Magento Contract Job Trends

Adobe Magento
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Magento skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 546 529 595
Rank change year-on-year -17 +66 +148
Contract jobs citing Magento 22 30 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.067% 0.078% 0.11%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.77% 1.06% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 16 39
10th Percentile £375 £269 £263
25th Percentile £400 £300 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £350 £405
Median % change year-on-year +38.57% -13.58% -19.00%
75th Percentile £503 £506 £581
90th Percentile £630 £550 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £525 £400
% change year-on-year -14.29% +31.25% -20.00%

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 2,867 2,826 3,563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.70% 7.34% 7.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,632 1,526 1,981
10th Percentile £360 £351 £358
25th Percentile £450 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £763 £775 £760
UK excluding London median daily rate £540 £538 £525
% change year-on-year +0.47% +2.38% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 80 68
10th Percentile £14.17 £24.95 £22.06
25th Percentile £25.25 £35.27 £46.75
Median hourly rate £36.48 £45.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.93% -18.18% +22.22%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.60 £64.06
90th Percentile £77.00 £66.15 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.48 £45.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year +5.50% -20.34% +61.40%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Magento as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Magento 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 18 September 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 7 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 18 September 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 +11 20 £485 +38.57% 47
London +23 13 £493 +40.71% 19
UK excluding London -13 7 £450 -14.29% 37
North of England - 7 £450 - 18
Work from Home +24 5 £500 +1.01% 26
Yorkshire - 4 £450 - 5
North West - 3 - - 13

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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:

Business Applications
1 9 (40.91%) Shopify
2 3 (13.64%) Sage 200
3 2 (9.09%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (9.09%) Oracle Retail
3 2 (9.09%) SAP CX
3 2 (9.09%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (22.73%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
2 4 (18.18%) AWS
3 3 (13.64%) Azure
3 3 (13.64%) BigCommerce
3 3 (13.64%) GCP
3 3 (13.64%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 2 (9.09%) Boomi
4 2 (9.09%) Cloudflare
4 2 (9.09%) Oracle CX
5 1 (4.55%) Adobe Analytics
5 1 (4.55%) Asana
5 1 (4.55%) DigitalOcean
5 1 (4.55%) GitHub
5 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.55%) Google Analytics
5 1 (4.55%) Google Data Studio
5 1 (4.55%) Google Tag Manager
5 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) BigQuery
1 1 (4.55%) Looker
1 1 (4.55%) MySQL
1 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Git
1 5 (22.73%) JIRA
2 4 (18.18%) Bitbucket
3 1 (4.55%) TestRail
General
1 4 (18.18%) Retail
2 3 (13.64%) Marketing
2 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.55%) French Language
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) Developer
2 8 (36.36%) Magento Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Architect
3 4 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (13.64%) E-Commerce Manager
5 2 (9.09%) .NET Architect
5 2 (9.09%) .NET Solutions Architect
5 2 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Integration Specialist
5 2 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) SAP Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) E-Commerce Product Manager
6 1 (4.55%) Lead
6 1 (4.55%) PHP Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Principal Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Product Manager
6 1 (4.55%) QA Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) SEO Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) .NET
1 3 (13.64%) .NET Framework
1 3 (13.64%) REST
2 2 (9.09%) EDI
2 2 (9.09%) Kafka
2 2 (9.09%) Middleware
2 2 (9.09%) SAP Fiori
2 2 (9.09%) SAP PI
2 2 (9.09%) SOAP
2 2 (9.09%) Web Services
3 1 (4.55%) GraphQL
3 1 (4.55%) Laravel
3 1 (4.55%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (90.91%) E-Commerce
2 7 (31.82%) Agile
3 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (22.73%) Roadmaps
4 4 (18.18%) ERP
4 4 (18.18%) Mentoring
4 4 (18.18%) Performance Optimisation
5 3 (13.64%) Analytics
5 3 (13.64%) CRM
5 3 (13.64%) Migration
5 3 (13.64%) Open Source
5 3 (13.64%) Strategic Roadmap
5 3 (13.64%) User Experience
5 3 (13.64%) Web Development
6 2 (9.09%) CI/CD
6 2 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (9.09%) Data Governance
6 2 (9.09%) Data Transformation
6 2 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (9.09%) Product Marketing
Programming Languages
1 6 (27.27%) PHP
2 3 (13.64%) C#
3 2 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 2 (9.09%) SQL
4 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.55%) GDPR
2 1 (4.55%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
Vendors
1 7 (31.82%) Salesforce
2 6 (27.27%) Adobe
3 5 (22.73%) SAP
4 3 (13.64%) Google
4 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
4 3 (13.64%) WooCommerce
5 2 (9.09%) Dell
5 2 (9.09%) MuleSoft
5 2 (9.09%) NCR
5 2 (9.09%) Oracle
5 2 (9.09%) VeriFone