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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 154 131 97
Rank change year-on-year -23 -34 +7
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 209 457 1,252
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.42% 1.84% 2.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.61% 2.06% 3.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 297 876
10th Percentile £300 £373 £363
25th Percentile £400 £425 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +2.86% +13.51%
75th Percentile £577 £650 £638
90th Percentile £636 £830 £749
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.69%
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% +38.43%
75th Percentile £61.25 £97.50 £76.64
90th Percentile - £99.00 -
UK median hourly rate £13.00 £65.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -80.15% +24.76% +18.91%

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 12,942 22,217 40,480
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.66% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,728 15,724 29,400
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.49% +3.62% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £633
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 567 510 538
10th Percentile £14.70 £18.63 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.13 £26.46 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +32.91% +64.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

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 20 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 (6.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 13 (6.22%) CMS
3 10 (4.78%) Confluence
4 4 (1.91%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.91%) Headless CMS
5 3 (1.44%) Apache Solr
5 3 (1.44%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.96%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.48%) Apache
7 1 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.48%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (1.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.96%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.48%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.48%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 13 (6.22%) SAP Hybris
2 9 (4.31%) Payment Gateway
2 9 (4.31%) Shopify
3 8 (3.83%) Magento
4 4 (1.91%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.96%) JDE OneWorld
5 2 (0.96%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.48%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.48%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 44 (21.05%) AWS
2 16 (7.66%) Azure
3 15 (7.18%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 9 (4.31%) GCP
4 9 (4.31%) Serverless
5 7 (3.35%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (2.87%) SaaS
6 6 (2.87%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
6 6 (2.87%) Twilio
7 5 (2.39%) GitHub
8 4 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.91%) Figma
8 4 (1.91%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 4 (1.91%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 4 (1.91%) Stripe
9 3 (1.44%) Amplience
9 3 (1.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (1.44%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (1.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (1.44%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.35%) Internet
2 3 (1.44%) HTTP
3 1 (0.48%) Firewall
3 1 (0.48%) FTP
3 1 (0.48%) LAN
3 1 (0.48%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.48%) WAN
3 1 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.87%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (2.39%) MySQL
3 4 (1.91%) Big Data
3 4 (1.91%) NoSQL
3 4 (1.91%) Tableau
4 3 (1.44%) Amazon QuickSight
4 3 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (1.44%) Data Lake
4 3 (1.44%) Delta Lake
4 3 (1.44%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.44%) Spark SQL
4 3 (1.44%) SQLite
5 2 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.96%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (0.96%) GIS
5 2 (0.96%) KDB
5 2 (0.96%) Looker
5 2 (0.96%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 22 (10.53%) JIRA
2 19 (9.09%) Git
3 8 (3.83%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.35%) GitLab
5 5 (2.39%) Cypress.io
5 5 (2.39%) Postman
6 3 (1.44%) Selenium
7 2 (0.96%) Appium
7 2 (0.96%) Maven
7 2 (0.96%) rollup.js
7 2 (0.96%) Storybook
7 2 (0.96%) TestCafe
7 2 (0.96%) Vite
7 2 (0.96%) WebDriver
7 2 (0.96%) webpack
7 2 (0.96%) WebPageTest
8 1 (0.48%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.48%) Axure RP
8 1 (0.48%) GoCD
8 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 45 (21.53%) Retail
1 45 (21.53%) Social Skills
2 22 (10.53%) Marketing
3 21 (10.05%) Finance
4 11 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.78%) Manufacturing
6 7 (3.35%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (3.35%) Publishing
7 5 (2.39%) Banking
8 4 (1.91%) Front Office
9 3 (1.44%) Legal
9 3 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.96%) Advertising
10 2 (0.96%) German Language
10 2 (0.96%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.48%) Back Office
11 1 (0.48%) Billing
11 1 (0.48%) Games
11 1 (0.48%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.48%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 77 (36.84%) Developer
2 30 (14.35%) Senior
3 24 (11.48%) Project Manager
4 20 (9.57%) E-Commerce Developer
5 17 (8.13%) Analyst
6 14 (6.70%) Business Analyst
7 12 (5.74%) Architect
7 12 (5.74%) Java Developer
8 11 (5.26%) Consultant
8 11 (5.26%) Full Stack Developer
9 10 (4.78%) E-Commerce Manager
9 10 (4.78%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 10 (4.78%) JavaScript Developer
9 10 (4.78%) Senior Developer
10 9 (4.31%) React Developer
11 8 (3.83%) Data Engineer
12 7 (3.35%) E-Commerce Project Manager
12 7 (3.35%) Payments Consultant
13 6 (2.87%) Senior Java Developer
13 6 (2.87%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (15.31%) React
2 28 (13.40%) Node.js
3 23 (11.00%) CSS
4 22 (10.53%) HTML
5 18 (8.61%) GraphQL
6 15 (7.18%) Next.js
7 13 (6.22%) REST
8 11 (5.26%) Web Services
9 9 (4.31%) JSON
9 9 (4.31%) OAuth
10 8 (3.83%) OpenID
11 6 (2.87%) AngularJS
11 6 (2.87%) XML
12 5 (2.39%) CSS3
12 5 (2.39%) HTML5
12 5 (2.39%) React Native
12 5 (2.39%) RESTful
12 5 (2.39%) XGBoost
13 4 (1.91%) Jest
13 4 (1.91%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.70%) Distributed Systems
1 14 (6.70%) Mobile App
2 13 (6.22%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.35%) Algorithms
3 7 (3.35%) EMV
3 7 (3.35%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (2.39%) Data Structures
4 5 (2.39%) FMCG
5 4 (1.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (1.91%) Taxonomies
6 3 (1.44%) Equities
6 3 (1.44%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.44%) Marketing Technology
6 3 (1.44%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.44%) Virtual Team
7 2 (0.96%) Contactless
7 2 (0.96%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.96%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.83%) Android
1 8 (3.83%) Linux
2 7 (3.35%) Unix
3 4 (1.91%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.44%) Windows
5 1 (0.48%) CentOS
5 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.48%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (34.93%) Agile
2 27 (12.92%) CI/CD
2 27 (12.92%) Scrum
3 26 (12.44%) Project Management
4 24 (11.48%) CRM
4 24 (11.48%) Test Automation
5 23 (11.00%) DevOps
6 22 (10.53%) Analytics
6 22 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (8.61%) Full Stack Development
7 18 (8.61%) User Experience
8 15 (7.18%) Microservices
8 15 (7.18%) Software Engineering
9 14 (6.70%) B2C
9 14 (6.70%) Stakeholder Management
9 14 (6.70%) TDD
9 14 (6.70%) Waterfall
9 14 (6.70%) Web Development
10 12 (5.74%) B2B
10 12 (5.74%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 48 (22.97%) JavaScript
2 28 (13.40%) Java
3 26 (12.44%) TypeScript
4 22 (10.53%) SQL
5 19 (9.09%) Python
6 9 (4.31%) Bash
7 6 (2.87%) Scala
8 5 (2.39%) PHP
9 4 (1.91%) Go
9 4 (1.91%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.96%) C++
10 2 (0.96%) Perl
11 1 (0.48%) C#
11 1 (0.48%) Groovy
11 1 (0.48%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.48%) R
11 1 (0.48%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (4.78%) Degree
2 3 (1.44%) Azure Certification
2 3 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (0.48%) CBAP
3 1 (0.48%) IIBA
3 1 (0.48%) ISEB
3 1 (0.48%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (0.48%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.74%) QA
2 8 (3.83%) Accessibility
2 8 (3.83%) PMO
3 5 (2.39%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.91%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.91%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.96%) GDPR
5 2 (0.96%) PSD2
5 2 (0.96%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (6.22%) Docker
2 3 (1.44%) zsh
3 1 (0.48%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (7.18%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.91%) Grafana
3 1 (0.48%) Kibana
3 1 (0.48%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (9.09%) Adobe
2 18 (8.61%) SAP
3 13 (6.22%) Salesforce
4 11 (5.26%) Microsoft
5 10 (4.78%) Google
6 3 (1.44%) Databricks
6 3 (1.44%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 3 (1.44%) Sitecore
7 2 (0.96%) Dell
7 2 (0.96%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.96%) Intel
7 2 (0.96%) Marketo
7 2 (0.96%) PayPal
7 2 (0.96%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.48%) Cisco
8 1 (0.48%) Citrix
8 1 (0.48%) Meraki
8 1 (0.48%) Oracle
8 1 (0.48%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.48%) Splunk