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 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 282 250 186
Rank change year-on-year -32 -64 -3
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 434 306 541
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.88% 1.06% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 1.16% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 193 390
10th Percentile £325 £281 £300
25th Percentile £406 £358 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £516
Median % change year-on-year - -3.15% -1.67%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £595
90th Percentile £700 £698 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +10.81% +2.78% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 5 18
10th Percentile £22.50 - £10.42
25th Percentile £28.81 £15.25 £11.00
Median hourly rate £54.75 £15.50 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +253.23% +19.23% -80.15%
75th Percentile £78.25 £15.75 £40.56
90th Percentile £95.00 £23.70 £63.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.91 £15.50 £13.00
% change year-on-year +131.68% +19.23% -83.80%

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 41,594 26,332 36,644
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.70% 91.01% 85.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,970 16,762 23,491
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £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 2,502 1,133 2,525
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £27.53 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.68% -24.58% +1.39%
75th Percentile £68.00 £56.25 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.29 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +80.09% -34.02% +8.91%

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 5 June 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 -20 398 £500 - 504
London -10 253 £500 -2.91% 244
Work from Home -8 139 £500 +14.29% 199
UK excluding London -66 139 £513 +10.81% 288
Midlands -19 45 £475 -4.52% 64
North of England -61 40 £556 +8.54% 99
West Midlands -31 31 £638 +21.43% 39
North West -21 30 £513 -10.87% 59
South East -82 24 £521 +15.83% 87
East of England -16 21 £350 -27.27% 15
East Midlands -16 14 £465 -2.11% 25
Yorkshire -47 10 £600 +18.52% 28
South West -30 7 £625 +66.67% 17
Scotland -4 2 - - 3

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 17 (3.92%) CMS
2 10 (2.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 8 (1.84%) Confluence
4 2 (0.46%) Apache
4 2 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.46%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.46%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.46%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.46%) WordPress
5 1 (0.23%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.23%) Kentico
5 1 (0.23%) nginx
5 1 (0.23%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.23%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 12 (2.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.84%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (1.61%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 7 (1.61%) Chatbot
5 5 (1.15%) Adobe After Effects
6 4 (0.92%) Final Cut Pro
6 4 (0.92%) Sketch
6 4 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.46%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.23%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.23%) Autodesk Smoke
8 1 (0.23%) Trello
Business Applications
1 44 (10.14%) Shopify
2 19 (4.38%) Magento
3 7 (1.61%) NetSuite
3 7 (1.61%) Payment Gateway
3 7 (1.61%) SAP CRM
4 5 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.92%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.69%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.46%) SAP Hybris
7 2 (0.46%) SAP MDG-F
8 1 (0.23%) Carpe Diem
8 1 (0.23%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.23%) ION MarketView
8 1 (0.23%) Oracle Retail
8 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.23%) SAP CAR
8 1 (0.23%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.23%) SAP Retail
8 1 (0.23%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 40 (9.22%) Azure
2 38 (8.76%) AWS
3 20 (4.61%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
4 19 (4.38%) Figma
5 15 (3.46%) SaaS
6 12 (2.76%) GCP
7 11 (2.53%) BigCommerce
7 11 (2.53%) Power Platform
8 10 (2.30%) Serverless
9 9 (2.07%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (2.07%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (1.84%) dbt
10 8 (1.84%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 7 (1.61%) Datadog
11 7 (1.61%) Google Workspace
11 7 (1.61%) Miro
11 7 (1.61%) WhatsApp
12 6 (1.38%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (1.38%) GitHub
12 6 (1.38%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.46%) Internet
2 1 (0.23%) Firewall
2 1 (0.23%) LAN
2 1 (0.23%) Network Security
2 1 (0.23%) RFID
2 1 (0.23%) RTMP
2 1 (0.23%) WAN
2 1 (0.23%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.53%) MySQL
2 10 (2.30%) Power BI
3 8 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (1.61%) Metadata
5 6 (1.38%) Looker
5 6 (1.38%) NoSQL
5 6 (1.38%) Redis
5 6 (1.38%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.15%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.15%) Tableau
7 4 (0.92%) BigQuery
7 4 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.92%) DynamoDB
8 3 (0.69%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.69%) Semantic Layer
8 3 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.46%) CockroachDB
9 2 (0.46%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 20 (4.61%) Git
1 20 (4.61%) JIRA
2 18 (4.15%) Jenkins
3 10 (2.30%) Selenium
4 8 (1.84%) Cypress.io
5 7 (1.61%) Vite
6 6 (1.38%) GitLab
7 4 (0.92%) Maven
7 4 (0.92%) Subversion
8 3 (0.69%) Appium
8 3 (0.69%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.46%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.46%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.46%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.46%) Hudson
9 2 (0.46%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.23%) NUnit
10 1 (0.23%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.23%) Spock
10 1 (0.23%) TeamCity
General
1 169 (38.94%) Retail
2 158 (36.41%) Social Skills
3 76 (17.51%) Finance
4 57 (13.13%) Marketing
5 46 (10.60%) Organisational Skills
6 34 (7.83%) Analytical Skills
7 21 (4.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (4.84%) Manufacturing
8 12 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (2.30%) Banking
9 10 (2.30%) Legal
10 7 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (1.61%) Publishing
11 6 (1.38%) French Language
12 5 (1.15%) Electronics
13 4 (0.92%) Advertising
13 4 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.92%) Public Sector
14 3 (0.69%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.46%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 89 (20.51%) Senior
2 59 (13.59%) Analyst
3 46 (10.60%) Project Manager
4 43 (9.91%) Developer
5 39 (8.99%) Business Analyst
5 39 (8.99%) Senior Manager
6 34 (7.83%) Architect
7 30 (6.91%) E-Commerce Manager
7 30 (6.91%) Senior Project Manager
8 28 (6.45%) Designer
8 28 (6.45%) Lead
9 16 (3.69%) Product Manager
10 15 (3.46%) Senior Designer
11 14 (3.23%) Data Engineer
12 13 (3.00%) E-Commerce Analyst
12 13 (3.00%) E-Commerce Business Analyst
13 12 (2.76%) Solutions Architect
13 12 (2.76%) UI Designer
14 11 (2.53%) E-Commerce Specialist
14 11 (2.53%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (8.99%) React
2 36 (8.29%) GraphQL
3 34 (7.83%) Node.js
4 32 (7.37%) REST
5 27 (6.22%) VML
6 21 (4.84%) CSS
6 21 (4.84%) Middleware
7 19 (4.38%) HTML
8 18 (4.15%) Playwright
9 12 (2.76%) Next.js
10 11 (2.53%) AngularJS
10 11 (2.53%) Spring
11 9 (2.07%) .NET
11 9 (2.07%) SOAP
12 8 (1.84%) Kafka
12 8 (1.84%) Vue
13 7 (1.61%) HTML5
13 7 (1.61%) Sass
13 7 (1.61%) Spring Boot
13 7 (1.61%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 30 (6.91%) Product Ownership
2 23 (5.30%) Cloud Native
3 12 (2.76%) Mobile App
3 12 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (2.76%) Virtual Team
4 11 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (2.07%) Management Information System
5 9 (2.07%) Marketing Technology
6 8 (1.84%) AI Agents
7 7 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.38%) FMCG
8 6 (1.38%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (0.92%) Animation
10 4 (0.92%) Client/Server
10 4 (0.92%) EPoS
11 3 (0.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (0.69%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.00%) Linux
2 10 (2.30%) Android
2 10 (2.30%) Windows
3 9 (2.07%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (31.11%) Agile
2 84 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
3 78 (17.97%) Stakeholder Management
4 74 (17.05%) User Experience
5 52 (11.98%) Project Management
6 50 (11.52%) CI/CD
7 46 (10.60%) ERP
8 44 (10.14%) Customer Experience
9 43 (9.91%) Analytics
9 43 (9.91%) B2C
9 43 (9.91%) Scrum
10 42 (9.68%) CRM
10 42 (9.68%) Roadmaps
11 40 (9.22%) Time Management
12 38 (8.76%) Continuous Improvement
13 33 (7.60%) AI
13 33 (7.60%) Migration
14 32 (7.37%) DevOps
15 30 (6.91%) Release Management
16 29 (6.68%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 34 (7.83%) JavaScript
1 34 (7.83%) TypeScript
2 27 (6.22%) SQL
3 24 (5.53%) Python
4 19 (4.38%) Java
5 8 (1.84%) C#
6 6 (1.38%) PHP
6 6 (1.38%) Shell Script
7 5 (1.15%) Apex Code
7 5 (1.15%) Kotlin
7 5 (1.15%) SOQL
7 5 (1.15%) SOSL
7 5 (1.15%) Swift
8 3 (0.69%) Go
9 2 (0.46%) Groovy
9 2 (0.46%) Korn
10 1 (0.23%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.23%) Scala
10 1 (0.23%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.23%) XPath
Qualifications
1 29 (6.68%) Degree
2 6 (1.38%) CSPO
3 4 (0.92%) PMI Certification
4 2 (0.46%) Analytics IQ
4 2 (0.46%) PMP
4 2 (0.46%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.23%) APMP
5 1 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.23%) CISA
5 1 (0.23%) CISSP
5 1 (0.23%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (0.23%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.22%) QA
2 19 (4.38%) Accessibility
3 18 (4.15%) Data Quality
4 11 (2.53%) GDPR
5 6 (1.38%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.92%) SLA
7 3 (0.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.69%) WCAG
8 2 (0.46%) PMO
9 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.23%) NIST
9 1 (0.23%) PERC
9 1 (0.23%) PSD2
System Software
1 16 (3.69%) Docker
2 5 (1.15%) Varnish
3 1 (0.23%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 16 (3.69%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.61%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 5 (1.15%) Grafana
3 5 (1.15%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.69%) Terraform
5 2 (0.46%) MOM
6 1 (0.23%) Ansible
6 1 (0.23%) Apache Ranger
Vendors
1 47 (10.83%) Salesforce
2 42 (9.68%) SAP
3 36 (8.29%) Adobe
4 29 (6.68%) Google
5 25 (5.76%) Microsoft
6 23 (5.30%) Oracle
7 14 (3.23%) Databricks
8 12 (2.76%) Sitecore
9 8 (1.84%) MuleSoft
10 4 (0.92%) Netlify
10 4 (0.92%) ServiceNow
10 4 (0.92%) Splunk
11 3 (0.69%) Dynatrace
11 3 (0.69%) IBM
11 3 (0.69%) mParticle
11 3 (0.69%) TikTok
12 2 (0.46%) Braze
12 2 (0.46%) Confluent
12 2 (0.46%) Infor
12 2 (0.46%) Informatica