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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 637 526 564
Rank change year-on-year -111 +38 +63
Contract jobs citing Magento 22 24 29
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.042% 0.073% 0.068%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.58% 0.89% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 12 19
10th Percentile £375 £294 £220
25th Percentile £400 £376 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £485 £350
Median % change year-on-year -1.03% +38.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile - £518 £475
90th Percentile £496 £624 £550
UK excluding London median daily rate - £450 £388
% change year-on-year - +16.13% -3.13%

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 3,796 2,710 3,123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.21% 8.29% 7.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,119 1,536 1,822
10th Percentile £363 £377 £363
25th Percentile £451 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - -
75th Percentile £650 £669 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 65 118
10th Percentile £20.31 £20.19 £18.25
25th Percentile £30.00 £30.25 £25.25
Median hourly rate £52.00 £57.50 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% +42.59% -19.35%
75th Percentile £71.91 £70.00 £58.44
90th Percentile £90.30 £85.60 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £60.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -20.83% +50.00% -27.27%

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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 13 July 2026.

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 13 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 -116 18 £480 -1.03% 18
London -63 16 £480 -2.54% 8
Work from Home -59 3 £400 -20.00% 11
UK excluding London -100 2 - - 13
East of England - 1 - -
South West - 1 - - 2

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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 3 (13.64%) CMS
2 1 (4.55%) Apache
2 1 (4.55%) nginx
2 1 (4.55%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 7 (31.82%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (31.82%) Microsoft Office
1 7 (31.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (31.82%) Shopify
2 5 (22.73%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (4.55%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (4.55%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (31.82%) AWS
1 7 (31.82%) Azure
2 2 (9.09%) Contentful
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (4.55%) BigCommerce
3 1 (4.55%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (9.09%) MySQL
1 2 (9.09%) Redis
2 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (36.36%) Git
2 7 (31.82%) Jenkins
2 7 (31.82%) Subversion
3 1 (4.55%) PHPUnit
General
1 12 (54.55%) Organisational Skills
2 11 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 8 (36.36%) Finance
3 8 (36.36%) Marketing
4 7 (31.82%) Retail
5 5 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (22.73%) Legal
6 1 (4.55%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (18.18%) Lead
1 4 (18.18%) Project Manager
1 4 (18.18%) Senior
1 4 (18.18%) Senior Manager
1 4 (18.18%) Senior Project Manager
1 4 (18.18%) Senior Technical Manager
1 4 (18.18%) Senior Technical Project Manager
1 4 (18.18%) Technical Manager
1 4 (18.18%) Technical Project Manager
2 3 (13.64%) Developer
2 3 (13.64%) Junior
2 3 (13.64%) Programme Manager
3 2 (9.09%) E-Commerce Manager
3 2 (9.09%) Finance Manager
3 2 (9.09%) Shopify Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (4.55%) Integration Specialist
4 1 (4.55%) Magento Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Process Manager
4 1 (4.55%) Technical Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (36.36%) VML
2 3 (13.64%) React
3 2 (9.09%) CSS
3 2 (9.09%) HTML
3 2 (9.09%) Middleware
3 2 (9.09%) REST
4 1 (4.55%) .NET
4 1 (4.55%) GraphQL
4 1 (4.55%) jQuery
4 1 (4.55%) JSON
4 1 (4.55%) KnockoutJS
4 1 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (4.55%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.55%) Client/Server
2 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.55%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (90.91%) E-Commerce
2 10 (45.45%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (36.36%) DevOps
3 8 (36.36%) Project Management
3 8 (36.36%) Release Management
3 8 (36.36%) Re-Platforming
4 7 (31.82%) Agile
4 7 (31.82%) Information Management
4 7 (31.82%) Kanban
4 7 (31.82%) Scrum
4 7 (31.82%) SDLC
4 7 (31.82%) Time Management
4 7 (31.82%) Waterfall
5 6 (27.27%) Process Improvement
6 5 (22.73%) Anti-Money Laundering
6 5 (22.73%) CI/CD
6 5 (22.73%) Cost Optimisation
6 5 (22.73%) KYC
6 5 (22.73%) Migration
6 5 (22.73%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.64%) TypeScript
2 2 (9.09%) PHP
3 1 (4.55%) C#
3 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (31.82%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Varnish
2 1 (4.55%) Docker
Vendors
1 7 (31.82%) Microsoft
1 7 (31.82%) Salesforce
2 5 (22.73%) Oracle
3 4 (18.18%) Adobe
4 2 (9.09%) SAP
4 2 (9.09%) Sitecore
5 1 (4.55%) dotdigital