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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 266 242 185
Rank change year-on-year -24 -57 +22
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 519 364 514
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.95% 1.10% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 1.22% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 208 368
10th Percentile £325 £301 £307
25th Percentile £420 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £610
90th Percentile £704 £725 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +15.79% +5.56% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 16 3
10th Percentile £13.47 - £22.05
25th Percentile £33.63 £15.25 £31.13
Median hourly rate £55.00 £15.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +254.84% -67.37% -5.00%
75th Percentile £71.25 £17.97 £54.38
90th Percentile £73.60 £28.43 £57.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £15.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year +254.84% -3.13% -68.00%

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 46,293 29,942 32,892
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.37% 90.52% 85.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,017 18,609 19,950
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £730 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,198 1,849 1,396
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.32 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.23 £17.33 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £66.00 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.25 £74.22
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £22.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +77.78% -47.67% +1.18%

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 26 September 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 -24 480 £525 +5.00% 1,540
London -6 305 £500 -2.91% 920
UK excluding London -73 163 £550 +15.79% 687
Work from Home -19 160 £520 +4.00% 560
North of England -53 62 £560 +24.44% 239
North West -16 50 £560 +17.89% 148
Midlands -21 36 £594 +22.42% 113
South East -85 33 £538 -2.27% 162
West Midlands -30 24 £650 +23.81% 64
East of England -31 17 £500 +5.26% 61
South West -37 16 £525 +31.25% 68
Yorkshire -49 12 £425 -5.56% 69
East Midlands -7 11 £475 - 49

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 26 (5.01%) CMS
2 18 (3.47%) Confluence
3 8 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.54%) WordPress
4 5 (0.96%) Apache
5 4 (0.77%) WebSphere
6 3 (0.58%) Anypoint
6 3 (0.58%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.39%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.39%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.39%) Mule
7 2 (0.39%) Sitecore CMS
7 2 (0.39%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.19%) Drupal
8 1 (0.19%) EPiServer
8 1 (0.19%) Mendix
8 1 (0.19%) nginx
8 1 (0.19%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 23 (4.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.89%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 13 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (2.12%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (1.16%) Adobe After Effects
5 6 (1.16%) Final Cut Pro
5 6 (1.16%) MS Visio
5 6 (1.16%) Sketch
6 3 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.39%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.19%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 34 (6.55%) Shopify
2 20 (3.85%) Magento
3 13 (2.50%) Payment Gateway
4 12 (2.31%) SAP S/4HANA
5 10 (1.93%) Dynamics CRM
5 10 (1.93%) SAP CRM
6 8 (1.54%) NetSuite
7 6 (1.16%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.39%) ION MarketView
8 2 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.19%) Carpe Diem
9 1 (0.19%) Elite 3E
9 1 (0.19%) Oracle Retail
9 1 (0.19%) Oracle SCM
9 1 (0.19%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
9 1 (0.19%) SAP Hybris
9 1 (0.19%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.19%) SAP MDG-F
9 1 (0.19%) SAP Retail
9 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 87 (16.76%) AWS
2 83 (15.99%) Azure
3 32 (6.17%) GCP
4 27 (5.20%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
5 23 (4.43%) Figma
6 22 (4.24%) GitHub
7 18 (3.47%) SaaS
8 17 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (2.89%) GitHub Actions
10 14 (2.70%) dbt
10 14 (2.70%) Power Platform
11 13 (2.50%) Serverless
11 13 (2.50%) Snowflake
12 11 (2.12%) Algolia
13 8 (1.54%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 7 (1.35%) Azure Functions
14 7 (1.35%) Azure Service Bus
14 7 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
14 7 (1.35%) Entra ID
15 6 (1.16%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.54%) HTTP
2 4 (0.77%) WAN
3 3 (0.58%) Firewall
3 3 (0.58%) Internet
4 2 (0.39%) LAN
4 2 (0.39%) Network Security
4 2 (0.39%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.39%) VPN
4 2 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.19%) Broadband
5 1 (0.19%) DNS
5 1 (0.19%) Wireless
5 1 (0.19%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (2.70%) Power BI
2 11 (2.12%) Looker
2 11 (2.12%) NoSQL
3 10 (1.93%) BigQuery
3 10 (1.93%) MongoDB
4 9 (1.73%) SQL Server
4 9 (1.73%) Tableau
5 8 (1.54%) Relational Database
5 8 (1.54%) SAP HANA
6 7 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (1.35%) Redis
7 6 (1.16%) Couchbase
7 6 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (0.96%) Metadata
8 5 (0.96%) MySQL
9 4 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (0.77%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.77%) SAP BW
9 4 (0.77%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 24 (4.62%) Jenkins
2 23 (4.43%) JIRA
3 21 (4.05%) Git
4 8 (1.54%) Subversion
5 6 (1.16%) Claude Code
5 6 (1.16%) Cypress.io
5 6 (1.16%) Vite
6 4 (0.77%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.58%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.58%) Hudson
8 2 (0.39%) GitLab
8 2 (0.39%) Selenium
8 2 (0.39%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.39%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.19%) Appium
9 1 (0.19%) Bundler
9 1 (0.19%) MLflow
9 1 (0.19%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.19%) Postman
9 1 (0.19%) TestRail
General
1 251 (48.36%) Retail
2 176 (33.91%) Social Skills
3 85 (16.38%) Marketing
4 78 (15.03%) Finance
5 57 (10.98%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (6.36%) Organisational Skills
7 26 (5.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (5.01%) Manufacturing
8 19 (3.66%) Banking
9 9 (1.73%) Legal
9 9 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
11 7 (1.35%) Advertising
11 7 (1.35%) French Language
11 7 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (1.16%) Publishing
13 4 (0.77%) Billing
13 4 (0.77%) Electronics
14 3 (0.58%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.39%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 84 (16.18%) Senior
2 58 (11.18%) Developer
3 56 (10.79%) Architect
4 51 (9.83%) Analyst
5 33 (6.36%) Designer
6 32 (6.17%) Business Analyst
7 29 (5.59%) Project Manager
8 27 (5.20%) Lead
9 26 (5.01%) Product Manager
9 26 (5.01%) Solutions Architect
10 25 (4.82%) E-Commerce Manager
11 20 (3.85%) UI Designer
12 19 (3.66%) Consultant
12 19 (3.66%) Software Engineer
13 16 (3.08%) Senior Designer
14 15 (2.89%) Data Engineer
14 15 (2.89%) Salesforce Developer
14 15 (2.89%) Senior Developer
14 15 (2.89%) Senior Manager
14 15 (2.89%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (9.06%) REST
2 43 (8.29%) React
3 39 (7.51%) Node.js
4 31 (5.97%) GraphQL
5 30 (5.78%) Kafka
6 21 (4.05%) Next.js
7 20 (3.85%) Spring
7 20 (3.85%) Spring Boot
8 19 (3.66%) Terraform
9 16 (3.08%) SOAP
10 15 (2.89%) VML
11 14 (2.70%) .NET
12 13 (2.50%) RESTful
13 12 (2.31%) HTML
13 12 (2.31%) Middleware
14 9 (1.73%) CSS
15 8 (1.54%) Lightning Web Components
15 8 (1.54%) SAP Fiori
15 8 (1.54%) SAPUI5
16 7 (1.35%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 47 (9.06%) Product Ownership
2 37 (7.13%) Cloud Native
3 32 (6.17%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (4.62%) Mobile App
5 20 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
6 16 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (2.89%) Onboarding
8 14 (2.70%) Management Information System
9 11 (2.12%) AI Agents
10 10 (1.93%) FMCG
10 10 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
11 9 (1.73%) Graphic Design
12 8 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (1.54%) Marketing Technology
13 7 (1.35%) Animation
14 6 (1.16%) Credit Risk
15 5 (0.96%) Life Science
15 5 (0.96%) Security Posture
15 5 (0.96%) Taxonomies
16 4 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.73%) Android
1 9 (1.73%) Apple iOS
2 7 (1.35%) Windows
3 5 (0.96%) Linux
4 2 (0.39%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (29.29%) Agile
2 118 (22.74%) Stakeholder Management
3 87 (16.76%) CI/CD
4 82 (15.80%) Problem-Solving
5 80 (15.41%) Customer Experience
6 77 (14.84%) CRM
7 73 (14.07%) User Experience
8 68 (13.10%) AI
9 63 (12.14%) Roadmaps
10 62 (11.95%) Analytics
11 57 (10.98%) DevOps
11 57 (10.98%) Scrum
12 53 (10.21%) Continuous Improvement
13 51 (9.83%) Event-Driven
14 48 (9.25%) Migration
15 44 (8.48%) B2C
15 44 (8.48%) Software Engineering
16 38 (7.32%) ERP
17 37 (7.13%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 37 (7.13%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 50 (9.63%) SQL
2 40 (7.71%) Python
3 33 (6.36%) TypeScript
4 31 (5.97%) Java
4 31 (5.97%) JavaScript
5 15 (2.89%) C#
6 9 (1.73%) Kotlin
7 8 (1.54%) Apex Code
8 7 (1.35%) ABAP
9 6 (1.16%) PHP
10 5 (0.96%) Groovy
10 5 (0.96%) SOQL
10 5 (0.96%) SOSL
10 5 (0.96%) Swift
11 4 (0.77%) Bash
11 4 (0.77%) LookML
11 4 (0.77%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.58%) Go
12 3 (0.58%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 44 (8.48%) Degree
2 7 (1.35%) Master's Degree
3 6 (1.16%) Security Cleared
4 5 (0.96%) CSPO
5 4 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (0.77%) MBA
6 3 (0.58%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.39%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.19%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.19%) CISA
8 1 (0.19%) CISSP
8 1 (0.19%) IIBA
8 1 (0.19%) ISEB
8 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.19%) PhD
8 1 (0.19%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.19%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (5.97%) QA
2 28 (5.39%) Data Quality
3 27 (5.20%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.93%) GDPR
5 6 (1.16%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.96%) PMO
7 2 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.39%) PSD2
7 2 (0.39%) SLA
8 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.19%) NIST
8 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (4.24%) Docker
2 3 (0.58%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.19%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 30 (5.78%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.58%) Bosun
3 2 (0.39%) CloudHub
3 2 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 62 (11.95%) Salesforce
2 43 (8.29%) SAP
3 42 (8.09%) Microsoft
4 31 (5.97%) Adobe
5 22 (4.24%) Google
6 21 (4.05%) Oracle
7 18 (3.47%) MuleSoft
8 13 (2.50%) Databricks
9 8 (1.54%) New Relic
9 8 (1.54%) Splunk
10 7 (1.35%) IBM
11 6 (1.16%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.16%) Sitecore
11 6 (1.16%) TikTok
12 5 (0.96%) Braze
12 5 (0.96%) dotdigital
12 5 (0.96%) Dynatrace
13 4 (0.77%) Adyen
13 4 (0.77%) Apple
13 4 (0.77%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud