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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 258 191
Rank change year-on-year -13 -67 +12
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 503 346 509
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.94% 1.06% 1.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 1.17% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 198 376
10th Percentile £325 £301 £320
25th Percentile £411 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £498 £540
Median % change year-on-year +4.02% -7.87% -1.82%
75th Percentile £600 £580 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £425
% change year-on-year +10.53% +11.76% -19.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 12 5
10th Percentile £19.79 - -
25th Percentile £22.50 £15.25 £11.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £15.50 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +238.71% -3.13% -68.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £15.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £95.00 - £55.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.46 £15.50 £11.00
% change year-on-year +96.48% +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 45,367 29,590 33,147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.58% 90.44% 85.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,794 18,422 20,982
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
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 2,879 1,766 1,695
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £13.86
25th Percentile £17.97 £17.30 £18.13
Median hourly rate £41.06 £25.15 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.26% -37.90% -4.71%
75th Percentile £67.89 £47.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £22.63 £42.50
% change year-on-year +94.26% -46.75% +6.25%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -17 459 £525 +5.00% 379
London +8 296 £500 -2.91% 197
Work from Home -20 165 £500 +5.26% 136
UK excluding London -72 150 £525 +10.53% 197
North of England -66 50 £550 +22.22% 65
Midlands -22 42 £544 +10.13% 42
North West -29 41 £550 +15.79% 35
South East -93 28 £525 +10.53% 45
West Midlands -40 27 £650 +23.81% 17
East of England -20 18 £500 +5.26% 9
East Midlands -4 14 £475 +11.76% 25
South West -43 13 £525 -44.74% 28
Yorkshire -49 9 £500 +11.11% 25

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 (3.78%) CMS
2 17 (3.38%) Confluence
3 5 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.80%) Apache
4 4 (0.80%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.60%) Anypoint
5 3 (0.60%) Headless CMS
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%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.20%) Mendix
7 1 (0.20%) nginx
7 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.20%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 22 (4.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.98%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 13 (2.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (2.19%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (1.19%) Adobe After Effects
5 6 (1.19%) Final Cut Pro
5 6 (1.19%) MS Visio
5 6 (1.19%) Sketch
6 3 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.40%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.20%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 40 (7.95%) Shopify
2 20 (3.98%) Magento
3 10 (1.99%) Payment Gateway
3 10 (1.99%) SAP CRM
3 10 (1.99%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (1.39%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.99%) 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 Forecasting and Replenishment
8 1 (0.20%) SAP Hybris
8 1 (0.20%) SDL Web 8
8 1 (0.20%) Sprinklr
8 1 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 72 (14.31%) AWS
2 69 (13.72%) Azure
3 28 (5.57%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
4 24 (4.77%) GCP
5 23 (4.57%) Figma
6 16 (3.18%) GitHub
7 15 (2.98%) Power Platform
8 14 (2.78%) SaaS
9 12 (2.39%) dbt
9 12 (2.39%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (2.19%) Snowflake
11 10 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (1.79%) Algolia
13 8 (1.59%) Datadog
13 8 (1.59%) Serverless
14 7 (1.39%) BigCommerce
14 7 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
14 7 (1.39%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 6 (1.19%) AWS Lambda
15 6 (1.19%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.19%) HTTP
2 4 (0.80%) WAN
3 3 (0.60%) Firewall
3 3 (0.60%) Internet
4 2 (0.40%) LAN
4 2 (0.40%) Network Security
4 2 (0.40%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.40%) VPN
4 2 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.20%) Broadband
5 1 (0.20%) Wireless
5 1 (0.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (2.78%) Power BI
2 13 (2.58%) Looker
3 11 (2.19%) NoSQL
4 9 (1.79%) BigQuery
4 9 (1.79%) MongoDB
4 9 (1.79%) Tableau
5 7 (1.39%) SQL Server
6 6 (1.19%) Couchbase
6 6 (1.19%) Redis
7 5 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (0.99%) Metadata
7 5 (0.99%) MySQL
7 5 (0.99%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.80%) SAP HANA
8 4 (0.80%) Semantic Layer
9 3 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.40%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.40%) KDB
Development Applications
1 26 (5.17%) Jenkins
2 25 (4.97%) JIRA
3 24 (4.77%) Git
4 8 (1.59%) Cypress.io
4 8 (1.59%) Subversion
5 6 (1.19%) Claude Code
5 6 (1.19%) Vite
6 5 (0.99%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.99%) GitLab
6 5 (0.99%) Selenium
7 4 (0.80%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.60%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.40%) Appium
9 2 (0.40%) Hudson
9 2 (0.40%) Maven
9 2 (0.40%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.20%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.20%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.20%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.20%) Spock
General
1 236 (46.92%) Retail
2 174 (34.59%) Social Skills
3 72 (14.31%) Marketing
4 71 (14.12%) Finance
5 49 (9.74%) Analytical Skills
6 39 (7.75%) Organisational Skills
7 25 (4.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 23 (4.57%) Manufacturing
9 18 (3.58%) Banking
10 11 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (1.79%) Publishing
12 8 (1.59%) Advertising
12 8 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.59%) Legal
13 7 (1.39%) French Language
14 4 (0.80%) Electronics
14 4 (0.80%) Public Sector
15 3 (0.60%) Billing
15 3 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.60%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 89 (17.69%) Senior
2 61 (12.13%) Analyst
3 58 (11.53%) Developer
4 43 (8.55%) Architect
5 37 (7.36%) Business Analyst
6 34 (6.76%) Designer
7 31 (6.16%) Project Manager
8 29 (5.77%) Lead
9 28 (5.57%) Product Manager
10 23 (4.57%) Solutions Architect
11 22 (4.37%) E-Commerce Manager
12 21 (4.17%) UI Designer
13 18 (3.58%) Consultant
13 18 (3.58%) Senior Manager
14 17 (3.38%) Salesforce Developer
15 16 (3.18%) Senior Designer
15 16 (3.18%) Senior Developer
16 14 (2.78%) Data Engineer
16 14 (2.78%) E-Commerce Business Analyst
17 13 (2.58%) E-Commerce Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (9.54%) REST
2 44 (8.75%) React
3 43 (8.55%) Node.js
4 36 (7.16%) GraphQL
5 21 (4.17%) Kafka
6 19 (3.78%) Spring
7 18 (3.58%) Next.js
8 17 (3.38%) HTML
8 17 (3.38%) Middleware
8 17 (3.38%) Spring Boot
8 17 (3.38%) Terraform
8 17 (3.38%) VML
9 16 (3.18%) CSS
10 15 (2.98%) SOAP
11 12 (2.39%) .NET
12 11 (2.19%) Playwright
13 10 (1.99%) RESTful
14 9 (1.79%) HTML5
15 8 (1.59%) AngularJS
15 8 (1.59%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 48 (9.54%) Product Ownership
2 30 (5.96%) Cloud Native
3 24 (4.77%) Mobile App
4 22 (4.37%) Distributed Systems
5 21 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
6 15 (2.98%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (2.58%) Management Information System
8 12 (2.39%) Onboarding
9 11 (2.19%) AI Agents
10 10 (1.99%) Marketing Technology
11 9 (1.79%) Graphic Design
11 9 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (1.59%) FMCG
13 7 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (1.39%) Animation
14 5 (0.99%) Security Posture
15 4 (0.80%) Credit Risk
15 4 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
16 3 (0.60%) EPoS
16 3 (0.60%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.79%) Android
1 9 (1.79%) Apple iOS
1 9 (1.79%) Windows
2 6 (1.19%) Linux
3 3 (0.60%) Unix
4 2 (0.40%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (30.62%) Agile
2 109 (21.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 85 (16.90%) Problem-Solving
4 75 (14.91%) CI/CD
5 74 (14.71%) User Experience
6 66 (13.12%) Customer Experience
7 62 (12.33%) CRM
8 61 (12.13%) Scrum
9 56 (11.13%) AI
10 55 (10.93%) Roadmaps
11 54 (10.74%) DevOps
12 53 (10.54%) Analytics
13 48 (9.54%) Continuous Improvement
14 46 (9.15%) Migration
15 42 (8.35%) Event-Driven
16 40 (7.95%) ERP
17 39 (7.75%) B2C
18 38 (7.55%) Project Management
19 36 (7.16%) Order Management
20 35 (6.96%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 46 (9.15%) SQL
2 38 (7.55%) TypeScript
3 36 (7.16%) Python
4 35 (6.96%) JavaScript
5 28 (5.57%) Java
6 13 (2.58%) C#
7 8 (1.59%) Apex Code
8 7 (1.39%) Kotlin
8 7 (1.39%) SOQL
8 7 (1.39%) SOSL
9 5 (0.99%) Groovy
9 5 (0.99%) Swift
10 4 (0.80%) ABAP
10 4 (0.80%) Bash
10 4 (0.80%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.60%) Go
11 3 (0.60%) LookML
11 3 (0.60%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.40%) DataWeave
12 2 (0.40%) PHP
Qualifications
1 42 (8.35%) Degree
2 7 (1.39%) Master's Degree
3 6 (1.19%) CSPO
4 5 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (0.80%) MBA
5 4 (0.80%) Security Cleared
6 2 (0.40%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.40%) PMP
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
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (6.56%) QA
2 24 (4.77%) Data Quality
3 21 (4.17%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.79%) GDPR
5 6 (1.19%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.80%) PMO
6 4 (0.80%) SLA
7 2 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.40%) PSD2
8 1 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.20%) NIST
8 1 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (4.57%) Docker
2 2 (0.40%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.20%) Sendmail
3 1 (0.20%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 29 (5.77%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.60%) Grafana
2 3 (0.60%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.40%) Bosun
3 2 (0.40%) CloudHub
3 2 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.40%) MOM
3 2 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.20%) Apache Ranger
Vendors
1 63 (12.52%) Salesforce
2 43 (8.55%) SAP
3 37 (7.36%) Microsoft
4 28 (5.57%) Adobe
5 23 (4.57%) Google
5 23 (4.57%) Oracle
6 16 (3.18%) MuleSoft
7 13 (2.58%) Databricks
8 8 (1.59%) Sitecore
9 7 (1.39%) IBM
9 7 (1.39%) New Relic
10 6 (1.19%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.19%) Splunk
11 5 (0.99%) Braze
11 5 (0.99%) Dynatrace
12 4 (0.80%) Apple
13 3 (0.60%) Informatica
13 3 (0.60%) OpenAI
14 2 (0.40%) OneTrust
14 2 (0.40%) Screaming Frog