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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 286 254 196
Rank change year-on-year -32 -58 -20
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 415 307 530
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.92% 1.05% 1.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 1.16% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 195 378
10th Percentile £325 £293 £287
25th Percentile £406 £360 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £585
90th Percentile £775 £665 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +13.89% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 4 17
10th Percentile £16.62 £32.87 £10.42
25th Percentile £22.50 £38.68 £11.00
Median hourly rate £36.71 £44.71 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.90% +243.88% -80.15%
75th Percentile £75.25 £50.00 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £52.25 £66.95
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 38,631 26,466 38,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.54% 90.55% 86.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,504 17,183 24,720
10th Percentile £313 £308 £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 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.51% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,266 983 2,350
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.00 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.00 £20.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £35.96 £31.52 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.07% -4.48% -11.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £57.83
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.10 £70.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.55 £30.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +18.50% -7.69% -12.87%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -31 384 £513 +9.33% 366
London -22 243 £500 - 169
Work from Home -5 154 £513 +36.67% 182
UK excluding London -32 130 £513 +13.89% 219
Midlands -31 50 £475 - 46
North of England -46 37 £513 +2.50% 77
West Midlands -24 36 £638 +226.92% 20
South East -53 26 £525 +40.00% 66
North West -27 23 £513 +2.50% 48
East Midlands -23 14 £419 -19.47% 26
East of England -23 14 £350 -24.32% 19
Yorkshire -45 14 £713 +40.74% 24
South West -25 4 £625 +66.67% 16
Scotland - 2 - - 1

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 18 (4.34%) CMS
2 10 (2.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 9 (2.17%) Confluence
4 4 (0.96%) Headless CMS
5 3 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.48%) Apache
6 2 (0.48%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.24%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.24%) Kentico
7 1 (0.24%) nginx
7 1 (0.24%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.24%) Sitefinity
7 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (2.17%) Chatbot
1 9 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.48%) Autodesk Smoke
5 1 (0.24%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.24%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.24%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.24%) Trello
Business Applications
1 45 (10.84%) Shopify
2 13 (3.13%) Magento
3 8 (1.93%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.96%) Endur
4 4 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.72%) SAP Hybris
6 2 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.48%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.24%) Eikon
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle Retail
7 1 (0.24%) Orchestrade
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 39 (9.40%) Azure
2 29 (6.99%) AWS
3 24 (5.78%) SaaS
4 17 (4.10%) Dynamics 365
5 14 (3.37%) Figma
6 13 (3.13%) Commercetools
6 13 (3.13%) Contentful
6 13 (3.13%) Datadog
6 13 (3.13%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 12 (2.89%) Algolia
8 11 (2.65%) GCP
9 10 (2.41%) Serverless
10 9 (2.17%) BigCommerce
11 8 (1.93%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (1.93%) dbt
11 8 (1.93%) Google Tag Manager
11 8 (1.93%) Power Platform
12 7 (1.69%) Google Workspace
12 7 (1.69%) Miro
12 7 (1.69%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.69%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.24%) Firewall
2 1 (0.24%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.24%) Internet
2 1 (0.24%) RFID
2 1 (0.24%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.89%) MySQL
2 8 (1.93%) Redis
3 7 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (1.69%) Power BI
4 6 (1.45%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.20%) Looker
5 5 (1.20%) Metadata
5 5 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.20%) Relational Database
6 4 (0.96%) BigQuery
6 4 (0.96%) DynamoDB
7 3 (0.72%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.72%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.72%) Tableau
8 2 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.48%) CockroachDB
9 1 (0.24%) Big Data
9 1 (0.24%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.24%) Impala
9 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 28 (6.75%) Jenkins
2 22 (5.30%) JIRA
3 14 (3.37%) Git
4 9 (2.17%) Selenium
5 7 (1.69%) Cypress.io
6 6 (1.45%) GitLab
7 4 (0.96%) Maven
8 3 (0.72%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (0.72%) Charles Proxy
8 3 (0.72%) Fiddler
9 2 (0.48%) Appium
9 2 (0.48%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.48%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.48%) WebDriver
9 2 (0.48%) Zephyr
10 1 (0.24%) Hudson
10 1 (0.24%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.24%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.24%) Visual Website Optimizer
10 1 (0.24%) webpack
General
1 137 (33.01%) Social Skills
2 113 (27.23%) Retail
3 61 (14.70%) Finance
4 56 (13.49%) Marketing
5 36 (8.67%) Analytical Skills
6 34 (8.19%) Organisational Skills
7 16 (3.86%) Legal
8 14 (3.37%) Presentation Skills
9 13 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (2.89%) Electronics
11 10 (2.41%) Manufacturing
12 8 (1.93%) Banking
12 8 (1.93%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.93%) Publishing
13 6 (1.45%) Advertising
13 6 (1.45%) French Language
14 4 (0.96%) Front Office
15 2 (0.48%) Public Sector
15 2 (0.48%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.48%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 80 (19.28%) Senior
2 60 (14.46%) Analyst
3 46 (11.08%) Architect
4 42 (10.12%) Business Analyst
5 39 (9.40%) Project Manager
6 38 (9.16%) E-Commerce Manager
7 34 (8.19%) Developer
8 31 (7.47%) Senior Manager
9 26 (6.27%) Senior Project Manager
10 24 (5.78%) Consultant
11 22 (5.30%) Lead
12 17 (4.10%) Designer
13 15 (3.61%) Data Engineer
14 14 (3.37%) Solutions Architect
15 13 (3.13%) Web Manager
16 12 (2.89%) Account Executive
16 12 (2.89%) E-Commerce Executive
17 11 (2.65%) E-Commerce Project Manager
17 11 (2.65%) Senior E-Commerce Manager
18 10 (2.41%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (10.36%) Node.js
2 35 (8.43%) GraphQL
3 31 (7.47%) Playwright
3 31 (7.47%) React
4 25 (6.02%) CSS
5 24 (5.78%) REST
5 24 (5.78%) VML
6 22 (5.30%) HTML
7 21 (5.06%) Vitest
8 20 (4.82%) Middleware
9 13 (3.13%) YAML
10 11 (2.65%) AngularJS
10 11 (2.65%) OpenTelemetry
11 10 (2.41%) .NET
12 9 (2.17%) Vue
13 8 (1.93%) HTML5
13 8 (1.93%) Next.js
13 8 (1.93%) Sass
14 7 (1.69%) CSS3
14 7 (1.69%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 42 (10.12%) Product Ownership
2 38 (9.16%) Cloud Native
3 18 (4.34%) Mobile App
4 16 (3.86%) Onboarding
5 15 (3.61%) Virtual Team
6 14 (3.37%) Marketing Technology
7 12 (2.89%) Analytical Mindset
8 10 (2.41%) PMI
9 9 (2.17%) Client/Server
10 7 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.45%) FMCG
11 6 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (1.20%) Management Information System
13 4 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
13 4 (0.96%) e-Learning
13 4 (0.96%) EPoS
13 4 (0.96%) Learning Management System
14 3 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
14 3 (0.72%) Data Structures
15 2 (0.48%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.41%) Linux
2 8 (1.93%) Windows
3 7 (1.69%) Android
4 6 (1.45%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (34.70%) Agile
2 79 (19.04%) Problem-Solving
3 77 (18.55%) Stakeholder Management
4 57 (13.73%) CI/CD
5 54 (13.01%) User Experience
6 47 (11.33%) Scrum
7 46 (11.08%) Analytics
7 46 (11.08%) ERP
8 45 (10.84%) DevOps
8 45 (10.84%) Project Management
9 43 (10.36%) Coaching
10 37 (8.92%) Customer Experience
11 34 (8.19%) Roadmaps
11 34 (8.19%) Time Management
12 33 (7.95%) B2C
13 32 (7.71%) Continuous Improvement
13 32 (7.71%) Mentoring
13 32 (7.71%) Test Automation
14 29 (6.99%) Workshop Facilitation
15 27 (6.51%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 48 (11.57%) TypeScript
2 28 (6.75%) JavaScript
3 25 (6.02%) SQL
4 20 (4.82%) Python
5 13 (3.13%) Java
6 10 (2.41%) C#
7 8 (1.93%) PHP
8 4 (0.96%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.72%) Apex Code
9 3 (0.72%) SOQL
9 3 (0.72%) SOSL
10 2 (0.48%) Go
11 1 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.24%) Korn
11 1 (0.24%) Ruby
11 1 (0.24%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (5.06%) Degree
2 13 (3.13%) PMI Certification
3 7 (1.69%) CSPO
4 6 (1.45%) CBAP
5 3 (0.72%) PMP
6 2 (0.48%) Analytics IQ
6 2 (0.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.24%) APMP
7 1 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.24%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.24%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.24%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (8.43%) QA
2 21 (5.06%) GDPR
3 16 (3.86%) Accessibility
4 12 (2.89%) Data Quality
5 10 (2.41%) PERC
6 9 (2.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 9 (2.17%) PCI DSS
7 6 (1.45%) ISO 8583
7 6 (1.45%) PSD2
8 4 (0.96%) SLA
8 4 (0.96%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (6.99%) Docker
2 6 (1.45%) Varnish
3 1 (0.24%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 28 (6.75%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.89%) Grafana
2 12 (2.89%) Prometheus
3 8 (1.93%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 4 (0.96%) Terraform
5 2 (0.48%) Ansible
5 2 (0.48%) MOM
6 1 (0.24%) Apache Ranger
Vendors
1 38 (9.16%) Adobe
2 37 (8.92%) Google
2 37 (8.92%) Salesforce
3 32 (7.71%) SAP
4 20 (4.82%) Microsoft
5 13 (3.13%) Databricks
6 12 (2.89%) Oracle
7 10 (2.41%) Sitecore
7 10 (2.41%) Tealium
8 6 (1.45%) OneTrust
9 5 (1.20%) mParticle
10 3 (0.72%) Optimizely
10 3 (0.72%) TikTok
11 2 (0.48%) Netlify
11 2 (0.48%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 2 (0.48%) Splunk
12 1 (0.24%) Amplitude
12 1 (0.24%) Botify
12 1 (0.24%) Instagram
12 1 (0.24%) MuleSoft