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 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 579 513 560
Rank change year-on-year -66 +47 +149
Contract jobs citing Magento 11 21 40
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.030% 0.063% 0.093%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.35% 0.84% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 30
10th Percentile £361 £278 £250
25th Percentile £397 £300 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £451 £403
Median % change year-on-year -5.82% +12.11% -10.56%
75th Percentile £469 £553 £584
90th Percentile £661 £724 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £388 £300 £375
% change year-on-year +29.17% -20.00% -11.76%
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 3,163 2,499 3,452
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.55% 7.51% 7.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,818 1,325 1,920
10th Percentile £358 £368 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £664 £663 £675
90th Percentile £760 £756 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £530 £525
% change year-on-year +3.77% +0.95% -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 55 92
10th Percentile £18.80 £22.27 £22.06
25th Percentile £26.25 £30.21 £46.75
Median hourly rate £41.86 £41.50 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +0.86% -26.54% +51.45%
75th Percentile £81.00 £66.25 £80.00
90th Percentile £90.82 £80.75 £88.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.48 £46.18 £56.49
% change year-on-year +2.80% -18.25% +51.45%

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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 30 December 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 30 December 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 -58 9 £444 -1.66% 181
London -20 8 £463 -6.09% 11
Work from Home -9 2 £350 -29.29% 117
UK excluding London -64 1 £388 +29.17% 177
North of England - 1 £388 - 38
Yorkshire - 1 £388 - 11

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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 (18.18%) CMS
1 2 (18.18%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) SaaS
2 1 (9.09%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) BigCommerce
2 1 (9.09%) DigitalOcean
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) MySQL
2 2 (18.18%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (18.18%) Redis
2 2 (18.18%) Relational Database
3 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Bitbucket
1 2 (18.18%) Git
1 2 (18.18%) JIRA
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Retail
3 1 (9.09%) German Language
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Magento Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Architect
4 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Technical Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Administrator
5 1 (9.09%) PHP Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Principal Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Principal PHP Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Fastify
1 2 (18.18%) JWT
1 2 (18.18%) Node.js
1 2 (18.18%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (18.18%) React
1 2 (18.18%) VML
2 1 (9.09%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Client/Server
2 1 (9.09%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) E-Commerce
2 5 (45.45%) Agile
3 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
3 3 (27.27%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (27.27%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (18.18%) Code Quality
4 2 (18.18%) Data Architecture
4 2 (18.18%) Design Patterns
4 2 (18.18%) DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) Digital Innovation
4 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
4 2 (18.18%) Microservices
4 2 (18.18%) Migration
4 2 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Identification
4 2 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (18.18%) User Experience
5 1 (9.09%) ERP
5 1 (9.09%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) PHP
2 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
3 2 (18.18%) TypeScript
4 1 (9.09%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Varnish
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Adobe
1 2 (18.18%) Salesforce
1 2 (18.18%) SAP
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Sitecore