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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 270 236 186
Rank change year-on-year -34 -50 +16
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 515 368 508
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.94% 1.13% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 1.24% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 211 366
10th Percentile £325 £303 £308
25th Percentile £419 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £578 £617
90th Percentile £702 £725 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +15.79% +5.56% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 15 3
10th Percentile £13.47 - £22.05
25th Percentile £28.06 £15.25 £31.13
Median hourly rate £62.00 £15.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +300.00% -67.37% -5.00%
75th Percentile £71.38 £15.75 £54.38
90th Percentile £73.95 £24.61 £57.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.00 £15.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year +300.00% -3.13% -68.00%

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 46,309 29,588 32,312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.42% 90.49% 85.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,063 18,372 19,750
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £627 £625 £638
90th Percentile £731 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,189 1,818 1,403
10th Percentile £13.81 £14.25 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -
75th Percentile £67.25 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.25 £74.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +79.25% -48.10% +1.18%

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 23 September 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 23 September 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 23 September 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 -26 475 £525 +5.00% 1,337
London -8 304 £500 -2.91% 747
Work from Home -39 158 £520 +6.12% 514
UK excluding London -89 158 £550 +15.79% 632
North of England -65 58 £560 +24.44% 229
North West -24 47 £560 +17.89% 145
Midlands -25 36 £594 +22.42% 109
South East -80 32 £525 -2.33% 150
West Midlands -25 24 £650 +23.81% 65
East of England -26 17 £500 +5.26% 49
South West -35 16 £525 +31.25% 59
East Midlands -11 11 £475 - 44
Yorkshire -54 11 £425 -5.56% 68

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 25 (4.85%) CMS
2 18 (3.50%) Confluence
3 7 (1.36%) WordPress
4 6 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.97%) Apache
6 4 (0.78%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.58%) Anypoint
7 3 (0.58%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.58%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.39%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.39%) Mule
8 2 (0.39%) Sitecore CMS
8 2 (0.39%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.19%) Drupal
9 1 (0.19%) EPiServer
9 1 (0.19%) Mendix
9 1 (0.19%) nginx
9 1 (0.19%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 23 (4.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.91%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 13 (2.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (1.17%) Adobe After Effects
5 6 (1.17%) Final Cut Pro
5 6 (1.17%) MS Visio
5 6 (1.17%) Sketch
6 3 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.39%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.19%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 33 (6.41%) Shopify
2 20 (3.88%) Magento
3 13 (2.52%) Payment Gateway
4 11 (2.14%) SAP S/4HANA
5 10 (1.94%) Dynamics CRM
5 10 (1.94%) SAP CRM
6 8 (1.55%) NetSuite
7 6 (1.17%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.39%) ION MarketView
8 2 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.19%) Carpe Diem
9 1 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.19%) Elite 3E
9 1 (0.19%) Oracle Retail
9 1 (0.19%) Oracle SCM
9 1 (0.19%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
9 1 (0.19%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.19%) SAP MDG-F
9 1 (0.19%) SAP Retail
9 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 82 (15.92%) AWS
1 82 (15.92%) Azure
2 30 (5.83%) GCP
3 27 (5.24%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
4 23 (4.47%) Figma
5 21 (4.08%) GitHub
6 16 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (2.91%) SaaS
8 14 (2.72%) GitHub Actions
8 14 (2.72%) Power Platform
9 13 (2.52%) dbt
9 13 (2.52%) Serverless
9 13 (2.52%) Snowflake
10 11 (2.14%) Algolia
11 9 (1.75%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 7 (1.36%) Azure Functions
12 7 (1.36%) Azure Service Bus
12 7 (1.36%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (1.36%) Entra ID
13 6 (1.17%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.36%) HTTP
2 4 (0.78%) WAN
3 3 (0.58%) Firewall
3 3 (0.58%) Internet
4 2 (0.39%) LAN
4 2 (0.39%) Network Security
4 2 (0.39%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.39%) VPN
4 2 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.19%) Broadband
5 1 (0.19%) DNS
5 1 (0.19%) Wireless
5 1 (0.19%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (2.72%) Power BI
2 13 (2.52%) Looker
3 12 (2.33%) BigQuery
4 11 (2.14%) NoSQL
5 10 (1.94%) MongoDB
6 9 (1.75%) SQL Server
6 9 (1.75%) Tableau
7 7 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (1.36%) Redis
7 7 (1.36%) Relational Database
7 7 (1.36%) SAP HANA
8 6 (1.17%) Couchbase
9 5 (0.97%) Metadata
9 5 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (0.78%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.78%) MySQL
10 4 (0.78%) Semantic Layer
11 3 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.58%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 23 (4.47%) Jenkins
1 23 (4.47%) JIRA
2 21 (4.08%) Git
3 8 (1.55%) Subversion
4 6 (1.17%) Claude Code
4 6 (1.17%) Cypress.io
4 6 (1.17%) Vite
5 4 (0.78%) Eclipse
6 3 (0.58%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.58%) Hudson
6 3 (0.58%) Selenium
7 2 (0.39%) GitLab
7 2 (0.39%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.39%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.19%) Appium
8 1 (0.19%) Bundler
8 1 (0.19%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.19%) Postman
8 1 (0.19%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.19%) TestRail
General
1 247 (47.96%) Retail
2 175 (33.98%) Social Skills
3 84 (16.31%) Marketing
4 77 (14.95%) Finance
5 54 (10.49%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (6.41%) Organisational Skills
7 26 (5.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 25 (4.85%) Manufacturing
9 19 (3.69%) Banking
10 9 (1.75%) Legal
10 9 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (1.36%) Advertising
11 7 (1.36%) French Language
11 7 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (1.17%) Publishing
13 4 (0.78%) Billing
13 4 (0.78%) Electronics
14 3 (0.58%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.39%) German Language
Job Titles
1 86 (16.70%) Senior
2 57 (11.07%) Developer
3 53 (10.29%) Analyst
3 53 (10.29%) Architect
4 34 (6.60%) Business Analyst
5 33 (6.41%) Designer
6 29 (5.63%) Project Manager
7 27 (5.24%) Lead
8 26 (5.05%) Product Manager
9 25 (4.85%) E-Commerce Manager
9 25 (4.85%) Solutions Architect
10 20 (3.88%) UI Designer
11 19 (3.69%) Consultant
11 19 (3.69%) Software Engineer
12 17 (3.30%) Data Engineer
13 16 (3.11%) Senior Designer
14 15 (2.91%) Salesforce Developer
14 15 (2.91%) Senior Developer
14 15 (2.91%) Senior Manager
14 15 (2.91%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (9.13%) REST
2 42 (8.16%) React
3 39 (7.57%) Node.js
4 31 (6.02%) GraphQL
5 28 (5.44%) Kafka
6 21 (4.08%) Next.js
7 19 (3.69%) Spring
7 19 (3.69%) Spring Boot
7 19 (3.69%) Terraform
8 15 (2.91%) SOAP
8 15 (2.91%) VML
9 14 (2.72%) .NET
10 12 (2.33%) HTML
10 12 (2.33%) RESTful
11 11 (2.14%) Middleware
12 9 (1.75%) CSS
13 8 (1.55%) Lightning Web Components
13 8 (1.55%) PySpark
14 7 (1.36%) Playwright
14 7 (1.36%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 46 (8.93%) Product Ownership
2 35 (6.80%) Cloud Native
3 30 (5.83%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (4.66%) Mobile App
5 20 (3.88%) Self-Motivation
6 15 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
7 14 (2.72%) Management Information System
8 13 (2.52%) Onboarding
9 11 (2.14%) AI Agents
9 11 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
10 10 (1.94%) FMCG
11 9 (1.75%) Graphic Design
12 8 (1.55%) Marketing Technology
13 7 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (1.36%) Animation
14 6 (1.17%) Credit Risk
15 5 (0.97%) Security Posture
16 4 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
16 4 (0.78%) Social Media
16 4 (0.78%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.75%) Android
1 9 (1.75%) Apple iOS
2 7 (1.36%) Windows
3 5 (0.97%) Linux
4 2 (0.39%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (29.13%) Agile
2 119 (23.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 85 (16.50%) CI/CD
4 84 (16.31%) Problem-Solving
5 77 (14.95%) Customer Experience
6 74 (14.37%) CRM
7 72 (13.98%) User Experience
8 65 (12.62%) AI
9 61 (11.84%) Roadmaps
10 58 (11.26%) Analytics
11 57 (11.07%) Scrum
12 56 (10.87%) DevOps
13 52 (10.10%) Continuous Improvement
14 49 (9.51%) Event-Driven
15 46 (8.93%) Migration
16 45 (8.74%) B2C
17 43 (8.35%) Software Engineering
18 38 (7.38%) ERP
19 36 (6.99%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 36 (6.99%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 49 (9.51%) SQL
2 39 (7.57%) Python
3 32 (6.21%) TypeScript
4 30 (5.83%) JavaScript
5 29 (5.63%) Java
6 15 (2.91%) C#
7 9 (1.75%) Kotlin
8 8 (1.55%) Apex Code
9 7 (1.36%) ABAP
10 6 (1.17%) PHP
11 5 (0.97%) Groovy
11 5 (0.97%) SOQL
11 5 (0.97%) SOSL
11 5 (0.97%) Swift
12 4 (0.78%) Bash
12 4 (0.78%) LookML
12 4 (0.78%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.58%) Go
13 3 (0.58%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (8.35%) Degree
2 7 (1.36%) Master's Degree
3 6 (1.17%) Security Cleared
4 5 (0.97%) CSPO
5 4 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (0.78%) MBA
6 3 (0.58%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.39%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.19%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.19%) CISA
8 1 (0.19%) CISSP
8 1 (0.19%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.19%) IIBA
8 1 (0.19%) ISEB
8 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.19%) PhD
8 1 (0.19%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.19%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (5.83%) QA
2 28 (5.44%) Data Quality
3 26 (5.05%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.75%) GDPR
5 6 (1.17%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.97%) PMO
7 2 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.39%) PSD2
7 2 (0.39%) SLA
8 1 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.19%) NIST
8 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (4.27%) Docker
2 3 (0.58%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.19%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 29 (5.63%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.58%) Bosun
3 2 (0.39%) CloudHub
3 2 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 64 (12.43%) Salesforce
2 42 (8.16%) Microsoft
3 41 (7.96%) SAP
4 31 (6.02%) Adobe
5 22 (4.27%) Google
6 21 (4.08%) Oracle
7 18 (3.50%) MuleSoft
8 15 (2.91%) Databricks
9 8 (1.55%) New Relic
9 8 (1.55%) Splunk
10 7 (1.36%) IBM
11 6 (1.17%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.17%) Sitecore
12 5 (0.97%) Braze
12 5 (0.97%) Dynatrace
12 5 (0.97%) TikTok
13 4 (0.78%) Adyen
13 4 (0.78%) Apple
13 4 (0.78%) dotdigital
13 4 (0.78%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud