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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 270 254 194
Rank change year-on-year -16 -60 -25
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 399 305 523
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.92% 1.04% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 1.15% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 201 372
10th Percentile £325 £281 £285
25th Percentile £413 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £588
90th Percentile £775 £688 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £444 £475
% change year-on-year +15.49% -6.58% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 4 17
10th Percentile £13.86 £32.87 £10.42
25th Percentile £25.66 £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 £75.50 £50.00 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £52.25 £66.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.96 £52.50 £13.00
% change year-on-year -35.32% +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 37,207 26,505 38,501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 90.41% 86.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,564 17,019 25,049
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 £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £721 £744 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -2.04% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,206 924 2,336
10th Percentile £14.93 £15.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £20.99 £16.05
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.52 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.41 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £31.64 £31.50
% change year-on-year -13.08% +0.44% -10.00%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -30 372 £500 +11.11% 394
London -11 238 £500 +11.11% 165
Work from Home -20 146 £513 +28.13% 222
UK excluding London -26 121 £513 +15.49% 252
Midlands -24 45 £463 +11.04% 64
North of England -33 37 £531 +6.25% 75
West Midlands -28 32 £638 +226.92% 32
North West -20 22 £513 +2.50% 42
South East -60 21 £538 +56.93% 69
Yorkshire -46 15 £600 +18.52% 24
East of England -14 14 £350 -24.32% 26
East Midlands -30 13 £413 -17.09% 32
South West -22 5 £500 +33.33% 19
Scotland - 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 (4.76%) CMS
2 10 (2.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 10 (2.51%) Confluence
3 4 (1.00%) Headless CMS
4 3 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.50%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.25%) Apache
6 1 (0.25%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.25%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.25%) Kentico
6 1 (0.25%) Sitefinity
6 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (2.76%) Chatbot
2 10 (2.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.25%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.50%) Autodesk Smoke
6 1 (0.25%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.25%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.25%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.25%) Trello
Business Applications
1 41 (10.28%) Shopify
2 11 (2.76%) Magento
3 7 (1.75%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (1.00%) Endur
5 3 (0.75%) SAP Hybris
6 2 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.25%) Eikon
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle Retail
7 1 (0.25%) Orchestrade
7 1 (0.25%) SAP CAR
7 1 (0.25%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.25%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.25%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.25%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.25%) SAP Retail
7 1 (0.25%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.25%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 43 (10.78%) Azure
2 35 (8.77%) AWS
3 26 (6.52%) SaaS
4 16 (4.01%) Dynamics 365
5 14 (3.51%) Figma
5 14 (3.51%) GCP
5 14 (3.51%) Serverless
6 13 (3.26%) Commercetools
6 13 (3.26%) Datadog
7 12 (3.01%) Algolia
7 12 (3.01%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (3.01%) Contentful
7 12 (3.01%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 7 (1.75%) BigCommerce
8 7 (1.75%) Google Workspace
8 7 (1.75%) Miro
8 7 (1.75%) Power Platform
8 7 (1.75%) WhatsApp
9 6 (1.50%) Contentsquare
9 6 (1.50%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.75%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.25%) Firewall
2 1 (0.25%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.25%) Internet
2 1 (0.25%) RFID
2 1 (0.25%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.76%) MySQL
2 9 (2.26%) Redis
3 7 (1.75%) Power BI
3 7 (1.75%) SQL Server
4 6 (1.50%) DynamoDB
4 6 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (1.50%) NoSQL
4 6 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.25%) Metadata
5 5 (1.25%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.00%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.75%) Looker
7 3 (0.75%) Mixpanel
7 3 (0.75%) Tableau
8 2 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.50%) CockroachDB
8 2 (0.50%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.25%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.25%) Bigtable
9 1 (0.25%) Impala
Development Applications
1 28 (7.02%) Jenkins
2 21 (5.26%) JIRA
3 14 (3.51%) Git
4 7 (1.75%) Selenium
5 6 (1.50%) Cypress.io
5 6 (1.50%) GitLab
6 4 (1.00%) Maven
6 4 (1.00%) SpecFlow
7 3 (0.75%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (0.75%) Charles Proxy
7 3 (0.75%) Fiddler
7 3 (0.75%) Visual Website Optimizer
8 2 (0.50%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.50%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.50%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.25%) Appium
9 1 (0.25%) NUnit
9 1 (0.25%) Spock
9 1 (0.25%) Vite
9 1 (0.25%) Zephyr
General
1 135 (33.83%) Social Skills
2 105 (26.32%) Retail
3 56 (14.04%) Finance
4 52 (13.03%) Marketing
5 32 (8.02%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (7.02%) Organisational Skills
7 16 (4.01%) Legal
8 12 (3.01%) Electronics
9 11 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (2.51%) Manufacturing
11 7 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (1.50%) Advertising
12 6 (1.50%) Banking
12 6 (1.50%) French Language
13 5 (1.25%) Publishing
14 4 (1.00%) Front Office
15 2 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 2 (0.50%) Telecoms
16 1 (0.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 71 (17.79%) Senior
2 51 (12.78%) Analyst
3 46 (11.53%) Architect
4 39 (9.77%) Project Manager
5 36 (9.02%) Business Analyst
5 36 (9.02%) E-Commerce Manager
6 33 (8.27%) Developer
7 27 (6.77%) Senior Manager
8 26 (6.52%) Consultant
9 24 (6.02%) Senior Project Manager
10 21 (5.26%) Lead
11 16 (4.01%) Designer
12 14 (3.51%) Solutions Architect
13 13 (3.26%) Web Manager
14 12 (3.01%) Account Executive
14 12 (3.01%) E-Commerce Executive
15 11 (2.76%) Data Engineer
15 11 (2.76%) E-Commerce Project Manager
15 11 (2.76%) Senior E-Commerce Manager
16 10 (2.51%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (12.03%) Node.js
2 36 (9.02%) GraphQL
3 34 (8.52%) React
4 30 (7.52%) Playwright
5 24 (6.02%) CSS
6 22 (5.51%) REST
7 21 (5.26%) HTML
7 21 (5.26%) Vitest
8 20 (5.01%) VML
9 18 (4.51%) Middleware
10 15 (3.76%) .NET
11 13 (3.26%) YAML
12 11 (2.76%) AngularJS
12 11 (2.76%) OpenTelemetry
13 8 (2.01%) HTML5
13 8 (2.01%) Next.js
13 8 (2.01%) Sass
13 8 (2.01%) Vue
14 7 (1.75%) CSS3
14 7 (1.75%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 42 (10.53%) Product Ownership
2 37 (9.27%) Cloud Native
3 19 (4.76%) Mobile App
4 16 (4.01%) Onboarding
5 15 (3.76%) Virtual Team
6 14 (3.51%) Marketing Technology
7 13 (3.26%) Analytical Mindset
8 10 (2.51%) PMI
9 9 (2.26%) Client/Server
10 6 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.25%) FMCG
11 5 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.25%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.00%) e-Learning
12 4 (1.00%) EPoS
12 4 (1.00%) Learning Management System
13 3 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.75%) Data Structures
13 3 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.51%) Linux
2 8 (2.01%) Windows
3 6 (1.50%) Android
4 5 (1.25%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (34.84%) Agile
2 74 (18.55%) Stakeholder Management
3 73 (18.30%) Problem-Solving
4 57 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 53 (13.28%) User Experience
6 48 (12.03%) DevOps
7 45 (11.28%) Analytics
8 44 (11.03%) Scrum
9 42 (10.53%) Coaching
9 42 (10.53%) ERP
9 42 (10.53%) Project Management
10 39 (9.77%) Customer Experience
11 33 (8.27%) Continuous Improvement
11 33 (8.27%) Mentoring
11 33 (8.27%) Roadmaps
11 33 (8.27%) Test Automation
12 31 (7.77%) B2C
13 29 (7.27%) CRM
13 29 (7.27%) Time Management
14 27 (6.77%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 51 (12.78%) TypeScript
2 30 (7.52%) JavaScript
3 25 (6.27%) SQL
4 21 (5.26%) Python
5 14 (3.51%) C#
5 14 (3.51%) Java
6 7 (1.75%) PHP
7 4 (1.00%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.75%) Apex Code
8 3 (0.75%) SOQL
8 3 (0.75%) SOSL
9 2 (0.50%) Go
10 1 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.25%) Korn
10 1 (0.25%) Ruby
10 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (5.51%) Degree
2 13 (3.26%) PMI Certification
3 6 (1.50%) CBAP
4 4 (1.00%) CSPO
5 3 (0.75%) PMP
6 2 (0.50%) Analytics IQ
6 2 (0.50%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.50%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.50%) MBA
7 1 (0.25%) APMP
7 1 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.25%) CFA
7 1 (0.25%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (8.52%) QA
2 22 (5.51%) GDPR
3 16 (4.01%) Accessibility
4 10 (2.51%) PERC
5 9 (2.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 9 (2.26%) Data Quality
5 9 (2.26%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.50%) ISO 8583
6 6 (1.50%) PSD2
7 4 (1.00%) SLA
7 4 (1.00%) WCAG
8 1 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 30 (7.52%) Docker
2 5 (1.25%) Varnish
3 1 (0.25%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 30 (7.52%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.01%) Grafana
2 12 (3.01%) Prometheus
3 8 (2.01%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 4 (1.00%) Terraform
5 2 (0.50%) Ansible
5 2 (0.50%) MOM
6 1 (0.25%) Apache Ranger
Vendors
1 38 (9.52%) Google
2 35 (8.77%) Adobe
3 30 (7.52%) Salesforce
4 25 (6.27%) SAP
5 18 (4.51%) Microsoft
6 11 (2.76%) Oracle
7 10 (2.51%) Databricks
7 10 (2.51%) Tealium
8 8 (2.01%) Sitecore
9 6 (1.50%) OneTrust
10 5 (1.25%) mParticle
10 5 (1.25%) Optimizely
11 4 (1.00%) Wind River
12 3 (0.75%) Amplitude
12 3 (0.75%) Hotjar
12 3 (0.75%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.75%) TikTok
13 2 (0.50%) Netlify
13 2 (0.50%) Rollbar
13 2 (0.50%) Splunk