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 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 289 240 199
Rank change year-on-year -49 -41 -44
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 392 323 533
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.92% 1.10% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 1.21% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 210 373
10th Percentile £325 £281 £286
25th Percentile £405 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £588
90th Percentile £775 £676 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +20.59% -10.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 4 18
10th Percentile £12.75 £32.87 £10.42
25th Percentile £22.50 £38.68 £11.00
Median hourly rate £35.91 £44.71 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.67% +243.88% -81.75%
75th Percentile £75.00 £50.00 £43.19
90th Percentile £95.00 £52.25 £66.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.59 £52.50 £13.00
% change year-on-year -39.83% +303.85% -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 36,632 26,629 38,749
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.08% 90.34% 86.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,216 16,983 25,185
10th Percentile £313 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £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 £725 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -1.84% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,179 898 2,347
10th Percentile £14.64 £15.57 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £29.61 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £74.68 £76.53 £71.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.55 £32.00 £31.80
% change year-on-year -17.02% +0.63% -9.14%

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 11 March 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 11 March 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 11 March 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 -33 366 £500 +11.11% 435
London -7 241 £500 +11.11% 182
Work from Home -20 145 £513 +28.13% 239
UK excluding London -46 112 £513 +20.59% 278
Midlands -38 42 £535 +22.29% 71
North of England -43 35 £550 +10.00% 88
West Midlands -34 32 £638 +112.50% 37
North West -25 20 £513 +7.89% 52
South East -57 18 £538 +61.05% 67
Yorkshire -54 15 £600 +18.52% 27
East of England -22 12 £350 -22.22% 25
East Midlands -29 10 £402 -19.20% 34
South West -15 6 £450 +20.00% 25
Scotland +17 2 - - 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 19 (4.85%) CMS
2 10 (2.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 10 (2.55%) Confluence
3 5 (1.28%) Headless CMS
4 3 (0.77%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.26%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.26%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.26%) Kentico
6 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.26%) Sitefinity
6 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (2.81%) Chatbot
1 11 (2.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.28%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.51%) Autodesk Smoke
5 1 (0.26%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.26%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.26%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.26%) Trello
Business Applications
1 35 (8.93%) Shopify
2 11 (2.81%) Magento
3 7 (1.79%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (1.02%) Endur
5 3 (0.77%) SAP Hybris
6 2 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.26%) Eikon
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle Retail
7 1 (0.26%) Orchestrade
7 1 (0.26%) SAP CAR
7 1 (0.26%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.26%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.26%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.26%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.26%) SAP Retail
7 1 (0.26%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.26%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 47 (11.99%) Azure
2 39 (9.95%) AWS
3 27 (6.89%) SaaS
4 16 (4.08%) Dynamics 365
4 16 (4.08%) GCP
5 14 (3.57%) Commercetools
5 14 (3.57%) Figma
5 14 (3.57%) Serverless
6 13 (3.32%) Datadog
7 12 (3.06%) Algolia
7 12 (3.06%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (3.06%) Contentful
8 10 (2.55%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
9 7 (1.79%) BigCommerce
9 7 (1.79%) Google Workspace
9 7 (1.79%) Miro
9 7 (1.79%) Power Platform
9 7 (1.79%) WhatsApp
10 6 (1.53%) Contentsquare
10 6 (1.53%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.79%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.26%) Firewall
2 1 (0.26%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.26%) Internet
2 1 (0.26%) RFID
2 1 (0.26%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.81%) MySQL
2 9 (2.30%) Redis
3 8 (2.04%) SQL Server
4 7 (1.79%) NoSQL
4 7 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (1.79%) Power BI
5 6 (1.53%) DynamoDB
5 6 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (1.28%) MongoDB
6 5 (1.28%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.02%) Metadata
7 4 (1.02%) Mixpanel
8 3 (0.77%) Looker
8 3 (0.77%) Tableau
9 2 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.51%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.51%) CockroachDB
9 2 (0.51%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.26%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.26%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 28 (7.14%) Jenkins
2 20 (5.10%) JIRA
3 12 (3.06%) Git
4 6 (1.53%) Selenium
5 5 (1.28%) Cypress.io
5 5 (1.28%) GitLab
6 4 (1.02%) Maven
6 4 (1.02%) SpecFlow
6 4 (1.02%) Visual Website Optimizer
7 3 (0.77%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (0.77%) Charles Proxy
7 3 (0.77%) Fiddler
8 2 (0.51%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.51%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.26%) Appium
9 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.26%) NUnit
9 1 (0.26%) Spock
9 1 (0.26%) Vite
9 1 (0.26%) Zephyr
General
1 132 (33.67%) Social Skills
2 100 (25.51%) Retail
3 57 (14.54%) Finance
4 53 (13.52%) Marketing
5 34 (8.67%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (6.38%) Organisational Skills
7 16 (4.08%) Legal
8 12 (3.06%) Electronics
9 11 (2.81%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (2.55%) Manufacturing
10 10 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (1.53%) Advertising
12 6 (1.53%) Banking
12 6 (1.53%) French Language
13 5 (1.28%) Publishing
14 4 (1.02%) Front Office
15 3 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 2 (0.51%) Telecoms
17 1 (0.26%) Games
Job Titles
1 69 (17.60%) Senior
2 53 (13.52%) Analyst
3 46 (11.73%) Architect
4 36 (9.18%) E-Commerce Manager
4 36 (9.18%) Project Manager
5 35 (8.93%) Business Analyst
6 33 (8.42%) Developer
7 27 (6.89%) Consultant
8 26 (6.63%) Senior Manager
9 23 (5.87%) Senior Project Manager
10 20 (5.10%) Lead
11 16 (4.08%) Designer
12 14 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
13 13 (3.32%) Web Manager
14 12 (3.06%) Account Executive
14 12 (3.06%) E-Commerce Executive
15 11 (2.81%) Data Engineer
15 11 (2.81%) E-Commerce Project Manager
15 11 (2.81%) Senior E-Commerce Manager
16 10 (2.55%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (11.99%) Node.js
2 35 (8.93%) GraphQL
3 33 (8.42%) React
4 30 (7.65%) Playwright
5 22 (5.61%) Vitest
6 21 (5.36%) CSS
7 20 (5.10%) VML
8 18 (4.59%) HTML
8 18 (4.59%) REST
9 16 (4.08%) .NET
9 16 (4.08%) Middleware
10 13 (3.32%) YAML
11 11 (2.81%) AngularJS
11 11 (2.81%) OpenTelemetry
12 8 (2.04%) Next.js
12 8 (2.04%) Vue
13 7 (1.79%) Spring
14 6 (1.53%) PySpark
14 6 (1.53%) RabbitMQ
14 6 (1.53%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 40 (10.20%) Cloud Native
2 39 (9.95%) Product Ownership
3 18 (4.59%) Mobile App
4 17 (4.34%) Onboarding
5 15 (3.83%) Virtual Team
6 13 (3.32%) Analytical Mindset
7 11 (2.81%) Marketing Technology
8 10 (2.55%) PMI
9 9 (2.30%) Client/Server
10 7 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.28%) FMCG
11 5 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.28%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.02%) e-Learning
12 4 (1.02%) EPoS
12 4 (1.02%) Learning Management System
13 3 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.77%) Data Structures
14 2 (0.51%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.55%) Linux
2 9 (2.30%) Windows
3 6 (1.53%) Android
3 6 (1.53%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.02%) Unix
5 1 (0.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (34.44%) Agile
2 74 (18.88%) Problem-Solving
3 72 (18.37%) Stakeholder Management
4 55 (14.03%) CI/CD
5 54 (13.78%) User Experience
6 47 (11.99%) Analytics
7 45 (11.48%) DevOps
8 42 (10.71%) Coaching
9 40 (10.20%) ERP
10 39 (9.95%) Project Management
10 39 (9.95%) Scrum
11 38 (9.69%) Customer Experience
12 35 (8.93%) Mentoring
13 33 (8.42%) Roadmaps
14 32 (8.16%) Continuous Improvement
14 32 (8.16%) Test Automation
15 31 (7.91%) B2C
16 29 (7.40%) CRM
17 28 (7.14%) Full-Stack Development
18 27 (6.89%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 51 (13.01%) TypeScript
2 31 (7.91%) SQL
3 28 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 25 (6.38%) Python
5 16 (4.08%) C#
5 16 (4.08%) Java
6 9 (2.30%) PHP
7 4 (1.02%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.51%) Go
9 1 (0.26%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.26%) Korn
9 1 (0.26%) Ruby
9 1 (0.26%) SOQL
9 1 (0.26%) SOSL
9 1 (0.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (5.87%) Degree
2 13 (3.32%) PMI Certification
3 6 (1.53%) CBAP
4 4 (1.02%) CSPO
5 3 (0.77%) AWS Certification
5 3 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (0.77%) Master's Degree
5 3 (0.77%) PMP
6 2 (0.51%) MBA
7 1 (0.26%) Analytics IQ
7 1 (0.26%) APMP
7 1 (0.26%) CFA
7 1 (0.26%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (7.65%) QA
2 22 (5.61%) GDPR
3 16 (4.08%) Accessibility
4 10 (2.55%) PERC
5 9 (2.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 9 (2.30%) Data Quality
5 9 (2.30%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.53%) ISO 8583
6 6 (1.53%) PSD2
7 4 (1.02%) SLA
7 4 (1.02%) WCAG
8 1 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 30 (7.65%) Docker
2 5 (1.28%) Varnish
3 1 (0.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 30 (7.65%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.06%) Grafana
2 12 (3.06%) Prometheus
3 8 (2.04%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 5 (1.28%) Terraform
5 2 (0.51%) Ansible
5 2 (0.51%) MOM
6 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.26%) SCCM
Vendors
1 38 (9.69%) Google
2 35 (8.93%) Adobe
3 31 (7.91%) Salesforce
4 25 (6.38%) SAP
5 18 (4.59%) Microsoft
6 11 (2.81%) Databricks
6 11 (2.81%) Oracle
7 10 (2.55%) Tealium
8 8 (2.04%) Sitecore
9 6 (1.53%) OneTrust
9 6 (1.53%) Optimizely
10 5 (1.28%) mParticle
11 4 (1.02%) Amplitude
11 4 (1.02%) Hotjar
11 4 (1.02%) Wind River
12 3 (0.77%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.77%) TikTok
13 2 (0.51%) Netlify
13 2 (0.51%) Rollbar
13 2 (0.51%) Splunk