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 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 244 183
Rank change year-on-year -19 -61 +19
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 477 354 572
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.91% 1.09% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 1.21% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 205 416
10th Percentile £325 £286 £313
25th Percentile £413 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £488 £450
% change year-on-year +10.26% +8.33% -10.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 12 15
10th Percentile £22.50 - £10.42
25th Percentile £28.81 £15.25 £10.71
Median hourly rate £55.00 £15.50 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +254.84% +19.23% -74.00%
75th Percentile £80.50 £15.75 £32.38
90th Percentile £95.00 £27.68 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.46 £15.50 £11.00
% change year-on-year +193.26% +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 44,765 29,340 36,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.08% 90.42% 85.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,853 18,476 23,295
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £418 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £624 £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 2,647 1,521 2,449
10th Percentile £14.94 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.61 £16.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -4.70%
75th Percentile £68.50 £52.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.70 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.25 £24.64 £38.12
% change year-on-year +83.64% -35.36% -0.99%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -35 434 £500 - 506
London +13 292 £488 -5.34% 189
Work from Home -37 148 £450 - 341
UK excluding London -108 133 £538 +10.26% 401
North of England -67 44 £550 +10.00% 106
North West -27 37 £550 +10.00% 61
Midlands -32 37 £519 +9.21% 69
West Midlands -48 24 £644 +30.38% 34
South East -91 24 £531 +11.84% 102
East of England -15 20 £438 -12.50% 40
East Midlands -5 13 £465 -2.11% 35
South West -39 7 - - 38
Yorkshire -62 7 £600 +26.32% 39
Scotland -9 1 - - 31

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 16 (3.35%) CMS
2 12 (2.52%) Confluence
3 6 (1.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (0.84%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.63%) Anypoint
5 3 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.42%) Apache
6 2 (0.42%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.42%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.42%) Mule
6 2 (0.42%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.42%) WordPress
7 1 (0.21%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.21%) Kentico
7 1 (0.21%) nginx
7 1 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.21%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 15 (3.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (2.94%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 12 (2.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (2.10%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (1.47%) Chatbot
6 6 (1.26%) Adobe After Effects
6 6 (1.26%) Final Cut Pro
6 6 (1.26%) Sketch
7 4 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.42%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.21%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 43 (9.01%) Shopify
2 20 (4.19%) Magento
3 9 (1.89%) SAP CRM
4 8 (1.68%) Payment Gateway
4 8 (1.68%) SAP S/4HANA
5 7 (1.47%) NetSuite
6 6 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
7 5 (1.05%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.63%) SAP MDG
9 2 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.42%) SAP Hybris
9 2 (0.42%) SAP MDG-F
10 1 (0.21%) Carpe Diem
10 1 (0.21%) Elite 3E
10 1 (0.21%) ION MarketView
10 1 (0.21%) SAP CAR
10 1 (0.21%) SAP Retail
10 1 (0.21%) SAP SD
10 1 (0.21%) SDL Web 8
10 1 (0.21%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 60 (12.58%) Azure
2 59 (12.37%) AWS
3 30 (6.29%) Figma
4 25 (5.24%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
5 23 (4.82%) GCP
6 13 (2.73%) Power Platform
6 13 (2.73%) SaaS
7 12 (2.52%) GitHub
8 10 (2.10%) Serverless
9 9 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (1.89%) dbt
10 8 (1.68%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (1.68%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (1.68%) Google Workspace
10 8 (1.68%) Miro
11 7 (1.47%) Algolia
11 7 (1.47%) BigCommerce
11 7 (1.47%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 7 (1.47%) Snowflake
11 7 (1.47%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.84%) Internet
2 3 (0.63%) HTTP
3 2 (0.42%) LAN
3 2 (0.42%) WAN
4 1 (0.21%) Firewall
4 1 (0.21%) Network Security
4 1 (0.21%) RFID
4 1 (0.21%) RTMP
4 1 (0.21%) Wireless
4 1 (0.21%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.52%) Power BI
2 11 (2.31%) NoSQL
3 8 (1.68%) Looker
3 8 (1.68%) MySQL
3 8 (1.68%) Tableau
4 7 (1.47%) BigQuery
5 6 (1.26%) Metadata
5 6 (1.26%) Relational Database
5 6 (1.26%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.05%) Couchbase
6 5 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (1.05%) MongoDB
7 4 (0.84%) SAP HANA
7 4 (0.84%) Semantic Layer
8 3 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.63%) Redis
8 3 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.42%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 28 (5.87%) Jenkins
2 26 (5.45%) Git
3 21 (4.40%) JIRA
4 9 (1.89%) Cypress.io
4 9 (1.89%) Selenium
5 7 (1.47%) GitLab
5 7 (1.47%) Subversion
6 6 (1.26%) Vite
7 5 (1.05%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.84%) Eclipse
8 4 (0.84%) Maven
9 3 (0.63%) Appium
9 3 (0.63%) Zephyr
10 2 (0.42%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.42%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.42%) Hudson
10 2 (0.42%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.21%) PHPUnit
11 1 (0.21%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.21%) TeamCity
General
1 217 (45.49%) Retail
2 189 (39.62%) Social Skills
3 82 (17.19%) Finance
4 68 (14.26%) Marketing
5 43 (9.01%) Organisational Skills
6 41 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
7 23 (4.82%) Manufacturing
8 22 (4.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (3.14%) Banking
10 11 (2.31%) Legal
11 10 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (1.68%) Advertising
12 8 (1.68%) Publishing
13 7 (1.47%) French Language
14 6 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.84%) Electronics
15 4 (0.84%) Public Sector
16 3 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
16 3 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 87 (18.24%) Senior
2 56 (11.74%) Analyst
3 44 (9.22%) Developer
4 42 (8.81%) Designer
5 39 (8.18%) Architect
5 39 (8.18%) Project Manager
6 34 (7.13%) Business Analyst
7 32 (6.71%) Lead
8 31 (6.50%) Senior Manager
9 26 (5.45%) E-Commerce Manager
9 26 (5.45%) Product Manager
10 21 (4.40%) Senior Project Manager
10 21 (4.40%) UI Designer
11 20 (4.19%) Senior Designer
12 18 (3.77%) Solutions Architect
13 14 (2.94%) E-Commerce Business Analyst
13 14 (2.94%) Technical Analyst
14 13 (2.73%) E-Commerce Analyst
14 13 (2.73%) Marketing Manager
14 13 (2.73%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (9.01%) React
2 38 (7.97%) REST
3 37 (7.76%) GraphQL
3 37 (7.76%) Node.js
4 21 (4.40%) CSS
4 21 (4.40%) Middleware
5 20 (4.19%) HTML
6 18 (3.77%) VML
7 15 (3.14%) Kafka
7 15 (3.14%) Next.js
8 14 (2.94%) Playwright
8 14 (2.94%) SOAP
8 14 (2.94%) Spring
9 13 (2.73%) AngularJS
10 10 (2.10%) Spring Boot
11 9 (1.89%) .NET
11 9 (1.89%) HTML5
11 9 (1.89%) J2EE
11 9 (1.89%) RESTful
12 8 (1.68%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (9.01%) Product Ownership
2 23 (4.82%) Cloud Native
3 21 (4.40%) Mobile App
4 19 (3.98%) Self-Motivation
5 15 (3.14%) Distributed Systems
6 13 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (2.31%) Virtual Team
8 10 (2.10%) AI Agents
8 10 (2.10%) Marketing Technology
9 9 (1.89%) Onboarding
10 8 (1.68%) Graphic Design
10 8 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.68%) Management Information System
11 7 (1.47%) Animation
12 6 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (1.05%) EPoS
13 5 (1.05%) FMCG
14 3 (0.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 3 (0.63%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.31%) Android
1 11 (2.31%) Linux
2 10 (2.10%) Apple iOS
2 10 (2.10%) Windows
3 5 (1.05%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (32.70%) Agile
2 96 (20.13%) Stakeholder Management
3 88 (18.45%) Problem-Solving
4 83 (17.40%) User Experience
5 61 (12.79%) CI/CD
6 58 (12.16%) Roadmaps
7 57 (11.95%) CRM
8 55 (11.53%) Customer Experience
9 54 (11.32%) Scrum
10 51 (10.69%) Analytics
11 49 (10.27%) AI
12 48 (10.06%) Project Management
13 45 (9.43%) B2C
13 45 (9.43%) Continuous Improvement
14 40 (8.39%) DevOps
14 40 (8.39%) Time Management
15 38 (7.97%) Migration
16 37 (7.76%) Workshop Facilitation
17 36 (7.55%) ERP
18 33 (6.92%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 36 (7.55%) JavaScript
2 35 (7.34%) SQL
3 34 (7.13%) TypeScript
4 27 (5.66%) Python
5 26 (5.45%) Java
6 8 (1.68%) C#
7 6 (1.26%) Kotlin
8 5 (1.05%) Apex Code
8 5 (1.05%) Groovy
8 5 (1.05%) SOQL
8 5 (1.05%) SOSL
8 5 (1.05%) Swift
9 4 (0.84%) ABAP
9 4 (0.84%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.63%) Go
11 2 (0.42%) Bash
11 2 (0.42%) DataWeave
11 2 (0.42%) Korn
11 2 (0.42%) PHP
11 2 (0.42%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 45 (9.43%) Degree
2 6 (1.26%) CSPO
3 5 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (1.05%) Master's Degree
4 3 (0.63%) MBA
5 2 (0.42%) Analytics IQ
5 2 (0.42%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.21%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.21%) CISA
6 1 (0.21%) CISSP
6 1 (0.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.21%) IIBA
6 1 (0.21%) ISEB
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.21%) PMP
6 1 (0.21%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (6.50%) QA
2 25 (5.24%) Accessibility
3 19 (3.98%) Data Quality
4 11 (2.31%) GDPR
5 7 (1.47%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.26%) SLA
7 4 (0.84%) PMO
8 2 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.42%) PSD2
8 2 (0.42%) WCAG
9 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.21%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (3.14%) Docker
2 2 (0.42%) Varnish
3 1 (0.21%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 16 (3.35%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.47%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 7 (1.47%) Terraform
3 3 (0.63%) Grafana
3 3 (0.63%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.42%) CloudHub
4 2 (0.42%) MOM
5 1 (0.21%) Ansible
5 1 (0.21%) Apache Ranger
Vendors
1 53 (11.11%) Salesforce
2 41 (8.60%) SAP
3 31 (6.50%) Adobe
4 30 (6.29%) Google
5 29 (6.08%) Microsoft
6 23 (4.82%) Oracle
7 16 (3.35%) Databricks
8 14 (2.94%) MuleSoft
9 8 (1.68%) Sitecore
10 6 (1.26%) IBM
11 5 (1.05%) Dynatrace
11 5 (1.05%) New Relic
11 5 (1.05%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.05%) Splunk
12 4 (0.84%) Netlify
13 3 (0.63%) Braze
13 3 (0.63%) Informatica
14 2 (0.42%) Apple
14 2 (0.42%) Klarna
14 2 (0.42%) PayPal