E-Commerce Contract Job Trends in West London

E-Commerce (Electronic Commerce)
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West London requiring E-Commerce skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 24 30
Rank change year-on-year +17 +6 +9
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 39 5 13
As % of all contract jobs in West London 13.36% 2.46% 3.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.83% 2.98% 3.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 5
10th Percentile - £327 -
25th Percentile - £358 £285
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £419 £290
Median % change year-on-year -10.45% +44.40% -18.31%
75th Percentile - £483 £613
90th Percentile - £516 £635
London median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £72.00
London median hourly rate £29.55 £44.71 £57.50
% change year-on-year -33.89% -22.25% -17.86%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West London

E-Commerce falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 263 168 336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 90.07% 82.76% 88.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 123 250
10th Percentile £204 £220 £200
25th Percentile £355 £363 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £409 £525
Median % change year-on-year +22.25% -22.10% +3.37%
75th Percentile £614 £491 £600
90th Percentile £686 £584 £648
London median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 11 19
10th Percentile £19.54 £20.75 £16.65
25th Percentile £21.46 £21.51 £31.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.59 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.61% -55.07% -16.00%
75th Percentile £31.49 £30.05 £69.50
90th Percentile £38.45 £32.50 £86.00
London median hourly rate £32.45 £35.00 £32.60
% change year-on-year -7.29% +7.38% -13.08%

E-Commerce
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing E-Commerce relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West London.

E-Commerce job vacancy trend in West London

E-Commerce
Daily Rate Trend in West London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing E-Commerce.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing E-Commerce

E-Commerce
Hourly Rate Trend in West London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing E-Commerce.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing E-Commerce

E-Commerce
Contract Job Locations in West London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing E-Commerce within the West London region over the 6 months to 4 January 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
Hounslow 0 2 - - 2
Hillingdon - 2 £375 -
Ealing - 1 - -
E-Commerce
London

E-Commerce
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West London 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:

Cloud Services
1 20 (51.28%) SaaS
2 10 (25.64%) Datadog
3 3 (7.69%) AWS
3 3 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (7.69%) Google Tag Manager
3 3 (7.69%) Serverless
4 2 (5.13%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) Cisco IPT
Development Applications
1 31 (79.49%) Jenkins
2 3 (7.69%) Browser DevTools
2 3 (7.69%) Charles Proxy
2 3 (7.69%) Cypress.io
2 3 (7.69%) Fiddler
General
1 4 (10.26%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.69%) Electronics
3 2 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.56%) Advertising
4 1 (2.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 16 (41.03%) Senior
2 12 (30.77%) Consultant
2 12 (30.77%) Senior Consultant
2 12 (30.77%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 12 (30.77%) Senior Technical Consultant
2 12 (30.77%) Senior Technical Specialist
2 12 (30.77%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
2 12 (30.77%) Technical Consultant
2 12 (30.77%) Technical Specialist
3 8 (20.51%) Cloud Specialist
4 5 (12.82%) Developer
4 5 (12.82%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (7.69%) Analyst
5 3 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Cloud Native Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Lambda Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Business Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (79.49%) GraphQL
1 31 (79.49%) Node.js
2 28 (71.79%) Playwright
2 28 (71.79%) Vitest
3 16 (41.03%) YAML
4 8 (20.51%) OpenTelemetry
5 3 (7.69%) Lambda Expressions
5 3 (7.69%) Next.js
5 3 (7.69%) React
5 3 (7.69%) Redux
6 2 (5.13%) iOS SDK
Miscellaneous
1 28 (71.79%) Cloud Native
2 5 (12.82%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.13%) Mobile App
3 2 (5.13%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.13%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.56%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.13%) Android
1 2 (5.13%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (84.62%) Agile
1 33 (84.62%) CI/CD
2 30 (76.92%) DevOps
3 28 (71.79%) Coaching
3 28 (71.79%) Mentoring
4 18 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (43.59%) Containerisation
6 16 (41.03%) Software Engineering
7 15 (38.46%) Process Improvement
8 14 (35.90%) Observability
8 14 (35.90%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (35.90%) Test Automation
9 13 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
10 12 (30.77%) API Design
10 12 (30.77%) Code Quality
10 12 (30.77%) Performance Optimisation
11 11 (28.21%) Full-Stack Development
12 3 (7.69%) Continuous Delivery
12 3 (7.69%) TDD
12 3 (7.69%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 31 (79.49%) TypeScript
2 3 (7.69%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 2 (5.13%) GDPR
System Software
1 30 (76.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (76.92%) Kubernetes
2 8 (20.51%) Grafana
2 8 (20.51%) Prometheus
3 2 (5.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (7.69%) Adobe
1 3 (7.69%) Google
1 3 (7.69%) OneTrust
1 3 (7.69%) Tealium
2 2 (5.13%) Splunk