Magento Contract Job Trends

Adobe Magento
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Magento skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 540 531 589
Rank change year-on-year -9 +58 +140
Contract jobs citing Magento 18 27 48
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.052% 0.074% 0.10%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.60% 1.01% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 18 33
10th Percentile £375 £293 £261
25th Percentile £400 £313 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £406 £416
Median % change year-on-year +13.85% -2.34% -12.42%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £588
90th Percentile £503 £565 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £525 £400
% change year-on-year -14.29% +31.25% -15.79%

All Business Application Skills
UK

Magento falls under the Business Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring business application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 2,982 2,666 3,742
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.70% 7.34% 7.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,691 1,429 2,064
10th Percentile £358 £363 £372
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £659 £665 £665
90th Percentile £750 £757 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 65 86
10th Percentile £14.98 £27.24 £30.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £35.00 £49.00
Median hourly rate £40.50 £41.50 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% -26.54% +25.53%
75th Percentile £78.06 £61.60 £80.00
90th Percentile £90.09 £79.95 £89.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.86 £40.33 £56.49
% change year-on-year +3.79% -28.62% +41.23%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Magento relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Magento job vacancy trend in the UK

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Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Magento.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Magento

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Magento over the 6 months to 3 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Magento in the UK

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Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Magento.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Magento

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Top 6 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Magento within the UK over the 6 months to 3 November 2025. 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 -27 16 £463 +13.85% 30
London -6 12 £474 +18.44% 6
Work from Home -3 4 £500 -1.96% 16
UK excluding London -38 4 £450 -14.29% 25
North of England - 4 £450 - 11
Yorkshire - 4 £450 - 5

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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 2 (11.11%) CMS
1 2 (11.11%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) AWS
2 3 (16.67%) Azure
2 3 (16.67%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
2 3 (16.67%) SAP Commerce Cloud
3 2 (11.11%) BigCommerce
3 2 (11.11%) Cloudflare
3 2 (11.11%) GCP
4 1 (5.56%) Adobe Analytics
4 1 (5.56%) Asana
4 1 (5.56%) DigitalOcean
4 1 (5.56%) GitHub
4 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) MySQL
1 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (27.78%) Git
1 5 (27.78%) JIRA
2 4 (22.22%) Bitbucket
3 1 (5.56%) TestRail
General
1 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Marketing
2 2 (11.11%) Retail
3 1 (5.56%) French Language
Job Titles
1 11 (61.11%) Developer
2 8 (44.44%) Magento Developer
3 3 (16.67%) E-Commerce Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) SAP Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Architect
5 1 (5.56%) E-Commerce Product Manager
5 1 (5.56%) PHP Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Principal Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Principal PHP Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Product Manager
5 1 (5.56%) QA Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) Fastify
1 2 (11.11%) JWT
1 2 (11.11%) Node.js
1 2 (11.11%) React
2 1 (5.56%) GraphQL
2 1 (5.56%) Laravel
2 1 (5.56%) Playwright
2 1 (5.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (88.89%) E-Commerce
2 9 (50.00%) Agile
3 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 4 (22.22%) Mentoring
3 4 (22.22%) Performance Optimisation
3 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (22.22%) User Experience
4 3 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (11.11%) Analytics
5 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (11.11%) DevOps
5 2 (11.11%) Digital Innovation
5 2 (11.11%) ERP
5 2 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (11.11%) Product Marketing
5 2 (11.11%) Roadmaps
5 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (5.56%) Multivariate Testing
6 1 (5.56%) Product Management
6 1 (5.56%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) JavaScript
2 3 (16.67%) PHP
2 3 (16.67%) TypeScript
3 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) GDPR
1 1 (5.56%) QA
1 1 (5.56%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Salesforce
2 4 (22.22%) Adobe
3 3 (16.67%) SAP
4 2 (11.11%) Google
4 2 (11.11%) WooCommerce
5 1 (5.56%) Microsoft