E-Commerce Job Trends

E-Commerce (Electronic Commerce)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs 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 176 126 175
Rank change year-on-year -50 +49 -45
Permanent jobs citing E-Commerce 822 1,225 1,014
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.37% 2.29% 1.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.69% 2.52% 2.02%
Number of salaries quoted 613 604 864
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,150 £33,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £91,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,750 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -9.09%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,596 48,532 50,084
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.00% 90.69% 89.94%
Number of salaries quoted 28,664 23,590 38,164
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%

E-Commerce
Job Vacancy Trend

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

E-Commerce job vacancy trend in the UK

E-Commerce
Salary Trend

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

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

E-Commerce
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for E-Commerce in the UK

E-Commerce
Top 17 Job Locations

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 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
England -40 755 £55,000 -4.35% 553
UK excluding London -25 575 £48,750 -2.50% 516
Work from Home -61 275 £45,000 -21.74% 389
London -59 200 £75,000 - 92
Midlands +74 184 £35,000 - 55
South East -16 157 £50,000 -16.67% 159
North of England -41 125 £52,500 +16.67% 127
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% 53
North West -49 54 £45,000 +5.88% 58
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
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 34 (4.14%) CMS
2 9 (1.09%) Apache
3 8 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (0.85%) Headless CMS
5 6 (0.73%) Anypoint
6 3 (0.36%) Confluence
6 3 (0.36%) WordPress
7 2 (0.24%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.12%) nginx
8 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 28 (3.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.85%) Photoshop
3 5 (0.61%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 5 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.61%) Trello
4 4 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 74 (9.00%) Shopify
2 43 (5.23%) Magento
3 9 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.97%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.73%) Payment Gateway
6 5 (0.61%) Dynamics NAV
6 5 (0.61%) SAP Hybris
7 2 (0.24%) OpenCart
7 2 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.12%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.12%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 101 (12.29%) Azure
2 79 (9.61%) SaaS
3 75 (9.12%) AWS
4 71 (8.64%) Google Analytics
5 42 (5.11%) GCP
6 41 (4.99%) Snowflake
7 32 (3.89%) Power Platform
8 31 (3.77%) GitHub
9 25 (3.04%) Google Ads
10 12 (1.46%) ChatGPT
10 12 (1.46%) Figma
10 12 (1.46%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (1.34%) GitHub Copilot
11 11 (1.34%) Microsoft 365
12 9 (1.09%) PaaS
13 8 (0.97%) Adobe Analytics
13 8 (0.97%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (0.97%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
13 8 (0.97%) SAP Commerce Cloud
14 7 (0.85%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (4.50%) Remote Desktop
2 8 (0.97%) Network Security
2 8 (0.97%) WAN
3 7 (0.85%) LAN
3 7 (0.85%) VoIP
4 3 (0.36%) Intranet
5 2 (0.24%) Firewall
5 2 (0.24%) FTP
5 2 (0.24%) HTTP
5 2 (0.24%) SSL
5 2 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.12%) Broadband
6 1 (0.12%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.12%) Internet
6 1 (0.12%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.12%) Value-Added Service
6 1 (0.12%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (5.47%) Data Warehouse
1 45 (5.47%) Looker
2 32 (3.89%) Power BI
3 26 (3.16%) Tableau
4 23 (2.80%) SQL Server
5 19 (2.31%) Metadata
6 16 (1.95%) MySQL
6 16 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (1.58%) BigQuery
8 12 (1.46%) Relational Database
9 10 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (0.85%) MongoDB
11 6 (0.73%) Amazon Athena
11 6 (0.73%) Amazon QuickSight
11 6 (0.73%) Apache Iceberg
12 5 (0.61%) Redis
13 3 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.36%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.36%) NoSQL
14 2 (0.24%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 37 (4.50%) Git
2 28 (3.41%) JIRA
3 15 (1.82%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.73%) Cypress.io
5 5 (0.61%) Visual Studio
5 5 (0.61%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (0.36%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.24%) GitLab
8 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.12%) GCC
8 1 (0.12%) Postman
8 1 (0.12%) Selenium
8 1 (0.12%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.12%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.12%) Vite
8 1 (0.12%) webpack
General
1 233 (28.35%) Social Skills
2 232 (28.22%) Marketing
3 183 (22.26%) Retail
4 173 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
5 101 (12.29%) Finance
6 37 (4.50%) Law
7 33 (4.01%) Games
8 27 (3.28%) Manufacturing
9 23 (2.80%) Organisational Skills
10 22 (2.68%) Advertising
11 17 (2.07%) Legal
12 13 (1.58%) Electronics
13 11 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
14 9 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 8 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (0.73%) Banking
16 6 (0.73%) Publishing
17 5 (0.61%) Back Office
18 4 (0.49%) Automotive
19 3 (0.36%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 106 (12.90%) Lead
2 97 (11.80%) Senior
3 85 (10.34%) Analyst
4 75 (9.12%) Developer
5 47 (5.72%) Architect
6 43 (5.23%) Software Engineer
7 41 (4.99%) E-Commerce Manager
8 38 (4.62%) Business Manager
8 38 (4.62%) Development Manager
9 37 (4.50%) 2nd Line Support
10 36 (4.38%) Business Development Manager
10 36 (4.38%) Data Architect
11 35 (4.26%) Business Analyst
12 30 (3.65%) Digital Analyst
13 28 (3.41%) E-Commerce Specialist
14 27 (3.28%) 1st/2nd Line Support
15 26 (3.16%) Digital Business Analyst
16 25 (3.04%) Software Developer
17 23 (2.80%) Senior Developer
18 22 (2.68%) Marketing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (7.79%) HTML
2 47 (5.72%) React
3 42 (5.11%) REST
4 40 (4.87%) CSS
5 37 (4.50%) RESTful
6 31 (3.77%) Node.js
7 23 (2.80%) GraphQL
8 20 (2.43%) Next.js
9 16 (1.95%) .NET
10 15 (1.82%) SOAP
11 11 (1.34%) Kafka
12 10 (1.22%) JSON
12 10 (1.22%) Vue
13 8 (0.97%) Tailwind CSS
14 7 (0.85%) HTML5
14 7 (0.85%) XML
15 6 (0.73%) Laravel
15 6 (0.73%) RabbitMQ
15 6 (0.73%) Web Services
16 5 (0.61%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 91 (11.07%) Onboarding
2 35 (4.26%) Self-Motivation
3 28 (3.41%) Driving Licence
4 27 (3.28%) Social Media
5 26 (3.16%) Product Ownership
6 20 (2.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 20 (2.43%) Greenfield Project
7 18 (2.19%) Analytical Mindset
8 12 (1.46%) Mobile App
9 11 (1.34%) Blog
9 11 (1.34%) Marketing Technology
10 10 (1.22%) FMCG
11 9 (1.09%) Algorithms
11 9 (1.09%) Cloud Native
11 9 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.09%) EPoS
12 8 (0.97%) ASIC
12 8 (0.97%) Data Structures
12 8 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
13 7 (0.85%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.95%) Linux
2 5 (0.61%) Unix
3 4 (0.49%) Android
3 4 (0.49%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.12%) Windows
4 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (23.24%) Analytics
2 177 (21.53%) Problem-Solving
3 156 (18.98%) Continuous Improvement
4 145 (17.64%) CRM
5 120 (14.60%) Agile
5 120 (14.60%) User Experience
6 118 (14.36%) Digital Marketing
7 109 (13.26%) Mentoring
8 107 (13.02%) Customer Experience
9 102 (12.41%) SEO
10 98 (11.92%) ERP
10 98 (11.92%) Stakeholder Management
11 88 (10.71%) Logistics
12 82 (9.98%) B2B
13 79 (9.61%) CI/CD
13 79 (9.61%) Roadmaps
14 76 (9.25%) AI
15 68 (8.27%) Analytical Thinking
15 68 (8.27%) Customer Service
16 65 (7.91%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 122 (14.84%) SQL
2 74 (9.00%) Python
3 72 (8.76%) JavaScript
4 52 (6.33%) C#
5 46 (5.60%) Java
6 41 (4.99%) TypeScript
7 15 (1.82%) PHP
8 8 (0.97%) Bash
8 8 (0.97%) C
8 8 (0.97%) C++
8 8 (0.97%) PL/SQL
9 5 (0.61%) Shell Script
9 5 (0.61%) T-SQL
10 4 (0.49%) Ruby
11 3 (0.36%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.36%) R
11 3 (0.36%) Scala
12 2 (0.24%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.24%) Go
12 2 (0.24%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 93 (11.31%) Degree
2 27 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (1.34%) ACCA
4 10 (1.22%) CIMA
4 10 (1.22%) Master's Degree
5 3 (0.36%) ISTQB
5 3 (0.36%) NVQ Level 3
6 2 (0.24%) CISSP
6 2 (0.24%) MBA
7 1 (0.12%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.12%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.12%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.12%) MCP
7 1 (0.12%) OSCP
7 1 (0.12%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (10.10%) Accessibility
2 60 (7.30%) QA
3 21 (2.55%) GDPR
4 20 (2.43%) PMO
5 13 (1.58%) Data Quality
6 6 (0.73%) PCI DSS
6 6 (0.73%) PERC
7 5 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.61%) SLA
7 5 (0.61%) WCAG
8 3 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.24%) NIST
10 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.12%) ITGC
10 1 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 18 (2.19%) Docker
2 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.12%) Squid
Systems Management
1 8 (0.97%) Kubernetes
1 8 (0.97%) Terraform
2 1 (0.12%) Ansible
2 1 (0.12%) Grafana
2 1 (0.12%) Kibana
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.12%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 110 (13.38%) Google
2 74 (9.00%) Microsoft
3 35 (4.26%) Adobe
4 23 (2.80%) Salesforce
5 20 (2.43%) SAP
6 15 (1.82%) WooCommerce
7 12 (1.46%) TikTok
8 11 (1.34%) HubSpot
9 10 (1.22%) MuleSoft
10 9 (1.09%) Informatica
10 9 (1.09%) Oracle
11 8 (0.97%) YouTube
12 7 (0.85%) Ahrefs
12 7 (0.85%) IBM
12 7 (0.85%) SnapLogic
13 6 (0.73%) Dell
13 6 (0.73%) Epicor
13 6 (0.73%) Infor
13 6 (0.73%) Software AG
13 6 (0.73%) TIBCO