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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 585 515 556
Rank change year-on-year -70 +41 +127
Contract jobs citing Magento 10 19 34
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.026% 0.060% 0.078%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.32% 0.79% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 25
10th Percentile £358 £275 £220
25th Percentile £369 £300 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £413 £300
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +37.50% -29.41%
75th Percentile - £516 £408
90th Percentile £740 £738 £468
UK excluding London median daily rate £388 £300 £300
% change year-on-year +29.17% - -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 3,096 2,391 3,417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.04% 7.60% 7.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,766 1,254 1,930
10th Percentile £360 £375 £375
25th Percentile £455 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £668 £658 £675
90th Percentile £756 £770 £760
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £545 £525
% change year-on-year +0.92% +3.81% -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 55 119
10th Percentile £20.00 £22.27 £17.85
25th Percentile £33.75 £30.83 £22.33
Median hourly rate £47.48 £46.18 £47.75
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -3.29% +8.52%
75th Percentile £77.50 £76.10 £60.93
90th Percentile £90.09 £86.00 £86.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.50 £53.75 £47.50
% change year-on-year +5.12% +13.16% +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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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Magento over the 6 months to 29 January 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 29 January 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 -86 5 £425 +3.03% 22
London -29 4 £425 -13.71% 3
Work from Home -7 2 £350 -22.87% 14
UK excluding London -70 1 £388 +29.17% 21
North of England - 1 £388 - 10
Yorkshire - 1 £388 - 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 2 (20.00%) CMS
1 2 (20.00%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) SaaS
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) BigCommerce
2 1 (10.00%) DigitalOcean
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (70.00%) MySQL
2 5 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (50.00%) Redis
2 5 (50.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Retail
3 1 (10.00%) German Language
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Architect
2 5 (50.00%) Technical Architect
3 3 (30.00%) Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Administrator
5 1 (10.00%) PHP Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Principal Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Principal PHP Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (10.00%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
1 5 (50.00%) VML
2 2 (20.00%) Fastify
2 2 (20.00%) JWT
2 2 (20.00%) Node.js
2 2 (20.00%) React
3 1 (10.00%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Client/Server
2 1 (10.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) E-Commerce
2 5 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 5 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 5 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 5 (50.00%) Microservices
2 5 (50.00%) Migration
2 5 (50.00%) Stakeholder Identification
2 5 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (30.00%) Agile
3 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) Digital Innovation
4 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (20.00%) User Experience
5 1 (10.00%) Clean Code
5 1 (10.00%) Customer Acquisition
5 1 (10.00%) Customer Experience
5 1 (10.00%) Order Management
5 1 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) PHP
2 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (20.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Varnish
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Adobe
2 2 (20.00%) Salesforce
2 2 (20.00%) SAP
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Sitecore