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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 259 194
Rank change year-on-year -12 -65 +10
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 489 350 515
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.92% 1.06% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 1.17% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 252 201 379
10th Percentile £325 £296 £325
25th Percentile £413 £385 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -7.91% -0.46%
75th Percentile £602 £575 £623
90th Percentile £700 £725 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £475 £425
% change year-on-year +13.16% +11.76% -19.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 12 7
10th Percentile £20.69 - £10.77
25th Percentile £22.50 £15.25 £11.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £15.50 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +222.58% +19.23% -74.00%
75th Percentile £80.00 £15.75 £32.38
90th Percentile £95.00 - £53.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.46 £15.50 £11.00
% change year-on-year +96.48% +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 45,312 29,789 33,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.84% 90.47% 85.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,886 18,626 21,285
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £421 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £727 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,829 1,693 1,837
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.30 £18.35
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -38.57% -1.35%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.13 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £22.74 £42.50
% change year-on-year +93.36% -46.51% +17.24%

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 11 August 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 11 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for E-Commerce in the UK

E-Commerce
Top 13 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 11 August 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 -32 446 £518 +3.50% 639
London -5 295 £500 -2.91% 368
Work from Home -19 157 £450 -2.70% 250
UK excluding London -90 139 £538 +13.16% 317
North of England -71 43 £525 +16.67% 102
Midlands -26 41 £569 +19.74% 55
North West -26 34 £550 +15.79% 61
West Midlands -36 28 £650 +23.81% 27
South East -100 26 £531 +1.19% 88
East of England -15 18 £519 +9.21% 18
East Midlands -1 13 £465 +3.33% 28
South West -39 11 £525 +40.00% 41
Yorkshire -50 9 £500 +11.11% 35

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 18 (3.68%) CMS
2 13 (2.66%) Confluence
3 5 (1.02%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 5 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.82%) Apache
4 4 (0.82%) Headless CMS
4 4 (0.82%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.61%) Anypoint
6 2 (0.41%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.41%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.41%) Mule
6 2 (0.41%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.41%) Sitecore CMS
6 2 (0.41%) WordPress
7 1 (0.20%) nginx
Applications
1 21 (4.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (3.07%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 14 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (1.23%) Adobe After Effects
5 6 (1.23%) Final Cut Pro
5 6 (1.23%) Sketch
6 4 (0.82%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.82%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.41%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.20%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 42 (8.59%) Shopify
2 20 (4.09%) Magento
3 9 (1.84%) SAP CRM
4 8 (1.64%) Payment Gateway
4 8 (1.64%) SAP S/4HANA
5 7 (1.43%) NetSuite
6 6 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
7 5 (1.02%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.41%) ION MarketView
8 2 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.41%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.41%) SAP MDG-F
9 1 (0.20%) Carpe Diem
9 1 (0.20%) Elite 3E
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle SCM
9 1 (0.20%) SAP Hybris
9 1 (0.20%) SDL Web 8
9 1 (0.20%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 67 (13.70%) AWS
2 63 (12.88%) Azure
3 27 (5.52%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
4 24 (4.91%) Figma
4 24 (4.91%) GCP
5 18 (3.68%) GitHub
6 13 (2.66%) Power Platform
7 12 (2.45%) dbt
7 12 (2.45%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (2.25%) SaaS
9 10 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (2.04%) Snowflake
10 8 (1.64%) Algolia
11 7 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (1.43%) BigCommerce
11 7 (1.43%) Google Workspace
11 7 (1.43%) Miro
11 7 (1.43%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 7 (1.43%) Serverless
12 6 (1.23%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.82%) WAN
2 3 (0.61%) Firewall
2 3 (0.61%) HTTP
2 3 (0.61%) Internet
3 2 (0.41%) LAN
3 2 (0.41%) Network Security
3 2 (0.41%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.41%) VPN
3 2 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.20%) Broadband
4 1 (0.20%) Wireless
4 1 (0.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.45%) Power BI
2 11 (2.25%) Looker
2 11 (2.25%) NoSQL
3 9 (1.84%) Tableau
4 8 (1.64%) BigQuery
5 7 (1.43%) MongoDB
5 7 (1.43%) MySQL
6 6 (1.23%) Couchbase
7 5 (1.02%) Metadata
7 5 (1.02%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.02%) SQL Server
8 4 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.82%) Redis
8 4 (0.82%) SAP HANA
8 4 (0.82%) Semantic Layer
9 3 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.41%) KDB
Development Applications
1 26 (5.32%) Jenkins
2 24 (4.91%) Git
3 21 (4.29%) JIRA
4 10 (2.04%) Cypress.io
5 8 (1.64%) Subversion
6 7 (1.43%) Selenium
7 6 (1.23%) Claude Code
7 6 (1.23%) Vite
8 5 (1.02%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.02%) GitLab
9 4 (0.82%) Eclipse
9 4 (0.82%) Maven
9 4 (0.82%) Zephyr
10 3 (0.61%) Appium
11 2 (0.41%) Hudson
11 2 (0.41%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.20%) Octopus Deploy
12 1 (0.20%) PHPUnit
12 1 (0.20%) Robot Framework
12 1 (0.20%) Spock
General
1 234 (47.85%) Retail
2 173 (35.38%) Social Skills
3 73 (14.93%) Finance
3 73 (14.93%) Marketing
4 47 (9.61%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (8.38%) Organisational Skills
6 24 (4.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 22 (4.50%) Manufacturing
8 17 (3.48%) Banking
9 11 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (1.84%) Publishing
11 8 (1.64%) Advertising
11 8 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (1.64%) Legal
12 6 (1.23%) French Language
13 4 (0.82%) Electronics
13 4 (0.82%) Public Sector
14 3 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.61%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 88 (18.00%) Senior
2 58 (11.86%) Analyst
2 58 (11.86%) Developer
3 40 (8.18%) Architect
4 36 (7.36%) Designer
5 35 (7.16%) Business Analyst
6 34 (6.95%) Lead
7 31 (6.34%) Project Manager
8 24 (4.91%) Product Manager
9 22 (4.50%) UI Designer
10 21 (4.29%) Senior Manager
10 21 (4.29%) Solutions Architect
11 20 (4.09%) E-Commerce Manager
12 18 (3.68%) Senior Developer
13 17 (3.48%) Senior Designer
14 16 (3.27%) Salesforce Developer
15 15 (3.07%) Data Engineer
16 14 (2.86%) Consultant
17 13 (2.66%) E-Commerce Business Analyst
17 13 (2.66%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (9.41%) REST
2 42 (8.59%) React
3 39 (7.98%) Node.js
4 37 (7.57%) GraphQL
5 20 (4.09%) Middleware
6 19 (3.89%) Next.js
7 18 (3.68%) CSS
8 17 (3.48%) HTML
8 17 (3.48%) VML
9 16 (3.27%) Kafka
10 15 (3.07%) SOAP
10 15 (3.07%) Spring
11 13 (2.66%) Playwright
12 11 (2.25%) Spring Boot
13 10 (2.04%) AngularJS
13 10 (2.04%) RESTful
14 9 (1.84%) HTML5
14 9 (1.84%) Jakarta EE
14 9 (1.84%) Sass
15 8 (1.64%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 45 (9.20%) Product Ownership
2 24 (4.91%) Cloud Native
2 24 (4.91%) Mobile App
3 21 (4.29%) Self-Motivation
4 19 (3.89%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (2.66%) Management Information System
7 11 (2.25%) AI Agents
7 11 (2.25%) Marketing Technology
8 9 (1.84%) Graphic Design
8 9 (1.84%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (1.84%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.43%) Animation
9 7 (1.43%) FMCG
10 6 (1.23%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (0.82%) Security Posture
12 4 (0.82%) Taxonomies
13 3 (0.61%) Digital Wallet
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.25%) Windows
2 10 (2.04%) Android
2 10 (2.04%) Apple iOS
3 8 (1.64%) Linux
4 5 (1.02%) Unix
5 2 (0.41%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (31.29%) Agile
2 98 (20.04%) Stakeholder Management
3 88 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
4 74 (15.13%) User Experience
5 66 (13.50%) Customer Experience
6 65 (13.29%) CI/CD
7 59 (12.07%) CRM
8 57 (11.66%) Scrum
9 56 (11.45%) Roadmaps
10 52 (10.63%) Analytics
11 51 (10.43%) AI
11 51 (10.43%) DevOps
12 49 (10.02%) Continuous Improvement
13 46 (9.41%) Migration
14 39 (7.98%) Project Management
15 37 (7.57%) ERP
15 37 (7.57%) Time Management
16 36 (7.36%) B2C
17 34 (6.95%) Workshop Facilitation
18 33 (6.75%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 41 (8.38%) SQL
2 36 (7.36%) JavaScript
3 34 (6.95%) TypeScript
4 32 (6.54%) Python
5 26 (5.32%) Java
6 8 (1.64%) Apex Code
7 7 (1.43%) C#
7 7 (1.43%) SOQL
7 7 (1.43%) SOSL
8 6 (1.23%) Kotlin
9 5 (1.02%) Groovy
9 5 (1.02%) Swift
10 4 (0.82%) ABAP
10 4 (0.82%) Bash
10 4 (0.82%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.61%) Go
11 3 (0.61%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.41%) DataWeave
12 2 (0.41%) LookML
12 2 (0.41%) PHP
Qualifications
1 42 (8.59%) Degree
2 6 (1.23%) CSPO
2 6 (1.23%) Master's Degree
3 5 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (0.61%) MBA
4 3 (0.61%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.20%) Analytics IQ
5 1 (0.20%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.20%) CISA
5 1 (0.20%) CISSP
5 1 (0.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.20%) IIBA
5 1 (0.20%) ISEB
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (0.20%) PhD
5 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.20%) PMP
5 1 (0.20%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (6.75%) QA
2 23 (4.70%) Data Quality
3 21 (4.29%) Accessibility
4 11 (2.25%) GDPR
5 7 (1.43%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.23%) SLA
7 4 (0.82%) PMO
8 2 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.41%) PSD2
9 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.20%) NIST
9 1 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (4.50%) Docker
2 1 (0.20%) Sendmail
2 1 (0.20%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 23 (4.70%) Kubernetes
2 13 (2.66%) Terraform
3 4 (0.82%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 3 (0.61%) Grafana
4 3 (0.61%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.41%) Bosun
5 2 (0.41%) CloudHub
5 2 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.41%) MOM
5 2 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.20%) Apache Ranger
Vendors
1 61 (12.47%) Salesforce
2 37 (7.57%) SAP
3 33 (6.75%) Microsoft
4 30 (6.13%) Adobe
5 29 (5.93%) Google
6 23 (4.70%) Oracle
7 15 (3.07%) Databricks
7 15 (3.07%) MuleSoft
8 8 (1.64%) Sitecore
9 7 (1.43%) New Relic
10 5 (1.02%) Braze
10 5 (1.02%) IBM
10 5 (1.02%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.02%) Splunk
11 4 (0.82%) Apple
11 4 (0.82%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.61%) Informatica
12 3 (0.61%) Netlify
12 3 (0.61%) OpenAI
13 2 (0.41%) ION Trading