Shopify
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Shopify skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Shopify over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 523 660 759
Rank change year-on-year +137 +99 -141
Contract jobs citing Shopify 75 59 90
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.099% 0.10%
As % of the Business Applications category 2.33% 1.55% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 37 56
10th Percentile £258 £185 £359
25th Percentile £269 £220 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £363 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -33.49% +55.71%
75th Percentile £400 £519 £639
90th Percentile £450 £706 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £248 £450
% change year-on-year +66.67% -45.00% +50.00%

All Business Application Skills
UK

Shopify is in the Business Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for business application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 3,225 3,814 5,060
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.45% 6.38% 5.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,885 2,195 3,127
10th Percentile £363 £363 £375
25th Percentile £463 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £685 £650
90th Percentile £775 £794 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £515
% change year-on-year - +1.94% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 56 57
10th Percentile £14.71 £21.25 £16.80
25th Percentile £21.25 £29.21 £21.00
Median hourly rate £43.75 £47.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +35.71% +5.26%
75th Percentile £59.82 £63.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £73.75 £63.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £49.00 £23.53
% change year-on-year -8.16% +108.29% +12.02%

Shopify
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Shopify as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Shopify in the UK

Shopify
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Shopify.

Daily rate trend for Shopify in the UK

Shopify
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Shopify over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Shopify in the UK

Shopify
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Shopify within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 +134 61 £350 -15.15% 74
London +106 43 £338 -25.00% 35
Work from Home +124 23 £300 -7.69% 32
UK excluding London +69 17 £413 +66.67% 45
South East +30 7 £450 +73.08% 2
East of England +20 5 £375 - 8
South West - 4 - - 5
North of England +30 1 £525 +180.00% 14
North West +15 1 £525 +180.00% 9

Shopify
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (4.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (2.67%) Anypoint
2 2 (2.67%) CMS
3 1 (1.33%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (4.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (2.67%) InVision
3 1 (1.33%) Adobe After Effects
3 1 (1.33%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (1.33%) Avocode
3 1 (1.33%) Final Cut Pro
3 1 (1.33%) Photoshop
3 1 (1.33%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (2.67%) NetSuite
1 2 (2.67%) SAP Hybris
1 2 (2.67%) WebTrends
2 1 (1.33%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 30 (40.00%) BigCommerce
2 11 (14.67%) Azure
3 8 (10.67%) AWS
4 4 (5.33%) Figma
4 4 (5.33%) Google Analytics
4 4 (5.33%) Serverless
5 3 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (4.00%) GCP
5 3 (4.00%) Google Tag Manager
5 3 (4.00%) Power Platform
5 3 (4.00%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
6 2 (2.67%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.67%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (2.67%) Bloomreach
6 2 (2.67%) Contentsquare
6 2 (2.67%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.67%) PowerApps
6 2 (2.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.33%) Firewall
1 4 (5.33%) VoIP
1 4 (5.33%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (2.67%) FTP
3 1 (1.33%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.33%) MySQL
2 2 (2.67%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.33%) Power BI
3 1 (1.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (1.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (20.00%) Git
2 10 (13.33%) webpack
3 5 (6.67%) Maven
4 3 (4.00%) Babel
5 2 (2.67%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (2.67%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.33%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.33%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 37 (49.33%) Retail
2 34 (45.33%) Social Skills
3 24 (32.00%) Marketing
4 6 (8.00%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (8.00%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (6.67%) Brand Awareness
5 5 (6.67%) Finance
6 3 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.67%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.33%) Legal
8 1 (1.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 22 (29.33%) Developer
2 16 (21.33%) Shopify Developer
3 7 (9.33%) Lead
4 5 (6.67%) Analyst
4 5 (6.67%) Business Analyst
5 4 (5.33%) Head of E-Commerce
5 4 (5.33%) Marketing Manager
5 4 (5.33%) Network Engineer
5 4 (5.33%) Senior
5 4 (5.33%) Technical Analyst
5 4 (5.33%) Technical Business Analyst
6 3 (4.00%) Architect
6 3 (4.00%) Delivery Manager
6 3 (4.00%) Service Delivery Manager
6 3 (4.00%) Service Manager
6 3 (4.00%) Technical Architect
7 2 (2.67%) Desktop Support
7 2 (2.67%) Programme Manager
7 2 (2.67%) Senior Manager
7 2 (2.67%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (25.33%) VML
2 12 (16.00%) React
3 11 (14.67%) CSS
4 8 (10.67%) HTML
5 5 (6.67%) REST
5 5 (6.67%) Spring
5 5 (6.67%) Web Services
6 4 (5.33%) GraphQL
6 4 (5.33%) Kafka
6 4 (5.33%) Node.js
6 4 (5.33%) Sass
6 4 (5.33%) Vue
7 3 (4.00%) AngularJS
7 3 (4.00%) J2EE
7 3 (4.00%) jQuery
7 3 (4.00%) Spring MVC
7 3 (4.00%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 2 (2.67%) .NET
8 2 (2.67%) .NET Framework
8 2 (2.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.33%) Data Centre
1 4 (5.33%) Social Media
2 3 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (4.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (4.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.67%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.67%) Graphic Design
3 2 (2.67%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.33%) Animation
4 1 (1.33%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.33%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.33%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.33%) Windows
2 3 (4.00%) Linux
2 3 (4.00%) Unix
3 2 (2.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (46.67%) E-Commerce
2 28 (37.33%) B2B
3 26 (34.67%) Customer Acquisition
4 20 (26.67%) Technology Strategy
5 19 (25.33%) Agile
5 19 (25.33%) Customer Experience
6 17 (22.67%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (20.00%) Time Management
8 12 (16.00%) Global Marketing
9 11 (14.67%) CRM
10 10 (13.33%) Web Development
11 8 (10.67%) Analytics
11 8 (10.67%) DevOps
11 8 (10.67%) Strategic Thinking
12 7 (9.33%) User Experience
13 6 (8.00%) Decision-Making
13 6 (8.00%) Roadmaps
13 6 (8.00%) Software Delivery
13 6 (8.00%) TDD
13 6 (8.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 24 (32.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (6.67%) Java
2 5 (6.67%) TypeScript
3 3 (4.00%) Python
3 3 (4.00%) SQL
4 2 (2.67%) C#
4 2 (2.67%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.67%) Ruby
5 1 (1.33%) Go
5 1 (1.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (4.00%) Degree
2 1 (1.33%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.00%) Accessibility
1 3 (4.00%) SLA
2 2 (2.67%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 29 (38.67%) SAP
2 27 (36.00%) Salesforce
3 26 (34.67%) Adobe
3 26 (34.67%) Sitecore
4 17 (22.67%) Microsoft
5 12 (16.00%) Dell
5 12 (16.00%) Intel
6 7 (9.33%) Google
7 6 (8.00%) CheckPoint
8 5 (6.67%) HubSpot
9 4 (5.33%) Aruba
9 4 (5.33%) Cisco
9 4 (5.33%) F5
9 4 (5.33%) Meraki
10 3 (4.00%) Optimizely
11 2 (2.67%) Apple
11 2 (2.67%) MuleSoft
11 2 (2.67%) Sophos
12 1 (1.33%) Anaplan