E-Commerce Contracts with Work from Home Options

E-Commerce (Electronic Commerce)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for E-Commerce skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited E-Commerce over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 152 133 98
Rank change year-on-year -19 -35 +8
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 211 460 1,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.42% 1.86% 2.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.62% 2.07% 3.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 296 858
10th Percentile £300 £350 £367
25th Percentile £400 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £539 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.19% +2.62% +14.75%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £644
90th Percentile £638 £813 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 5
10th Percentile - - £47.00
25th Percentile £58.75 £35.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.40% +24.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £61.25 £97.50 £76.64
90th Percentile - £99.00 -
UK median hourly rate £13.00 £65.50 £51.25
% change year-on-year -80.15% +27.80% +16.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

E-Commerce is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,053 22,182 40,030
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.02% 89.73% 91.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,754 15,684 29,076
10th Percentile £325 £363 £361
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 510 541
10th Percentile £14.94 £18.63 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.44 £27.48 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.93 £37.78
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +40.11% +54.18%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +4.82%

E-Commerce
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing E-Commerce as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

E-Commerce trend for jobs with a WFH option

E-Commerce
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing E-Commerce.

E-Commerce daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

E-Commerce
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing E-Commerce over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

E-Commerce daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

E-Commerce
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing E-Commerce.

E-Commerce hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

E-Commerce
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 14 (6.64%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 14 (6.64%) CMS
2 9 (4.27%) Confluence
3 4 (1.90%) Headless CMS
4 3 (1.42%) Apache Solr
4 3 (1.42%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.42%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.95%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.47%) Apache
6 1 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.47%) Drupal
6 1 (0.47%) IIS
6 1 (0.47%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.95%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.47%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.47%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 13 (6.16%) SAP Hybris
2 10 (4.74%) Shopify
3 9 (4.27%) Payment Gateway
4 8 (3.79%) Magento
5 4 (1.90%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.95%) JDE OneWorld
6 2 (0.95%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.47%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.47%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 45 (21.33%) AWS
2 16 (7.58%) Azure
3 15 (7.11%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 10 (4.74%) GCP
5 9 (4.27%) Serverless
6 7 (3.32%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (2.84%) SaaS
7 6 (2.84%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 6 (2.84%) Twilio
8 5 (2.37%) GitHub
9 4 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.90%) Figma
9 4 (1.90%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 4 (1.90%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 4 (1.90%) Stripe
10 3 (1.42%) Amazon Kinesis
10 3 (1.42%) Amplience
10 3 (1.42%) BigCommerce
10 3 (1.42%) Contentstack
10 3 (1.42%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.32%) Internet
2 3 (1.42%) HTTP
3 1 (0.47%) Firewall
3 1 (0.47%) FTP
3 1 (0.47%) LAN
3 1 (0.47%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.47%) WAN
3 1 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (2.37%) MySQL
2 5 (2.37%) NoSQL
3 4 (1.90%) Data Lake
3 4 (1.90%) Tableau
4 3 (1.42%) Amazon QuickSight
4 3 (1.42%) Big Data
4 3 (1.42%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.42%) SQLite
5 2 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.95%) Delta Lake
5 2 (0.95%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (0.95%) GIS
5 2 (0.95%) KDB
5 2 (0.95%) Looker
5 2 (0.95%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.95%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 21 (9.95%) JIRA
2 20 (9.48%) Git
3 8 (3.79%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.84%) GitLab
5 4 (1.90%) Cypress.io
5 4 (1.90%) Postman
6 3 (1.42%) Selenium
7 2 (0.95%) Appium
7 2 (0.95%) Maven
7 2 (0.95%) rollup.js
7 2 (0.95%) Storybook
7 2 (0.95%) TestCafe
7 2 (0.95%) Vite
7 2 (0.95%) WebDriver
7 2 (0.95%) webpack
7 2 (0.95%) WebPageTest
8 1 (0.47%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.47%) Axure RP
8 1 (0.47%) GoCD
8 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 47 (22.27%) Retail
2 45 (21.33%) Social Skills
3 23 (10.90%) Marketing
4 21 (9.95%) Finance
5 11 (5.21%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (4.74%) Manufacturing
7 7 (3.32%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (3.32%) Publishing
8 4 (1.90%) Banking
9 3 (1.42%) Front Office
9 3 (1.42%) Legal
9 3 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.95%) Advertising
10 2 (0.95%) German Language
10 2 (0.95%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.47%) Back Office
11 1 (0.47%) Billing
11 1 (0.47%) Games
11 1 (0.47%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 78 (36.97%) Developer
2 29 (13.74%) Senior
3 24 (11.37%) Project Manager
4 21 (9.95%) E-Commerce Developer
5 17 (8.06%) Analyst
6 15 (7.11%) Architect
7 14 (6.64%) Business Analyst
8 12 (5.69%) Consultant
8 12 (5.69%) Full Stack Developer
9 11 (5.21%) Java Developer
9 11 (5.21%) JavaScript Developer
10 10 (4.74%) E-Commerce Manager
10 10 (4.74%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 10 (4.74%) React Developer
11 9 (4.27%) Senior Developer
12 7 (3.32%) Data Engineer
12 7 (3.32%) E-Commerce Project Manager
12 7 (3.32%) Payments Consultant
13 6 (2.84%) Test Engineer
13 6 (2.84%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (15.64%) React
2 29 (13.74%) Node.js
3 25 (11.85%) CSS
4 24 (11.37%) HTML
5 20 (9.48%) GraphQL
6 15 (7.11%) Next.js
6 15 (7.11%) REST
7 13 (6.16%) Web Services
8 9 (4.27%) JSON
8 9 (4.27%) OAuth
9 8 (3.79%) OpenID
10 6 (2.84%) AngularJS
10 6 (2.84%) CSS3
10 6 (2.84%) HTML5
10 6 (2.84%) React Native
10 6 (2.84%) XML
11 5 (2.37%) Ajax
11 5 (2.37%) RESTful
11 5 (2.37%) XGBoost
12 4 (1.90%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.11%) Mobile App
2 14 (6.64%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (6.16%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.32%) Algorithms
4 7 (3.32%) EMV
4 7 (3.32%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.37%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.37%) FMCG
6 4 (1.90%) Marketing Technology
6 4 (1.90%) Taxonomies
7 3 (1.42%) Equities
7 3 (1.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.42%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.42%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.42%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.95%) Cloud Native
8 2 (0.95%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.95%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.27%) Android
2 8 (3.79%) Linux
3 7 (3.32%) Unix
4 5 (2.37%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.42%) Windows
6 1 (0.47%) CentOS
6 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.47%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (34.60%) Agile
2 28 (13.27%) CI/CD
3 27 (12.80%) Scrum
4 26 (12.32%) Project Management
5 25 (11.85%) CRM
6 24 (11.37%) DevOps
6 24 (11.37%) Test Automation
7 22 (10.43%) Analytics
7 22 (10.43%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (9.00%) Full Stack Development
9 18 (8.53%) User Experience
10 16 (7.58%) Microservices
11 15 (7.11%) B2C
11 15 (7.11%) TDD
11 15 (7.11%) Waterfall
11 15 (7.11%) Web Development
12 14 (6.64%) Software Engineering
12 14 (6.64%) Stakeholder Management
13 12 (5.69%) B2B
13 12 (5.69%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 50 (23.70%) JavaScript
2 27 (12.80%) Java
2 27 (12.80%) TypeScript
3 21 (9.95%) SQL
4 20 (9.48%) Python
5 9 (4.27%) Bash
6 5 (2.37%) Go
6 5 (2.37%) PHP
6 5 (2.37%) Scala
7 4 (1.90%) Kotlin
8 2 (0.95%) C++
8 2 (0.95%) Perl
9 1 (0.47%) C#
9 1 (0.47%) Groovy
9 1 (0.47%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.47%) R
9 1 (0.47%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (4.74%) Degree
2 3 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.95%) Azure Certification
3 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.47%) CBAP
4 1 (0.47%) IIBA
4 1 (0.47%) ISEB
4 1 (0.47%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.47%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (0.47%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.69%) QA
2 8 (3.79%) Accessibility
2 8 (3.79%) PMO
3 5 (2.37%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.90%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.90%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.95%) GDPR
5 2 (0.95%) PSD2
5 2 (0.95%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (6.16%) Docker
2 3 (1.42%) zsh
3 1 (0.47%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (7.11%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.90%) Grafana
3 1 (0.47%) Kibana
3 1 (0.47%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (9.00%) Adobe
2 18 (8.53%) SAP
3 13 (6.16%) Salesforce
4 11 (5.21%) Google
5 10 (4.74%) Microsoft
6 3 (1.42%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 3 (1.42%) Sitecore
7 2 (0.95%) Databricks
7 2 (0.95%) Dell
7 2 (0.95%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.95%) Intel
7 2 (0.95%) Marketo
7 2 (0.95%) PayPal
7 2 (0.95%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.47%) Cisco
8 1 (0.47%) Citrix
8 1 (0.47%) Meraki
8 1 (0.47%) Oracle
8 1 (0.47%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.47%) Splunk