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 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 270 259 191
Rank change year-on-year -11 -68 -1
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 438 287 527
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.90% 1.00% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 1.10% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 184 380
10th Percentile £325 £281 £300
25th Percentile £409 £355 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £588
90th Percentile £670 £684 £702
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +13.89% - -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 4 18
10th Percentile £22.50 - £10.42
25th Percentile £28.81 £15.25 £11.00
Median hourly rate £54.75 £15.50 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +253.23% +19.23% -82.72%
75th Percentile £78.25 £19.06 £15.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £25.03 £63.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.91 £15.50 £13.00
% change year-on-year +131.68% +19.23% -86.32%

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 41,181 26,010 36,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.50% 91.03% 85.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,765 16,696 23,578
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,462 1,066 2,486
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.73 £17.92 £16.00
Median hourly rate £41.94 £27.45 £36.02
Median % change year-on-year +52.79% -23.80% -2.64%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.69 £25.15 £37.75
% change year-on-year +69.72% -33.38% +7.86%

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 27 May 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 27 May 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 27 May 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 -24 405 £500 +5.26% 491
London -2 256 £500 -1.48% 272
Work from Home -3 151 £500 +21.14% 216
UK excluding London -52 143 £513 +13.89% 251
Midlands -33 50 £475 -4.52% 51
North of England -52 39 £513 +2.50% 80
West Midlands -33 35 £638 +21.43% 33
North West -24 29 £513 +36.67% 49
South East -67 26 £521 +26.36% 73
East of England -16 19 £350 -24.32% 22
East Midlands -22 15 £465 -2.11% 18
Yorkshire -48 10 £600 +18.52% 24
South West -30 7 £625 +66.67% 12
Scotland +1 2 - - 7

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 (3.88%) CMS
2 10 (2.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 8 (1.83%) Confluence
4 2 (0.46%) Apache
4 2 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.46%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.46%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.46%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.46%) WordPress
5 1 (0.23%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.23%) Kentico
5 1 (0.23%) nginx
5 1 (0.23%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.23%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 13 (2.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.83%) Chatbot
3 8 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.68%) Adobe After Effects
5 3 (0.68%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.46%) Final Cut Pro
6 2 (0.46%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.46%) Sketch
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.23%) Autodesk Smoke
7 1 (0.23%) Trello
Business Applications
1 49 (11.19%) Shopify
2 18 (4.11%) Magento
3 7 (1.60%) NetSuite
3 7 (1.60%) SAP CRM
4 6 (1.37%) Payment Gateway
5 5 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
6 4 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
7 3 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.68%) SAP Hybris
7 3 (0.68%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.46%) SAP MDG-F
9 1 (0.23%) Carpe Diem
9 1 (0.23%) Elite 3E
9 1 (0.23%) ION MarketView
9 1 (0.23%) Oracle Retail
9 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.23%) SAP CAR
9 1 (0.23%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.23%) SAP Retail
9 1 (0.23%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 39 (8.90%) Azure
2 35 (7.99%) AWS
3 21 (4.79%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
4 16 (3.65%) Figma
5 15 (3.42%) Dynamics 365
5 15 (3.42%) SaaS
6 12 (2.74%) Power Platform
7 11 (2.51%) BigCommerce
7 11 (2.51%) GCP
8 10 (2.28%) Serverless
9 9 (2.05%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (1.83%) Datadog
10 8 (1.83%) dbt
10 8 (1.83%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 7 (1.60%) Google Workspace
11 7 (1.60%) Miro
11 7 (1.60%) SAP Commerce Cloud
11 7 (1.60%) WhatsApp
12 6 (1.37%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (1.37%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.23%) Firewall
1 1 (0.23%) Internet
1 1 (0.23%) LAN
1 1 (0.23%) Network Security
1 1 (0.23%) RFID
1 1 (0.23%) RTMP
1 1 (0.23%) WAN
1 1 (0.23%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.51%) MySQL
1 11 (2.51%) Power BI
2 8 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (1.60%) Metadata
4 6 (1.37%) Looker
4 6 (1.37%) Redis
4 6 (1.37%) Relational Database
5 5 (1.14%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.14%) Tableau
6 4 (0.91%) BigQuery
6 4 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.91%) DynamoDB
6 4 (0.91%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.68%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.68%) Semantic Layer
8 2 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.46%) CockroachDB
8 2 (0.46%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 21 (4.79%) Git
1 21 (4.79%) JIRA
2 20 (4.57%) Jenkins
3 10 (2.28%) Selenium
4 8 (1.83%) Cypress.io
5 7 (1.60%) Vite
6 6 (1.37%) GitLab
7 4 (0.91%) Maven
7 4 (0.91%) Subversion
8 3 (0.68%) Appium
8 3 (0.68%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.46%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.46%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.46%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.46%) Hudson
9 2 (0.46%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.23%) Fiddler
10 1 (0.23%) NUnit
10 1 (0.23%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.23%) TeamCity
General
1 161 (36.76%) Retail
2 153 (34.93%) Social Skills
3 76 (17.35%) Finance
4 60 (13.70%) Marketing
5 45 (10.27%) Organisational Skills
6 34 (7.76%) Analytical Skills
7 22 (5.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (4.57%) Manufacturing
9 13 (2.97%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (2.28%) Legal
11 9 (2.05%) Banking
12 8 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (1.60%) Electronics
13 7 (1.60%) Publishing
14 5 (1.14%) French Language
15 4 (0.91%) Advertising
15 4 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.91%) Public Sector
16 3 (0.68%) Retail Banking
17 2 (0.46%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 91 (20.78%) Senior
2 63 (14.38%) Analyst
3 45 (10.27%) Project Manager
4 44 (10.05%) Developer
5 41 (9.36%) Business Analyst
6 39 (8.90%) Senior Manager
7 33 (7.53%) E-Commerce Manager
8 32 (7.31%) Architect
9 30 (6.85%) Senior Project Manager
10 27 (6.16%) Lead
11 23 (5.25%) Designer
12 15 (3.42%) Data Engineer
13 14 (3.20%) Product Manager
14 13 (2.97%) Consultant
14 13 (2.97%) E-Commerce Analyst
14 13 (2.97%) E-Commerce Business Analyst
14 13 (2.97%) Technical Analyst
15 12 (2.74%) Digital Analyst
15 12 (2.74%) Senior Designer
16 11 (2.51%) E-Commerce Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (9.36%) React
2 40 (9.13%) GraphQL
3 38 (8.68%) Node.js
4 33 (7.53%) REST
5 28 (6.39%) VML
6 22 (5.02%) CSS
7 20 (4.57%) HTML
7 20 (4.57%) Middleware
7 20 (4.57%) Playwright
8 13 (2.97%) Next.js
9 11 (2.51%) AngularJS
9 11 (2.51%) Spring
10 9 (2.05%) .NET
10 9 (2.05%) SOAP
10 9 (2.05%) Vitest
11 8 (1.83%) HTML5
11 8 (1.83%) Vue
12 7 (1.60%) PySpark
12 7 (1.60%) Sass
12 7 (1.60%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 34 (7.76%) Product Ownership
2 24 (5.48%) Cloud Native
3 14 (3.20%) Mobile App
4 12 (2.74%) Marketing Technology
4 12 (2.74%) Virtual Team
5 10 (2.28%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (2.05%) Management Information System
6 9 (2.05%) Onboarding
7 8 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (1.37%) AI Agents
9 6 (1.37%) FMCG
10 5 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (0.91%) Client/Server
11 4 (0.91%) EPoS
12 3 (0.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 3 (0.68%) Smart Home
13 2 (0.46%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.97%) Linux
2 11 (2.51%) Android
3 10 (2.28%) Apple iOS
3 10 (2.28%) Windows
4 4 (0.91%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (31.05%) Agile
2 85 (19.41%) Problem-Solving
3 75 (17.12%) Stakeholder Management
4 71 (16.21%) User Experience
5 52 (11.87%) ERP
5 52 (11.87%) Project Management
6 51 (11.64%) CI/CD
7 46 (10.50%) Analytics
8 44 (10.05%) Scrum
9 42 (9.59%) B2C
9 42 (9.59%) CRM
10 41 (9.36%) Roadmaps
11 40 (9.13%) Continuous Improvement
11 40 (9.13%) Customer Experience
12 39 (8.90%) Time Management
13 35 (7.99%) DevOps
14 32 (7.31%) AI
15 30 (6.85%) Migration
15 30 (6.85%) Release Management
16 29 (6.62%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 37 (8.45%) JavaScript
1 37 (8.45%) TypeScript
2 27 (6.16%) SQL
3 23 (5.25%) Python
4 17 (3.88%) Java
5 8 (1.83%) C#
6 6 (1.37%) PHP
6 6 (1.37%) Shell Script
7 5 (1.14%) Apex Code
7 5 (1.14%) Kotlin
7 5 (1.14%) SOQL
7 5 (1.14%) SOSL
7 5 (1.14%) Swift
8 3 (0.68%) Go
9 2 (0.46%) Korn
10 1 (0.23%) Bash
10 1 (0.23%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.23%) R
10 1 (0.23%) Scala
10 1 (0.23%) XPath
Qualifications
1 26 (5.94%) Degree
2 7 (1.60%) CSPO
3 4 (0.91%) PMI Certification
4 2 (0.46%) Analytics IQ
4 2 (0.46%) PMP
4 2 (0.46%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.23%) APMP
5 1 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.23%) CISA
5 1 (0.23%) CISSP
5 1 (0.23%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (0.23%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (6.39%) QA
2 20 (4.57%) Data Quality
3 15 (3.42%) Accessibility
4 14 (3.20%) GDPR
5 5 (1.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 5 (1.14%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.91%) SLA
7 3 (0.68%) WCAG
8 2 (0.46%) PERC
8 2 (0.46%) PMO
9 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.23%) NIST
System Software
1 19 (4.34%) Docker
2 5 (1.14%) Varnish
3 1 (0.23%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 17 (3.88%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.60%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 6 (1.37%) Grafana
3 6 (1.37%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.46%) MOM
5 1 (0.23%) Ansible
5 1 (0.23%) Apache Ranger
5 1 (0.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 48 (10.96%) Salesforce
2 43 (9.82%) SAP
3 37 (8.45%) Adobe
4 29 (6.62%) Google
5 25 (5.71%) Microsoft
6 22 (5.02%) Oracle
7 14 (3.20%) Databricks
8 12 (2.74%) Sitecore
9 7 (1.60%) MuleSoft
10 5 (1.14%) Tealium
11 4 (0.91%) Netlify
11 4 (0.91%) Splunk
12 3 (0.68%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.68%) IBM
12 3 (0.68%) OneTrust
12 3 (0.68%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 3 (0.68%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.68%) TikTok
13 2 (0.46%) mParticle
13 2 (0.46%) New Relic