E-Commerce Contracts in the West Midlands

E-Commerce (Electronic Commerce)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring E-Commerce skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited E-Commerce over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 100 116
Rank change year-on-year +11 +16 +3
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 8 11 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.59% 0.56% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.67% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 10
10th Percentile £193 £183 £253
25th Percentile £253 £277 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £388
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% +19.35% -13.89%
75th Percentile £538 £595 £434
90th Percentile - £650 £523
England median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £93.25
25th Percentile - - £94.38
Median hourly rate - - £97.50
75th Percentile - - £99.38
90th Percentile - - £99.75
England median hourly rate £29.00 £13.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year +123.08% -80.15% +31.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,188 1,636 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.33% 84.03% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 1,083 1,452
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £23.99 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £57.75 £51.25
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

E-Commerce
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing E-Commerce as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for E-Commerce in the West Midlands

E-Commerce
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing E-Commerce in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for E-Commerce in the West Midlands

E-Commerce
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing E-Commerce in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for E-Commerce in the West Midlands

E-Commerce
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing E-Commerce in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for E-Commerce in the West Midlands

E-Commerce
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Birmingham +18 8 £475 +59.00% 27
E-Commerce
England

E-Commerce
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (25.00%) CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Magento
2 1 (12.50%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Figma
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (12.50%) SaaS
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
3 1 (12.50%) Marketing
3 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Project Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Digital Merchandiser
3 1 (12.50%) E-Commerce Manager
3 1 (12.50%) E-Commerce Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) User Experience Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Ajax
1 2 (25.00%) CSS
1 2 (25.00%) CSS3
1 2 (25.00%) HTML
1 2 (25.00%) HTML5
1 2 (25.00%) KnockoutJS
1 2 (25.00%) Node.js
1 2 (25.00%) RequireJS
1 2 (25.00%) RESTful
2 1 (12.50%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
1 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing Execution System
1 1 (12.50%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) CRM
1 4 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 4 (50.00%) ERP
2 3 (37.50%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) User Experience
2 3 (37.50%) Waterfall
3 2 (25.00%) Analytics
3 2 (25.00%) Change Control
3 2 (25.00%) Front End Development
3 2 (25.00%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Personalization
3 2 (25.00%) PLM
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) Content Management
4 1 (12.50%) Document Management
4 1 (12.50%) PDM
4 1 (12.50%) SEO
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Adobe
2 1 (12.50%) Optimizely