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 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 224 193
Rank change year-on-year -38 -31 -46
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 382 353 544
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.98% 1.14% 1.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 1.27% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 232 372
10th Percentile £330 £281 £285
25th Percentile £405 £342 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £575 £578 £588
90th Percentile £759 £650 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £413 £485
% change year-on-year +18.18% -14.95% +2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 4 16
10th Percentile £12.75 £32.87 £10.42
25th Percentile £18.28 £38.68 £13.00
Median hourly rate £31.18 £44.71 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.27% +179.41% -76.38%
75th Percentile £63.00 £50.00 £62.38
90th Percentile £75.40 £52.25 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.18 £52.50 £13.00
% change year-on-year -40.62% +303.85% -80.15%

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 33,986 27,793 39,321
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.08% 89.38% 87.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,549 16,924 25,862
10th Percentile £306 £306 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £477 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -3.88% -0.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,070 859 2,130
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.00 £16.35
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.50 £61.13
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.51 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.20% -9.97% +11.43%

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 7 February 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 7 February 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 7 February 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 -38 356 £500 +11.11% 392
London 0 236 £500 +11.11% 173
Work from Home -9 147 £513 +28.13% 214
UK excluding London -55 111 £488 +18.18% 251
Midlands -34 37 £475 +35.71% 40
North of England -38 36 £513 +5.13% 82
West Midlands -35 27 £535 +78.33% 23
Yorkshire -38 19 £613 +20.99% 29
South East -41 19 £519 +51.46% 70
North West -22 17 £513 +17.14% 48
East of England -25 13 £350 -6.67% 26
East Midlands -20 10 £425 -18.47% 17
Scotland +12 5 - - 1
South West -15 4 £450 -5.26% 31

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 17 (4.45%) CMS
2 9 (2.36%) Confluence
3 6 (1.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.79%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.52%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.52%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.26%) Kentico
6 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.26%) Sitefinity
6 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (3.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.36%) Chatbot
3 7 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.52%) Autodesk Smoke
7 1 (0.26%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.26%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.26%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.26%) Trello
Business Applications
1 27 (7.07%) Shopify
2 12 (3.14%) Payment Gateway
3 9 (2.36%) Magento
4 4 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (1.05%) Endur
5 3 (0.79%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.79%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.52%) SAP Hybris
6 2 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.26%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.26%) Eikon
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle Retail
7 1 (0.26%) Orchestrade
7 1 (0.26%) SAP CAR
7 1 (0.26%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.26%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.26%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.26%) SAP Retail
7 1 (0.26%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 47 (12.30%) Azure
2 44 (11.52%) SaaS
3 42 (10.99%) AWS
4 23 (6.02%) Figma
5 21 (5.50%) Serverless
6 15 (3.93%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (3.93%) Commercetools
6 15 (3.93%) Dynamics 365
7 14 (3.66%) GCP
7 14 (3.66%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 13 (3.40%) Contentful
9 12 (3.14%) Algolia
10 10 (2.62%) Datadog
11 7 (1.83%) Contentsquare
11 7 (1.83%) dbt
11 7 (1.83%) Google Analytics
12 6 (1.57%) BigCommerce
13 5 (1.31%) Power Platform
13 5 (1.31%) SAP Commerce Cloud
14 4 (1.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.83%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.26%) Firewall
2 1 (0.26%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.26%) Internet
2 1 (0.26%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.62%) SQL Server
2 9 (2.36%) Redis
3 8 (2.09%) MySQL
3 8 (2.09%) NoSQL
4 7 (1.83%) DynamoDB
5 6 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (1.57%) Mixpanel
5 6 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (1.57%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.31%) MongoDB
6 5 (1.31%) Power BI
7 4 (1.05%) Metadata
7 4 (1.05%) Tableau
8 2 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.52%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.52%) CockroachDB
8 2 (0.52%) Couchbase
8 2 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.26%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.26%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 34 (8.90%) Jenkins
2 17 (4.45%) JIRA
3 10 (2.62%) Git
4 6 (1.57%) Cypress.io
4 6 (1.57%) Visual Website Optimizer
5 4 (1.05%) SpecFlow
5 4 (1.05%) Storybook
6 3 (0.79%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (0.79%) Charles Proxy
6 3 (0.79%) Fiddler
6 3 (0.79%) Selenium
7 2 (0.52%) GitLab
7 2 (0.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.26%) Appium
8 1 (0.26%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.26%) NUnit
8 1 (0.26%) Postman
8 1 (0.26%) Vite
8 1 (0.26%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.26%) webpack
General
1 122 (31.94%) Social Skills
2 88 (23.04%) Retail
3 54 (14.14%) Marketing
4 46 (12.04%) Finance
5 41 (10.73%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (5.76%) Organisational Skills
7 18 (4.71%) Legal
8 13 (3.40%) Electronics
9 12 (3.14%) Manufacturing
10 10 (2.62%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (2.62%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.57%) French Language
11 6 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.31%) Advertising
12 5 (1.31%) Banking
13 4 (1.05%) Front Office
14 3 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 2 (0.52%) Publishing
16 1 (0.26%) Billing
16 1 (0.26%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 69 (18.06%) Senior
2 50 (13.09%) Analyst
3 39 (10.21%) Architect
4 37 (9.69%) E-Commerce Manager
5 35 (9.16%) Business Analyst
6 31 (8.12%) Project Manager
7 30 (7.85%) Consultant
8 29 (7.59%) Developer
9 22 (5.76%) Senior Manager
10 19 (4.97%) Designer
10 19 (4.97%) Senior Project Manager
11 18 (4.71%) Lead
12 13 (3.40%) Technical Consultant
12 13 (3.40%) Web Manager
13 12 (3.14%) Account Executive
13 12 (3.14%) Senior Consultant
13 12 (3.14%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
13 12 (3.14%) Senior Designer
13 12 (3.14%) Senior Technical Specialist
13 12 (3.14%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (14.66%) Node.js
2 40 (10.47%) GraphQL
3 31 (8.12%) Playwright
3 31 (8.12%) React
4 28 (7.33%) Vitest
5 19 (4.97%) HTML
5 19 (4.97%) VML
6 18 (4.71%) CSS
7 16 (4.19%) YAML
8 15 (3.93%) .NET
9 12 (3.14%) Next.js
10 11 (2.88%) REST
11 8 (2.09%) HTML5
11 8 (2.09%) Middleware
11 8 (2.09%) OpenTelemetry
11 8 (2.09%) RESTful
12 7 (1.83%) CSS3
12 7 (1.83%) Redux
13 6 (1.57%) PySpark
13 6 (1.57%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 44 (11.52%) Cloud Native
2 37 (9.69%) Product Ownership
3 20 (5.24%) Mobile App
4 17 (4.45%) Onboarding
5 14 (3.66%) Analytical Mindset
6 12 (3.14%) Virtual Team
7 10 (2.62%) Marketing Technology
7 10 (2.62%) PMI
8 9 (2.36%) Client/Server
9 6 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.31%) FMCG
10 5 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.31%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.31%) Social Media
11 4 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.05%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.05%) e-Learning
11 4 (1.05%) Learning Management System
12 2 (0.52%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.57%) Linux
2 5 (1.31%) Windows
3 4 (1.05%) Android
3 4 (1.05%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (34.55%) Agile
2 78 (20.42%) Stakeholder Management
3 65 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
4 62 (16.23%) User Experience
5 61 (15.97%) CI/CD
6 58 (15.18%) Analytics
7 48 (12.57%) Coaching
7 48 (12.57%) DevOps
8 39 (10.21%) Mentoring
9 38 (9.95%) ERP
10 36 (9.42%) CRM
11 35 (9.16%) Scrum
12 34 (8.90%) Project Management
13 33 (8.64%) Test Automation
14 32 (8.38%) Continuous Improvement
14 32 (8.38%) Customer Experience
15 31 (8.12%) B2C
15 31 (8.12%) Roadmaps
16 28 (7.33%) UX Design
17 27 (7.07%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 51 (13.35%) TypeScript
2 41 (10.73%) SQL
3 28 (7.33%) Python
4 26 (6.81%) JavaScript
5 17 (4.45%) C#
6 16 (4.19%) Java
7 10 (2.62%) PHP
8 4 (1.05%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.52%) Go
10 1 (0.26%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.26%) Korn
10 1 (0.26%) Perl
10 1 (0.26%) R
10 1 (0.26%) Ruby
10 1 (0.26%) VBA
Qualifications
1 22 (5.76%) Degree
2 13 (3.40%) PMI Certification
3 6 (1.57%) CBAP
4 5 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.05%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.05%) CSPO
5 4 (1.05%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.79%) PMP
7 2 (0.52%) APMG
7 2 (0.52%) MBA
8 1 (0.26%) Analytics IQ
8 1 (0.26%) APMP
8 1 (0.26%) CFA
8 1 (0.26%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.02%) QA
2 20 (5.24%) GDPR
3 17 (4.45%) Accessibility
4 10 (2.62%) PERC
5 9 (2.36%) PCI DSS
6 8 (2.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 7 (1.83%) Data Quality
8 6 (1.57%) ISO 8583
8 6 (1.57%) PSD2
9 5 (1.31%) WCAG
10 1 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 35 (9.16%) Docker
2 5 (1.31%) Varnish
3 1 (0.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 36 (9.42%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.36%) Grafana
2 9 (2.36%) Prometheus
3 7 (1.83%) Terraform
4 5 (1.31%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 2 (0.52%) Ansible
6 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.26%) SCCM
Vendors
1 41 (10.73%) Salesforce
2 35 (9.16%) Google
3 33 (8.64%) Adobe
4 23 (6.02%) SAP
5 20 (5.24%) Microsoft
6 11 (2.88%) Oracle
7 10 (2.62%) Tealium
8 8 (2.09%) Optimizely
9 7 (1.83%) Databricks
9 7 (1.83%) OneTrust
9 7 (1.83%) Sitecore
10 6 (1.57%) Amplitude
10 6 (1.57%) Hotjar
11 5 (1.31%) mParticle
11 5 (1.31%) TikTok
12 4 (1.05%) Wind River
13 3 (0.79%) OpenAI
14 2 (0.52%) Facebook
14 2 (0.52%) Rollbar
14 2 (0.52%) Splunk