12.48%) CRM
8 63 (12.28%) Scrum
9 59 (11.50%) Roadmaps
10 56 (10.92%) AI
11 55 (10.72%) DevOps
12 53 (10.33%) Analytics
13 52 (10.14%) Continuous Improvement
14 48 (9.36%) Migration
15 43 (8.38%) Event-Driven
16 42 (8.19%) B2C
16 42 (8.19%) ERP
16 42 (8.19%) Project Management
17 38 (7.41%) Software Engineering
18 35 (6.82%) Order Management
Programming Languages
1 46 (8.97%) SQL
2 37 (7.21%) Python
3 34 (6.63%) JavaScript
4 32 (6.24%) TypeScript
5 29 (5.65%) Java
6 15 (2.92%) C#
7 8 (1.56%) Apex Code
7 8 (1.56%) Kotlin
8 7 (1.36%) SOQL
8 7 (1.36%) SOSL
9 5 (0.97%) Groovy
9 5 (0.97%) Swift
10 4 (0.78%) ABAP
10 4 (0.78%) Bash
10 4 (0.78%) PHP
10 4 (0.78%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.58%) Go
11 3 (0.58%) LookML
11 3 (0.58%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.39%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 44 (8.58%) Degree
2 7 (1.36%) Master's Degree
3 6 (1.17%) CSPO
3 6 (1.17%) Security Cleared
4 5 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (0.78%) MBA
6 3 (0.58%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.39%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.39%) 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 34 (6.63%) QA
2 24 (4.68%) Data Quality
3 22 (4.29%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.56%) GDPR
5 6 (1.17%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.78%) PMO
7 3 (0.58%) SLA
8 2 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.39%) PSD2
9 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.19%) NIST
9 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (4.29%) Docker
2 3 (0.58%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.19%) Sendmail
3 1 (0.19%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 29 (5.65%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.39%) Bosun
2 2 (0.39%) CloudHub
2 2 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
2 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (0.39%) MOM
2 2 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.19%) Apache Ranger
3 1 (0.19%) Grafana
3 1 (0.19%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 64 (12.48%) Salesforce
2 44 (8.58%) SAP
3 39 (7.60%) Microsoft
4 30 (5.85%) Adobe
5 22 (4.29%) Google
5 22 (4.29%) Oracle
6 16 (3.12%) MuleSoft
7 13 (2.53%) Databricks
8 8 (1.56%) Sitecore
9 7 (1.36%) IBM
9 7 (1.36%) New Relic
10 6 (1.17%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.17%) Splunk
11 5 (0.97%) Braze
11 5 (0.97%) Dynatrace
12 4 (0.78%) Apple
13 3 (0.58%) Aprimo
13 3 (0.58%) Informatica
13 3 (0.58%) OpenAI
13 3 (0.58%) Optimizely