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

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 269 239 194
Rank change year-on-year -30 -45 -39
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 399 340 532
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.97% 1.12% 1.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 1.24% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 218 363
10th Percentile £325 £281 £286
25th Percentile £413 £325 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £520
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -13.46% -0.95%
75th Percentile £597 £575 £588
90th Percentile £756 £650 £635
UK excluding London median daily rate £504 £425 £486
% change year-on-year +18.59% -12.60% +2.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 4 18
10th Percentile £12.75 £32.87 £10.42
25th Percentile £24.61 £38.68 -
Median hourly rate £34.50 £44.71 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.84% +243.88% -80.81%
75th Percentile £70.00 £50.00 £59.25
90th Percentile £76.00 £52.25 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.59 £52.50 £13.00
% change year-on-year -39.83% +303.85% -80.15%

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 35,855 27,377 38,366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.81% 89.88% 87.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,757 16,975 25,075
10th Percentile £313 £306 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -2.28% -1.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,138 862 2,184
10th Percentile £14.61 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.96 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.94 £33.00 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year -21.39% -0.20% -5.53%
75th Percentile £61.18 £63.75 £59.93
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.23 £71.97
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.41% -8.57% -

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 25 February 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 25 February 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 25 February 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 -25 377 £500 +11.11% 326
London -14 256 £500 +11.11% 137
Work from Home -10 151 £513 +28.13% 171
UK excluding London -50 108 £504 +18.59% 226
Midlands -36 39 £485 +10.86% 59
North of England -39 33 £550 +10.00% 62
West Midlands -38 29 £594 +97.92% 24
North West -26 20 £513 +7.89% 36
South East -52 18 £513 +36.67% 64
East of England -21 13 £350 -17.65% 17
Yorkshire -49 13 £825 +62.96% 20
East Midlands -22 10 £425 -18.27% 35
South West -24 5 £450 +20.00% 25
Scotland +13 3 - -

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 15 (3.76%) CMS
2 10 (2.51%) Confluence
3 8 (2.01%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (1.00%) Headless CMS
5 3 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.75%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.50%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.25%) Kentico
7 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.25%) Sitefinity
7 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (3.01%) Chatbot
2 10 (2.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.50%) Autodesk Smoke
6 1 (0.25%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.25%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.25%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.25%) Trello
Business Applications
1 30 (7.52%) Shopify
2 8 (2.01%) Magento
2 8 (2.01%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (1.00%) Endur
4 3 (0.75%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.50%) SAP Hybris
5 2 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.25%) Eikon
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle Retail
6 1 (0.25%) Orchestrade
6 1 (0.25%) SAP CAR
6 1 (0.25%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.25%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.25%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.25%) SAP Retail
6 1 (0.25%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 47 (11.78%) Azure
2 44 (11.03%) AWS
3 41 (10.28%) SaaS
4 19 (4.76%) Figma
5 18 (4.51%) Serverless
6 17 (4.26%) GCP
7 15 (3.76%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (3.76%) Dynamics 365
8 14 (3.51%) Commercetools
9 12 (3.01%) Algolia
9 12 (3.01%) Contentful
10 10 (2.51%) Datadog
10 10 (2.51%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
11 7 (1.75%) Contentsquare
11 7 (1.75%) dbt
11 7 (1.75%) Google Workspace
11 7 (1.75%) Miro
11 7 (1.75%) WhatsApp
12 6 (1.50%) BigCommerce
12 6 (1.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.75%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.25%) Firewall
2 1 (0.25%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.25%) Internet
2 1 (0.25%) RFID
2 1 (0.25%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.26%) MySQL
1 9 (2.26%) Redis
2 8 (2.01%) NoSQL
2 8 (2.01%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.75%) DynamoDB
3 7 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (1.50%) Mixpanel
4 6 (1.50%) Power BI
5 5 (1.25%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.25%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.00%) Metadata
7 3 (0.75%) BigQuery
7 3 (0.75%) Tableau
8 2 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.50%) CockroachDB
8 2 (0.50%) Couchbase
8 2 (0.50%) Looker
9 1 (0.25%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.25%) Bigtable
Development Applications
1 33 (8.27%) Jenkins
2 19 (4.76%) JIRA
3 11 (2.76%) Git
4 6 (1.50%) Cypress.io
4 6 (1.50%) Visual Website Optimizer
5 5 (1.25%) Selenium
6 4 (1.00%) SpecFlow
7 3 (0.75%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (0.75%) Charles Proxy
7 3 (0.75%) Fiddler
7 3 (0.75%) GitLab
8 2 (0.50%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.50%) Maven
8 2 (0.50%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.25%) Appium
9 1 (0.25%) NUnit
9 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.25%) Vite
9 1 (0.25%) webpack
9 1 (0.25%) Zephyr
General
1 138 (34.59%) Social Skills
2 94 (23.56%) Retail
3 56 (14.04%) Finance
4 54 (13.53%) Marketing
5 41 (10.28%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (5.76%) Organisational Skills
7 18 (4.51%) Legal
8 13 (3.26%) Electronics
9 12 (3.01%) Manufacturing
10 11 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
11 10 (2.51%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (1.50%) Banking
13 6 (1.50%) French Language
14 5 (1.25%) Advertising
15 4 (1.00%) Front Office
16 3 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 2 (0.50%) Publishing
17 2 (0.50%) Telecoms
18 1 (0.25%) Games
Job Titles
1 73 (18.30%) Senior
2 51 (12.78%) Analyst
3 44 (11.03%) Architect
4 36 (9.02%) E-Commerce Manager
5 35 (8.77%) Project Manager
6 34 (8.52%) Business Analyst
7 30 (7.52%) Developer
8 29 (7.27%) Consultant
9 25 (6.27%) Senior Manager
10 22 (5.51%) Senior Project Manager
11 21 (5.26%) Designer
12 18 (4.51%) Lead
13 13 (3.26%) Senior Designer
13 13 (3.26%) Solutions Architect
13 13 (3.26%) Technical Consultant
13 13 (3.26%) Web Manager
14 12 (3.01%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
14 12 (3.01%) Senior Technical Specialist
14 12 (3.01%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
14 12 (3.01%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (13.28%) Node.js
2 40 (10.03%) GraphQL
3 33 (8.27%) Playwright
4 31 (7.77%) React
5 26 (6.52%) Vitest
6 19 (4.76%) VML
7 18 (4.51%) CSS
8 17 (4.26%) HTML
9 16 (4.01%) .NET
10 14 (3.51%) YAML
11 13 (3.26%) REST
12 12 (3.01%) Middleware
13 9 (2.26%) Next.js
14 8 (2.01%) AngularJS
14 8 (2.01%) OpenTelemetry
15 7 (1.75%) Vue
16 6 (1.50%) PySpark
16 6 (1.50%) RabbitMQ
17 5 (1.25%) HTML5
18 4 (1.00%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 46 (11.53%) Cloud Native
2 38 (9.52%) Product Ownership
3 19 (4.76%) Mobile App
4 17 (4.26%) Onboarding
4 17 (4.26%) Virtual Team
5 15 (3.76%) Analytical Mindset
6 11 (2.76%) Marketing Technology
7 10 (2.51%) PMI
8 9 (2.26%) Client/Server
9 8 (2.01%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.25%) FMCG
10 5 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.25%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.00%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.00%) e-Learning
11 4 (1.00%) Learning Management System
12 3 (0.75%) Social Media
13 2 (0.50%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.01%) Linux
2 7 (1.75%) Windows
3 6 (1.50%) Android
3 6 (1.50%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.50%) Unix
5 1 (0.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (34.84%) Agile
2 77 (19.30%) Stakeholder Management
3 73 (18.30%) Problem-Solving
4 63 (15.79%) User Experience
5 60 (15.04%) CI/CD
6 56 (14.04%) Analytics
7 46 (11.53%) Coaching
7 46 (11.53%) DevOps
8 39 (9.77%) Customer Experience
8 39 (9.77%) Mentoring
9 38 (9.52%) ERP
9 38 (9.52%) Scrum
10 37 (9.27%) Project Management
11 36 (9.02%) Roadmaps
12 34 (8.52%) Continuous Improvement
12 34 (8.52%) Test Automation
13 32 (8.02%) CRM
14 31 (7.77%) B2C
15 28 (7.02%) UX Design
16 27 (6.77%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 53 (13.28%) TypeScript
2 38 (9.52%) SQL
3 30 (7.52%) JavaScript
4 27 (6.77%) Python
5 19 (4.76%) Java
6 17 (4.26%) C#
7 9 (2.26%) PHP
8 4 (1.00%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.50%) Go
10 1 (0.25%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.25%) Korn
10 1 (0.25%) Perl
10 1 (0.25%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 24 (6.02%) Degree
2 13 (3.26%) PMI Certification
3 6 (1.50%) CBAP
4 5 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.00%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.00%) CSPO
5 4 (1.00%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.75%) PMP
7 2 (0.50%) MBA
8 1 (0.25%) Analytics IQ
8 1 (0.25%) APMP
8 1 (0.25%) CFA
8 1 (0.25%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (6.52%) QA
2 21 (5.26%) GDPR
3 17 (4.26%) Accessibility
4 10 (2.51%) PCI DSS
4 10 (2.51%) PERC
5 8 (2.01%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 8 (2.01%) Data Quality
6 6 (1.50%) ISO 8583
6 6 (1.50%) PSD2
7 4 (1.00%) WCAG
8 2 (0.50%) SLA
9 1 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 33 (8.27%) Docker
2 5 (1.25%) Varnish
3 1 (0.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 34 (8.52%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.26%) Grafana
2 9 (2.26%) Prometheus
3 8 (2.01%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 7 (1.75%) Terraform
5 2 (0.50%) Ansible
6 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 39 (9.77%) Google
2 34 (8.52%) Adobe
2 34 (8.52%) Salesforce
3 24 (6.02%) SAP
4 17 (4.26%) Microsoft
5 11 (2.76%) Databricks
6 10 (2.51%) Oracle
6 10 (2.51%) Tealium
7 8 (2.01%) Optimizely
8 7 (1.75%) Sitecore
9 6 (1.50%) Amplitude
9 6 (1.50%) Hotjar
9 6 (1.50%) OneTrust
10 5 (1.25%) mParticle
11 4 (1.00%) TikTok
11 4 (1.00%) Wind River
12 3 (0.75%) OpenAI
13 2 (0.50%) Netlify
13 2 (0.50%) Rollbar
13 2 (0.50%) Splunk