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

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 280 250 189
Rank change year-on-year -30 -61 +15
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 504 350 506
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.94% 1.06% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 1.17% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 264 199 376
10th Percentile £325 £293 £323
25th Percentile £412 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £545
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% -8.26% +1.16%
75th Percentile £602 £591 £623
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £425
% change year-on-year +10.53% +11.76% -19.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 12 5
10th Percentile £18.88 - -
25th Percentile £22.50 £15.25 £11.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £15.50 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +222.58% -3.13% -68.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £15.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £95.00 - £55.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £15.50 £11.00
% change year-on-year +61.29% +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 45,630 29,844 33,104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.69% 90.49% 85.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,001 18,599 21,039
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.54%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £728 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,875 1,760 1,727
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £13.87
25th Percentile £18.29 £17.30 £18.00
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -37.90% -4.71%
75th Percentile £67.86 £47.66 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £22.74 £42.05
% change year-on-year +93.36% -45.93% +12.12%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -32 459 £525 +5.00% 389
London +1 297 £500 -2.91% 163
Work from Home -14 165 £494 +3.95% 159
UK excluding London -88 149 £525 +10.53% 287
North of England -55 48 £550 +22.22% 85
Midlands -14 43 £550 +11.39% 64
North West -24 39 £550 +15.79% 45
West Midlands -31 28 £650 +23.81% 25
South East -89 28 £525 +10.53% 92
East of England -14 18 £500 +5.26% 14
East Midlands -4 14 £475 +11.76% 39
South West -39 13 £525 -44.74% 24
Yorkshire -50 9 £500 +11.11% 33

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 (3.77%) CMS
2 17 (3.37%) Confluence
3 5 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.79%) Apache
4 4 (0.79%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.60%) Anypoint
5 3 (0.60%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.40%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.40%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.40%) Mule
6 2 (0.40%) Sitecore CMS
6 2 (0.40%) WordPress
7 1 (0.20%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.20%) Mendix
7 1 (0.20%) nginx
7 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.20%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 22 (4.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.98%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 13 (2.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (2.18%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (1.19%) Adobe After Effects
5 6 (1.19%) Final Cut Pro
5 6 (1.19%) MS Visio
5 6 (1.19%) Sketch
6 3 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.40%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.20%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 40 (7.94%) Shopify
2 20 (3.97%) Magento
3 10 (1.98%) Payment Gateway
3 10 (1.98%) SAP CRM
3 10 (1.98%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (1.39%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.99%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.40%) ION MarketView
7 2 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.40%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.40%) SAP MDG-F
8 1 (0.20%) Carpe Diem
8 1 (0.20%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle SCM
8 1 (0.20%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
8 1 (0.20%) SAP Hybris
8 1 (0.20%) SDL Web 8
8 1 (0.20%) Sprinklr
8 1 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 72 (14.29%) AWS
2 70 (13.89%) Azure
3 28 (5.56%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
4 25 (4.96%) GCP
5 23 (4.56%) Figma
6 17 (3.37%) GitHub
7 15 (2.98%) Power Platform
8 14 (2.78%) SaaS
9 12 (2.38%) dbt
9 12 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (2.18%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (2.18%) Snowflake
11 9 (1.79%) Algolia
12 8 (1.59%) Datadog
12 8 (1.59%) Serverless
13 7 (1.39%) BigCommerce
13 7 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (1.39%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 6 (1.19%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (1.19%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.19%) HTTP
2 4 (0.79%) WAN
3 3 (0.60%) Firewall
3 3 (0.60%) Internet
4 2 (0.40%) LAN
4 2 (0.40%) Network Security
4 2 (0.40%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.40%) VPN
4 2 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.20%) Broadband
5 1 (0.20%) Wireless
5 1 (0.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (2.78%) Power BI
2 13 (2.58%) Looker
3 11 (2.18%) NoSQL
4 9 (1.79%) BigQuery
4 9 (1.79%) MongoDB
4 9 (1.79%) Tableau
5 7 (1.39%) SQL Server
6 6 (1.19%) Couchbase
6 6 (1.19%) Redis
7 5 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (0.99%) Metadata
7 5 (0.99%) MySQL
7 5 (0.99%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.79%) SAP HANA
8 4 (0.79%) Semantic Layer
9 3 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.40%) KDB
10 2 (0.40%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 26 (5.16%) Jenkins
2 25 (4.96%) Git
3 24 (4.76%) JIRA
4 8 (1.59%) Cypress.io
4 8 (1.59%) Subversion
5 6 (1.19%) Claude Code
5 6 (1.19%) Vite
6 5 (0.99%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.99%) GitLab
6 5 (0.99%) Selenium
7 4 (0.79%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.60%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.40%) Appium
9 2 (0.40%) Hudson
9 2 (0.40%) Maven
9 2 (0.40%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.20%) Bundler
10 1 (0.20%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.20%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.20%) TestRail
General
1 238 (47.22%) Retail
2 173 (34.33%) Social Skills
3 72 (14.29%) Finance
3 72 (14.29%) Marketing
4 48 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (7.74%) Organisational Skills
6 24 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 23 (4.56%) Manufacturing
8 18 (3.57%) Banking
9 11 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (1.79%) Publishing
11 8 (1.59%) Advertising
11 8 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (1.59%) Legal
12 6 (1.19%) French Language
13 4 (0.79%) Electronics
13 4 (0.79%) Public Sector
14 3 (0.60%) Billing
14 3 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.60%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 91 (18.06%) Senior
2 60 (11.90%) Analyst
2 60 (11.90%) Developer
3 43 (8.53%) Architect
4 37 (7.34%) Business Analyst
5 35 (6.94%) Designer
6 31 (6.15%) Project Manager
7 30 (5.95%) Lead
8 27 (5.36%) Product Manager
9 23 (4.56%) Solutions Architect
10 22 (4.37%) E-Commerce Manager
10 22 (4.37%) UI Designer
11 18 (3.57%) Consultant
11 18 (3.57%) Salesforce Developer
11 18 (3.57%) Senior Manager
12 17 (3.37%) Senior Designer
12 17 (3.37%) Senior Developer
13 15 (2.98%) Data Engineer
14 14 (2.78%) E-Commerce Business Analyst
15 13 (2.58%) E-Commerce Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (9.72%) REST
2 44 (8.73%) React
3 43 (8.53%) Node.js
4 36 (7.14%) GraphQL
5 21 (4.17%) Kafka
6 19 (3.77%) Spring
7 18 (3.57%) Next.js
8 17 (3.37%) HTML
8 17 (3.37%) Middleware
8 17 (3.37%) Spring Boot
8 17 (3.37%) Terraform
8 17 (3.37%) VML
9 16 (3.17%) CSS
9 16 (3.17%) SOAP
10 12 (2.38%) .NET
11 11 (2.18%) Playwright
12 10 (1.98%) RESTful
13 9 (1.79%) HTML5
13 9 (1.79%) Lightning Web Components
14 8 (1.59%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 49 (9.72%) Product Ownership
2 30 (5.95%) Cloud Native
3 24 (4.76%) Mobile App
4 23 (4.56%) Distributed Systems
5 21 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
6 15 (2.98%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (2.58%) Management Information System
8 11 (2.18%) AI Agents
8 11 (2.18%) Onboarding
9 10 (1.98%) Marketing Technology
10 9 (1.79%) Graphic Design
10 9 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (1.59%) FMCG
12 7 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.39%) Animation
13 5 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (0.99%) Security Posture
14 4 (0.79%) Credit Risk
15 3 (0.60%) EPoS
15 3 (0.60%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.79%) Android
1 9 (1.79%) Apple iOS
1 9 (1.79%) Windows
2 6 (1.19%) Linux
3 3 (0.60%) Unix
4 2 (0.40%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (30.75%) Agile
2 108 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 84 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 77 (15.28%) CI/CD
5 72 (14.29%) User Experience
6 66 (13.10%) Customer Experience
7 62 (12.30%) CRM
7 62 (12.30%) Scrum
8 56 (11.11%) AI
8 56 (11.11%) DevOps
9 55 (10.91%) Roadmaps
10 53 (10.52%) Analytics
11 48 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
12 47 (9.33%) Migration
13 43 (8.53%) Event-Driven
14 41 (8.13%) ERP
15 39 (7.74%) B2C
16 38 (7.54%) Project Management
17 37 (7.34%) Order Management
18 34 (6.75%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 46 (9.13%) SQL
2 38 (7.54%) TypeScript
3 36 (7.14%) Python
4 35 (6.94%) JavaScript
5 29 (5.75%) Java
6 13 (2.58%) C#
7 9 (1.79%) Apex Code
8 8 (1.59%) SOQL
8 8 (1.59%) SOSL
9 7 (1.39%) Kotlin
10 5 (0.99%) Groovy
10 5 (0.99%) Swift
11 4 (0.79%) ABAP
11 4 (0.79%) Bash
11 4 (0.79%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.60%) Go
12 3 (0.60%) LookML
12 3 (0.60%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.40%) DataWeave
13 2 (0.40%) PHP
Qualifications
1 42 (8.33%) Degree
2 7 (1.39%) Master's Degree
3 6 (1.19%) CSPO
4 5 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (0.79%) MBA
5 4 (0.79%) Security Cleared
6 2 (0.40%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.40%) PMP
6 2 (0.40%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.20%) Analytics IQ
7 1 (0.20%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.20%) CISA
7 1 (0.20%) CISSP
7 1 (0.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.20%) IIBA
7 1 (0.20%) ISEB
7 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.20%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (6.35%) QA
2 24 (4.76%) Data Quality
3 21 (4.17%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.79%) GDPR
5 6 (1.19%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.79%) PMO
6 4 (0.79%) SLA
7 2 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.40%) PSD2
8 1 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.20%) NIST
8 1 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (4.56%) Docker
2 2 (0.40%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.20%) Sendmail
3 1 (0.20%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 29 (5.75%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.60%) Grafana
2 3 (0.60%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.40%) Bosun
3 2 (0.40%) CloudHub
3 2 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.40%) MOM
3 2 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.20%) Apache Ranger
Vendors
1 64 (12.70%) Salesforce
2 43 (8.53%) SAP
3 37 (7.34%) Microsoft
4 28 (5.56%) Adobe
5 24 (4.76%) Google
6 23 (4.56%) Oracle
7 16 (3.17%) MuleSoft
8 14 (2.78%) Databricks
9 8 (1.59%) Sitecore
10 7 (1.39%) IBM
10 7 (1.39%) New Relic
11 6 (1.19%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.19%) Splunk
12 5 (0.99%) Braze
12 5 (0.99%) Dynatrace
13 4 (0.79%) Apple
14 3 (0.60%) Informatica
14 3 (0.60%) OpenAI
15 2 (0.40%) OneTrust
15 2 (0.40%) Screaming Frog