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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 271 202 200
Rank change year-on-year -69 -2 -74
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 373 456 552
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.02% 1.27% 1.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 1.45% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 314 368
10th Percentile £331 £300 £311
25th Percentile £405 £370 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £598 £613
90th Percentile £778 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £400 £513
% change year-on-year +18.75% -21.95% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 3 9
10th Percentile £12.75 £42.78 £17.40
25th Percentile £15.25 £44.08 £47.75
Median hourly rate £15.50 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.37% -5.00% -31.03%
75th Percentile £28.43 £51.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £64.40 £52.75 £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 32,432 31,463 40,054
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.97% 87.43% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,408 19,089 26,807
10th Percentile £300 £309 £312
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
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 2,095 1,098 1,556
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.24 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.20 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.21% -22.94% +21.43%
75th Percentile £45.46 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £74.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -30.37% -23.53% +30.77%

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 6 December 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 6 December 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 6 December 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 -44 346 £500 +5.26% 411
London -27 217 £500 - 153
Work from Home -39 154 £550 +27.91% 210
UK excluding London -59 118 £475 +18.75% 310
South East -19 37 £555 +38.75% 107
North of England -36 36 £488 +21.88% 107
Midlands -34 24 £469 +17.19% 54
Yorkshire -19 22 £488 +62.50% 30
West Midlands -32 15 £520 +48.57% 27
North West -31 13 £475 +18.75% 63
East of England -19 12 £475 +26.67% 15
South West -1 9 £400 -25.58% 17
East Midlands -7 9 £425 -18.66% 27
Scotland +5 3 - - 3
North East -2 1 £900 - 15

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 (5.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (4.56%) CMS
2 17 (4.56%) Confluence
3 5 (1.34%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.80%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.54%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.27%) Drupal
6 1 (0.27%) SAS
6 1 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (3.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.88%) Chatbot
4 6 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.27%) Autodesk Smoke
5 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.27%) Sketch
5 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 27 (7.24%) Shopify
2 15 (4.02%) Magento
3 13 (3.49%) Payment Gateway
4 6 (1.61%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (1.34%) Oracle Retail
6 4 (1.07%) Endur
7 3 (0.80%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.54%) SAP Hybris
9 1 (0.27%) Adobe Campaign
9 1 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
9 1 (0.27%) Eikon
9 1 (0.27%) Infor M3
9 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
9 1 (0.27%) Orchestrade
9 1 (0.27%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 50 (13.40%) Azure
2 37 (9.92%) SaaS
3 36 (9.65%) AWS
4 19 (5.09%) GCP
4 19 (5.09%) Microsoft 365
5 18 (4.83%) Figma
6 16 (4.29%) Commercetools
6 16 (4.29%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
6 16 (4.29%) Serverless
7 14 (3.75%) Contentful
7 14 (3.75%) Power Platform
8 12 (3.22%) Algolia
9 11 (2.95%) Dynamics 365
10 10 (2.68%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (2.41%) Google Analytics
12 7 (1.88%) Contentsquare
12 7 (1.88%) Datadog
12 7 (1.88%) SAP Commerce Cloud
13 6 (1.61%) Google Tag Manager
14 5 (1.34%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.09%) Firewall
2 18 (4.83%) Cisco IOS
3 7 (1.88%) Cisco IPT
4 2 (0.54%) Internet
5 1 (0.27%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.29%) Tableau
2 14 (3.75%) Power BI
3 9 (2.41%) SQL Server
4 7 (1.88%) NoSQL
5 6 (1.61%) Mixpanel
6 5 (1.34%) MySQL
6 5 (1.34%) Redis
7 4 (1.07%) DynamoDB
7 4 (1.07%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.07%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.80%) BigQuery
8 3 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.54%) Couchbase
9 2 (0.54%) Looker
9 2 (0.54%) Power Query
9 2 (0.54%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.27%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.27%) Qlik Sense
10 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 32 (8.58%) Jenkins
2 25 (6.70%) JIRA
3 14 (3.75%) Git
4 6 (1.61%) Visual Website Optimizer
5 5 (1.34%) Selenium
6 4 (1.07%) Cucumber
6 4 (1.07%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.07%) SpecFlow
6 4 (1.07%) Storybook
7 3 (0.80%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (0.80%) Charles Proxy
7 3 (0.80%) Fiddler
7 3 (0.80%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.54%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.54%) GitLab
8 2 (0.54%) Postman
8 2 (0.54%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.27%) Appium
9 1 (0.27%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.27%) Gradle
General
1 115 (30.83%) Social Skills
2 84 (22.52%) Retail
3 58 (15.55%) Marketing
4 46 (12.33%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (9.92%) Finance
6 18 (4.83%) Games
7 15 (4.02%) Legal
8 14 (3.75%) French Language
9 13 (3.49%) Electronics
10 10 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (2.41%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.88%) Advertising
12 7 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.88%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.61%) Banking
14 4 (1.07%) Automotive
14 4 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (0.80%) Front Office
15 3 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (12.33%) Analyst
2 44 (11.80%) Senior
3 42 (11.26%) Architect
4 34 (9.12%) Developer
5 31 (8.31%) Business Analyst
6 29 (7.77%) Consultant
7 25 (6.70%) E-Commerce Manager
8 20 (5.36%) Project Manager
9 18 (4.83%) Platform Engineer
10 14 (3.75%) Administrator
10 14 (3.75%) Lead
11 12 (3.22%) Solutions Architect
12 11 (2.95%) Designer
12 11 (2.95%) Technical Consultant
13 10 (2.68%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
13 10 (2.68%) Senior Technical Consultant
13 10 (2.68%) Senior Technical Specialist
13 10 (2.68%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
13 10 (2.68%) Technical Specialist
13 10 (2.68%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (13.67%) Node.js
2 36 (9.65%) GraphQL
3 24 (6.43%) Playwright
3 24 (6.43%) Vitest
4 22 (5.90%) React
5 19 (5.09%) HTML
6 16 (4.29%) CSS
7 14 (3.75%) YAML
8 12 (3.22%) .NET
9 11 (2.95%) Next.js
9 11 (2.95%) REST
10 9 (2.41%) HTML5
10 9 (2.41%) RESTful
10 9 (2.41%) SOAP
11 8 (2.14%) CSS3
12 7 (1.88%) Redux
12 7 (1.88%) VML
13 6 (1.61%) Bootstrap
13 6 (1.61%) EDI
13 6 (1.61%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 44 (11.80%) Product Ownership
2 39 (10.46%) Cloud Native
3 24 (6.43%) Mobile App
4 18 (4.83%) Onboarding
5 12 (3.22%) Analytical Mindset
6 10 (2.68%) Marketing Technology
7 8 (2.14%) PMI
8 7 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (1.88%) Social Media
9 5 (1.34%) Client/Server
9 5 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.34%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.07%) Learning Management System
10 4 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.80%) e-Learning
11 3 (0.80%) Low-Code
12 2 (0.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 2 (0.54%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.54%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.63%) Android
2 19 (5.09%) Windows
3 18 (4.83%) Mac OS
4 4 (1.07%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.54%) Unix
6 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (32.44%) Agile
2 68 (18.23%) Analytics
3 60 (16.09%) Problem-Solving
3 60 (16.09%) Stakeholder Management
4 54 (14.48%) CI/CD
5 48 (12.87%) DevOps
6 47 (12.60%) User Experience
7 45 (12.06%) Coaching
8 42 (11.26%) CRM
9 39 (10.46%) Mentoring
10 34 (9.12%) Roadmaps
11 32 (8.58%) ERP
12 31 (8.31%) Scrum
13 30 (8.04%) Test Automation
14 28 (7.51%) A/B Testing
14 28 (7.51%) B2C
15 27 (7.24%) User Stories
16 26 (6.97%) Continuous Improvement
16 26 (6.97%) Customer Experience
17 25 (6.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 54 (14.48%) SQL
2 40 (10.72%) TypeScript
3 33 (8.85%) Python
4 29 (7.77%) JavaScript
5 18 (4.83%) PowerShell
6 17 (4.56%) Java
7 13 (3.49%) C#
8 7 (1.88%) PHP
9 4 (1.07%) Ruby
10 3 (0.80%) R
11 2 (0.54%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.27%) Perl
12 1 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 21 (5.63%) Degree
2 12 (3.22%) PMI Certification
3 6 (1.61%) CBAP
4 5 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.07%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.07%) Master's Degree
5 4 (1.07%) PMP
6 3 (0.80%) CSPO
6 3 (0.80%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.54%) APMG
7 2 (0.54%) MBA
7 2 (0.54%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.27%) CFA
8 1 (0.27%) IIBA
8 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.27%) Security Cleared
8 1 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.17%) QA
2 20 (5.36%) GDPR
3 13 (3.49%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.41%) PCI DSS
4 9 (2.41%) PERC
5 8 (2.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 6 (1.61%) ISO 8583
6 6 (1.61%) PSD2
7 5 (1.34%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.80%) WCAG
9 2 (0.54%) SLA
10 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 32 (8.58%) Docker
2 19 (5.09%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.27%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 33 (8.85%) Kubernetes
2 19 (5.09%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (5.09%) SCCM
3 7 (1.88%) Grafana
3 7 (1.88%) Prometheus
3 7 (1.88%) Terraform
4 3 (0.80%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 2 (0.54%) Ansible
6 1 (0.27%) Istio
6 1 (0.27%) Puppet
Vendors
1 46 (12.33%) Salesforce
2 38 (10.19%) Microsoft
3 31 (8.31%) Google
4 21 (5.63%) Adobe
4 21 (5.63%) SAP
5 20 (5.36%) Splunk
6 18 (4.83%) Cisco
6 18 (4.83%) Meraki
7 12 (3.22%) Oracle
8 10 (2.68%) Optimizely
9 9 (2.41%) Tealium
10 8 (2.14%) OneTrust
11 7 (1.88%) Hotjar
12 6 (1.61%) Amplitude
12 6 (1.61%) Databricks
13 5 (1.34%) Facebook
13 5 (1.34%) Sitecore
13 5 (1.34%) TikTok
14 4 (1.07%) mParticle
14 4 (1.07%) Wind River