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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 242 189
Rank change year-on-year -18 -53 +10
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 500 353 525
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.94% 1.07% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 1.19% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 206 383
10th Percentile £325 £299 £325
25th Percentile £413 £378 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £498 £538
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% -7.44% -0.46%
75th Percentile £600 £595 £614
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £438
% change year-on-year +10.53% +8.57% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 12 9
10th Percentile - - £10.88
25th Percentile £22.50 £15.25 £11.00
Median hourly rate £52.25 £15.50 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +237.10% +19.23% -74.00%
75th Percentile £75.75 £15.75 £16.00
90th Percentile £95.00 - £51.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.54 £15.50 £13.00
% change year-on-year +116.40% +19.23% -74.00%

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 45,167 29,748 33,534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.91% 90.41% 85.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,886 18,653 21,488
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
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 2,759 1,659 1,873
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.47 £17.30 £18.14
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.90% -4.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.00 £74.91
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.05 £40.94
% change year-on-year +90.72% -43.70% +3.38%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 -34 457 £500 - 617
London +22 306 £500 -2.91% 361
Work from Home -13 168 £450 -5.26% 236
UK excluding London -97 139 £525 +10.53% 295
North of England -54 45 £513 +13.89% 90
Midlands -30 39 £588 +23.68% 56
North West -37 36 £525 +10.53% 51
West Midlands -40 26 £650 +23.81% 35
South East -93 26 £531 +3.66% 79
East of England -8 19 £519 +7.79% 14
East Midlands 0 13 £465 +3.33% 21
South West -50 10 £525 +40.00% 41
Yorkshire -51 9 £500 +11.11% 33

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 (3.60%) CMS
2 13 (2.60%) Confluence
3 5 (1.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 5 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.80%) Apache
4 4 (0.80%) WebSphere
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%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.40%) Sitecore CMS
6 2 (0.40%) WordPress
7 1 (0.20%) nginx
Applications
1 21 (4.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (3.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 14 (2.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (1.20%) Adobe After Effects
5 6 (1.20%) Chatbot
5 6 (1.20%) Final Cut Pro
5 6 (1.20%) Sketch
6 4 (0.80%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.40%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.20%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 44 (8.80%) Shopify
2 20 (4.00%) Magento
3 10 (2.00%) SAP CRM
4 9 (1.80%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (1.60%) Payment Gateway
6 7 (1.40%) NetSuite
7 6 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
8 5 (1.00%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.60%) SAP MDG
10 2 (0.40%) ION MarketView
10 2 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
10 2 (0.40%) SAP MDG-F
11 1 (0.20%) Carpe Diem
11 1 (0.20%) Elite 3E
11 1 (0.20%) SAP CAR
11 1 (0.20%) SAP Hybris
11 1 (0.20%) SAP Retail
11 1 (0.20%) SAP SD
11 1 (0.20%) SDL Web 8
11 1 (0.20%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 69 (13.80%) AWS
2 67 (13.40%) Azure
3 26 (5.20%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
4 25 (5.00%) Figma
4 25 (5.00%) GCP
5 18 (3.60%) GitHub
6 15 (3.00%) Power Platform
7 12 (2.40%) dbt
7 12 (2.40%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (2.00%) SaaS
8 10 (2.00%) Snowflake
9 9 (1.80%) Miro
9 9 (1.80%) Serverless
10 8 (1.60%) Algolia
10 8 (1.60%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (1.40%) BigCommerce
11 7 (1.40%) Google Workspace
11 7 (1.40%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 7 (1.40%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.60%) HTTP
1 3 (0.60%) Internet
2 2 (0.40%) LAN
2 2 (0.40%) WAN
3 1 (0.20%) Broadband
3 1 (0.20%) Firewall
3 1 (0.20%) Network Security
3 1 (0.20%) RFID
3 1 (0.20%) Wireless
3 1 (0.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (2.80%) Power BI
2 12 (2.40%) Looker
3 11 (2.20%) NoSQL
4 10 (2.00%) Tableau
5 9 (1.80%) BigQuery
6 7 (1.40%) MongoDB
6 7 (1.40%) MySQL
7 6 (1.20%) Couchbase
8 5 (1.00%) Metadata
8 5 (1.00%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.00%) SQL Server
9 4 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (0.80%) Redis
9 4 (0.80%) SAP HANA
9 4 (0.80%) Semantic Layer
10 3 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.40%) KDB
Development Applications
1 28 (5.60%) Jenkins
2 25 (5.00%) Git
3 23 (4.60%) JIRA
4 10 (2.00%) Cypress.io
5 8 (1.60%) Selenium
5 8 (1.60%) Subversion
6 6 (1.20%) Claude Code
6 6 (1.20%) GitLab
6 6 (1.20%) Vite
7 5 (1.00%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.80%) Eclipse
8 4 (0.80%) Maven
8 4 (0.80%) Zephyr
9 3 (0.60%) Appium
10 2 (0.40%) Hudson
10 2 (0.40%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.20%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.20%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.20%) Spock
11 1 (0.20%) TestRail
General
1 238 (47.60%) Retail
2 184 (36.80%) Social Skills
3 77 (15.40%) Finance
4 73 (14.60%) Marketing
5 47 (9.40%) Analytical Skills
6 42 (8.40%) Organisational Skills
7 25 (5.00%) Manufacturing
8 24 (4.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (3.00%) Banking
10 11 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (1.80%) Legal
11 9 (1.80%) Publishing
12 8 (1.60%) Advertising
13 6 (1.20%) French Language
14 4 (0.80%) Electronics
14 4 (0.80%) Public Sector
15 3 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.60%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 88 (17.60%) Senior
2 59 (11.80%) Analyst
3 57 (11.40%) Developer
4 43 (8.60%) Architect
5 37 (7.40%) Designer
6 36 (7.20%) Business Analyst
7 35 (7.00%) Lead
8 34 (6.80%) Project Manager
9 24 (4.80%) Product Manager
9 24 (4.80%) Senior Manager
10 22 (4.40%) Solutions Architect
10 22 (4.40%) UI Designer
11 20 (4.00%) E-Commerce Manager
12 17 (3.40%) Senior Designer
13 16 (3.20%) Data Engineer
13 16 (3.20%) Senior Developer
14 15 (3.00%) Salesforce Developer
15 14 (2.80%) Senior Project Manager
16 13 (2.60%) Consultant
16 13 (2.60%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (9.40%) REST
2 45 (9.00%) React
3 41 (8.20%) Node.js
4 39 (7.80%) GraphQL
5 21 (4.20%) Middleware
6 20 (4.00%) CSS
7 19 (3.80%) HTML
7 19 (3.80%) Next.js
8 17 (3.40%) VML
9 16 (3.20%) Kafka
10 15 (3.00%) Playwright
10 15 (3.00%) SOAP
10 15 (3.00%) Spring
11 11 (2.20%) Spring Boot
12 10 (2.00%) AngularJS
12 10 (2.00%) HTML5
12 10 (2.00%) RESTful
13 9 (1.80%) Jakarta EE
13 9 (1.80%) Sass
14 8 (1.60%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 43 (8.60%) Product Ownership
2 27 (5.40%) Cloud Native
3 22 (4.40%) Mobile App
4 21 (4.20%) Self-Motivation
5 19 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (2.20%) AI Agents
7 11 (2.20%) Marketing Technology
8 10 (2.00%) Management Information System
9 9 (1.80%) Graphic Design
9 9 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (1.80%) Onboarding
10 8 (1.60%) Virtual Team
11 7 (1.40%) Animation
11 7 (1.40%) FMCG
12 6 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
14 4 (0.80%) Security Posture
14 4 (0.80%) Taxonomies
15 3 (0.60%) Digital Wallet
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.00%) Android
1 10 (2.00%) Apple iOS
2 9 (1.80%) Windows
3 8 (1.60%) Linux
4 5 (1.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (31.80%) Agile
2 98 (19.60%) Stakeholder Management
3 90 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
4 74 (14.80%) User Experience
5 69 (13.80%) CI/CD
6 66 (13.20%) Customer Experience
7 61 (12.20%) CRM
8 59 (11.80%) Roadmaps
9 57 (11.40%) Scrum
10 55 (11.00%) Analytics
11 53 (10.60%) AI
12 50 (10.00%) DevOps
13 48 (9.60%) Continuous Improvement
14 46 (9.20%) Migration
15 42 (8.40%) Project Management
16 41 (8.20%) ERP
17 39 (7.80%) B2C
18 38 (7.60%) Time Management
19 36 (7.20%) Event-Driven
19 36 (7.20%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 43 (8.60%) SQL
2 37 (7.40%) JavaScript
3 35 (7.00%) TypeScript
4 32 (6.40%) Python
5 26 (5.20%) Java
6 8 (1.60%) C#
7 7 (1.40%) Apex Code
8 6 (1.20%) Kotlin
8 6 (1.20%) SOQL
8 6 (1.20%) SOSL
9 5 (1.00%) Groovy
9 5 (1.00%) Swift
10 4 (0.80%) ABAP
11 3 (0.60%) Go
11 3 (0.60%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.40%) Bash
12 2 (0.40%) DataWeave
12 2 (0.40%) LookML
12 2 (0.40%) PHP
12 2 (0.40%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 44 (8.80%) Degree
2 6 (1.20%) CSPO
2 6 (1.20%) Master's Degree
3 5 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (0.60%) MBA
4 3 (0.60%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.20%) Analytics IQ
5 1 (0.20%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.20%) CISA
5 1 (0.20%) CISSP
5 1 (0.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.20%) IIBA
5 1 (0.20%) ISEB
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (0.20%) PhD
5 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.20%) PMP
5 1 (0.20%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (6.80%) QA
2 24 (4.80%) Accessibility
2 24 (4.80%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.20%) GDPR
4 7 (1.40%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.20%) SLA
6 4 (0.80%) PMO
7 2 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.40%) PSD2
7 2 (0.40%) WCAG
8 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.20%) NIST
System Software
1 23 (4.60%) Docker
2 1 (0.20%) Sendmail
2 1 (0.20%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 23 (4.60%) Kubernetes
2 13 (2.60%) Terraform
3 6 (1.20%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 3 (0.60%) Grafana
4 3 (0.60%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.40%) Bosun
5 2 (0.40%) CloudHub
5 2 (0.40%) MOM
6 1 (0.20%) Apache Ranger
Vendors
1 59 (11.80%) Salesforce
2 41 (8.20%) SAP
3 33 (6.60%) Microsoft
4 31 (6.20%) Google
5 30 (6.00%) Adobe
6 22 (4.40%) Oracle
7 17 (3.40%) Databricks
8 15 (3.00%) MuleSoft
9 9 (1.80%) Sitecore
10 7 (1.40%) New Relic
11 6 (1.20%) IBM
12 5 (1.00%) Braze
12 5 (1.00%) ServiceNow
12 5 (1.00%) Splunk
13 4 (0.80%) Dynatrace
14 3 (0.60%) Informatica
14 3 (0.60%) Netlify
14 3 (0.60%) OpenAI
15 2 (0.40%) Apple
15 2 (0.40%) ION Trading