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 24 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 575 531 574
Rank change year-on-year -44 +43 +146
Contract jobs citing Magento 17 28 49
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.048% 0.077% 0.11%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.56% 1.05% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 19 35
10th Percentile £369 £295 £261
25th Percentile £400 £313 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £413 £405
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +1.85% -14.74%
75th Percentile £501 £544 £581
90th Percentile £503 £628 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £525 £400
% change year-on-year -14.29% +31.25% -15.79%
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 3,061 2,673 3,721
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.61% 7.31% 8.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,759 1,427 2,077
10th Percentile £358 £350 £364
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £653 £650 £669
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 65 86
10th Percentile £18.19 £23.96 £31.20
25th Percentile £25.25 £35.00 £49.00
Median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -12.22% -20.34% +43.01%
75th Percentile £81.00 £65.00 £80.00
90th Percentile £90.82 £80.75 £89.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.48 £40.91 £56.49
% change year-on-year +16.04% -27.58% +41.23%

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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 24 November 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 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 24 November 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 -48 15 £456 +10.61% 28
London -14 12 £463 +13.85% 5
Work from Home +10 3 £350 -31.37% 14
UK excluding London -42 3 £450 -14.29% 28
North of England - 3 £450 - 9
Yorkshire - 3 £450 - 3

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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 (11.76%) CMS
1 2 (11.76%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
2 2 (11.76%) SaaS
3 1 (5.88%) Adobe Analytics
3 1 (5.88%) AWS
3 1 (5.88%) Azure
3 1 (5.88%) BigCommerce
3 1 (5.88%) DigitalOcean
3 1 (5.88%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) MySQL
2 1 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.88%) Redis
2 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Bitbucket
1 4 (23.53%) Git
1 4 (23.53%) JIRA
General
1 3 (17.65%) Retail
2 2 (11.76%) Marketing
2 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) French Language
3 1 (5.88%) German Language
Job Titles
1 11 (64.71%) Developer
2 8 (47.06%) Magento Developer
3 3 (17.65%) E-Commerce Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Administrator
5 1 (5.88%) E-Commerce Product Manager
5 1 (5.88%) PHP Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Principal Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Principal PHP Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Product Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) Fastify
1 2 (11.76%) JWT
1 2 (11.76%) Node.js
1 2 (11.76%) React
2 1 (5.88%) Laravel
2 1 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (5.88%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Client/Server
1 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) E-Commerce
2 8 (47.06%) Agile
3 5 (29.41%) Performance Optimisation
4 4 (23.53%) Mentoring
4 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (23.53%) User Experience
5 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
5 3 (17.65%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (11.76%) Analytics
6 2 (11.76%) DevOps
6 2 (11.76%) Digital Innovation
6 2 (11.76%) ERP
6 2 (11.76%) Migration
6 2 (11.76%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (11.76%) Product Marketing
6 2 (11.76%) Roadmaps
7 1 (5.88%) B2B
7 1 (5.88%) Data Architecture
7 1 (5.88%) Multivariate Testing
7 1 (5.88%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) JavaScript
1 4 (23.53%) PHP
2 2 (11.76%) TypeScript
3 1 (5.88%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Varnish
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Salesforce
2 3 (17.65%) Adobe
3 2 (11.76%) SAP
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.88%) Sitecore