E-Commerce Contracts

E-Commerce (Electronic Commerce)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring E-Commerce skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited E-Commerce over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 246 187 195
Rank change year-on-year -59 +8 -86
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 324 556 766
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.06% 1.29% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% 1.51% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 411 534
10th Percentile £281 £313 £333
25th Percentile £363 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% +0.48%
75th Percentile £577 £600 £638
90th Percentile £716 £719 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -0.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 15 9
10th Percentile - £10.42 £47.00
25th Percentile £15.25 £10.71 -
Median hourly rate £15.50 £13.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% -74.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £15.75 £32.38 £87.50
90th Percentile £19.73 £65.25 £98.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.50 £11.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +40.91% -78.00% -21.40%

All Process and 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 27,864 36,803 49,880
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.90% 85.25% 89.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,568 23,445 34,342
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +0.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,367 2,552 1,711
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.74 £11.87
25th Percentile £17.40 £16.06 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%
75th Percentile £53.91 £61.30 £64.56
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.66 £38.12 £35.00
% change year-on-year -35.31% +8.91% +66.67%

E-Commerce
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing E-Commerce as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for E-Commerce in the UK

E-Commerce
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing E-Commerce.

Daily rate trend for E-Commerce in the UK

E-Commerce
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing E-Commerce over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for E-Commerce in the UK

E-Commerce
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing E-Commerce.

Hourly rate trend for E-Commerce in the UK

E-Commerce
Top 16 Contract 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 30 June 2025. 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 -50 290 £500 -4.76% 4,822
London -32 164 £515 -6.36% 2,879
UK excluding London -26 122 £475 +5.56% 2,044
Work from Home -58 111 £450 -10.00% 2,170
South East +39 49 £475 +15.15% 549
North of England -27 33 £500 +11.11% 700
North West -20 18 £575 +27.78% 437
Midlands 0 14 £475 +26.67% 298
East of England +17 13 £500 +33.33% 213
Yorkshire +1 13 £475 +11.76% 222
South West +41 11 £375 -31.82% 161
West Midlands -3 8 £494 -10.23% 150
East Midlands +2 6 £475 +111.11% 146
North East 0 2 - - 43
Wales +7 1 £288 -4.17% 47
Scotland +2 1 £563 +18.42% 76

E-Commerce
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 29 (8.95%) IBM Domino
2 21 (6.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 19 (5.86%) CMS
4 9 (2.78%) Confluence
5 6 (1.85%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.93%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.93%) Drupal
7 2 (0.62%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.62%) Mule
8 1 (0.31%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.31%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.31%) Joomla!
8 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.31%) WordPress
Applications
1 16 (4.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (2.16%) Trello
3 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.93%) Sketch
4 2 (0.62%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.31%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.31%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.31%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.31%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.31%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.31%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.31%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 21 (6.48%) Magento
1 21 (6.48%) Shopify
2 6 (1.85%) Salesforce CRM
2 6 (1.85%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.93%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.93%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.62%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.62%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.62%) Oracle Retail
5 2 (0.62%) SAP CRM
5 2 (0.62%) SAP CX
5 2 (0.62%) SAP Hybris
5 2 (0.62%) SAP POS DM
6 1 (0.31%) BASE24
6 1 (0.31%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.31%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.31%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.31%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 42 (12.96%) AWS
2 22 (6.79%) Microsoft 365
2 22 (6.79%) Power Platform
3 17 (5.25%) Azure
4 14 (4.32%) GCP
4 14 (4.32%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
5 11 (3.40%) Dynamics 365
5 11 (3.40%) SAP Commerce Cloud
5 11 (3.40%) Serverless
6 10 (3.09%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (3.09%) Figma
6 10 (3.09%) SaaS
7 9 (2.78%) BigCommerce
8 8 (2.47%) Amazon S3
8 8 (2.47%) Google Analytics
8 8 (2.47%) Salsify
9 6 (1.85%) Adobe Analytics
9 6 (1.85%) Amazon Cognito
9 6 (1.85%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (1.85%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 21 (6.48%) Cisco IOS
1 21 (6.48%) Firewall
2 1 (0.31%) ATM
2 1 (0.31%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.31%) HTTP
2 1 (0.31%) Intranet
2 1 (0.31%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.17%) Power BI
2 17 (5.25%) Tableau
3 8 (2.47%) DynamoDB
4 7 (2.16%) Looker
5 5 (1.54%) BigQuery
5 5 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (1.54%) Power Query
6 2 (0.62%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.62%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.62%) Qlik Sense
7 1 (0.31%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.31%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.31%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.31%) Big Data
7 1 (0.31%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.31%) KDB
7 1 (0.31%) Metadata
7 1 (0.31%) PowerPivot
7 1 (0.31%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 24 (7.41%) JIRA
2 15 (4.63%) Git
3 10 (3.09%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.85%) GitLab
5 4 (1.23%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.93%) Maven
6 3 (0.93%) Postman
7 2 (0.62%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.62%) Gradle
7 2 (0.62%) Grunt
7 2 (0.62%) JMeter
7 2 (0.62%) Selenium
7 2 (0.62%) Subversion
7 2 (0.62%) TestRail
7 2 (0.62%) webpack
8 1 (0.31%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.31%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.31%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.31%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.31%) Visual Studio
General
1 129 (39.81%) Social Skills
2 78 (24.07%) Retail
3 68 (20.99%) Marketing
4 58 (17.90%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (8.64%) Finance
6 22 (6.79%) Games
7 10 (3.09%) French Language
7 10 (3.09%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (2.78%) Manufacturing
9 8 (2.47%) Advertising
9 8 (2.47%) Banking
10 5 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.23%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.23%) Public Sector
11 4 (1.23%) Publishing
11 4 (1.23%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.93%) Billing
12 3 (0.93%) Brand Awareness
12 3 (0.93%) Front Office
12 3 (0.93%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 45 (13.89%) Developer
2 38 (11.73%) Analyst
3 34 (10.49%) Senior
4 33 (10.19%) Architect
5 23 (7.10%) E-Commerce Manager
5 23 (7.10%) Project Manager
6 22 (6.79%) Designer
7 21 (6.48%) Platform Engineer
8 19 (5.86%) Business Analyst
8 19 (5.86%) Solutions Architect
9 15 (4.63%) Product Manager
10 14 (4.32%) Lead
11 13 (4.01%) Consultant
12 10 (3.09%) Administrator
12 10 (3.09%) Senior Manager
13 9 (2.78%) Data Steward
13 9 (2.78%) E-Commerce Project Manager
13 9 (2.78%) Product Designer
13 9 (2.78%) Senior Developer
14 7 (2.16%) Senior Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (6.48%) HTML
2 20 (6.17%) React
3 19 (5.86%) CSS
4 17 (5.25%) Node.js
5 12 (3.70%) GraphQL
6 10 (3.09%) .NET
7 9 (2.78%) Kafka
7 9 (2.78%) OAuth
7 9 (2.78%) REST
7 9 (2.78%) VML
8 8 (2.47%) Middleware
8 8 (2.47%) Next.js
8 8 (2.47%) Web Services
9 7 (2.16%) SOAP
10 6 (1.85%) Lightning Web Components
10 6 (1.85%) OAuth2
11 5 (1.54%) CSS3
11 5 (1.54%) HTML5
11 5 (1.54%) OpenID
11 5 (1.54%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 16 (4.94%) Product Ownership
2 14 (4.32%) Mobile App
3 11 (3.40%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (2.47%) Marketing Technology
5 7 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (1.85%) Data Structures
6 6 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (1.85%) Social Media
7 5 (1.54%) Cloud Native
7 5 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (1.54%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.23%) FMCG
8 4 (1.23%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.62%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.62%) Blog
9 2 (0.62%) Digital Signage
9 2 (0.62%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (0.62%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 23 (7.10%) Android
2 22 (6.79%) Windows
3 21 (6.48%) Mac OS
4 7 (2.16%) Linux
5 4 (1.23%) Unix
6 2 (0.62%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (24.38%) Agile
2 68 (20.99%) Problem-Solving
3 46 (14.20%) Analytics
4 39 (12.04%) User Experience
5 33 (10.19%) Stakeholder Management
6 32 (9.88%) CRM
7 31 (9.57%) Digital Marketing
8 30 (9.26%) Project Management
9 29 (8.95%) Migration
10 27 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
11 26 (8.02%) B2B
11 26 (8.02%) Roadmaps
12 24 (7.41%) ERP
13 21 (6.48%) B2C
14 20 (6.17%) Customer Acquisition
14 20 (6.17%) Customer Experience
14 20 (6.17%) DevOps
14 20 (6.17%) Mentoring
15 19 (5.86%) A/B Testing
15 19 (5.86%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 34 (10.49%) JavaScript
2 28 (8.64%) SQL
3 22 (6.79%) PowerShell
4 20 (6.17%) Java
5 19 (5.86%) TypeScript
6 13 (4.01%) Python
7 11 (3.40%) C#
7 11 (3.40%) PHP
8 6 (1.85%) Apex Code
9 4 (1.23%) Perl
10 3 (0.93%) C++
11 2 (0.62%) DataWeave
12 1 (0.31%) ABAP
12 1 (0.31%) C
12 1 (0.31%) COBOL
12 1 (0.31%) Dart
12 1 (0.31%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.31%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.31%) SOQL
12 1 (0.31%) Swift
Qualifications
1 24 (7.41%) Degree
2 6 (1.85%) AWS Certification
3 2 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (0.62%) PMI Certification
3 2 (0.62%) PMP
3 2 (0.62%) SC Cleared
3 2 (0.62%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.31%) CBAP
4 1 (0.31%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.31%) IBM Certification
4 1 (0.31%) IIBA
4 1 (0.31%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.31%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.31%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.63%) QA
2 9 (2.78%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.16%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.85%) GDPR
5 2 (0.62%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.62%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.31%) PMO
6 1 (0.31%) SLA
6 1 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (6.48%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (6.48%) Microsoft Intune
1 21 (6.48%) SCCM
2 9 (2.78%) Kubernetes
3 7 (2.16%) Terraform
4 3 (0.93%) Ansible
4 3 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.62%) CloudHub
5 2 (0.62%) Istio
5 2 (0.62%) Puppet
6 1 (0.31%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 46 (14.20%) Salesforce
2 38 (11.73%) Microsoft
3 28 (8.64%) Adobe
4 23 (7.10%) Splunk
5 22 (6.79%) SAP
6 21 (6.48%) Cisco
6 21 (6.48%) Meraki
7 14 (4.32%) Google
8 11 (3.40%) Oracle
9 9 (2.78%) MuleSoft
9 9 (2.78%) Sitecore
10 6 (1.85%) Informatica
11 4 (1.23%) Dell
12 3 (0.93%) NCR
12 3 (0.93%) Optimizely
13 2 (0.62%) Dynatrace
13 2 (0.62%) IBM
13 2 (0.62%) Siemens
13 2 (0.62%) TikTok
13 2 (0.62%) VeriFone