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 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 270 240 192
Rank change year-on-year -30 -48 -17
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 421 319 531
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.91% 1.08% 1.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 1.19% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 207 374
10th Percentile £325 £293 £300
25th Percentile £413 £360 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £588
90th Percentile £788 £688 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +13.89% - -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 2 18
10th Percentile £17.73 £30.29 £10.42
25th Percentile £22.50 £32.23 £11.00
Median hourly rate £46.00 £35.46 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.74% +172.73% -75.12%
75th Percentile £75.00 £38.68 £15.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £40.62 £66.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.00 - £13.00
% change year-on-year - - -86.32%

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 39,258 26,720 37,503
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.83% 90.74% 86.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,768 17,301 24,236
10th Percentile £318 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £484 £500
% change year-on-year +0.31% -3.30% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,351 1,041 2,413
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.84 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.80 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -14.29% -6.67%
75th Percentile £65.60 £62.50 £58.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.00 £71.89
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £29.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +37.93% -17.14% -6.67%

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 21 April 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 21 April 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 21 April 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 -30 392 £513 +7.89% 357
London -20 253 £500 - 155
Work from Home +4 163 £513 +28.13% 140
UK excluding London -40 128 £513 +13.89% 233
Midlands -34 46 £510 -1.92% 48
North of England -36 38 £513 +2.50% 73
West Midlands -34 35 £638 +34.21% 24
South East -58 27 £525 +27.27% 61
North West -30 24 £513 +13.26% 49
East of England -21 14 £350 -24.32% 24
Yorkshire -53 14 £713 +42.50% 20
East Midlands -29 11 £475 -8.65% 24
South West -30 4 £625 +42.86% 23
Scotland - 2 - - 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 (3.80%) CMS
2 10 (2.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 8 (1.90%) Confluence
4 3 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.48%) Apache
5 2 (0.48%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.48%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.24%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.24%) Kentico
6 1 (0.24%) nginx
6 1 (0.24%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.24%) Sitefinity
6 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (2.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.14%) Chatbot
3 8 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.66%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (1.19%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.48%) Autodesk Smoke
6 2 (0.48%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.24%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.24%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.24%) Trello
Business Applications
1 48 (11.40%) Shopify
2 11 (2.61%) Magento
3 5 (1.19%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.71%) SAP Hybris
6 2 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.48%) Endur
6 2 (0.48%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.24%) Eikon
7 1 (0.24%) ION MarketView
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle Retail
7 1 (0.24%) SAP CAR
7 1 (0.24%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.24%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.24%) SAP MDG-F
7 1 (0.24%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.24%) SAP Retail
7 1 (0.24%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.24%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 40 (9.50%) Azure
2 31 (7.36%) AWS
3 23 (5.46%) SaaS
4 17 (4.04%) Dynamics 365
5 15 (3.56%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
6 14 (3.33%) Datadog
6 14 (3.33%) Figma
7 13 (3.09%) Commercetools
7 13 (3.09%) Contentful
8 12 (2.85%) Algolia
8 12 (2.85%) GCP
9 11 (2.61%) BigCommerce
9 11 (2.61%) Serverless
10 9 (2.14%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (2.14%) Power Platform
11 8 (1.90%) dbt
11 8 (1.90%) Google Tag Manager
12 7 (1.66%) Google Workspace
12 7 (1.66%) Miro
12 7 (1.66%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.66%) Cisco IPT
2 2 (0.48%) Firewall
3 1 (0.24%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.24%) Internet
3 1 (0.24%) LAN
3 1 (0.24%) Network Security
3 1 (0.24%) RFID
3 1 (0.24%) RTMP
3 1 (0.24%) WAN
3 1 (0.24%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.09%) MySQL
2 8 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (1.90%) Power BI
2 8 (1.90%) Redis
3 6 (1.43%) Metadata
4 5 (1.19%) Looker
4 5 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.19%) Relational Database
4 5 (1.19%) SQL Server
5 4 (0.95%) BigQuery
5 4 (0.95%) DynamoDB
5 4 (0.95%) Tableau
6 3 (0.71%) MongoDB
6 3 (0.71%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.48%) CockroachDB
7 2 (0.48%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 28 (6.65%) Jenkins
2 22 (5.23%) JIRA
3 13 (3.09%) Git
4 10 (2.38%) Selenium
5 8 (1.90%) Cypress.io
6 6 (1.43%) GitLab
7 4 (0.95%) Maven
8 3 (0.71%) Appium
8 3 (0.71%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (0.71%) Charles Proxy
8 3 (0.71%) Fiddler
8 3 (0.71%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.48%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.48%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.48%) Hudson
9 2 (0.48%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.24%) NUnit
10 1 (0.24%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.24%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.24%) Spock
General
1 142 (33.73%) Social Skills
2 121 (28.74%) Retail
3 62 (14.73%) Finance
4 58 (13.78%) Marketing
5 38 (9.03%) Organisational Skills
6 35 (8.31%) Analytical Skills
7 17 (4.04%) Presentation Skills
8 16 (3.80%) Legal
9 12 (2.85%) Electronics
9 12 (2.85%) Manufacturing
10 9 (2.14%) Banking
10 9 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (1.43%) Publishing
13 4 (0.95%) Advertising
13 4 (0.95%) French Language
13 4 (0.95%) Front Office
14 2 (0.48%) Public Sector
14 2 (0.48%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.48%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 86 (20.43%) Senior
2 59 (14.01%) Analyst
3 48 (11.40%) Architect
4 40 (9.50%) Business Analyst
4 40 (9.50%) Project Manager
5 35 (8.31%) E-Commerce Manager
6 34 (8.08%) Developer
7 33 (7.84%) Senior Manager
8 26 (6.18%) Senior Project Manager
9 24 (5.70%) Consultant
10 21 (4.99%) Lead
11 19 (4.51%) Designer
12 16 (3.80%) Data Engineer
13 15 (3.56%) Solutions Architect
14 12 (2.85%) E-Commerce Executive
14 12 (2.85%) Senior Designer
15 11 (2.61%) Account Executive
15 11 (2.61%) E-Commerce Project Manager
15 11 (2.61%) E-Commerce Specialist
15 11 (2.61%) Senior E-Commerce Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (10.69%) Node.js
2 37 (8.79%) GraphQL
3 33 (7.84%) React
4 32 (7.60%) Playwright
5 28 (6.65%) VML
6 27 (6.41%) REST
7 26 (6.18%) CSS
8 24 (5.70%) HTML
9 22 (5.23%) Middleware
10 21 (4.99%) Vitest
11 13 (3.09%) YAML
12 11 (2.61%) AngularJS
12 11 (2.61%) OpenTelemetry
13 10 (2.38%) Vue
14 9 (2.14%) .NET
14 9 (2.14%) HTML5
14 9 (2.14%) Next.js
14 9 (2.14%) Spring
15 8 (1.90%) Sass
16 7 (1.66%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 39 (9.26%) Cloud Native
2 37 (8.79%) Product Ownership
3 18 (4.28%) Mobile App
4 15 (3.56%) Virtual Team
5 14 (3.33%) Marketing Technology
6 12 (2.85%) Analytical Mindset
6 12 (2.85%) Onboarding
7 9 (2.14%) Client/Server
8 8 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.66%) FMCG
9 7 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.43%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.43%) PMI
11 5 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (0.95%) e-Learning
12 4 (0.95%) EPoS
12 4 (0.95%) Learning Management System
13 3 (0.71%) Data Structures
13 3 (0.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.61%) Linux
2 8 (1.90%) Android
2 8 (1.90%) Windows
3 7 (1.66%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.95%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (33.49%) Agile
2 81 (19.24%) Problem-Solving
3 71 (16.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 57 (13.54%) CI/CD
5 52 (12.35%) User Experience
6 50 (11.88%) ERP
7 48 (11.40%) Analytics
7 48 (11.40%) Project Management
8 43 (10.21%) DevOps
9 41 (9.74%) Coaching
10 40 (9.50%) Scrum
11 39 (9.26%) Customer Experience
12 36 (8.55%) Time Management
13 34 (8.08%) Mentoring
14 33 (7.84%) Roadmaps
14 33 (7.84%) Test Automation
15 31 (7.36%) B2C
15 31 (7.36%) Continuous Improvement
16 30 (7.13%) CRM
17 29 (6.89%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 48 (11.40%) TypeScript
2 28 (6.65%) JavaScript
3 27 (6.41%) SQL
4 23 (5.46%) Python
5 17 (4.04%) Java
6 9 (2.14%) C#
7 8 (1.90%) PHP
8 4 (0.95%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.71%) Apex Code
9 3 (0.71%) SOQL
9 3 (0.71%) SOSL
10 2 (0.48%) Go
11 1 (0.24%) Bash
11 1 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.24%) Korn
11 1 (0.24%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.24%) Ruby
11 1 (0.24%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (5.46%) Degree
2 9 (2.14%) CSPO
2 9 (2.14%) PMI Certification
3 3 (0.71%) PMP
4 2 (0.48%) Analytics IQ
4 2 (0.48%) CBAP
4 2 (0.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.24%) APMP
5 1 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.24%) CISA
5 1 (0.24%) CISSP
5 1 (0.24%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.24%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.24%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (7.60%) QA
2 22 (5.23%) GDPR
3 15 (3.56%) Accessibility
4 13 (3.09%) Data Quality
5 10 (2.38%) PERC
6 9 (2.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 6 (1.43%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.95%) SLA
8 4 (0.95%) WCAG
9 2 (0.48%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.48%) PSD2
10 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.24%) NIST
10 1 (0.24%) PMO
System Software
1 30 (7.13%) Docker
2 6 (1.43%) Varnish
3 1 (0.24%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 30 (7.13%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.85%) Grafana
2 12 (2.85%) Prometheus
3 8 (1.90%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 4 (0.95%) Terraform
5 2 (0.48%) Ansible
5 2 (0.48%) MOM
6 1 (0.24%) Apache Ranger
Vendors
1 41 (9.74%) Adobe
1 41 (9.74%) Salesforce
2 38 (9.03%) SAP
3 37 (8.79%) Google
4 19 (4.51%) Microsoft
5 15 (3.56%) Oracle
6 14 (3.33%) Databricks
7 12 (2.85%) Sitecore
8 10 (2.38%) Tealium
9 6 (1.43%) OneTrust
10 5 (1.19%) mParticle
11 4 (0.95%) Netlify
12 3 (0.71%) Splunk
12 3 (0.71%) TikTok
13 2 (0.48%) Infor
13 2 (0.48%) ION Trading
13 2 (0.48%) Optimizely
13 2 (0.48%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 1 (0.24%) ATG
14 1 (0.24%) Omniture