Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 26 September 2017

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for E-Commerce skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited E-Commerce over the 6 months to 26 September 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

E-Commerce (Electronic Commerce)
UK
6 months to
26 Sep 2017		 Same period 2016 Same period 2015
Rank 63 54 50
Rank change year-on-year -9 -4 +1
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 3327 4054 4286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 3.36% 3.80% 3.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.98% 4.54% 4.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2402 3009 3119
UK median daily rate £450 £440 £408
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +2.27% +7.98% +1.88%
10th Percentile £300 £300 £281
90th Percentile £593 £613 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £410 £400 £380
% change year-on-year +2.50% +5.26% +1.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 30 39
UK median hourly rate £26.75 £27.00 £33.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year -0.93% -19.40% +116.13%
10th Percentile £13.33 £12.50 £14.35
90th Percentile £58.13 £56.87 £72.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.50 £21.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -18.60% -28.33% +13.21%

E-Commerce is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK
Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 83587 89387 92049
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.40% 83.73% 81.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 55234 59187 59583
UK median daily rate £450 £425 £410
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +5.88% +3.66% +2.50%
10th Percentile £281 £263 £263
90th Percentile £625 £600 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £400 £375
% change year-on-year - +6.67% +2.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2023 2274 2601
UK median hourly rate £24.50 £24.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +2.08% +6.67% +12.50%
10th Percentile £11.52 £11.38 £11.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £48.46 £47.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £22.83
% change year-on-year - +9.51% +8.71%

E-Commerce
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing E-Commerce as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for E-Commerce in the UK

E-Commerce
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing E-Commerce.

Contractor daily rate trend for E-Commerce in the UK

E-Commerce
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing E-Commerce over the 6 months to 26 September 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for E-Commerce in the UK

E-Commerce
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing E-Commerce.

Contractor hourly rate trend for E-Commerce in the UK

E-Commerce
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing E-Commerce over the 6 months to 26 September 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for E-Commerce in the UK

E-Commerce
Top 16 Contract 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 2017. 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
Job
Vacancies
England -9 3253 £450 +2.86% 513
London -13 1981 £475 +5.56% 233
UK excluding London -15 1308 £410 +2.50% 297
South East -36 338 £400 - 49
East of England +2 292 £475 +2.15% 39
Midlands +14 283 £425 +1.19% 70
North of England -17 276 £375 -3.23% 98
East Midlands -2 159 £450 +4.65% 35
North West -29 156 £375 -3.23% 56
Yorkshire +11 115 £375 -1.32% 39
West Midlands +29 112 £388 -3.13% 33
South West -28 98 £414 -8.06% 22
Scotland +8 32 £350 -22.22% 11
Wales +4 13 £525 +16.67% 6
Northern Ireland -48 3 - - 2
North East +57 2 £450 +73.08% 3

For the 6 months to 26 September 2017, IT contractor jobs citing E-Commerce also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads with a requirement for E-Commerce.

1 1486 (44.66%) Agile Software Development
2 748 (22.48%) Java
3 733 (22.03%) JavaScript
4 699 (21.01%) Retail
5 669 (20.11%) HTML
6 640 (19.24%) TDD
7 603 (18.12%) CSS
8 484 (14.55%) Scrum
9 474 (14.25%) SQL
10 390 (11.72%) Finance
11 370 (11.12%) .NET
12 354 (10.64%) User Experience
13 353 (10.61%) Web Services
14 352 (10.58%) C#
15 345 (10.37%) Git (software)
16 342 (10.28%) BDD
17 329 (9.89%) DevOps
18 325 (9.77%) Amazon AWS
19 304 (9.14%) Test Automation
20 302 (9.08%) Linux
21 298 (8.96%) Continuous Integration
22 296 (8.90%) MVC
23 294 (8.84%) Marketing
24 293 (8.81%) Spring
25 282 (8.48%) Node.js
25 282 (8.48%) HTML5
26 279 (8.39%) AngularJS
27 255 (7.66%) Project Management
28 248 (7.45%) Jenkins
29 247 (7.42%) Microservices

E-Commerce
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 201 (6.04%) CMS
2 165 (4.96%) WebSphere
3 90 (2.71%) Apache
3 90 (2.71%) Elasticsearch
4 85 (2.55%) Confluence
5 84 (2.52%) JBoss
6 80 (2.40%) Tomcat
7 63 (1.89%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 54 (1.62%) IIS
9 43 (1.29%) Sitecore CMS
10 42 (1.26%) WebSphere Application Server
11 36 (1.08%) Apache Spark
12 35 (1.05%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 34 (1.02%) Drupal
14 29 (0.87%) SAS
15 27 (0.81%) nginx
16 26 (0.78%) Apache Solr
17 24 (0.72%) SharePoint
18 23 (0.69%) MQSeries
19 21 (0.63%) Mule
Applications
1 58 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (1.32%) Photoshop
3 29 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
4 28 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 26 (0.78%) InVision
6 21 (0.63%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 19 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
8 16 (0.48%) Adobe Illustrator
9 12 (0.36%) MS Visio
10 10 (0.30%) HipChat
11 9 (0.27%) OmniGraffle
11 9 (0.27%) SPSS
11 9 (0.27%) Stata
12 7 (0.21%) Adobe After Effects
13 6 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
14 5 (0.15%) InDesign
14 5 (0.15%) UXPin
15 2 (0.060%) Flinto
15 2 (0.060%) GIMP
15 2 (0.060%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 114 (3.43%) Magento
2 57 (1.71%) SAP Hybris
3 41 (1.23%) Payment Gateway
4 19 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
5 15 (0.45%) Oracle Retail
6 11 (0.33%) Dynamics AX
7 7 (0.21%) Shopify
8 6 (0.18%) Adobe Campaign
8 6 (0.18%) RMDS
9 5 (0.15%) SAP CRM
9 5 (0.15%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.15%) SAP Retail
9 5 (0.15%) Unica
10 4 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
10 4 (0.12%) Eloqua
10 4 (0.12%) NetSuite
10 4 (0.12%) Oracle Financials
10 4 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
10 4 (0.12%) Salesforce.com CRM
11 3 (0.090%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 325 (9.77%) Amazon AWS
2 168 (5.05%) Microsoft Azure
3 66 (1.98%) Google Analytics
4 56 (1.68%) GitHub
5 43 (1.29%) SaaS
6 32 (0.96%) Adobe Analytics
6 32 (0.96%) AWS CloudFormation
7 29 (0.87%) Amazon EC2
8 27 (0.81%) npm
9 20 (0.60%) Google Cloud Platform
9 20 (0.60%) Office 365
10 19 (0.57%) IaaS
11 17 (0.51%) PaaS
12 16 (0.48%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 16 (0.48%) Cloud Computing
13 14 (0.42%) AdWords
13 14 (0.42%) Amazon S3
13 14 (0.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 12 (0.36%) Akamai
14 12 (0.36%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 112 (3.37%) Internet
2 51 (1.53%) Firewall
3 40 (1.20%) HTTP
4 30 (0.90%) DNS
5 20 (0.60%) WAN
6 19 (0.57%) LAN
7 18 (0.54%) TCP/IP
7 18 (0.54%) VPN
8 17 (0.51%) Intranet
9 14 (0.42%) SMS
10 13 (0.39%) BGP
10 13 (0.39%) MPLS
10 13 (0.39%) NetScaler
11 12 (0.36%) Cisco Nexus
12 11 (0.33%) Skype
12 11 (0.33%) VLAN
13 10 (0.30%) Network Security
14 9 (0.27%) BIG-IP
14 9 (0.27%) Ethernet
14 9 (0.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 190 (5.71%) SQL Server
2 127 (3.82%) MySQL
2 127 (3.82%) NoSQL
3 95 (2.86%) Big Data
4 91 (2.74%) MongoDB
5 82 (2.46%) Relational Database
6 78 (2.34%) Hadoop
7 51 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
8 42 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
9 38 (1.14%) Endeca
10 37 (1.11%) SQL Server 2012
11 26 (0.78%) Amazon DynamoDB
12 25 (0.75%) DB2
13 24 (0.72%) RDBMS
14 22 (0.66%) Apache Cassandra
15 21 (0.63%) Apache Hive
16 20 (0.60%) Redis
17 16 (0.48%) DbVisualizer
17 16 (0.48%) SQL Server 2008
18 14 (0.42%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 345 (10.37%) Git (software)
2 248 (7.45%) Jenkins
3 217 (6.52%) JIRA
4 176 (5.29%) Selenium
5 123 (3.70%) Maven
6 118 (3.55%) JUnit
7 115 (3.46%) Cucumber
8 79 (2.37%) TeamCity
9 77 (2.31%) Mockito
10 75 (2.25%) WebDriver
11 64 (1.92%) Gradle
12 58 (1.74%) Grunt
13 50 (1.50%) Visual Studio
14 48 (1.44%) Team Foundation Server
14 48 (1.44%) webpack
15 45 (1.35%) Mocha
16 43 (1.29%) gulp
16 43 (1.29%) Octopus Deploy
17 40 (1.20%) Ant
18 39 (1.17%) Eclipse
General
1 699 (21.01%) Retail
2 390 (11.72%) Finance
3 294 (8.84%) Marketing
4 148 (4.45%) Banking
5 117 (3.52%) Telecoms
6 106 (3.19%) Games
7 59 (1.77%) Front Office
8 47 (1.41%) Investment Banking
9 37 (1.11%) Publishing
10 33 (0.99%) Back Office
11 31 (0.93%) Legal
12 30 (0.90%) Manufacturing
13 28 (0.84%) Electronics
14 18 (0.54%) Advertising
15 17 (0.51%) Law
16 14 (0.42%) Retail Banking
17 8 (0.24%) Automotive
17 8 (0.24%) Brand Awareness
17 8 (0.24%) German Language
17 8 (0.24%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 1232 (37.03%) Developer
2 451 (13.56%) Analyst
3 279 (8.39%) Architect
4 257 (7.72%) Project Manager
5 247 (7.42%) Business Analyst
6 246 (7.39%) Java Developer
7 186 (5.59%) Senior Developer
8 173 (5.20%) .NET Developer
9 148 (4.45%) C# Developer
10 147 (4.42%) Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 145 (4.36%) E-Commerce Manager
12 144 (4.33%) JavaScript Developer
13 141 (4.24%) Designer
14 139 (4.18%) DevOps Engineer
15 130 (3.91%) E-Commerce Developer
16 109 (3.28%) E-Commerce Analyst
17 102 (3.07%) Consultant
18 98 (2.95%) E-Commerce Project Manager
19 97 (2.92%) C# .NET Developer
20 94 (2.83%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 669 (20.11%) HTML
2 603 (18.12%) CSS
3 370 (11.12%) .NET
4 353 (10.61%) Web Services
5 293 (8.81%) Spring
6 282 (8.48%) HTML5
6 282 (8.48%) Node.js
7 279 (8.39%) AngularJS
8 237 (7.12%) REST
9 235 (7.06%) React
10 229 (6.88%) J2EE
11 212 (6.37%) RESTful
12 203 (6.10%) CSS3
13 199 (5.98%) jQuery
14 182 (5.47%) SOAP
15 161 (4.84%) XML
16 141 (4.24%) ASP.NET
17 137 (4.12%) JSON
18 126 (3.79%) Sass
19 101 (3.04%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 354 (10.64%) User Experience
2 185 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 154 (4.63%) Mobile App
4 124 (3.73%) Greenfield Project
5 90 (2.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 83 (2.49%) iPad
7 65 (1.95%) Social Media
8 64 (1.92%) Computer Science
9 51 (1.53%) Management Information System
10 43 (1.29%) Fintech
10 43 (1.29%) Virtual Team
11 40 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
12 36 (1.08%) Public Cloud
13 28 (0.84%) Data Centre
14 24 (0.72%) Blog
15 23 (0.69%) EPoS
16 21 (0.63%) Fixed Income
17 20 (0.60%) Online Games
18 19 (0.57%) Digital Media
19 18 (0.54%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 302 (9.08%) Linux
2 182 (5.47%) Windows
3 138 (4.15%) Unix
4 88 (2.65%) Apple iOS
5 74 (2.22%) Android
6 62 (1.86%) Windows Server
7 23 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 21 (0.63%) Solaris
9 18 (0.54%) Mac OS X
10 17 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
11 13 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
12 12 (0.36%) Mac OS
13 10 (0.30%) HPUX
14 7 (0.21%) AIX
14 7 (0.21%) Ubuntu
15 6 (0.18%) CoreOS
16 5 (0.15%) CentOS
16 5 (0.15%) Windows 7
17 4 (0.12%) Debian
18 3 (0.090%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1486 (44.66%) Agile Software Development
2 640 (19.24%) TDD
3 484 (14.55%) Scrum
4 342 (10.28%) BDD
5 329 (9.89%) DevOps
6 304 (9.14%) Test Automation
7 298 (8.96%) Continuous Integration
8 296 (8.90%) MVC
9 255 (7.66%) Project Management
10 247 (7.42%) Microservices
11 226 (6.79%) Analytics
12 205 (6.16%) Stakeholder Management
13 181 (5.44%) OO
14 179 (5.38%) Front End Development
15 163 (4.90%) User Stories
16 161 (4.84%) Software Engineering
17 157 (4.72%) Kanban
18 153 (4.60%) Web Development
19 152 (4.57%) CRM
20 138 (4.15%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 748 (22.48%) Java
2 733 (22.03%) JavaScript
3 474 (14.25%) SQL
4 352 (10.58%) C#
5 174 (5.23%) PHP
6 168 (5.05%) Python
7 97 (2.92%) Ruby
8 83 (2.49%) ES6
9 82 (2.46%) Scala
10 70 (2.10%) PowerShell
11 57 (1.71%) C++
12 56 (1.68%) Bash Shell
13 50 (1.50%) T-SQL
14 46 (1.38%) Perl
15 38 (1.14%) R
16 35 (1.05%) Apple Swift
16 35 (1.05%) Shell Script
17 32 (0.96%) Go
18 22 (0.66%) Objective-C
18 22 (0.66%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 158 (4.75%) Degree
2 24 (0.72%) ISEB
3 23 (0.69%) PMI Certification
4 22 (0.66%) PMP
5 21 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (0.57%) CISSP
6 19 (0.57%) ISTQB
7 15 (0.45%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 13 (0.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 12 (0.36%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 8 (0.24%) CISA
10 8 (0.24%) CISM
10 8 (0.24%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.15%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (0.15%) Security Cleared
12 4 (0.12%) CCNP
12 4 (0.12%) PhD
12 4 (0.12%) SC Cleared
13 3 (0.090%) AWS Certification
13 3 (0.090%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 215 (6.46%) QA
2 31 (0.93%) PCI DSS
2 31 (0.93%) PMO
3 23 (0.69%) SLA
4 19 (0.57%) GDPR
5 16 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (0.45%) Data Quality
7 14 (0.42%) WCAG
8 13 (0.39%) MiFID
9 11 (0.33%) COBIT
10 9 (0.27%) WAI
11 4 (0.12%) ISO 9000
12 3 (0.090%) EMIR
13 2 (0.060%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.030%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.030%) Dodd-Frank
14 1 (0.030%) GAAP
14 1 (0.030%) GCP
14 1 (0.030%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.030%) SEPA
System Software
1 191 (5.74%) Docker
2 47 (1.41%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.42%) vCloud
4 13 (0.39%) vSphere
5 8 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (0.18%) Apache Flume
7 5 (0.15%) iptables
7 5 (0.15%) ISA Server
8 4 (0.12%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.090%) HDFS
9 3 (0.090%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.090%) XenServer
10 2 (0.060%) LXC
10 2 (0.060%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.060%) Varnish
11 1 (0.030%) KVM
11 1 (0.030%) Squid
11 1 (0.030%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 112 (3.37%) Ansible
2 96 (2.89%) Opscode Chef
3 90 (2.71%) Puppet
4 81 (2.43%) Terraform
5 66 (1.98%) Kubernetes
6 26 (0.78%) HP Quality Center
7 18 (0.54%) Kibana
8 15 (0.45%) Nagios
9 12 (0.36%) Mesos
10 11 (0.33%) logstash
11 10 (0.30%) Consul
11 10 (0.30%) Packer
11 10 (0.30%) Prometheus
12 9 (0.27%) Grafana
13 8 (0.24%) Graphite
14 6 (0.18%) Business Desktop Deployment
14 6 (0.18%) Oozie
15 5 (0.15%) ZABBIX
16 4 (0.12%) Cacti
16 4 (0.12%) SCCM
Vendors
1 244 (7.33%) Oracle
2 214 (6.43%) hybris
3 151 (4.54%) Adobe
4 115 (3.46%) SAP
5 114 (3.43%) ATG
6 113 (3.40%) Microsoft
7 103 (3.10%) Google
8 95 (2.86%) IBM
9 68 (2.04%) Demandware
10 66 (1.98%) Salesforce.com
11 52 (1.56%) Sitecore
12 42 (1.26%) Tableau
13 40 (1.20%) VMware
14 37 (1.11%) Red Hat
15 35 (1.05%) Cisco
16 27 (0.81%) Apple
16 27 (0.81%) Citrix
17 24 (0.72%) HP
18 21 (0.63%) Juniper
18 21 (0.63%) TIBCO
535 E-Commerce job vacancies Nationwide