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 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 581 507 573
Rank change year-on-year -74 +66 +113
Contract jobs citing Magento 8 20 33
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.020% 0.065% 0.074%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.26% 0.84% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 12 27
10th Percentile £365 £293 £220
25th Percentile £388 £298 £255
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £406 £350
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% +16.07% -17.65%
75th Percentile - £506 £412
90th Percentile - £718 £473
UK excluding London median daily rate - £300 £300
% change year-on-year - - -25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate - - £17.50
75th Percentile - - £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 3,084 2,377 3,461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.74% 7.67% 7.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,734 1,268 1,967
10th Percentile £358 £375 £378
25th Percentile £450 £465 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £652 £661 £674
90th Percentile £750 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £540 £525
% change year-on-year +1.85% +2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 57 120
10th Percentile £20.00 £22.27 £16.17
25th Percentile £33.75 £35.00 £22.06
Median hourly rate £51.37 £55.25 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.03% +16.32% +16.85%
75th Percentile £77.50 £77.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £90.09 £86.00 £86.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.50 £56.38 £47.50
% change year-on-year +0.22% +18.68% +27.35%

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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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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 3 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 12 February 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
London -45 3 £425 -5.82% 2
England -94 3 £425 +4.62% 17
Work from Home -9 2 £350 -22.87% 12

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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 (25.00%) CMS
1 2 (25.00%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) BigCommerce
1 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) MySQL
2 5 (62.50%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (62.50%) Redis
2 5 (62.50%) Relational Database
3 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) German Language
2 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Architect
1 5 (62.50%) Technical Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) RabbitMQ
1 5 (62.50%) VML
2 2 (25.00%) Fastify
2 2 (25.00%) JWT
2 2 (25.00%) Node.js
2 2 (25.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Client/Server
2 1 (12.50%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) E-Commerce
2 5 (62.50%) Code Quality
2 5 (62.50%) Data Architecture
2 5 (62.50%) Design Patterns
2 5 (62.50%) Microservices
2 5 (62.50%) Migration
2 5 (62.50%) Stakeholder Identification
2 5 (62.50%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Digital Innovation
3 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (25.00%) User Experience
4 1 (12.50%) B2B
4 1 (12.50%) Customer Acquisition
4 1 (12.50%) Open Source
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (12.50%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) PHP
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Varnish
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Adobe
2 1 (12.50%) Salesforce
2 1 (12.50%) SAP
2 1 (12.50%) Sitecore