E-Commerce Job Trends in the UK excluding London

E-Commerce (Electronic Commerce)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring E-Commerce skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 127 173
Rank change year-on-year -25 +46 -41
Permanent jobs citing E-Commerce 575 773 614
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.36% 2.15% 1.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% 2.42% 2.01%
Number of salaries quoted 426 415 515
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £30,850
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,125 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £66,250 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -7.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,283 31,985 30,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 78.49% 89.04% 88.64%
Number of salaries quoted 19,187 14,363 22,780
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

E-Commerce
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

E-Commerce job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

E-Commerce
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing E-Commerce.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing E-Commerce

E-Commerce
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing E-Commerce in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for E-Commerce in the UK excluding London

E-Commerce
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing E-Commerce within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands +74 184 £35,000 - 55
South East -16 157 £50,000 -16.67% 159
North of England -41 125 £52,500 +16.67% 124
West Midlands +75 103 £45,000 -18.18% 27
East Midlands +10 79 £30,000 -14.29% 27
East of England -15 57 £55,000 +18.92% 84
Yorkshire +13 56 £55,000 +15.79% 52
North West -49 54 £45,000 +5.88% 56
South West -52 28 £42,500 -26.09% 55
North East +8 15 £62,500 +13.64% 17
Scotland -14 14 £73,750 +126.92% 13
Wales -7 7 £35,000 -6.67% 25
Northern Ireland -11 3 £30,000 -40.00% 13
E-Commerce
UK

E-Commerce
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Application Platforms
1 23 (4.00%) CMS
2 5 (0.87%) Headless CMS
3 2 (0.35%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.17%) Apache
4 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.17%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.17%) nginx
Applications
1 19 (3.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.22%) Photoshop
3 5 (0.87%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 5 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.35%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.35%) Trello
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 43 (7.48%) Shopify
2 29 (5.04%) Magento
3 8 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.87%) Dynamics NAV
4 5 (0.87%) SAP Hybris
5 2 (0.35%) OpenCart
5 2 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.17%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.17%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 70 (12.17%) SaaS
2 67 (11.65%) Azure
3 43 (7.48%) AWS
3 43 (7.48%) Google Analytics
4 41 (7.13%) Snowflake
5 22 (3.83%) GCP
6 20 (3.48%) Google Ads
7 14 (2.43%) Power Platform
8 7 (1.22%) GitHub
9 6 (1.04%) SAP Commerce Cloud
10 5 (0.87%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (0.87%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (0.87%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (0.87%) PaaS
10 5 (0.87%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
11 4 (0.70%) ChatGPT
11 4 (0.70%) Firebase
12 3 (0.52%) GitHub Copilot
12 3 (0.52%) Kong
12 3 (0.52%) MailChimp
Communications & Networking
1 37 (6.43%) Remote Desktop
2 8 (1.39%) Network Security
3 7 (1.22%) LAN
3 7 (1.22%) VoIP
3 7 (1.22%) WAN
4 2 (0.35%) FTP
4 2 (0.35%) HTTP
4 2 (0.35%) SSL
5 1 (0.17%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (5.91%) Data Warehouse
2 33 (5.74%) Looker
3 18 (3.13%) SQL Server
4 15 (2.61%) MySQL
4 15 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (2.43%) Power BI
6 7 (1.22%) MongoDB
7 6 (1.04%) BigQuery
7 6 (1.04%) Tableau
8 5 (0.87%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (0.70%) Redis
10 3 (0.52%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.35%) Metadata
12 1 (0.17%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.17%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.17%) Power Query
12 1 (0.17%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 14 (2.43%) Git
2 11 (1.91%) JIRA
3 4 (0.70%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.35%) GitLab
5 1 (0.17%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.17%) GCC
5 1 (0.17%) Postman
5 1 (0.17%) Selenium
5 1 (0.17%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.17%) SonarQube
General
1 171 (29.74%) Marketing
2 165 (28.70%) Social Skills
3 134 (23.30%) Analytical Skills
4 131 (22.78%) Retail
5 64 (11.13%) Finance
6 32 (5.57%) Law
7 30 (5.22%) Games
8 24 (4.17%) Manufacturing
9 15 (2.61%) Advertising
10 14 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
11 13 (2.26%) Electronics
12 11 (1.91%) Pharmaceutical
13 8 (1.39%) Legal
14 6 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.87%) Back Office
16 2 (0.35%) Dutch Language
16 2 (0.35%) French Language
16 2 (0.35%) German Language
16 2 (0.35%) Italian Language
16 2 (0.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 79 (13.74%) Lead
2 64 (11.13%) Analyst
3 54 (9.39%) Developer
4 50 (8.70%) Senior
5 45 (7.83%) Architect
6 37 (6.43%) 2nd Line Support
7 36 (6.26%) Data Architect
8 35 (6.09%) Business Analyst
9 32 (5.57%) Software Engineer
10 30 (5.22%) E-Commerce Manager
11 28 (4.87%) Digital Analyst
11 28 (4.87%) E-Commerce Specialist
12 27 (4.70%) 1st/2nd Line Support
13 26 (4.52%) Development Manager
13 26 (4.52%) Digital Business Analyst
14 25 (4.35%) Business Manager
14 25 (4.35%) Software Developer
15 24 (4.17%) Business Development Manager
16 18 (3.13%) Software Analyst
17 17 (2.96%) Software Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (7.13%) HTML
2 27 (4.70%) React
3 24 (4.17%) RESTful
4 22 (3.83%) REST
5 18 (3.13%) CSS
6 15 (2.61%) Next.js
7 13 (2.26%) Node.js
8 12 (2.09%) GraphQL
9 11 (1.91%) .NET
10 9 (1.57%) SOAP
11 6 (1.04%) Laravel
11 6 (1.04%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (0.87%) Middleware
12 5 (0.87%) Vue
13 4 (0.70%) .NET Core
13 4 (0.70%) Symfony
14 3 (0.52%) Apollo GraphQL
14 3 (0.52%) EDI
14 3 (0.52%) React Native
14 3 (0.52%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 83 (14.43%) Onboarding
2 26 (4.52%) Driving Licence
3 19 (3.30%) Self-Motivation
3 19 (3.30%) Social Media
4 15 (2.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 15 (2.61%) Product Ownership
5 14 (2.43%) Greenfield Project
6 11 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
6 11 (1.91%) Marketing Technology
7 10 (1.74%) Blog
7 10 (1.74%) Mobile App
8 9 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (1.39%) EPoS
10 7 (1.22%) Client/Server
10 7 (1.22%) Cloud Native
11 4 (0.70%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.52%) Digital Media
12 3 (0.52%) FMCG
12 3 (0.52%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (0.52%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.91%) Linux
2 1 (0.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (24.17%) Problem-Solving
2 126 (21.91%) Analytics
3 123 (21.39%) Continuous Improvement
4 120 (20.87%) CRM
5 98 (17.04%) Digital Marketing
6 85 (14.78%) Customer Experience
7 82 (14.26%) ERP
7 82 (14.26%) User Experience
8 80 (13.91%) Mentoring
9 79 (13.74%) Logistics
10 72 (12.52%) SEO
11 70 (12.17%) B2B
12 69 (12.00%) Agile
13 67 (11.65%) Stakeholder Management
14 62 (10.78%) Collaborative Working
14 62 (10.78%) Customer Service
15 56 (9.74%) Analytical Thinking
16 52 (9.04%) Roadmaps
17 47 (8.17%) Coaching
18 46 (8.00%) Data Privacy
Programming Languages
1 84 (14.61%) SQL
2 45 (7.83%) C#
3 36 (6.26%) JavaScript
4 33 (5.74%) Python
5 32 (5.57%) Java
6 16 (2.78%) TypeScript
7 13 (2.26%) PHP
8 8 (1.39%) C
8 8 (1.39%) C++
8 8 (1.39%) PL/SQL
9 5 (0.87%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.35%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.17%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.17%) ActionScript 2.0
11 1 (0.17%) Bash
11 1 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.17%) Go
11 1 (0.17%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 63 (10.96%) Degree
2 15 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (1.04%) Master's Degree
4 4 (0.70%) ACCA
4 4 (0.70%) CIMA
5 3 (0.52%) NVQ Level 3
6 1 (0.17%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (11.13%) Accessibility
2 51 (8.87%) QA
3 16 (2.78%) PMO
4 8 (1.39%) GDPR
5 5 (0.87%) PCI DSS
5 5 (0.87%) SLA
6 2 (0.35%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.17%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (2.09%) Docker
2 1 (0.17%) Squid
Systems Management
1 4 (0.70%) Terraform
2 2 (0.35%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.17%) Kibana
Vendors
1 70 (12.17%) Google
2 65 (11.30%) Microsoft
3 22 (3.83%) Adobe
4 13 (2.26%) Salesforce
5 12 (2.09%) SAP
6 10 (1.74%) WooCommerce
7 7 (1.22%) TikTok
8 6 (1.04%) Ahrefs
8 6 (1.04%) HubSpot
9 5 (0.87%) ConnectWise
9 5 (0.87%) Facebook
9 5 (0.87%) Informatica
9 5 (0.87%) MuleSoft
9 5 (0.87%) Oracle
9 5 (0.87%) ServiceNow
9 5 (0.87%) YouTube
10 3 (0.52%) IBM
10 3 (0.52%) Pardot
10 3 (0.52%) Screaming Frog
11 2 (0.35%) New Relic