Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 23 October 2019

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for E-Commerce skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited E-Commerce over the 6 months to 23 October 2019 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

E-Commerce (Electronic Commerce)
UK
6 months to
23 Oct 2019		 Same period 2018 Same period 2017
Rank 80 67 65
Rank change year-on-year -13 -2 -8
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 2,364 3,696 3,395
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 2.79% 3.57% 3.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.23% 4.11% 3.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,736 2,775 2,422
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £450
Median daily rate % change year-on-year - +5.56% +2.27%
10th Percentile £313 £319 £300
90th Percentile £625 £613 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £400 £413
% change year-on-year +12.50% -3.03% +3.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 12
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £19.50 £32.16
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +79.49% -39.36% +19.09%
10th Percentile £20.00 £10.05 £13.78
90th Percentile £57.75 £26.20 £39.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £20.75 £24.41
% change year-on-year +32.53% -14.98% +13.51%

E-Commerce is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK
Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,115 89,839 86,433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.33% 86.84% 86.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 48,039 59,281 57,279
UK median daily rate £475 £455 £450
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +4.51% +1.00% +5.88%
10th Percentile £300 £300 £278
90th Percentile £650 £638 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +2.94% +6.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,283 2,430 2,073
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £20.62 £24.66
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +16.38% -16.37% +9.60%
10th Percentile £11.88 £11.18 £11.25
90th Percentile £53.75 £50.00 £50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.91 £20.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +14.54% -20.00% +11.11%

E-Commerce
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for E-Commerce in the UK

E-Commerce
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing E-Commerce.

Contractor daily rate trend for E-Commerce in the UK

E-Commerce
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing E-Commerce over the 6 months to 23 October 2019.

Contractor daily rate histogram for E-Commerce in the UK

E-Commerce
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing E-Commerce.

Contractor hourly rate trend for E-Commerce in the UK

E-Commerce
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing E-Commerce over the 6 months to 23 October 2019.

Contractor hourly rate histogram 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 23 October 2019. 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
Job
Vacancies
England -13 2,281 £475 - 759
London -15 1,351 £500 - 274
UK excluding London -30 969 £450 +12.50% 515
South East -45 253 £450 +5.88% 94
North of England -26 240 £401 +6.80% 197
North West +3 176 £420 +12.00% 134
East of England +19 169 £488 - 55
South West +36 146 £450 - 59
Midlands -30 112 £375 -6.25% 80
East Midlands -9 60 £375 -6.25% 39
Yorkshire -70 54 £400 +3.90% 47
West Midlands -37 46 £388 -0.64% 41
Scotland +30 42 £500 +25.00% 17
North East +17 10 £375 -6.54% 16
Wales +14 6 £425 +6.25% 12
Northern Ireland - 2 £400 - 1

For the 6 months to 23 October 2019, IT contractor jobs citing E-Commerce also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads with a requirement for E-Commerce.

1 1,059 (44.80%) Agile Software Development
2 643 (27.20%) Retail
3 593 (25.08%) JavaScript
4 452 (19.12%) Java
5 384 (16.24%) HTML
6 366 (15.48%) CSS
7 357 (15.10%) Scrum
8 356 (15.06%) TDD
9 331 (14.00%) AWS
10 290 (12.27%) React
11 288 (12.18%) User Experience
11 288 (12.18%) Microservices
12 269 (11.38%) DevOps
13 254 (10.74%) SQL
14 241 (10.19%) BDD
15 212 (8.97%) .NET
16 201 (8.50%) Node.js
17 200 (8.46%) Git (software)
18 193 (8.16%) JIRA
19 186 (7.87%) Docker
20 185 (7.83%) Front End Development
20 185 (7.83%) Finance
21 184 (7.78%) Web Services
22 180 (7.61%) PHP
23 179 (7.57%) Marketing
24 178 (7.53%) Azure
25 177 (7.49%) Stakeholder Management
25 177 (7.49%) AngularJS
26 170 (7.19%) C#
26 170 (7.19%) Analytics

E-Commerce
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 118 (4.99%) WebSphere
2 104 (4.40%) CMS
3 90 (3.81%) Confluence
4 52 (2.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 47 (1.99%) Apache
6 36 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
7 28 (1.18%) Sitecore CMS
8 23 (0.97%) Apache Spark
9 19 (0.80%) Apache Solr
10 16 (0.68%) WordPress
11 15 (0.63%) Tomcat
12 12 (0.51%) Exchange Server 2010
12 12 (0.51%) Exchange Server 2013
12 12 (0.51%) MS Exchange
13 10 (0.42%) IIS
14 9 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
14 9 (0.38%) Drupal
14 9 (0.38%) SharePoint
15 8 (0.34%) SAS
16 7 (0.30%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 76 (3.21%) Sketch
2 44 (1.86%) InVision
3 36 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
4 34 (1.44%) Photoshop
5 31 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
6 14 (0.59%) Adobe Illustrator
7 12 (0.51%) Marvel
8 11 (0.47%) MS Visio
8 11 (0.47%) Zeplin
9 8 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 7 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
11 5 (0.21%) Adobe XD
12 4 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 4 (0.17%) Figma
12 4 (0.17%) UserZoom
13 3 (0.13%) Adobe After Effects
13 3 (0.13%) InDesign
14 2 (0.085%) Chatbot
14 2 (0.085%) SPSS
14 2 (0.085%) Stata
Business Applications
1 145 (6.13%) Magento
2 33 (1.40%) SAP Hybris
3 27 (1.14%) Shopify
4 15 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
5 13 (0.55%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 11 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
7 10 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
7 10 (0.42%) SessionCam
8 8 (0.34%) Salesforce.com CRM
9 7 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
10 5 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
10 5 (0.21%) Oracle Retail
10 5 (0.21%) SAP ERP
11 4 (0.17%) BASE24
12 3 (0.13%) Fredhopper
12 3 (0.13%) NetSuite
12 3 (0.13%) osCommerce
12 3 (0.13%) SAP EWM
13 2 (0.085%) Adobe Campaign
13 2 (0.085%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 331 (14.00%) AWS
2 178 (7.53%) Azure
3 89 (3.76%) GCP
4 77 (3.26%) Serverless
5 66 (2.79%) AWS Lambda
6 56 (2.37%) Amazon EC2
6 56 (2.37%) Google Analytics
7 26 (1.10%) Amazon S3
8 25 (1.06%) AWS CloudFormation
8 25 (1.06%) Office 365
9 23 (0.97%) Power Platform
10 21 (0.89%) GitHub
11 17 (0.72%) Amazon SQS
12 16 (0.68%) Adobe Analytics
13 15 (0.63%) Amazon ECS
14 14 (0.59%) Cloud Computing
15 13 (0.55%) Amazon Kinesis
15 13 (0.55%) Force.com
15 13 (0.55%) SaaS
16 10 (0.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 30 (1.27%) HTTP
2 27 (1.14%) Internet
3 25 (1.06%) Firewall
4 12 (0.51%) NaaS
5 11 (0.47%) Cisco ASA
6 8 (0.34%) TCP/IP
7 6 (0.25%) ATM
7 6 (0.25%) SSH
7 6 (0.25%) WAN
8 5 (0.21%) LAN
8 5 (0.21%) Skype
8 5 (0.21%) SMS
9 4 (0.17%) DNS
9 4 (0.17%) Network Security
9 4 (0.17%) SSL
9 4 (0.17%) VPN
10 3 (0.13%) SAN
10 3 (0.13%) Wireless
11 2 (0.085%) HTTPS
11 2 (0.085%) RIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (4.99%) MySQL
2 108 (4.57%) SQL Server
3 60 (2.54%) NoSQL
4 56 (2.37%) MongoDB
5 55 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
6 48 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
7 46 (1.95%) Relational Database
8 37 (1.57%) Big Data
8 37 (1.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 28 (1.18%) Hadoop
10 24 (1.02%) Amazon DynamoDB
11 23 (0.97%) Power BI
12 22 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
13 17 (0.72%) BigQuery
14 16 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
14 16 (0.68%) Redis
15 13 (0.55%) Data Lake
16 12 (0.51%) Apache Hive
16 12 (0.51%) Oracle Database
16 12 (0.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 200 (8.46%) Git (software)
2 193 (8.16%) JIRA
3 154 (6.51%) Jenkins
4 79 (3.34%) Selenium
5 68 (2.88%) Cucumber
6 66 (2.79%) Maven
7 60 (2.54%) JUnit
8 46 (1.95%) Jasmine
9 44 (1.86%) Grunt
9 44 (1.86%) Mockito
10 33 (1.40%) jMock
11 29 (1.23%) Karma Test Runner
12 28 (1.18%) Bower
12 28 (1.18%) DbUnit
12 28 (1.18%) SonarQube
13 27 (1.14%) Subversion
13 27 (1.14%) TeamCity
14 23 (0.97%) Axure RP
14 23 (0.97%) Gradle
15 21 (0.89%) GitLab
General
1 643 (27.20%) Retail
2 185 (7.83%) Finance
3 179 (7.57%) Marketing
4 121 (5.12%) Games
5 71 (3.00%) Banking
6 40 (1.69%) Law
7 37 (1.57%) Legal
7 37 (1.57%) Telecoms
8 33 (1.40%) Investment Banking
9 23 (0.97%) Public Sector
10 22 (0.93%) German Language
11 20 (0.85%) Advertising
11 20 (0.85%) Spanish Language
12 16 (0.68%) Front Office
13 15 (0.63%) Manufacturing
14 13 (0.55%) Back Office
14 13 (0.55%) Publishing
15 12 (0.51%) Italian Language
16 11 (0.47%) French Language
17 9 (0.38%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 915 (38.71%) Developer
2 286 (12.10%) Analyst
3 202 (8.54%) Architect
4 172 (7.28%) Java Developer
5 155 (6.56%) Business Analyst
6 150 (6.35%) React Developer
7 143 (6.05%) Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 138 (5.84%) Project Manager
9 131 (5.54%) Designer
10 123 (5.20%) Senior Developer
11 117 (4.95%) JavaScript Developer
12 106 (4.48%) E-Commerce Analyst
13 93 (3.93%) E-Commerce Manager
14 90 (3.81%) .NET Developer
15 89 (3.76%) E-Commerce Developer
16 86 (3.64%) PHP Developer
17 83 (3.51%) DevOps Engineer
18 78 (3.30%) C# Developer
19 77 (3.26%) Solutions Architect
20 74 (3.13%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 384 (16.24%) HTML
2 366 (15.48%) CSS
3 290 (12.27%) React
4 212 (8.97%) .NET
5 201 (8.50%) Node.js
6 184 (7.78%) Web Services
7 177 (7.49%) AngularJS
8 159 (6.73%) RESTful
9 149 (6.30%) Spring
10 114 (4.82%) REST
11 104 (4.40%) jQuery
12 103 (4.36%) HTML5
13 93 (3.93%) Sass
14 92 (3.89%) SOAP
15 91 (3.85%) CSS3
16 86 (3.64%) Redux
17 79 (3.34%) J2EE
18 78 (3.30%) XML
19 68 (2.88%) JSON
20 62 (2.62%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 288 (12.18%) User Experience
2 115 (4.86%) Mobile App
3 112 (4.74%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (4.10%) Greenfield Project
5 45 (1.90%) iPad
6 44 (1.86%) W3C
7 32 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 30 (1.27%) Management Information System
9 28 (1.18%) Vector Graphics
10 22 (0.93%) Data Structures
11 20 (0.85%) Virtual Team
12 18 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
12 18 (0.76%) Social Media
13 15 (0.63%) Algorithms
13 15 (0.63%) Cloud Native
14 14 (0.59%) EPoS
15 13 (0.55%) Public Cloud
15 13 (0.55%) Self-Motivation
16 11 (0.47%) Analytical Mindset
17 10 (0.42%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 103 (4.36%) Linux
2 62 (2.62%) Windows
3 50 (2.12%) Apple iOS
3 50 (2.12%) Unix
4 42 (1.78%) Android
5 23 (0.97%) Windows Server
6 14 (0.59%) Windows Server 2012
7 13 (0.55%) Windows Server 2003
8 12 (0.51%) Windows 8
8 12 (0.51%) Windows XP
9 9 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 8 (0.34%) AIX
11 5 (0.21%) CentOS
12 4 (0.17%) CoreOS
12 4 (0.17%) Mac OS X
13 3 (0.13%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.085%) HPUX
14 2 (0.085%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.042%) Mac OS
15 1 (0.042%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,059 (44.80%) Agile Software Development
2 357 (15.10%) Scrum
3 356 (15.06%) TDD
4 288 (12.18%) Microservices
5 269 (11.38%) DevOps
6 241 (10.19%) BDD
7 185 (7.83%) Front End Development
8 177 (7.49%) Stakeholder Management
9 170 (7.19%) Analytics
10 166 (7.02%) Kanban
11 164 (6.94%) Problem-Solving
12 159 (6.73%) Test Automation
13 150 (6.35%) MVC
14 142 (6.01%) User Stories
15 138 (5.84%) Project Management
16 131 (5.54%) CRM
17 124 (5.25%) Continuous Integration
18 114 (4.82%) Software Engineering
19 103 (4.36%) Business Intelligence
19 103 (4.36%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 593 (25.08%) JavaScript
2 452 (19.12%) Java
3 254 (10.74%) SQL
4 180 (7.61%) PHP
5 170 (7.19%) C#
6 142 (6.01%) Python
7 54 (2.28%) Scala
8 48 (2.03%) Java 8
9 43 (1.82%) TypeScript
10 36 (1.52%) ES6
11 32 (1.35%) Ruby
12 29 (1.23%) T-SQL
13 28 (1.18%) Kotlin
14 21 (0.89%) Bash Shell
15 17 (0.72%) PowerShell
16 16 (0.68%) C++
17 15 (0.63%) Groovy
18 14 (0.59%) Apple Swift
18 14 (0.59%) R
18 14 (0.59%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 103 (4.36%) Degree
2 22 (0.93%) Security Cleared
3 19 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
4 17 (0.72%) SC Cleared
5 15 (0.63%) Master's Degree
6 13 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (0.55%) ISEB
7 12 (0.51%) CCNA
7 12 (0.51%) CISSP
7 12 (0.51%) MCITP
7 12 (0.51%) MCSA
7 12 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (0.38%) PMI Certification
9 6 (0.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 6 (0.25%) CISM
9 6 (0.25%) CSSLP
9 6 (0.25%) ISSAP
10 5 (0.21%) CISA
11 4 (0.17%) APMP
11 4 (0.17%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (4.70%) QA
2 20 (0.85%) PMO
3 8 (0.34%) PCI DSS
4 6 (0.25%) MiFID
5 5 (0.21%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.21%) GDPR
5 5 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.21%) SLA
5 5 (0.21%) WCAG
6 3 (0.13%) EMIR
7 2 (0.085%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.085%) COBIT
7 2 (0.085%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.085%) NIST
8 1 (0.042%) GAMP
8 1 (0.042%) GxP
8 1 (0.042%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.042%) ISO/IEC 19770
System Software
1 186 (7.87%) Docker
2 29 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (0.85%) vSphere
4 14 (0.59%) Active Directory
5 12 (0.51%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.085%) Ceph
8 1 (0.042%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.042%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.042%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 142 (6.01%) Kubernetes
2 93 (3.93%) Terraform
3 55 (2.33%) Ansible
4 22 (0.93%) Puppet
5 16 (0.68%) SCCM
6 12 (0.51%) SCOM
6 12 (0.51%) WSUS
7 10 (0.42%) Opscode Chef
8 7 (0.30%) Mesos
9 5 (0.21%) HP Quality Center
9 5 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.13%) Grafana
10 3 (0.13%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.085%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.085%) Marathon
11 2 (0.085%) Microsoft Clustering
11 2 (0.085%) MOM
11 2 (0.085%) Packer
11 2 (0.085%) Rancher
12 1 (0.042%) Nessus
Vendors
1 137 (5.80%) Google
2 132 (5.58%) Salesforce.com
3 120 (5.08%) hybris
4 103 (4.36%) SAP
5 100 (4.23%) Adobe
6 92 (3.89%) Microsoft
7 81 (3.43%) IBM
8 56 (2.37%) Demandware
9 55 (2.33%) Oracle
10 44 (1.86%) VMware
11 43 (1.82%) Tableau
12 35 (1.48%) Sitecore
13 25 (1.06%) Cypress Semiconductor
14 21 (0.89%) Cisco
15 16 (0.68%) Atlassian
16 15 (0.63%) Ariba
17 14 (0.59%) Splunk
18 13 (0.55%) F5
18 13 (0.55%) Teradata
19 12 (0.51%) Sony
792 E-Commerce job vacancies Nationwide