Shopify Contracts

Shopify
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Shopify skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Shopify over the 6 months leading up to 25 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 488 499 642
Rank change year-on-year +11 +143 +96
Contract jobs citing Shopify 34 70 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.16% 0.094%
As % of the Business Applications category 1.39% 2.22% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 36 32
10th Percentile £162 £238 £200
25th Percentile £234 £269 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £350 £350
Median % change year-on-year +39.29% - -35.78%
75th Percentile £594 £411 £478
90th Percentile £630 £494 £645
UK excluding London median daily rate £250 £450 £300
% change year-on-year -44.44% +50.00% -33.33%

All Business Application Skills
UK

Shopify 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 2,438 3,149 3,724
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.45% 7.39% 6.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,386 1,824 2,137
10th Percentile £400 £375 £363
25th Percentile £475 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £680
90th Percentile £788 £788 £794
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £525 £540
% change year-on-year +2.43% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 111 57
10th Percentile £22.27 £14.71 £22.58
25th Percentile £38.58 £21.25 £34.62
Median hourly rate £60.00 £40.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -18.37% +50.79%
75th Percentile £76.64 £57.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £86.00 £65.00 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £40.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +50.00% -23.81% +130.77%

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 25 May 2025.

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 25 May 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 33 £488 +39.29% 1,492
London +33 27 £560 +72.31% 222
Work from Home +22 6 £388 +14.81% 751
UK excluding London +34 5 £250 -44.44% 1,427
North of England +17 4 £375 -28.57% 356
North West +6 2 £375 -28.57% 187
South East +42 1 £155 -65.56% 367
Yorkshire - 1 £500 - 130
North East - 1 £250 - 41

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 (8.82%) Confluence
2 1 (2.94%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (2.94%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Adobe After Effects
1 2 (5.88%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (5.88%) Blender
1 2 (5.88%) CINEMA 4D
1 2 (5.88%) Final Cut Pro
1 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.94%) Chatbot
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (14.71%) Magento
2 2 (5.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (5.88%) Oracle Retail
2 2 (5.88%) SAP CX
2 2 (5.88%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (2.94%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 23 (67.65%) BigCommerce
2 8 (23.53%) GCP
3 5 (14.71%) Google Analytics
3 5 (14.71%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
4 3 (8.82%) Azure
4 3 (8.82%) Power Platform
5 2 (5.88%) Adobe Analytics
5 2 (5.88%) AWS
5 2 (5.88%) Boomi
5 2 (5.88%) Cloud Run
5 2 (5.88%) Cloudflare
5 2 (5.88%) Datadog
5 2 (5.88%) Figma
5 2 (5.88%) GitHub
5 2 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (5.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (5.88%) Oracle CX
5 2 (5.88%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 1 (2.94%) Asana
6 1 (2.94%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.88%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.82%) Power BI
2 1 (2.94%) BigQuery
2 1 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.94%) Looker
2 1 (2.94%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (14.71%) Jenkins
2 4 (11.76%) Git
2 4 (11.76%) JIRA
3 2 (5.88%) Bitbucket
3 2 (5.88%) CircleCI
3 2 (5.88%) Cypress.io
3 2 (5.88%) Grunt
3 2 (5.88%) JMeter
3 2 (5.88%) Terragrunt
3 2 (5.88%) webpack
4 1 (2.94%) ESLint
4 1 (2.94%) GitLab
4 1 (2.94%) Gradle
4 1 (2.94%) Maven
General
1 24 (70.59%) Retail
2 21 (61.76%) Social Skills
3 8 (23.53%) Marketing
4 6 (17.65%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (14.71%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (8.82%) Finance
8 2 (5.88%) Advertising
8 2 (5.88%) Games
8 2 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (2.94%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 5 (14.71%) Analyst
1 5 (14.71%) Business Analyst
1 5 (14.71%) Senior
2 4 (11.76%) Architect
3 3 (8.82%) Developer
3 3 (8.82%) GCP Architect
3 3 (8.82%) Shopify Developer
4 2 (5.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Digital Analyst
4 2 (5.88%) Digital Business Analyst
4 2 (5.88%) E-Commerce Analyst
4 2 (5.88%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (5.88%) Lead
4 2 (5.88%) Project Manager
4 2 (5.88%) Release Manager
4 2 (5.88%) SAP Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (5.88%) Senior Business Analyst
4 2 (5.88%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (58.82%) VML
2 5 (14.71%) CSS
3 4 (11.76%) HTML
4 3 (8.82%) GraphQL
4 3 (8.82%) Node.js
4 3 (8.82%) REST
4 3 (8.82%) Sass
4 3 (8.82%) Web Services
5 2 (5.88%) CSS3
5 2 (5.88%) EDI
5 2 (5.88%) Framer.js
5 2 (5.88%) HTML5
5 2 (5.88%) Jest
5 2 (5.88%) Kafka
5 2 (5.88%) LESS
5 2 (5.88%) Middleware
5 2 (5.88%) React
5 2 (5.88%) SAP Fiori
5 2 (5.88%) Semantic HTML
5 2 (5.88%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.82%) Cloud Native
1 3 (8.82%) Data Structures
1 3 (8.82%) Product Ownership
1 3 (8.82%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (5.88%) Animation
3 1 (2.94%) AI Agents
3 1 (2.94%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.94%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.94%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.94%) Android
1 1 (2.94%) Apple iOS
1 1 (2.94%) Linux
1 1 (2.94%) Unix
1 1 (2.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (58.82%) B2B
1 20 (58.82%) Customer Acquisition
1 20 (58.82%) E-Commerce
2 13 (38.24%) Agile
3 12 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (32.35%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (23.53%) Time Management
6 6 (17.65%) User Experience
7 5 (14.71%) Analytics
7 5 (14.71%) Artificial Intelligence
7 5 (14.71%) DevOps
7 5 (14.71%) Mentoring
7 5 (14.71%) Project Management
7 5 (14.71%) SEO
8 4 (11.76%) Business Analysis
8 4 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (11.76%) Release Management
8 4 (11.76%) Scrum
8 4 (11.76%) User Acceptance Testing
8 4 (11.76%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 6 (17.65%) JavaScript
2 5 (14.71%) Java
3 4 (11.76%) SQL
4 3 (8.82%) TypeScript
5 2 (5.88%) C#
5 2 (5.88%) PHP
6 1 (2.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.94%) Kotlin
6 1 (2.94%) Objective-C
6 1 (2.94%) Python
6 1 (2.94%) Swift
Qualifications
1 4 (11.76%) Degree
2 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.94%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.76%) Accessibility
1 4 (11.76%) QA
2 2 (5.88%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.94%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (8.82%) Terraform
2 2 (5.88%) Ansible
2 2 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.88%) Progress Chef
2 2 (5.88%) Puppet
2 2 (5.88%) Salt
Vendors
1 26 (76.47%) Adobe
1 26 (76.47%) Salesforce
2 24 (70.59%) SAP
3 20 (58.82%) Sitecore
4 7 (20.59%) Google
5 6 (17.65%) Microsoft
6 3 (8.82%) WooCommerce
7 2 (5.88%) Dell
7 2 (5.88%) MuleSoft
7 2 (5.88%) NCR
7 2 (5.88%) New Relic
7 2 (5.88%) Oracle
7 2 (5.88%) VeriFone
8 1 (2.94%) Sun