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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 240 182
Rank change year-on-year -22 -58 +16
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 477 347 581
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.91% 1.07% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 1.19% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 198 427
10th Percentile £325 £281 £313
25th Percentile £413 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -0.47%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +13.16% +5.56% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 12 15
10th Percentile £22.50 - £10.42
25th Percentile £28.81 £15.25 £10.71
Median hourly rate £54.75 £15.50 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +253.23% +19.23% -74.00%
75th Percentile £78.25 £15.75 £32.38
90th Percentile £95.00 £27.68 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.91 £15.50 £11.00
% change year-on-year +131.68% +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 44,694 29,246 37,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.15% 90.54% 85.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,812 18,436 23,663
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,657 1,477 2,496
10th Percentile £14.94 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.61 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -6.25%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £24.66 £38.12
% change year-on-year +80.45% -35.31% -3.62%

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 9 July 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 9 July 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 9 July 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 -32 436 £500 - 400
London +8 291 £484 -6.07% 196
Work from Home -20 145 £450 -1.37% 170
UK excluding London -104 137 £538 +13.16% 246
North of England -71 42 £550 +10.00% 86
Midlands -36 38 £519 +9.21% 53
North West -24 35 £550 -4.35% 57
South East -80 26 £531 +11.84% 67
West Midlands -47 25 £644 +30.38% 29
East of England -16 21 £438 -12.50% 10
East Midlands -6 13 £465 -2.11% 24
South West -39 9 £625 +66.67% 19
Yorkshire -56 7 £600 +26.32% 25
Scotland -7 1 - - 5

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 (3.35%) CMS
2 11 (2.31%) Confluence
3 6 (1.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (0.84%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.63%) Anypoint
5 3 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.42%) Apache
6 2 (0.42%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.42%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.42%) Mule
6 2 (0.42%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.42%) WordPress
7 1 (0.21%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.21%) Kentico
7 1 (0.21%) nginx
7 1 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.21%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 16 (3.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (2.94%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 12 (2.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (2.10%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (1.47%) Chatbot
6 6 (1.26%) Adobe After Effects
6 6 (1.26%) Final Cut Pro
6 6 (1.26%) Sketch
7 4 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.42%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.21%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 40 (8.39%) Shopify
2 21 (4.40%) Magento
3 9 (1.89%) SAP CRM
4 8 (1.68%) Payment Gateway
4 8 (1.68%) SAP S/4HANA
5 7 (1.47%) NetSuite
6 6 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
7 5 (1.05%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.63%) SAP MDG
9 2 (0.42%) SAP Hybris
9 2 (0.42%) SAP MDG-F
10 1 (0.21%) Carpe Diem
10 1 (0.21%) Elite 3E
10 1 (0.21%) ION MarketView
10 1 (0.21%) Oracle Retail
10 1 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
10 1 (0.21%) SAP CAR
10 1 (0.21%) SAP Retail
10 1 (0.21%) SDL Web 8
10 1 (0.21%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 60 (12.58%) Azure
2 58 (12.16%) AWS
3 30 (6.29%) Figma
4 25 (5.24%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
5 22 (4.61%) GCP
6 14 (2.94%) Power Platform
7 13 (2.73%) SaaS
8 12 (2.52%) GitHub
9 10 (2.10%) dbt
10 9 (1.89%) Serverless
11 8 (1.68%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (1.68%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (1.68%) BigCommerce
11 8 (1.68%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (1.68%) Google Workspace
11 8 (1.68%) Miro
12 7 (1.47%) Algolia
12 7 (1.47%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 7 (1.47%) WhatsApp
13 6 (1.26%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.84%) Internet
2 2 (0.42%) HTTP
2 2 (0.42%) LAN
2 2 (0.42%) WAN
3 1 (0.21%) Firewall
3 1 (0.21%) Network Security
3 1 (0.21%) RFID
3 1 (0.21%) RTMP
3 1 (0.21%) Wireless
3 1 (0.21%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.73%) Power BI
2 11 (2.31%) NoSQL
3 9 (1.89%) Looker
3 9 (1.89%) MySQL
4 8 (1.68%) Tableau
5 7 (1.47%) Metadata
5 7 (1.47%) Relational Database
6 6 (1.26%) BigQuery
6 6 (1.26%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (1.26%) SQL Server
7 5 (1.05%) Couchbase
7 5 (1.05%) MongoDB
8 4 (0.84%) Redis
8 4 (0.84%) SAP HANA
8 4 (0.84%) Semantic Layer
9 3 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.42%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 28 (5.87%) Jenkins
2 26 (5.45%) Git
3 20 (4.19%) JIRA
4 10 (2.10%) Selenium
5 9 (1.89%) Cypress.io
6 7 (1.47%) Subversion
7 6 (1.26%) GitLab
7 6 (1.26%) Vite
8 5 (1.05%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.84%) Eclipse
9 4 (0.84%) Maven
10 3 (0.63%) Appium
10 3 (0.63%) Zephyr
11 2 (0.42%) Claude Code
11 2 (0.42%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.42%) Hudson
11 2 (0.42%) WebDriver
12 1 (0.21%) NUnit
12 1 (0.21%) PHPUnit
12 1 (0.21%) TeamCity
General
1 216 (45.28%) Retail
2 191 (40.04%) Social Skills
3 84 (17.61%) Finance
4 67 (14.05%) Marketing
5 46 (9.64%) Organisational Skills
6 39 (8.18%) Analytical Skills
7 27 (5.66%) Manufacturing
8 23 (4.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (2.94%) Banking
10 11 (2.31%) Legal
11 10 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (1.68%) Advertising
12 8 (1.68%) Publishing
13 7 (1.47%) French Language
14 5 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.84%) Electronics
15 4 (0.84%) Public Sector
16 3 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
16 3 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 92 (19.29%) Senior
2 60 (12.58%) Analyst
3 44 (9.22%) Developer
4 42 (8.81%) Designer
4 42 (8.81%) Project Manager
5 39 (8.18%) Architect
6 37 (7.76%) Business Analyst
7 34 (7.13%) Senior Manager
8 32 (6.71%) Lead
9 25 (5.24%) E-Commerce Manager
9 25 (5.24%) Senior Project Manager
10 22 (4.61%) Product Manager
11 21 (4.40%) UI Designer
12 20 (4.19%) Senior Designer
13 17 (3.56%) Solutions Architect
14 16 (3.35%) E-Commerce Business Analyst
15 15 (3.14%) E-Commerce Analyst
16 14 (2.94%) Technical Analyst
17 13 (2.73%) Marketing Manager
17 13 (2.73%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (9.01%) React
2 37 (7.76%) REST
3 36 (7.55%) GraphQL
3 36 (7.55%) Node.js
4 21 (4.40%) Middleware
4 21 (4.40%) VML
5 20 (4.19%) CSS
6 19 (3.98%) HTML
7 15 (3.14%) Kafka
7 15 (3.14%) Next.js
8 14 (2.94%) Playwright
8 14 (2.94%) SOAP
8 14 (2.94%) Spring
9 13 (2.73%) AngularJS
10 10 (2.10%) Spring Boot
11 9 (1.89%) .NET
11 9 (1.89%) HTML5
11 9 (1.89%) J2EE
11 9 (1.89%) RESTful
11 9 (1.89%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (9.22%) Product Ownership
2 23 (4.82%) Cloud Native
3 19 (3.98%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (3.14%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (3.14%) Mobile App
5 13 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (2.31%) Virtual Team
7 10 (2.10%) AI Agents
7 10 (2.10%) Marketing Technology
8 9 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (1.89%) Onboarding
9 8 (1.68%) Graphic Design
9 8 (1.68%) Management Information System
10 7 (1.47%) Animation
11 5 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.05%) EPoS
11 5 (1.05%) FMCG
12 3 (0.63%) Security Posture
12 3 (0.63%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.31%) Android
1 11 (2.31%) Linux
2 10 (2.10%) Apple iOS
2 10 (2.10%) Windows
3 5 (1.05%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (32.91%) Agile
2 97 (20.34%) Stakeholder Management
3 89 (18.66%) Problem-Solving
4 83 (17.40%) User Experience
5 60 (12.58%) CI/CD
6 54 (11.32%) Roadmaps
7 53 (11.11%) CRM
7 53 (11.11%) Scrum
8 52 (10.90%) Project Management
9 51 (10.69%) Customer Experience
10 49 (10.27%) Analytics
10 49 (10.27%) B2C
11 47 (9.85%) AI
12 44 (9.22%) Continuous Improvement
13 43 (9.01%) Time Management
14 41 (8.60%) Migration
15 40 (8.39%) DevOps
16 39 (8.18%) Workshop Facilitation
17 35 (7.34%) ERP
18 33 (6.92%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 36 (7.55%) JavaScript
1 36 (7.55%) SQL
2 34 (7.13%) TypeScript
3 28 (5.87%) Python
4 26 (5.45%) Java
5 8 (1.68%) C#
6 6 (1.26%) Kotlin
7 5 (1.05%) Apex Code
7 5 (1.05%) Groovy
7 5 (1.05%) SOQL
7 5 (1.05%) SOSL
7 5 (1.05%) Swift
8 4 (0.84%) ABAP
8 4 (0.84%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.63%) Go
9 3 (0.63%) PHP
10 2 (0.42%) Bash
10 2 (0.42%) DataWeave
10 2 (0.42%) Korn
10 2 (0.42%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 43 (9.01%) Degree
2 5 (1.05%) CSPO
3 3 (0.63%) Master's Degree
4 2 (0.42%) Analytics IQ
4 2 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (0.42%) MBA
4 2 (0.42%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.21%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.21%) CISA
5 1 (0.21%) CISSP
5 1 (0.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.21%) IIBA
5 1 (0.21%) ISEB
5 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.21%) PMP
5 1 (0.21%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (6.71%) QA
2 25 (5.24%) Accessibility
3 19 (3.98%) Data Quality
4 11 (2.31%) GDPR
5 7 (1.47%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.26%) SLA
7 4 (0.84%) PMO
8 2 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.42%) PSD2
8 2 (0.42%) WCAG
9 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.21%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (3.14%) Docker
2 3 (0.63%) Varnish
3 1 (0.21%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 16 (3.35%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.47%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 7 (1.47%) Terraform
3 3 (0.63%) Grafana
3 3 (0.63%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.42%) CloudHub
4 2 (0.42%) MOM
5 1 (0.21%) Ansible
5 1 (0.21%) Apache Ranger
Vendors
1 53 (11.11%) Salesforce
2 41 (8.60%) SAP
3 33 (6.92%) Adobe
4 31 (6.50%) Google
5 29 (6.08%) Microsoft
6 24 (5.03%) Oracle
7 16 (3.35%) Databricks
8 14 (2.94%) MuleSoft
9 9 (1.89%) Sitecore
10 6 (1.26%) IBM
11 5 (1.05%) Dynatrace
11 5 (1.05%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.05%) Splunk
12 4 (0.84%) Netlify
12 4 (0.84%) New Relic
13 3 (0.63%) Informatica
14 2 (0.42%) Apple
14 2 (0.42%) Confluent
14 2 (0.42%) Klarna
14 2 (0.42%) PayPal