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 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 274 239 182
Rank change year-on-year -35 -57 +16
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 486 358 563
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.92% 1.10% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 1.22% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 205 410
10th Percentile £328 £286 £313
25th Percentile £413 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -1.87%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £475 £425
% change year-on-year +13.16% +11.76% -15.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 13 15
10th Percentile £22.50 - £10.42
25th Percentile £25.66 £15.25 £10.71
Median hourly rate £55.00 £15.50 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +254.84% +19.23% -74.00%
75th Percentile £80.50 £15.75 £32.38
90th Percentile £95.00 £26.35 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.46 £15.50 £11.00
% change year-on-year +193.26% +40.91% -78.00%

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 45,026 29,407 35,968
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.11% 90.34% 85.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,974 18,494 23,016
10th Percentile £325 £300 £301
25th Percentile £419 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £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 2,654 1,554 2,302
10th Percentile £14.87 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £20.01 £17.37 £16.71
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68.50 £51.55 £62.00
90th Percentile £82.46 £70.00 £73.48
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.33 £38.20
% change year-on-year +84.96% -36.30% -4.51%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 18 July 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 -31 443 £500 - 285
London +15 296 £489 -2.25% 134
Work from Home -31 148 £450 - 119
UK excluding London -111 138 £538 +13.16% 191
North of England -72 47 £550 +10.00% 60
Midlands -29 39 £563 +18.42% 37
North West -35 38 £550 +18.92% 36
West Midlands -41 26 £650 +31.65% 24
South East -82 25 £531 +11.84% 56
East of England -14 19 £500 - 9
East Midlands -5 13 £465 -2.11% 13
Yorkshire -48 9 £550 +15.79% 22
South West -46 7 - - 21
Scotland -11 1 - - 4

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 16 (3.29%) CMS
2 11 (2.26%) Confluence
3 6 (1.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (0.82%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.62%) Anypoint
5 3 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.41%) Apache
6 2 (0.41%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.41%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.41%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.41%) Mule
6 2 (0.41%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.41%) WordPress
7 1 (0.21%) Kentico
7 1 (0.21%) nginx
7 1 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.21%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 17 (3.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (3.09%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 14 (2.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (1.44%) Chatbot
6 6 (1.23%) Adobe After Effects
6 6 (1.23%) Final Cut Pro
6 6 (1.23%) Sketch
7 4 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.41%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.41%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 42 (8.64%) Shopify
2 20 (4.12%) Magento
3 10 (2.06%) SAP CRM
4 8 (1.65%) Payment Gateway
4 8 (1.65%) SAP S/4HANA
5 7 (1.44%) NetSuite
6 6 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
7 5 (1.03%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.62%) SAP MDG
9 2 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.41%) SAP Hybris
9 2 (0.41%) SAP MDG-F
10 1 (0.21%) Elite 3E
10 1 (0.21%) ION MarketView
10 1 (0.21%) SAP CAR
10 1 (0.21%) SAP MM
10 1 (0.21%) SAP Retail
10 1 (0.21%) SAP SD
10 1 (0.21%) SDL Web 8
10 1 (0.21%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 63 (12.96%) AWS
2 62 (12.76%) Azure
3 31 (6.38%) Figma
4 25 (5.14%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
5 24 (4.94%) GCP
6 14 (2.88%) GitHub
7 13 (2.67%) Power Platform
7 13 (2.67%) SaaS
8 10 (2.06%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (2.06%) Serverless
9 9 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (1.85%) dbt
10 8 (1.65%) Algolia
10 8 (1.65%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (1.65%) Google Workspace
10 8 (1.65%) Miro
11 7 (1.44%) BigCommerce
11 7 (1.44%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 7 (1.44%) Snowflake
11 7 (1.44%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.82%) Internet
2 3 (0.62%) HTTP
3 2 (0.41%) LAN
3 2 (0.41%) WAN
4 1 (0.21%) Firewall
4 1 (0.21%) Network Security
4 1 (0.21%) RFID
4 1 (0.21%) Wireless
4 1 (0.21%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.47%) NoSQL
1 12 (2.47%) Power BI
2 8 (1.65%) Looker
2 8 (1.65%) MySQL
2 8 (1.65%) Tableau
3 7 (1.44%) BigQuery
4 6 (1.23%) Couchbase
4 6 (1.23%) MongoDB
4 6 (1.23%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.03%) Metadata
5 5 (1.03%) Relational Database
6 4 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (0.82%) SAP HANA
6 4 (0.82%) Semantic Layer
7 3 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.41%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.41%) Redis
Development Applications
1 29 (5.97%) Jenkins
2 28 (5.76%) Git
3 20 (4.12%) JIRA
4 10 (2.06%) Cypress.io
5 9 (1.85%) Selenium
6 8 (1.65%) Subversion
7 7 (1.44%) GitLab
8 6 (1.23%) Vite
9 5 (1.03%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.82%) Claude Code
10 4 (0.82%) Eclipse
10 4 (0.82%) Maven
11 3 (0.62%) Appium
11 3 (0.62%) Zephyr
12 2 (0.41%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.41%) Hudson
12 2 (0.41%) WebDriver
13 1 (0.21%) PHPUnit
13 1 (0.21%) Spock
13 1 (0.21%) TeamCity
General
1 226 (46.50%) Retail
2 192 (39.51%) Social Skills
3 81 (16.67%) Finance
4 69 (14.20%) Marketing
5 42 (8.64%) Organisational Skills
6 41 (8.44%) Analytical Skills
7 23 (4.73%) Manufacturing
8 22 (4.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (2.88%) Banking
10 11 (2.26%) Legal
11 10 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (1.65%) Advertising
12 8 (1.65%) Publishing
13 7 (1.44%) French Language
13 7 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.82%) Electronics
14 4 (0.82%) Public Sector
15 3 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.62%) Retail Banking
15 3 (0.62%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 89 (18.31%) Senior
2 53 (10.91%) Analyst
3 47 (9.67%) Developer
4 43 (8.85%) Designer
5 39 (8.02%) Architect
5 39 (8.02%) Project Manager
6 34 (7.00%) Lead
7 32 (6.58%) Business Analyst
8 30 (6.17%) Senior Manager
9 27 (5.56%) E-Commerce Manager
10 26 (5.35%) Product Manager
11 22 (4.53%) UI Designer
12 20 (4.12%) Senior Designer
12 20 (4.12%) Senior Project Manager
13 19 (3.91%) Solutions Architect
14 14 (2.88%) Programme Manager
15 13 (2.67%) E-Commerce Business Analyst
15 13 (2.67%) Marketing Manager
15 13 (2.67%) Salesforce Developer
15 13 (2.67%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (9.88%) React
2 42 (8.64%) REST
3 40 (8.23%) Node.js
4 38 (7.82%) GraphQL
5 22 (4.53%) CSS
6 21 (4.32%) HTML
6 21 (4.32%) Middleware
7 17 (3.50%) Next.js
7 17 (3.50%) VML
8 16 (3.29%) Playwright
9 15 (3.09%) Kafka
10 14 (2.88%) SOAP
10 14 (2.88%) Spring
11 13 (2.67%) AngularJS
12 10 (2.06%) HTML5
12 10 (2.06%) RESTful
12 10 (2.06%) Spring Boot
13 9 (1.85%) J2EE
13 9 (1.85%) Sass
14 8 (1.65%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 42 (8.64%) Product Ownership
2 25 (5.14%) Cloud Native
3 21 (4.32%) Mobile App
4 20 (4.12%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (3.29%) Distributed Systems
6 13 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (2.26%) Virtual Team
8 10 (2.06%) AI Agents
8 10 (2.06%) Marketing Technology
9 9 (1.85%) Graphic Design
9 9 (1.85%) Onboarding
10 8 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.44%) Animation
11 7 (1.44%) Management Information System
12 5 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.03%) EPoS
12 5 (1.03%) FMCG
13 4 (0.82%) Security Posture
14 3 (0.62%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.26%) Android
2 10 (2.06%) Apple iOS
2 10 (2.06%) Linux
3 9 (1.85%) Windows
4 5 (1.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (32.30%) Agile
2 96 (19.75%) Stakeholder Management
3 90 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
4 85 (17.49%) User Experience
5 66 (13.58%) CI/CD
6 59 (12.14%) CRM
6 59 (12.14%) Customer Experience
6 59 (12.14%) Roadmaps
7 52 (10.70%) Scrum
8 51 (10.49%) Analytics
9 50 (10.29%) AI
10 48 (9.88%) Continuous Improvement
10 48 (9.88%) Project Management
11 45 (9.26%) B2C
12 44 (9.05%) DevOps
13 40 (8.23%) Time Management
14 38 (7.82%) Migration
15 36 (7.41%) ERP
15 36 (7.41%) Workshop Facilitation
16 34 (7.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 38 (7.82%) JavaScript
2 36 (7.41%) TypeScript
3 35 (7.20%) SQL
4 27 (5.56%) Python
5 25 (5.14%) Java
6 8 (1.65%) C#
7 6 (1.23%) Kotlin
8 5 (1.03%) Apex Code
8 5 (1.03%) Groovy
8 5 (1.03%) SOQL
8 5 (1.03%) SOSL
8 5 (1.03%) Swift
9 4 (0.82%) ABAP
10 3 (0.62%) Go
10 3 (0.62%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.41%) Bash
11 2 (0.41%) DataWeave
11 2 (0.41%) Korn
11 2 (0.41%) PHP
11 2 (0.41%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 48 (9.88%) Degree
2 6 (1.23%) CSPO
3 5 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (1.03%) Master's Degree
4 3 (0.62%) MBA
5 2 (0.41%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.21%) Analytics IQ
6 1 (0.21%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.21%) CISA
6 1 (0.21%) CISSP
6 1 (0.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.21%) IIBA
6 1 (0.21%) ISEB
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.21%) PMP
6 1 (0.21%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (7.00%) QA
2 27 (5.56%) Accessibility
3 19 (3.91%) Data Quality
4 11 (2.26%) GDPR
5 7 (1.44%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.23%) SLA
7 4 (0.82%) PMO
8 3 (0.62%) WCAG
9 2 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.41%) PSD2
10 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.21%) NIST
System Software
1 18 (3.70%) Docker
2 1 (0.21%) Sendmail
2 1 (0.21%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 18 (3.70%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.85%) Terraform
3 7 (1.44%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 3 (0.62%) Grafana
4 3 (0.62%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.41%) CloudHub
5 2 (0.41%) MOM
6 1 (0.21%) Ansible
6 1 (0.21%) Apache Ranger
Vendors
1 53 (10.91%) Salesforce
2 42 (8.64%) SAP
3 30 (6.17%) Adobe
3 30 (6.17%) Google
3 30 (6.17%) Microsoft
4 22 (4.53%) Oracle
5 16 (3.29%) Databricks
6 15 (3.09%) MuleSoft
7 8 (1.65%) Sitecore
8 6 (1.23%) IBM
9 5 (1.03%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.03%) New Relic
9 5 (1.03%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.03%) Splunk
10 4 (0.82%) Braze
10 4 (0.82%) Netlify
11 3 (0.62%) Informatica
12 2 (0.41%) Apple
12 2 (0.41%) Infor
12 2 (0.41%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud