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 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 272 226 202
Rank change year-on-year -46 -24 -59
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 376 358 535
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.97% 1.14% 1.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 1.28% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 239 368
10th Percentile £325 £281 £285
25th Percentile £404 £348 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £595
90th Percentile £754 £650 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £400 £495
% change year-on-year +21.88% -19.19% +4.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 4 12
10th Percentile £12.75 £32.87 £10.68
25th Percentile £16.39 £38.68 £13.00
Median hourly rate £31.18 £44.71 £34.75
Median % change year-on-year -30.27% +28.65% -48.71%
75th Percentile £49.46 £50.00 £62.38
90th Percentile £73.00 £52.25 £68.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.09 £52.50 £13.00
% change year-on-year -56.02% +303.85% -80.15%

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 33,821 28,022 39,068
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.29% 89.12% 87.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,401 17,008 25,726
10th Percentile £305 £307 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,033 874 2,031
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.60 £21.00 £16.78
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.96
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -9.62% +12.38%
75th Percentile £58.00 £62.50 £62.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.71 £30.62 £36.50
% change year-on-year -19.29% -16.12% +31.77%

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 31 January 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 31 January 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 31 January 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 -36 350 £500 +11.11% 285
London -10 232 £500 +11.11% 95
Work from Home -9 146 £550 +37.50% 145
UK excluding London -50 109 £488 +21.88% 233
Midlands -28 38 £475 +58.33% 32
North of England -34 31 £513 +17.14% 80
West Midlands -34 28 £535 +78.33% 15
South East -44 21 £525 +53.28% 72
Yorkshire -32 18 £550 +10.00% 22
East of England -18 13 £350 -6.67% 15
North West -26 13 £513 +28.13% 54
East Midlands -15 10 £425 -18.47% 17
Scotland +10 5 - - 1
South West -17 4 £450 -5.26% 32

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 (4.52%) CMS
2 10 (2.66%) Confluence
3 6 (1.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.80%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.53%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.53%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.27%) Kentico
6 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.27%) Sitefinity
6 1 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (3.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.86%) Chatbot
4 6 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.53%) Autodesk Smoke
7 1 (0.27%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.27%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.27%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 29 (7.71%) Shopify
2 13 (3.46%) Payment Gateway
3 9 (2.39%) Magento
4 4 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (1.06%) Endur
4 4 (1.06%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.80%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.53%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.27%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.27%) Eikon
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle Retail
7 1 (0.27%) Orchestrade
7 1 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 45 (11.97%) Azure
2 44 (11.70%) SaaS
3 41 (10.90%) AWS
4 22 (5.85%) Figma
5 21 (5.59%) Serverless
6 15 (3.99%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (3.99%) Commercetools
6 15 (3.99%) Dynamics 365
7 14 (3.72%) GCP
7 14 (3.72%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 13 (3.46%) Contentful
9 12 (3.19%) Algolia
10 10 (2.66%) Datadog
11 8 (2.13%) Google Analytics
12 7 (1.86%) Contentsquare
12 7 (1.86%) dbt
13 6 (1.60%) BigCommerce
14 5 (1.33%) Google Ads
14 5 (1.33%) Google Tag Manager
14 5 (1.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.86%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.27%) Firewall
2 1 (0.27%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.27%) Internet
2 1 (0.27%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.66%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.13%) MySQL
2 8 (2.13%) Redis
3 7 (1.86%) DynamoDB
3 7 (1.86%) NoSQL
4 6 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (1.60%) Mixpanel
4 6 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (1.60%) Relational Database
4 6 (1.60%) Tableau
5 5 (1.33%) Power BI
6 4 (1.06%) Metadata
6 4 (1.06%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.53%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.53%) CockroachDB
8 2 (0.53%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.27%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.27%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 35 (9.31%) Jenkins
2 16 (4.26%) JIRA
3 11 (2.93%) Git
4 6 (1.60%) Cypress.io
4 6 (1.60%) Visual Website Optimizer
5 4 (1.06%) SpecFlow
5 4 (1.06%) Storybook
6 3 (0.80%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (0.80%) Charles Proxy
6 3 (0.80%) Fiddler
6 3 (0.80%) Selenium
6 3 (0.80%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.53%) GitLab
7 2 (0.53%) Postman
8 1 (0.27%) Appium
8 1 (0.27%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.27%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.27%) NUnit
8 1 (0.27%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.27%) webpack
General
1 115 (30.59%) Social Skills
2 81 (21.54%) Retail
3 51 (13.56%) Marketing
4 44 (11.70%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (11.70%) Finance
5 21 (5.59%) Organisational Skills
6 18 (4.79%) Legal
7 13 (3.46%) Electronics
8 11 (2.93%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (2.93%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (2.39%) Manufacturing
10 7 (1.86%) French Language
11 6 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.33%) Advertising
12 5 (1.33%) Banking
13 4 (1.06%) Front Office
14 3 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.80%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.53%) Publishing
16 1 (0.27%) Billing
Job Titles
1 66 (17.55%) Senior
2 52 (13.83%) Analyst
3 39 (10.37%) Architect
4 37 (9.84%) Business Analyst
5 32 (8.51%) E-Commerce Manager
6 30 (7.98%) Consultant
7 29 (7.71%) Developer
8 28 (7.45%) Project Manager
9 19 (5.05%) Senior Manager
10 17 (4.52%) Lead
11 16 (4.26%) Designer
11 16 (4.26%) Senior Project Manager
12 13 (3.46%) Technical Consultant
12 13 (3.46%) Web Manager
13 12 (3.19%) Senior Consultant
13 12 (3.19%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
13 12 (3.19%) Senior Technical Consultant
13 12 (3.19%) Senior Technical Specialist
13 12 (3.19%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
13 12 (3.19%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (15.16%) Node.js
2 41 (10.90%) GraphQL
3 31 (8.24%) Playwright
4 29 (7.71%) React
5 28 (7.45%) Vitest
6 19 (5.05%) HTML
6 19 (5.05%) VML
7 18 (4.79%) CSS
8 16 (4.26%) YAML
9 15 (3.99%) .NET
10 12 (3.19%) REST
11 11 (2.93%) Next.js
12 9 (2.39%) HTML5
12 9 (2.39%) RESTful
13 8 (2.13%) CSS3
13 8 (2.13%) Middleware
13 8 (2.13%) OpenTelemetry
14 7 (1.86%) EDI
14 7 (1.86%) Redux
15 6 (1.60%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 41 (10.90%) Cloud Native
2 38 (10.11%) Product Ownership
3 20 (5.32%) Mobile App
4 18 (4.79%) Onboarding
5 14 (3.72%) Analytical Mindset
6 10 (2.66%) Marketing Technology
6 10 (2.66%) PMI
6 10 (2.66%) Virtual Team
7 9 (2.39%) Client/Server
8 6 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (1.60%) Social Media
9 5 (1.33%) FMCG
9 5 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.33%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.06%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.06%) e-Learning
10 4 (1.06%) Learning Management System
11 2 (0.53%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.60%) Linux
2 5 (1.33%) Windows
3 4 (1.06%) Android
3 4 (1.06%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (34.57%) Agile
2 73 (19.41%) Stakeholder Management
3 64 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
4 61 (16.22%) CI/CD
5 60 (15.96%) Analytics
6 59 (15.69%) User Experience
7 48 (12.77%) Coaching
7 48 (12.77%) DevOps
8 39 (10.37%) CRM
9 38 (10.11%) ERP
9 38 (10.11%) Mentoring
10 36 (9.57%) Scrum
11 32 (8.51%) Test Automation
12 31 (8.24%) Customer Experience
12 31 (8.24%) Project Management
13 30 (7.98%) Continuous Improvement
14 28 (7.45%) Roadmaps
15 27 (7.18%) Full-Stack Development
16 26 (6.91%) A/B Testing
16 26 (6.91%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 51 (13.56%) TypeScript
2 45 (11.97%) SQL
3 29 (7.71%) Python
4 28 (7.45%) JavaScript
5 16 (4.26%) C#
5 16 (4.26%) Java
6 10 (2.66%) PHP
7 4 (1.06%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.53%) Go
8 2 (0.53%) R
8 2 (0.53%) Ruby
9 1 (0.27%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.27%) Perl
9 1 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 22 (5.85%) Degree
2 13 (3.46%) PMI Certification
3 6 (1.60%) CBAP
4 5 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.06%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.06%) CSPO
5 4 (1.06%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.80%) PMP
7 2 (0.53%) APMG
7 2 (0.53%) MBA
8 1 (0.27%) Analytics IQ
8 1 (0.27%) APMP
8 1 (0.27%) CFA
8 1 (0.27%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.27%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.12%) QA
2 20 (5.32%) GDPR
3 16 (4.26%) Accessibility
4 10 (2.66%) PERC
5 9 (2.39%) PCI DSS
6 8 (2.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 7 (1.86%) Data Quality
8 6 (1.60%) ISO 8583
8 6 (1.60%) PSD2
9 4 (1.06%) WCAG
10 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 35 (9.31%) Docker
2 5 (1.33%) Varnish
3 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 36 (9.57%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.39%) Grafana
2 9 (2.39%) Prometheus
3 7 (1.86%) Terraform
4 3 (0.80%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 2 (0.53%) Ansible
6 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.27%) SCCM
Vendors
1 43 (11.44%) Salesforce
2 33 (8.78%) Adobe
2 33 (8.78%) Google
3 22 (5.85%) SAP
4 21 (5.59%) Microsoft
5 11 (2.93%) Oracle
6 10 (2.66%) Tealium
7 8 (2.13%) Optimizely
8 7 (1.86%) Databricks
8 7 (1.86%) OneTrust
9 6 (1.60%) Amplitude
9 6 (1.60%) Hotjar
9 6 (1.60%) Sitecore
9 6 (1.60%) TikTok
10 5 (1.33%) mParticle
11 4 (1.06%) Wind River
12 3 (0.80%) Facebook
12 3 (0.80%) OpenAI
13 2 (0.53%) New Relic
13 2 (0.53%) Rollbar