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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 636 529 542
Rank change year-on-year -107 +13 +69
Contract jobs citing Magento 24 26 26
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.045% 0.079% 0.067%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.63% 0.92% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 14 16
10th Percentile £312 £378 £269
25th Percentile £375 £414 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £485 £400
Median % change year-on-year -17.53% +21.25% -7.78%
75th Percentile £480 £549 £506
90th Percentile - £630 £550
UK excluding London median daily rate £325 £450 £525
% change year-on-year -27.89% -14.29% +31.25%

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 3,832 2,835 2,920
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.18% 8.61% 7.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,152 1,630 1,679
10th Percentile £358 £363 £353
25th Percentile £456 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £650 £665 £679
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £525
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 57 84
10th Percentile £18.40 £16.52 £23.43
25th Percentile £26.59 £26.72 £35.36
Median hourly rate £40.00 £40.49 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.21% -10.02% -16.15%
75th Percentile £71.91 £63.75 £61.60
90th Percentile £91.30 £79.50 £65.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £51.49 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.32% +14.43% -20.34%

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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 13 August 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 13 August 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 -99 21 £480 -1.03% 12
London -77 17 £480 -4.00% 4
Work from Home -52 5 £325 -35.10% 9
UK excluding London -109 4 £325 -27.89% 8
South West - 3 £325 - 1
East of England - 1 - -

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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 5 (20.83%) CMS
2 3 (12.50%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (4.17%) Apache
3 1 (4.17%) nginx
Applications
1 10 (41.67%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (33.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (29.17%) Shopify
2 5 (20.83%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (12.50%) SAP CRM
4 1 (4.17%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 8 (33.33%) AWS
1 8 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (12.50%) SAP Commerce Cloud
3 2 (8.33%) Contentful
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (4.17%) BigCommerce
4 1 (4.17%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (4.17%) MySQL
1 1 (4.17%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (37.50%) Git
2 8 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 8 (33.33%) Subversion
3 2 (8.33%) JIRA
4 1 (4.17%) PHPUnit
General
1 13 (54.17%) Organisational Skills
1 13 (54.17%) Social Skills
2 11 (45.83%) Marketing
3 9 (37.50%) Finance
4 8 (33.33%) Retail
5 5 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (20.83%) Legal
6 1 (4.17%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (16.67%) Junior
1 4 (16.67%) Lead
1 4 (16.67%) Programme Manager
1 4 (16.67%) Project Manager
1 4 (16.67%) Senior
1 4 (16.67%) Senior Manager
1 4 (16.67%) Senior Project Manager
1 4 (16.67%) Senior Technical Manager
1 4 (16.67%) Senior Technical Project Manager
1 4 (16.67%) Technical Manager
1 4 (16.67%) Technical Project Manager
2 3 (12.50%) Developer
3 2 (8.33%) E-Commerce Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Finance Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Platform Specialist
3 2 (8.33%) Shopify Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Lead Consultant
4 1 (4.17%) Process Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Shopify Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (33.33%) VML
2 3 (12.50%) React
3 2 (8.33%) CSS
3 2 (8.33%) HTML
3 2 (8.33%) Middleware
3 2 (8.33%) REST
4 1 (4.17%) .NET
4 1 (4.17%) GraphQL
4 1 (4.17%) jQuery
4 1 (4.17%) JSON
4 1 (4.17%) KnockoutJS
4 1 (4.17%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.17%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (83.33%) E-Commerce
2 11 (45.83%) Project Management
2 11 (45.83%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (37.50%) DevOps
3 9 (37.50%) Release Management
3 9 (37.50%) Re-Platforming
4 8 (33.33%) Agile
4 8 (33.33%) Information Management
4 8 (33.33%) Kanban
4 8 (33.33%) Scrum
4 8 (33.33%) SDLC
4 8 (33.33%) Time Management
4 8 (33.33%) Waterfall
5 7 (29.17%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (25.00%) Process Improvement
7 5 (20.83%) Anti-Money Laundering
7 5 (20.83%) Cost Optimisation
7 5 (20.83%) KYC
7 5 (20.83%) Migration
7 5 (20.83%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.50%) TypeScript
2 1 (4.17%) C#
2 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
2 1 (4.17%) PHP
2 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Docker
1 1 (4.17%) Varnish
Vendors
1 10 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 7 (29.17%) Salesforce
3 5 (20.83%) Oracle
4 4 (16.67%) SAP
4 4 (16.67%) Sitecore
5 3 (12.50%) Adobe
6 2 (8.33%) Atlassian
7 1 (4.17%) dotdigital