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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 610 501 558
Rank change year-on-year -109 +57 +122
Contract jobs citing Magento 13 16 30
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.028% 0.055% 0.069%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.38% 0.67% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 21
10th Percentile £360 £293 -
25th Percentile - £375 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £565 £300
Median % change year-on-year -33.63% +88.33% -25.00%
75th Percentile £400 £630 £400
90th Percentile - £738 £475
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £300
% change year-on-year - - -22.58%
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 3,390 2,402 3,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.39% 8.20% 7.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,934 1,350 1,945
10th Percentile £363 £400 £370
25th Percentile £450 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.39% +3.64% -
75th Percentile £648 £660 £673
90th Percentile £738 £788 £765
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 54 110
10th Percentile £20.00 £22.27 £14.71
25th Percentile £33.75 £42.50 £21.25
Median hourly rate £53.50 £60.00 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% +68.30% -24.95%
75th Percentile £68.75 £79.94 £57.87
90th Percentile £87.35 £86.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.50 £60.00 £37.83
% change year-on-year -5.83% +58.63% -22.81%

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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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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 3 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 15 April 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
London -61 5 £400 -29.20% 3
England -133 5 £400 -29.20% 13
Work from Home -22 4 £375 - 7

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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 1 (7.69%) Apache
1 1 (7.69%) CMS
1 1 (7.69%) nginx
Business Applications
1 7 (53.85%) Shopify
2 1 (7.69%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) Contentful
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (7.69%) BigCommerce
2 1 (7.69%) SaaS
2 1 (7.69%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (53.85%) MySQL
2 6 (46.15%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (46.15%) Redis
3 5 (38.46%) Relational Database
4 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Git
1 1 (7.69%) PHPUnit
General
1 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) German Language
2 1 (7.69%) Law
2 1 (7.69%) Marketing
2 1 (7.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Architect
1 5 (38.46%) Technical Architect
2 4 (30.77%) Lead
3 3 (23.08%) Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Administrator
4 2 (15.38%) Shopify Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Consultant
5 1 (7.69%) Integration Specialist
5 1 (7.69%) Lead Consultant
5 1 (7.69%) Lead Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Magento Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Shopify Consultant
5 1 (7.69%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (7.69%) Technical Administrator
5 1 (7.69%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) RabbitMQ
1 5 (38.46%) VML
2 3 (23.08%) React
3 2 (15.38%) CSS
3 2 (15.38%) HTML
3 2 (15.38%) Middleware
3 2 (15.38%) REST
4 1 (7.69%) .NET
4 1 (7.69%) GraphQL
4 1 (7.69%) jQuery
4 1 (7.69%) JSON
4 1 (7.69%) KnockoutJS
4 1 (7.69%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Client/Server
2 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) E-Commerce
2 6 (46.15%) Code Quality
2 6 (46.15%) Migration
3 5 (38.46%) Data Architecture
3 5 (38.46%) Design Patterns
3 5 (38.46%) Microservices
3 5 (38.46%) Re-Platforming
3 5 (38.46%) Stakeholder Identification
3 5 (38.46%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (15.38%) B2B
4 2 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (15.38%) Webhook
5 1 (7.69%) B2C
5 1 (7.69%) DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) Mentoring
5 1 (7.69%) MVC
5 1 (7.69%) Pair Programming
5 1 (7.69%) Release Management
5 1 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (7.69%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) PHP
2 3 (23.08%) TypeScript
3 1 (7.69%) C#
3 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.69%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
1 1 (7.69%) GDPR
1 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 6 (46.15%) Varnish
2 1 (7.69%) Docker
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Adobe
2 2 (15.38%) Salesforce
3 1 (7.69%) dotdigital
3 1 (7.69%) SAP
3 1 (7.69%) Sitecore