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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 237 184 207
Rank change year-on-year -53 +23 -98
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 364 500 655
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.12% 1.31% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 1.53% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 360 453
10th Percentile £306 £313 £364
25th Percentile £400 £400 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.72% -0.91% +4.76%
75th Percentile £577 £625 £633
90th Percentile £725 £726 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £425 £525
% change year-on-year +11.76% -19.05% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 3 10
10th Percentile - £22.05 £33.35
25th Percentile £15.25 £31.13 £48.31
Median hourly rate £15.50 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.37% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £15.75 £54.38 £57.38
90th Percentile £24.61 £57.75 £73.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.50 £16.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -3.13% -68.00% +376.19%

All Process and 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 29,370 32,658 44,778
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.49% 85.62% 89.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,234 20,154 30,464
10th Percentile £300 £310 £313
25th Percentile £403 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,777 1,475 1,557
10th Percentile £14.23 £14.84 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £18.78
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +47.06%
75th Percentile £43.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.70 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £43.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -47.67% +6.17% +76.09%

E-Commerce
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for E-Commerce 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 15 September 2025.

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 15 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for E-Commerce in the UK

E-Commerce
Top 15 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 15 September 2025. 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 -34 332 £500 -4.76% 919
London -34 193 £515 -6.36% 461
UK excluding London -12 135 £475 +11.76% 644
Work from Home -50 124 £475 -13.64% 368
South East +26 49 £525 +27.27% 303
North of England -19 44 £450 +5.88% 171
North West -24 21 £475 +11.76% 118
Yorkshire -6 20 £450 +5.88% 49
East of England 0 14 £475 +26.67% 43
South West +30 12 £950 +72.73% 40
Midlands -24 12 £485 +43.70% 74
West Midlands -26 8 £525 +55.56% 33
East Midlands +1 4 £480 - 40
Scotland -4 4 £563 +32.35% 7
North East -1 3 £900 +38.46% 7

E-Commerce
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 32 (8.79%) IBM Domino
2 24 (6.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 22 (6.04%) CMS
4 13 (3.57%) Confluence
5 7 (1.92%) Headless CMS
6 4 (1.10%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.55%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.55%) Mule
8 1 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.27%) Drupal
8 1 (0.27%) SAS
8 1 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 17 (4.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.37%) Trello
4 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.82%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.27%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.27%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.27%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.27%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.27%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 22 (6.04%) Shopify
2 20 (5.49%) Magento
3 8 (2.20%) Payment Gateway
4 7 (1.92%) Oracle Retail
5 6 (1.65%) Salesforce CRM
5 6 (1.65%) SAP S/4HANA
6 5 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
7 3 (0.82%) Sage 200
7 3 (0.82%) SAP CRM
7 3 (0.82%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.55%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.55%) SAP CX
8 2 (0.55%) SAP POS DM
9 1 (0.27%) Adobe Campaign
9 1 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
9 1 (0.27%) Infor M3
9 1 (0.27%) SAP CAR
9 1 (0.27%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
9 1 (0.27%) SAP Hybris
9 1 (0.27%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 43 (11.81%) AWS
2 31 (8.52%) SaaS
3 26 (7.14%) Azure
4 24 (6.59%) Microsoft 365
5 18 (4.95%) Serverless
6 17 (4.67%) GCP
6 17 (4.67%) Power Platform
6 17 (4.67%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 16 (4.40%) Figma
8 13 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (2.47%) Dynamics 365
9 9 (2.47%) Salsify
10 8 (2.20%) Amazon S3
10 8 (2.20%) Google Analytics
10 8 (2.20%) SAP Commerce Cloud
11 7 (1.92%) BigCommerce
11 7 (1.92%) GitHub
12 6 (1.65%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (1.65%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (1.37%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 24 (6.59%) Cisco IOS
1 24 (6.59%) Firewall
2 2 (0.55%) Internet
3 1 (0.27%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.27%) HTTP
3 1 (0.27%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (6.04%) Tableau
2 16 (4.40%) Power BI
3 7 (1.92%) DynamoDB
4 6 (1.65%) Looker
4 6 (1.65%) Power Query
4 6 (1.65%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.37%) BigQuery
6 3 (0.82%) Mixpanel
6 3 (0.82%) MySQL
6 3 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.55%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.27%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.27%) Big Data
8 1 (0.27%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.27%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.27%) PowerPivot
8 1 (0.27%) Redis
8 1 (0.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 32 (8.79%) JIRA
2 20 (5.49%) Jenkins
3 15 (4.12%) Git
4 6 (1.65%) Cypress.io
4 6 (1.65%) GitLab
5 5 (1.37%) Selenium
6 4 (1.10%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.10%) Cucumber
6 4 (1.10%) Postman
6 4 (1.10%) Storybook
7 3 (0.82%) Gradle
7 3 (0.82%) Maven
7 3 (0.82%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (0.82%) Visual Website Optimizer
7 3 (0.82%) Zephyr
8 2 (0.55%) Appium
9 1 (0.27%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.27%) Subversion
9 1 (0.27%) TestRail
9 1 (0.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 126 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 99 (27.20%) Retail
3 70 (19.23%) Marketing
4 55 (15.11%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (10.16%) Finance
6 25 (6.87%) Games
7 14 (3.85%) French Language
8 12 (3.30%) Manufacturing
9 10 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (2.75%) Telecoms
10 9 (2.47%) Advertising
11 7 (1.92%) Banking
11 7 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (1.37%) Legal
14 4 (1.10%) Brand Awareness
14 4 (1.10%) Public Sector
14 4 (1.10%) Spanish Language
15 3 (0.82%) Automotive
15 3 (0.82%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 42 (11.54%) Developer
2 39 (10.71%) Senior
3 33 (9.07%) Analyst
3 33 (9.07%) Architect
4 28 (7.69%) Project Manager
5 24 (6.59%) Platform Engineer
6 21 (5.77%) E-Commerce Manager
7 20 (5.49%) Consultant
7 20 (5.49%) Designer
8 19 (5.22%) Business Analyst
9 17 (4.67%) Solutions Architect
10 16 (4.40%) Lead
11 15 (4.12%) Administrator
12 11 (3.02%) Product Manager
13 9 (2.47%) Data Scientist
13 9 (2.47%) Programme Manager
13 9 (2.47%) Senior Designer
13 9 (2.47%) Senior Manager
14 8 (2.20%) E-Commerce Project Manager
14 8 (2.20%) Magento Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (8.24%) Node.js
2 25 (6.87%) GraphQL
3 18 (4.95%) HTML
3 18 (4.95%) React
4 15 (4.12%) SOAP
5 14 (3.85%) CSS
6 13 (3.57%) Next.js
6 13 (3.57%) REST
7 11 (3.02%) .NET
8 10 (2.75%) Playwright
9 9 (2.47%) OAuth
9 9 (2.47%) Redux
9 9 (2.47%) Vitest
10 8 (2.20%) RESTful
11 7 (1.92%) Lightning Web Components
11 7 (1.92%) Middleware
12 6 (1.65%) EDI
12 6 (1.65%) VML
12 6 (1.65%) XML
12 6 (1.65%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (6.59%) Product Ownership
2 22 (6.04%) Cloud Native
3 19 (5.22%) Mobile App
4 10 (2.75%) Social Media
5 8 (2.20%) Marketing Technology
6 7 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (1.92%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.37%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.10%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.82%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.82%) FMCG
10 3 (0.82%) IVR
10 3 (0.82%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.55%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 25 (6.87%) Android
2 24 (6.59%) Mac OS
2 24 (6.59%) Windows
3 4 (1.10%) Unix
4 3 (0.82%) Linux
5 2 (0.55%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (27.20%) Agile
2 63 (17.31%) Analytics
3 60 (16.48%) Problem-Solving
4 43 (11.81%) CRM
5 40 (10.99%) User Experience
6 39 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
7 36 (9.89%) Roadmaps
8 35 (9.62%) Project Management
9 34 (9.34%) ERP
10 33 (9.07%) B2C
11 32 (8.79%) B2B
11 32 (8.79%) CI/CD
12 31 (8.52%) Mentoring
13 30 (8.24%) DevOps
14 29 (7.97%) A/B Testing
15 25 (6.87%) Digital Marketing
16 24 (6.59%) Actionable Insight
16 24 (6.59%) Business Intelligence
17 22 (6.04%) Migration
18 21 (5.77%) Customer Acquisition
Programming Languages
1 50 (13.74%) SQL
2 28 (7.69%) JavaScript
3 24 (6.59%) PowerShell
3 24 (6.59%) Python
4 23 (6.32%) TypeScript
5 20 (5.49%) Java
6 10 (2.75%) C#
7 9 (2.47%) PHP
8 7 (1.92%) Apex Code
9 3 (0.82%) R
9 3 (0.82%) Ruby
10 2 (0.55%) DataWeave
10 2 (0.55%) Perl
11 1 (0.27%) ABAP
11 1 (0.27%) Dart
11 1 (0.27%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.27%) Scala
11 1 (0.27%) SOQL
11 1 (0.27%) Swift
11 1 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 22 (6.04%) Degree
2 6 (1.65%) AWS Certification
3 3 (0.82%) ISTQB
3 3 (0.82%) PMP
4 2 (0.55%) APMG
4 2 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.55%) IIBA
4 2 (0.55%) PMI Certification
4 2 (0.55%) Postgraduate
4 2 (0.55%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.27%) IBM Certification
5 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.27%) SAP Certification
5 1 (0.27%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.12%) QA
2 12 (3.30%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.92%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.65%) GDPR
5 3 (0.82%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.55%) SLA
6 2 (0.55%) Software Quality Assurance
6 2 (0.55%) WCAG
7 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 24 (6.59%) Active Directory
2 17 (4.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (6.59%) Microsoft Intune
1 24 (6.59%) SCCM
2 17 (4.67%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.92%) Terraform
4 3 (0.82%) Ansible
4 3 (0.82%) Istio
4 3 (0.82%) Puppet
5 2 (0.55%) CloudHub
5 2 (0.55%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 52 (14.29%) Salesforce
2 42 (11.54%) Microsoft
3 27 (7.42%) Splunk
4 26 (7.14%) SAP
5 24 (6.59%) Cisco
5 24 (6.59%) Meraki
6 21 (5.77%) Google
7 17 (4.67%) Oracle
8 15 (4.12%) Adobe
9 10 (2.75%) MuleSoft
10 7 (1.92%) Facebook
10 7 (1.92%) Optimizely
10 7 (1.92%) Sitecore
11 6 (1.65%) Informatica
12 5 (1.37%) TikTok
13 4 (1.10%) Dell
13 4 (1.10%) Hotjar
14 3 (0.82%) Databricks
14 3 (0.82%) NCR
14 3 (0.82%) Twitter