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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 266 244 195
Rank change year-on-year -22 -49 +7
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 496 349 502
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.93% 1.05% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 1.17% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 199 372
10th Percentile £325 £293 £325
25th Percentile £412 £393 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -10.00% +2.33%
75th Percentile £603 £578 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £531 £475 £425
% change year-on-year +11.84% +11.76% -19.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 12 5
10th Percentile £18.88 - -
25th Percentile £22.50 £15.25 £11.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £15.50 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +222.58% -3.13% -68.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £15.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £95.00 - £55.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £15.50 £11.00
% change year-on-year +61.29% +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 45,350 29,954 33,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.75% 90.50% 85.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,857 18,668 21,203
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £424 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.31%
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 2,845 1,726 1,796
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.03
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.31 £18.23
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.97
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -38.61% -1.28%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +91.13% -45.88% +13.33%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 17 August 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 -21 452 £523 +4.50% 713
London +6 292 £500 -2.91% 448
Work from Home -15 161 £475 +2.70% 287
UK excluding London -89 146 £531 +11.84% 334
North of England -68 45 £550 +22.22% 121
Midlands -15 44 £588 +23.68% 50
North West -24 36 £550 +15.79% 75
West Midlands -32 29 £650 +23.81% 21
South East -85 27 £525 +10.53% 102
East of England -15 18 £500 +5.26% 16
East Midlands -6 14 £475 +5.56% 29
South West -42 13 £525 -20.75% 32
Yorkshire -45 9 £500 +11.11% 36

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 19 (3.83%) CMS
2 16 (3.23%) Confluence
3 5 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (0.81%) Apache
4 4 (0.81%) Headless CMS
4 4 (0.81%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.60%) Anypoint
6 2 (0.40%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.40%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.40%) Mule
6 2 (0.40%) Sitecore CMS
6 2 (0.40%) WordPress
7 1 (0.20%) Mendix
7 1 (0.20%) nginx
7 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.20%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 21 (4.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (3.02%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 13 (2.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (1.21%) Adobe After Effects
5 6 (1.21%) Final Cut Pro
5 6 (1.21%) Sketch
6 5 (1.01%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.40%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.40%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.20%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 41 (8.27%) Shopify
2 20 (4.03%) Magento
3 10 (2.02%) SAP CRM
3 10 (2.02%) SAP S/4HANA
4 9 (1.81%) Payment Gateway
5 7 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (1.41%) NetSuite
6 5 (1.01%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.40%) ION MarketView
7 2 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.40%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.40%) SAP MDG-F
8 1 (0.20%) Carpe Diem
8 1 (0.20%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle SCM
8 1 (0.20%) SAP Hybris
8 1 (0.20%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.20%) SDL Web 8
8 1 (0.20%) Sprinklr
8 1 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 67 (13.51%) AWS
1 67 (13.51%) Azure
2 28 (5.65%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
3 25 (5.04%) GCP
4 23 (4.64%) Figma
5 18 (3.63%) GitHub
6 14 (2.82%) Power Platform
7 13 (2.62%) SaaS
8 12 (2.42%) dbt
8 12 (2.42%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (2.22%) Snowflake
10 9 (1.81%) Algolia
11 7 (1.41%) BigCommerce
11 7 (1.41%) Datadog
11 7 (1.41%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 7 (1.41%) Serverless
12 6 (1.21%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (1.21%) Google Tag Manager
12 6 (1.21%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.81%) WAN
2 3 (0.60%) Firewall
2 3 (0.60%) HTTP
2 3 (0.60%) Internet
3 2 (0.40%) LAN
3 2 (0.40%) Network Security
3 2 (0.40%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.40%) VPN
3 2 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.20%) Broadband
4 1 (0.20%) Wireless
4 1 (0.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.62%) Power BI
2 12 (2.42%) Looker
3 11 (2.22%) NoSQL
4 9 (1.81%) Tableau
5 8 (1.61%) BigQuery
6 7 (1.41%) MongoDB
7 6 (1.21%) Couchbase
7 6 (1.21%) MySQL
8 5 (1.01%) Metadata
8 5 (1.01%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.01%) SQL Server
9 4 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (0.81%) Redis
9 4 (0.81%) SAP HANA
9 4 (0.81%) Semantic Layer
10 3 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.40%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.40%) KDB
Development Applications
1 26 (5.24%) Jenkins
2 25 (5.04%) Git
3 23 (4.64%) JIRA
4 9 (1.81%) Cypress.io
5 8 (1.61%) Subversion
6 6 (1.21%) Claude Code
6 6 (1.21%) Selenium
6 6 (1.21%) Vite
7 5 (1.01%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.01%) GitLab
8 4 (0.81%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.60%) Maven
9 3 (0.60%) Zephyr
10 2 (0.40%) Appium
10 2 (0.40%) Hudson
10 2 (0.40%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.20%) Bundler
11 1 (0.20%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.20%) PHPUnit
11 1 (0.20%) Robot Framework
General
1 238 (47.98%) Retail
2 173 (34.88%) Social Skills
3 75 (15.12%) Marketing
4 73 (14.72%) Finance
5 48 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
6 39 (7.86%) Organisational Skills
7 24 (4.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 23 (4.64%) Manufacturing
9 18 (3.63%) Banking
10 11 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (1.81%) Publishing
12 8 (1.61%) Advertising
12 8 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.61%) Legal
13 6 (1.21%) French Language
14 4 (0.81%) Electronics
14 4 (0.81%) Public Sector
15 3 (0.60%) Billing
15 3 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.60%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 92 (18.55%) Senior
2 59 (11.90%) Analyst
2 59 (11.90%) Developer
3 40 (8.06%) Architect
4 37 (7.46%) Business Analyst
5 35 (7.06%) Designer
6 33 (6.65%) Project Manager
7 31 (6.25%) Lead
8 26 (5.24%) Product Manager
9 22 (4.44%) E-Commerce Manager
9 22 (4.44%) UI Designer
10 20 (4.03%) Senior Manager
10 20 (4.03%) Solutions Architect
11 18 (3.63%) Senior Developer
12 17 (3.43%) Consultant
12 17 (3.43%) Salesforce Developer
12 17 (3.43%) Senior Designer
13 15 (3.02%) Data Engineer
14 14 (2.82%) E-Commerce Business Analyst
15 13 (2.62%) E-Commerce Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (9.27%) REST
2 45 (9.07%) React
3 42 (8.47%) Node.js
4 36 (7.26%) GraphQL
5 19 (3.83%) Next.js
6 18 (3.63%) Middleware
7 17 (3.43%) CSS
7 17 (3.43%) HTML
7 17 (3.43%) VML
8 15 (3.02%) Kafka
8 15 (3.02%) SOAP
9 14 (2.82%) Spring
10 12 (2.42%) Playwright
11 11 (2.22%) Spring Boot
12 10 (2.02%) .NET
12 10 (2.02%) RESTful
13 9 (1.81%) HTML5
14 8 (1.61%) AngularJS
14 8 (1.61%) Lightning Web Components
14 8 (1.61%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 47 (9.48%) Product Ownership
2 24 (4.84%) Mobile App
3 23 (4.64%) Cloud Native
4 21 (4.23%) Self-Motivation
5 19 (3.83%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (2.62%) Management Information System
8 11 (2.22%) AI Agents
8 11 (2.22%) Marketing Technology
9 9 (1.81%) Graphic Design
9 9 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (1.81%) Onboarding
10 7 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.41%) Animation
10 7 (1.41%) FMCG
11 5 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (0.81%) Credit Risk
12 4 (0.81%) Security Posture
12 4 (0.81%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.60%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.02%) Windows
2 9 (1.81%) Android
2 9 (1.81%) Apple iOS
3 7 (1.41%) Linux
4 4 (0.81%) Unix
5 2 (0.40%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (31.85%) Agile
2 105 (21.17%) Stakeholder Management
3 86 (17.34%) Problem-Solving
4 72 (14.52%) User Experience
5 70 (14.11%) CI/CD
6 64 (12.90%) Customer Experience
7 62 (12.50%) Scrum
8 61 (12.30%) CRM
9 54 (10.89%) AI
9 54 (10.89%) DevOps
9 54 (10.89%) Roadmaps
10 52 (10.48%) Analytics
11 48 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
11 48 (9.68%) Migration
12 40 (8.06%) Project Management
13 39 (7.86%) ERP
14 38 (7.66%) B2C
15 36 (7.26%) Order Management
16 35 (7.06%) Event-Driven
16 35 (7.06%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 45 (9.07%) SQL
2 37 (7.46%) JavaScript
3 36 (7.26%) TypeScript
4 35 (7.06%) Python
5 24 (4.84%) Java
6 11 (2.22%) C#
7 8 (1.61%) Apex Code
8 7 (1.41%) SOQL
8 7 (1.41%) SOSL
9 6 (1.21%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.01%) Groovy
10 5 (1.01%) Swift
11 4 (0.81%) ABAP
11 4 (0.81%) Bash
11 4 (0.81%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.60%) Go
12 3 (0.60%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.40%) DataWeave
13 2 (0.40%) LookML
13 2 (0.40%) PHP
Qualifications
1 42 (8.47%) Degree
2 7 (1.41%) Master's Degree
3 6 (1.21%) CSPO
4 5 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (0.81%) MBA
5 4 (0.81%) Security Cleared
6 2 (0.40%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.20%) Analytics IQ
7 1 (0.20%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.20%) CISA
7 1 (0.20%) CISSP
7 1 (0.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.20%) IIBA
7 1 (0.20%) ISEB
7 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.20%) PhD
7 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.20%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (6.65%) QA
2 23 (4.64%) Data Quality
3 21 (4.23%) Accessibility
4 10 (2.02%) GDPR
5 6 (1.21%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.01%) SLA
7 4 (0.81%) PMO
8 2 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.40%) PSD2
9 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.20%) NIST
9 1 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (4.44%) Docker
2 1 (0.20%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.20%) Sendmail
2 1 (0.20%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 23 (4.64%) Kubernetes
2 16 (3.23%) Terraform
3 3 (0.60%) Grafana
3 3 (0.60%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.40%) Bosun
4 2 (0.40%) CloudHub
4 2 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.40%) MOM
4 2 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.40%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.20%) Apache Ranger
Vendors
1 63 (12.70%) Salesforce
2 42 (8.47%) SAP
3 36 (7.26%) Microsoft
4 28 (5.65%) Adobe
5 26 (5.24%) Google
6 23 (4.64%) Oracle
7 16 (3.23%) Databricks
7 16 (3.23%) MuleSoft
8 8 (1.61%) Sitecore
9 7 (1.41%) New Relic
10 6 (1.21%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.21%) Splunk
11 5 (1.01%) Braze
11 5 (1.01%) IBM
12 4 (0.81%) Apple
12 4 (0.81%) Dynatrace
13 3 (0.60%) Informatica
13 3 (0.60%) OpenAI
14 2 (0.40%) Netlify
14 2 (0.40%) Screaming Frog