E-Commerce Contracts

E-Commerce (Electronic Commerce)
UK

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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 197 180 118
Rank change year-on-year -17 -62 -5
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 522 865 2,035
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.20% 1.45% 2.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% 1.61% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 373 583 1,493
10th Percentile £300 £325 £381
25th Percentile £400 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +13.16%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £638
90th Percentile £650 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 7 11
10th Percentile £10.42 £31.50 £41.00
25th Percentile £11.00 £35.00 £42.13
Median hourly rate £13.00 £65.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -80.15% +31.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £15.25 £92.50 £66.39
90th Percentile £66.65 £98.50 £71.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £13.00 £95.00 £65.49
% change year-on-year -86.32% +45.07% +72.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,621 53,662 80,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.30% 89.91% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,254 37,244 56,449
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,437 1,746 1,925
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -
75th Percentile £59.95 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +80.00% -7.24%

E-Commerce
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for E-Commerce in the UK

E-Commerce
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing E-Commerce.

Daily rate trend for E-Commerce in the UK

E-Commerce
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing E-Commerce over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for E-Commerce in the UK

E-Commerce
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing E-Commerce.

Hourly rate trend for E-Commerce in the UK

E-Commerce
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing E-Commerce over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for E-Commerce in the UK

E-Commerce
Top 17 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 29 April 2024. 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 -21 467 £500 -4.76% 729
London -4 282 £550 - 304
Work from Home -32 208 £485 -8.49% 355
UK excluding London -12 183 £450 -10.00% 435
North of England +7 71 £450 -10.00% 168
North West +53 57 £450 -5.26% 102
South East +23 52 £463 -14.15% 95
East of England -3 24 £400 -24.03% 31
Midlands -23 19 £275 -30.38% 79
West Midlands +16 11 £463 +19.35% 43
Yorkshire -32 11 £413 -26.99% 51
East Midlands -15 8 £225 -44.10% 36
South West -14 7 £543 +20.56% 49
Wales +15 4 £300 -17.24% 6
Scotland +32 3 £470 -18.26% 9
North East +21 3 £600 - 15
Northern Ireland - 3 £563 - 4

E-Commerce
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 45 (8.62%) CMS
2 16 (3.07%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 13 (2.49%) Confluence
4 10 (1.92%) WordPress
5 7 (1.34%) Headless CMS
6 6 (1.15%) Drupal
7 5 (0.96%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.38%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.38%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.38%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.38%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.38%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.38%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.19%) Apache
9 1 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.19%) IIS
9 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.19%) WebLogic
Applications
1 11 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.96%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (0.57%) InVision
4 3 (0.57%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.57%) Sketch
5 2 (0.38%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.38%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.38%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.19%) Final Cut Pro
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.19%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 35 (6.70%) Shopify
2 22 (4.21%) Magento
3 17 (3.26%) SAP Hybris
4 10 (1.92%) Payment Gateway
5 7 (1.34%) ION MarketView
6 5 (0.96%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
8 3 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.38%) JDE OneWorld
9 2 (0.38%) WebTrends
10 1 (0.19%) OpenCart
10 1 (0.19%) RMDS
10 1 (0.19%) SAP CAR
10 1 (0.19%) SAP CO
10 1 (0.19%) SAP FI
10 1 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
10 1 (0.19%) SAP FI-CA
10 1 (0.19%) SAP FI-GL
10 1 (0.19%) SAP SD
10 1 (0.19%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 80 (15.33%) AWS
2 33 (6.32%) Azure
3 26 (4.98%) GCP
4 21 (4.02%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 21 (4.02%) Serverless
5 19 (3.64%) BigCommerce
6 18 (3.45%) GitHub
7 16 (3.07%) Microsoft 365
8 14 (2.68%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (2.68%) Google Analytics
8 14 (2.68%) SaaS
9 13 (2.49%) Figma
9 13 (2.49%) Power Platform
10 10 (1.92%) Amazon S3
11 9 (1.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (1.72%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
12 7 (1.34%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (1.15%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.68%) Internet
2 4 (0.77%) LAN
2 4 (0.77%) WAN
3 3 (0.57%) FTP
3 3 (0.57%) HTTP
4 2 (0.38%) Firewall
4 2 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.19%) DHCP
5 1 (0.19%) DNS
5 1 (0.19%) Intranet
5 1 (0.19%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.19%) tcpdump
5 1 (0.19%) VoIP
5 1 (0.19%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (3.45%) MySQL
2 16 (3.07%) KDB
3 13 (2.49%) Power BI
4 12 (2.30%) NoSQL
4 12 (2.30%) Tableau
5 10 (1.92%) Relational Database
6 9 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (1.34%) Data Lake
9 6 (1.15%) DynamoDB
10 4 (0.77%) Spark SQL
11 3 (0.57%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.57%) SQL Server
11 3 (0.57%) SQLite
12 2 (0.38%) Amazon QuickSight
12 2 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (0.38%) GIS
12 2 (0.38%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.38%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 45 (8.62%) Git
2 32 (6.13%) JIRA
3 21 (4.02%) Jenkins
4 15 (2.87%) Postman
5 11 (2.11%) Cypress.io
6 9 (1.72%) Maven
6 9 (1.72%) SoapUI
7 8 (1.53%) GitLab
8 7 (1.34%) Selenium
9 5 (0.96%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.77%) webpack
11 3 (0.57%) Appium
11 3 (0.57%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.57%) Visual Website Optimizer
11 3 (0.57%) Zephyr
12 2 (0.38%) gulp
12 2 (0.38%) rollup.js
12 2 (0.38%) Storybook
12 2 (0.38%) TestCafe
12 2 (0.38%) Vite
General
1 162 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 144 (27.59%) Retail
3 68 (13.03%) Marketing
4 51 (9.77%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (8.43%) Finance
6 16 (3.07%) Banking
7 13 (2.49%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (2.49%) Publishing
8 12 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (1.92%) Legal
11 9 (1.72%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.34%) Front Office
13 6 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.96%) Back Office
14 5 (0.96%) Investment Banking
14 5 (0.96%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.77%) Advertising
15 4 (0.77%) Electronics
15 4 (0.77%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 140 (26.82%) Developer
2 61 (11.69%) Project Manager
3 59 (11.30%) Analyst
3 59 (11.30%) Senior
4 42 (8.05%) Business Analyst
5 29 (5.56%) Architect
6 27 (5.17%) E-Commerce Developer
7 25 (4.79%) Java Developer
8 24 (4.60%) E-Commerce Manager
9 20 (3.83%) Designer
10 19 (3.64%) Consultant
11 18 (3.45%) Technical Analyst
11 18 (3.45%) Technical Business Analyst
12 17 (3.26%) Senior Developer
13 16 (3.07%) React Developer
13 16 (3.07%) Software Engineer
14 15 (2.87%) UX Designer
15 14 (2.68%) Digital Project Manager
15 14 (2.68%) Python Developer
16 13 (2.49%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (9.77%) React
2 48 (9.20%) Node.js
3 39 (7.47%) CSS
4 38 (7.28%) HTML
5 31 (5.94%) GraphQL
6 24 (4.60%) REST
7 18 (3.45%) Next.js
7 18 (3.45%) Web Services
8 13 (2.49%) JSON
8 13 (2.49%) RESTful
8 13 (2.49%) SOAP
9 12 (2.30%) Spring
10 11 (2.11%) OAuth
10 11 (2.11%) VML
11 10 (1.92%) .NET
11 10 (1.92%) HTML5
11 10 (1.92%) OpenID
12 9 (1.72%) AngularJS
12 9 (1.72%) CSS3
13 8 (1.53%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 40 (7.66%) Distributed Systems
1 40 (7.66%) Mobile App
2 29 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 23 (4.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 17 (3.26%) Management Information System
4 17 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (3.07%) Algorithms
6 14 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
7 12 (2.30%) FMCG
7 12 (2.30%) Virtual Team
8 11 (2.11%) Data Structures
8 11 (2.11%) EPoS
9 9 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.53%) Marketing Technology
10 8 (1.53%) Public Cloud
11 7 (1.34%) EMV
11 7 (1.34%) Taxonomies
12 6 (1.15%) Cloud Native
12 6 (1.15%) Social Media
13 5 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 27 (5.17%) Linux
2 26 (4.98%) Unix
3 14 (2.68%) Android
4 10 (1.92%) Apple iOS
5 9 (1.72%) Windows
6 3 (0.57%) Debian
6 3 (0.57%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.19%) CentOS
7 1 (0.19%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.19%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (30.27%) Agile
2 70 (13.41%) Problem-Solving
3 66 (12.64%) Analytics
4 59 (11.30%) CI/CD
5 58 (11.11%) Scrum
5 58 (11.11%) User Experience
6 56 (10.73%) Project Management
7 54 (10.34%) CRM
8 44 (8.43%) DevOps
8 44 (8.43%) Test Automation
9 41 (7.85%) Roadmaps
10 40 (7.66%) Stakeholder Management
11 39 (7.47%) Customer Experience
12 37 (7.09%) B2B
12 37 (7.09%) TDD
13 36 (6.90%) Computer Science
14 35 (6.70%) Microservices
15 30 (5.75%) Continuous Integration
15 30 (5.75%) UX Design
16 29 (5.56%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 73 (13.98%) Java
2 70 (13.41%) JavaScript
3 60 (11.49%) Python
4 50 (9.58%) SQL
5 41 (7.85%) TypeScript
6 21 (4.02%) PHP
7 13 (2.49%) Bash
8 10 (1.92%) Scala
9 7 (1.34%) Go
9 7 (1.34%) Kotlin
9 7 (1.34%) Perl
10 6 (1.15%) C#
10 6 (1.15%) C++
11 4 (0.77%) Groovy
12 3 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.38%) ABAP
13 2 (0.38%) Dart
13 2 (0.38%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.38%) R
14 1 (0.19%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 53 (10.15%) Degree
2 22 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (1.72%) Master's Degree
4 7 (1.34%) Security Cleared
5 6 (1.15%) SC Cleared
6 4 (0.77%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 3 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (0.57%) PhD
8 2 (0.38%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.38%) PMP
9 1 (0.19%) ACCA
9 1 (0.19%) CEH
9 1 (0.19%) CHFI
9 1 (0.19%) CIMA
9 1 (0.19%) GCFA
9 1 (0.19%) GCIA
9 1 (0.19%) GCIH
9 1 (0.19%) GIAC
9 1 (0.19%) GSNA
9 1 (0.19%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (6.70%) QA
2 14 (2.68%) Accessibility
3 12 (2.30%) PMO
4 7 (1.34%) PCI DSS
5 5 (0.96%) ISO 9001
6 4 (0.77%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.57%) ISO 22301
7 3 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.57%) SLA
7 3 (0.57%) WCAG
8 2 (0.38%) GDPR
8 2 (0.38%) PSD2
System Software
1 25 (4.79%) Docker
2 5 (0.96%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.77%) zsh
4 1 (0.19%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 24 (4.60%) Kubernetes
2 23 (4.41%) Terraform
3 5 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (0.77%) Grafana
4 4 (0.77%) Podman
5 3 (0.57%) Ansible
5 3 (0.57%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.19%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 1 (0.19%) CSIRT
6 1 (0.19%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.19%) Kibana
Vendors
1 54 (10.34%) SAP
2 45 (8.62%) Salesforce
3 40 (7.66%) Adobe
4 39 (7.47%) Google
5 31 (5.94%) Microsoft
6 18 (3.45%) Sitecore
7 9 (1.72%) ION Trading
8 8 (1.53%) Splunk
9 7 (1.34%) Dell
9 7 (1.34%) Intel
10 5 (0.96%) Okta
11 4 (0.77%) Oracle
11 4 (0.77%) Roku
11 4 (0.77%) Solace
11 4 (0.77%) TIBCO
12 3 (0.57%) Cisco
12 3 (0.57%) Databricks
12 3 (0.57%) Facebook
12 3 (0.57%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 3 (0.57%) Tradeweb