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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 667 539 529
Rank change year-on-year -128 -10 +47
Contract jobs citing Magento 22 19 27
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.040% 0.058% 0.071%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.57% 0.67% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 13 17
10th Percentile £312 £375 £265
25th Percentile £312 £400 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £463 £350
Median % change year-on-year +3.78% +32.14% -14.74%
75th Percentile £490 £500 £495
90th Percentile £513 £503 £550
UK excluding London median daily rate £325 £450 £525
% change year-on-year -27.89% -14.29% +31.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £12.71 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £12.71 - -

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 3,845 2,848 2,777
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.05% 8.65% 7.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,088 1,619 1,481
10th Percentile £363 £358 £363
25th Percentile £463 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £656 £673 £675
90th Percentile £775 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 51 73
10th Percentile £15.00 £13.00 £26.32
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.20 £35.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £32.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -23.53% -24.77%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.38 £61.60
90th Percentile £90.50 £85.00 £73.49
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.93 £38.00 £40.33
% change year-on-year +2.45% -5.77% -28.62%

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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 12 October 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 12 October 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 -121 21 £480 +3.78% 32
London -87 15 £480 +1.32% 9
UK excluding London -99 6 £325 -27.89% 24
Work from Home -59 5 £325 -35.10% 11
South West - 4 £325 -
East of England - 2 - - 4

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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 6 (27.27%) CMS
2 4 (18.18%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (4.55%) Drupal
3 1 (4.55%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (36.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (36.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (27.27%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (18.18%) SAP CRM
3 3 (13.64%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 9 (40.91%) AWS
2 8 (36.36%) Azure
3 4 (18.18%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 1 (4.55%) BigCommerce
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) DNS
Development Applications
1 8 (36.36%) Git
1 8 (36.36%) Jenkins
1 8 (36.36%) Subversion
2 3 (13.64%) JIRA
General
1 15 (68.18%) Organisational Skills
2 14 (63.64%) Social Skills
3 13 (59.09%) Marketing
4 10 (45.45%) Finance
5 9 (40.91%) Retail
6 6 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (27.27%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (18.18%) E-Commerce Manager
1 4 (18.18%) Junior
1 4 (18.18%) Programme Manager
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%) Finance Manager
2 3 (13.64%) Platform Specialist
3 2 (9.09%) Process Manager
4 1 (4.55%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (4.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (36.36%) VML
2 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.55%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (86.36%) E-Commerce
2 13 (59.09%) Project Management
3 12 (54.55%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (45.45%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (40.91%) DevOps
6 8 (36.36%) Agile
6 8 (36.36%) Information Management
6 8 (36.36%) Kanban
6 8 (36.36%) Release Management
6 8 (36.36%) Scrum
6 8 (36.36%) SDLC
6 8 (36.36%) Time Management
6 8 (36.36%) Waterfall
7 7 (31.82%) Process Improvement
8 6 (27.27%) Anti-Money Laundering
8 6 (27.27%) Cost Optimisation
8 6 (27.27%) KYC
9 5 (22.73%) Business Case
9 5 (22.73%) CI/CD
9 5 (22.73%) Content Management
Qualifications
1 8 (36.36%) Degree
2 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (31.82%) Salesforce
3 6 (27.27%) Oracle
4 5 (22.73%) SAP
4 5 (22.73%) Sitecore
5 3 (13.64%) Atlassian
6 2 (9.09%) Adobe