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 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 260 192 205
Rank change year-on-year -68 +13 -88
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 381 477 563
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.07% 1.32% 1.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 1.52% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 330 381
10th Percentile £346 £300 £305
25th Percentile £413 £389 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £620
90th Percentile £780 £689 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 5 9
10th Percentile £12.75 £43.65 £41.90
25th Percentile £15.25 £46.25 -
Median hourly rate £15.50 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.37% -5.00% -27.20%
75th Percentile £24.61 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £38.16 £57.50 £67.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.50 £52.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -70.48% +5.00% +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 32,049 31,289 41,011
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.77% 86.33% 88.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,064 18,819 27,584
10th Percentile £300 £310 £308
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,120 1,102 1,587
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.11 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.14 £19.03
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +27.14%
75th Percentile £45.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £33.54 £44.50
% change year-on-year -31.43% -24.63% +50.85%

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 19 November 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 19 November 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 19 November 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 -48 350 £500 - 722
London -27 207 £500 -4.76% 380
Work from Home -55 140 £588 +23.68% 369
UK excluding London -47 132 £488 +8.33% 350
North of England -26 44 £488 +21.88% 106
South East -6 43 £650 +57.58% 120
Yorkshire -25 25 £488 +2.63% 34
North West -28 18 £475 +18.75% 67
Midlands -42 18 £463 -11.48% 63
East of England -24 15 £475 +26.67% 21
South West +5 11 £400 -25.58% 32
West Midlands -41 10 £520 +9.47% 35
East Midlands -12 8 £425 -18.66% 28
Scotland +2 4 £563 +15.38% 6
North East -6 1 £900 - 6

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 (6.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (5.77%) CMS
3 17 (4.46%) Confluence
4 8 (2.10%) Headless CMS
5 5 (1.31%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.52%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.26%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.26%) Drupal
8 1 (0.26%) Mule
8 1 (0.26%) SAS
8 1 (0.26%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (3.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.57%) Chatbot
3 6 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.26%) Autodesk Smoke
4 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.26%) Sketch
4 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (5.51%) Shopify
2 17 (4.46%) Magento
3 13 (3.41%) Payment Gateway
4 6 (1.57%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (1.31%) Oracle Retail
6 4 (1.05%) Endur
7 3 (0.79%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.26%) Adobe Campaign
8 1 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.26%) Eikon
8 1 (0.26%) Infor M3
8 1 (0.26%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.26%) Orchestrade
8 1 (0.26%) SAP CAR
8 1 (0.26%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.26%) SAP Hybris
8 1 (0.26%) SAP POS DM
8 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 48 (12.60%) Azure
2 43 (11.29%) AWS
3 36 (9.45%) SaaS
4 25 (6.56%) Microsoft 365
5 21 (5.51%) Serverless
6 20 (5.25%) GCP
6 20 (5.25%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 16 (4.20%) Commercetools
7 16 (4.20%) Power Platform
8 15 (3.94%) AWS Lambda
8 15 (3.94%) Figma
9 14 (3.67%) Contentful
10 12 (3.15%) Algolia
11 9 (2.36%) Google Analytics
12 7 (1.84%) Amazon S3
12 7 (1.84%) Contentsquare
12 7 (1.84%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (1.57%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (1.57%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (1.57%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 25 (6.56%) Firewall
2 24 (6.30%) Cisco IOS
3 7 (1.84%) Cisco IPT
4 2 (0.52%) Internet
5 1 (0.26%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.26%) HTTP
5 1 (0.26%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (5.25%) Tableau
2 16 (4.20%) Power BI
3 9 (2.36%) DynamoDB
3 9 (2.36%) SQL Server
4 7 (1.84%) NoSQL
5 6 (1.57%) Mixpanel
6 5 (1.31%) MySQL
6 5 (1.31%) Redis
7 4 (1.05%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.79%) BigQuery
8 3 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.52%) Couchbase
9 2 (0.52%) Looker
9 2 (0.52%) Power Query
9 2 (0.52%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.26%) Essbase
10 1 (0.26%) Metadata
10 1 (0.26%) Qlik Sense
10 1 (0.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 29 (7.61%) Jenkins
2 27 (7.09%) JIRA
3 16 (4.20%) Git
4 6 (1.57%) Visual Website Optimizer
5 5 (1.31%) Selenium
6 4 (1.05%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.05%) Cucumber
6 4 (1.05%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.05%) GitLab
6 4 (1.05%) SpecFlow
6 4 (1.05%) Storybook
7 3 (0.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.52%) Browser DevTools
8 2 (0.52%) Charles Proxy
8 2 (0.52%) Fiddler
8 2 (0.52%) Gradle
8 2 (0.52%) Maven
8 2 (0.52%) Postman
8 2 (0.52%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.26%) CircleCI
General
1 121 (31.76%) Social Skills
2 92 (24.15%) Retail
3 58 (15.22%) Marketing
4 50 (13.12%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (8.66%) Finance
6 24 (6.30%) Games
7 16 (4.20%) French Language
8 13 (3.41%) Legal
9 10 (2.62%) Electronics
9 10 (2.62%) Manufacturing
10 9 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (2.10%) Advertising
11 8 (2.10%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.05%) Automotive
13 4 (1.05%) Publishing
14 3 (0.79%) Banking
14 3 (0.79%) Front Office
14 3 (0.79%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 49 (12.86%) Architect
2 45 (11.81%) Analyst
3 36 (9.45%) Senior
4 35 (9.19%) Developer
5 28 (7.35%) Business Analyst
6 26 (6.82%) Consultant
7 24 (6.30%) Platform Engineer
8 22 (5.77%) E-Commerce Manager
9 21 (5.51%) Project Manager
10 17 (4.46%) Administrator
10 17 (4.46%) Solutions Architect
11 15 (3.94%) Lead
12 13 (3.41%) Designer
13 11 (2.89%) E-Commerce Architect
14 9 (2.36%) Salesforce Architect
14 9 (2.36%) Technical Consultant
15 8 (2.10%) E-Commerce Project Manager
15 8 (2.10%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
15 8 (2.10%) Senior Technical Consultant
15 8 (2.10%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (11.81%) Node.js
2 32 (8.40%) GraphQL
3 20 (5.25%) Playwright
3 20 (5.25%) Vitest
4 19 (4.99%) React
5 17 (4.46%) HTML
6 14 (3.67%) CSS
7 13 (3.41%) REST
8 12 (3.15%) .NET
8 12 (3.15%) SOAP
8 12 (3.15%) YAML
9 9 (2.36%) RESTful
10 8 (2.10%) HTML5
10 8 (2.10%) Next.js
11 7 (1.84%) CSS3
11 7 (1.84%) OAuth
11 7 (1.84%) Redux
12 6 (1.57%) Bootstrap
12 6 (1.57%) Middleware
12 6 (1.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (10.24%) Product Ownership
2 37 (9.71%) Cloud Native
3 22 (5.77%) Mobile App
4 15 (3.94%) Onboarding
5 9 (2.36%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (2.10%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (2.10%) PMI
7 7 (1.84%) Social Media
8 6 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.31%) Client/Server
9 5 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.31%) Marketing Technology
9 5 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.31%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (0.79%) Low-Code
11 2 (0.52%) FMCG
11 2 (0.52%) IVR
11 2 (0.52%) Learning Management System
11 2 (0.52%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 26 (6.82%) Android
2 25 (6.56%) Windows
3 24 (6.30%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.79%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.79%) Unix
5 2 (0.52%) Linux
6 1 (0.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (31.23%) Agile
2 68 (17.85%) Analytics
3 63 (16.54%) Problem-Solving
4 62 (16.27%) Stakeholder Management
5 53 (13.91%) CI/CD
6 45 (11.81%) DevOps
7 42 (11.02%) CRM
7 42 (11.02%) User Experience
8 39 (10.24%) Mentoring
9 37 (9.71%) Coaching
10 35 (9.19%) Roadmaps
11 33 (8.66%) A/B Testing
11 33 (8.66%) B2C
12 31 (8.14%) Test Automation
13 30 (7.87%) Scrum
14 28 (7.35%) B2B
14 28 (7.35%) Customer Experience
15 26 (6.82%) ERP
16 24 (6.30%) Customer Engagement
17 23 (6.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 51 (13.39%) SQL
2 34 (8.92%) TypeScript
3 33 (8.66%) Python
4 30 (7.87%) JavaScript
5 24 (6.30%) PowerShell
6 20 (5.25%) Java
7 13 (3.41%) C#
8 8 (2.10%) PHP
9 4 (1.05%) Apex Code
9 4 (1.05%) Ruby
10 3 (0.79%) R
11 2 (0.52%) Perl
12 1 (0.26%) DataWeave
12 1 (0.26%) SOQL
12 1 (0.26%) VBA
Qualifications
1 19 (4.99%) Degree
2 12 (3.15%) PMI Certification
3 9 (2.36%) AWS Certification
4 6 (1.57%) CBAP
5 5 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.05%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.05%) PMP
7 3 (0.79%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.52%) APMG
8 2 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.52%) MBA
8 2 (0.52%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.26%) CFA
9 1 (0.26%) CSPO
9 1 (0.26%) IIBA
9 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.26%) SAP Certification
9 1 (0.26%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.04%) QA
2 17 (4.46%) GDPR
3 12 (3.15%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.36%) PCI DSS
5 7 (1.84%) PERC
6 6 (1.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 6 (1.57%) ISO 8583
6 6 (1.57%) PSD2
7 3 (0.79%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.79%) WCAG
8 2 (0.52%) SLA
9 1 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 28 (7.35%) Docker
2 25 (6.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.26%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 29 (7.61%) Kubernetes
2 25 (6.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (6.56%) SCCM
3 8 (2.10%) Terraform
4 5 (1.31%) Grafana
4 5 (1.31%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.79%) Ansible
5 3 (0.79%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 2 (0.52%) Istio
6 2 (0.52%) Puppet
7 1 (0.26%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 51 (13.39%) Salesforce
2 42 (11.02%) Microsoft
3 29 (7.61%) Google
4 27 (7.09%) Splunk
5 24 (6.30%) Cisco
5 24 (6.30%) Meraki
6 21 (5.51%) SAP
7 15 (3.94%) Adobe
8 14 (3.67%) Oracle
9 10 (2.62%) Optimizely
10 7 (1.84%) Hotjar
11 6 (1.57%) Amplitude
11 6 (1.57%) MuleSoft
12 5 (1.31%) Facebook
12 5 (1.31%) OneTrust
12 5 (1.31%) Sitecore
12 5 (1.31%) TikTok
13 4 (1.05%) Databricks
13 4 (1.05%) Tealium
13 4 (1.05%) Wind River