Shopify Contracts

Shopify
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Shopify skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Shopify over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 511 626 743
Rank change year-on-year +115 +117 -78
Contract jobs citing Shopify 64 56 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.100% 0.11%
As % of the Business Applications category 2.03% 1.50% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 33 54
10th Percentile £223 £200 £376
25th Percentile £269 £273 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £350 £545
Median % change year-on-year - -35.78% +36.25%
75th Percentile £400 £475 £641
90th Percentile £520 £640 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £300 £438
% change year-on-year +37.50% -31.43% +45.83%

All Business Application Skills
UK

Shopify is in the Business Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for business application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 3,160 3,729 5,146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.34% 6.65% 5.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,826 2,140 3,180
10th Percentile £366 £363 £380
25th Percentile £457 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £688 £680 £663
90th Percentile £787 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £536 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% +2.14% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 58 48
10th Percentile £14.71 £22.71 £15.14
25th Percentile £21.25 £37.30 £21.00
Median hourly rate £40.16 £49.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.04% +40.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £57.45 £63.75 £52.44
90th Percentile £65.00 £72.25 £60.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.16 £52.50 £23.53
% change year-on-year -23.50% +123.17% -27.62%

Shopify
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Shopify as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Shopify in the UK

Shopify
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Shopify.

Daily rate trend for Shopify in the UK

Shopify
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Shopify over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Shopify in the UK

Shopify
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Shopify within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
England +86 54 £350 -6.67% 103
London +94 37 £325 -21.21% 40
Work from Home +110 22 £338 - 46
UK excluding London +43 16 £413 +37.50% 63
South East +14 6 £313 +20.19% 8
East of England +8 6 £375 +7.14% 9
South West - 3 - - 10
North of England +21 1 £525 +55.56% 30
North West - 1 £525 - 26

Shopify
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (4.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (3.13%) Anypoint
3 1 (1.56%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.56%) CMS
3 1 (1.56%) Confluence
3 1 (1.56%) Joomla!
3 1 (1.56%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (4.69%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (1.56%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (1.56%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (1.56%) Final Cut Pro
2 1 (1.56%) InVision
2 1 (1.56%) Photoshop
2 1 (1.56%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Magento
1 2 (3.13%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.56%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (1.56%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.56%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (1.56%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 29 (45.31%) BigCommerce
2 12 (18.75%) Azure
3 8 (12.50%) AWS
4 4 (6.25%) Power Platform
4 4 (6.25%) Serverless
5 3 (4.69%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (4.69%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (4.69%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (4.69%) Figma
5 3 (4.69%) GCP
5 3 (4.69%) Google Analytics
5 3 (4.69%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
6 2 (3.13%) Amazon EventBridge
6 2 (3.13%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (3.13%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (3.13%) Google Tag Manager
6 2 (3.13%) PowerApps
6 2 (3.13%) SaaS
6 2 (3.13%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.69%) Firewall
1 3 (4.69%) VoIP
1 3 (4.69%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (3.13%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.81%) MySQL
2 2 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.13%) DynamoDB
2 2 (3.13%) Power BI
3 1 (1.56%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.56%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.56%) Data Vault
3 1 (1.56%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (1.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (15.63%) Git
2 6 (9.38%) webpack
3 5 (7.81%) Maven
4 2 (3.13%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (3.13%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.56%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.56%) JIRA
5 1 (1.56%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 37 (57.81%) Retail
2 29 (45.31%) Social Skills
3 25 (39.06%) Marketing
4 8 (12.50%) Finance
5 7 (10.94%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (7.81%) Brand Awareness
7 4 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (4.69%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (1.56%) Legal
10 1 (1.56%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 21 (32.81%) Developer
2 13 (20.31%) Shopify Developer
3 7 (10.94%) Lead
4 5 (7.81%) Senior
5 4 (6.25%) Analyst
5 4 (6.25%) Business Analyst
6 3 (4.69%) Delivery Manager
6 3 (4.69%) Marketing Manager
6 3 (4.69%) Network Engineer
6 3 (4.69%) Senior Manager
6 3 (4.69%) Service Delivery Manager
6 3 (4.69%) Service Manager
6 3 (4.69%) Technical Analyst
6 3 (4.69%) Technical Business Analyst
7 2 (3.13%) Desktop Engineer
7 2 (3.13%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 2 (3.13%) Senior Service Delivery Manager
7 2 (3.13%) Senior Service Manager
7 2 (3.13%) Support Engineer
7 2 (3.13%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (34.38%) VML
2 8 (12.50%) React
3 7 (10.94%) CSS
4 5 (7.81%) Spring
5 4 (6.25%) HTML
5 4 (6.25%) Node.js
6 3 (4.69%) AngularJS
6 3 (4.69%) J2EE
6 3 (4.69%) jQuery
6 3 (4.69%) REST
6 3 (4.69%) Sass
6 3 (4.69%) Spring MVC
6 3 (4.69%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 3 (4.69%) Web Services
7 2 (3.13%) .NET
7 2 (3.13%) .NET Framework
7 2 (3.13%) Kafka
7 2 (3.13%) OAuth
7 2 (3.13%) OAuth2
7 2 (3.13%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.69%) Data Centre
1 3 (4.69%) Greenfield Project
1 3 (4.69%) Management Information System
1 3 (4.69%) Product Ownership
1 3 (4.69%) Self-Motivation
1 3 (4.69%) Social Media
2 2 (3.13%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.13%) Graphic Design
2 2 (3.13%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.56%) Animation
3 1 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.56%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.56%) Taxonomies
3 1 (1.56%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.94%) Windows
2 3 (4.69%) Linux
2 3 (4.69%) Unix
3 2 (3.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (43.75%) B2B
1 28 (43.75%) E-Commerce
2 26 (40.63%) Customer Acquisition
3 17 (26.56%) Technology Strategy
4 16 (25.00%) Agile
4 16 (25.00%) Customer Experience
4 16 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (23.44%) Time Management
6 12 (18.75%) Global Marketing
7 9 (14.06%) DevOps
7 9 (14.06%) Web Development
8 8 (12.50%) CRM
9 7 (10.94%) Analytics
10 6 (9.38%) Decision-Making
10 6 (9.38%) Software Delivery
10 6 (9.38%) TDD
10 6 (9.38%) User Experience
10 6 (9.38%) User Stories
11 5 (7.81%) Risk Management
11 5 (7.81%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 19 (29.69%) JavaScript
2 5 (7.81%) Java
2 5 (7.81%) TypeScript
3 4 (6.25%) Python
3 4 (6.25%) SQL
4 2 (3.13%) C#
4 2 (3.13%) PHP
4 2 (3.13%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.56%) C
5 1 (1.56%) Go
5 1 (1.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (6.25%) Degree
2 1 (1.56%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.69%) Accessibility
1 3 (4.69%) SLA
2 2 (3.13%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (1.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (43.75%) SAP
2 27 (42.19%) Adobe
2 27 (42.19%) Salesforce
3 26 (40.63%) Sitecore
4 18 (28.13%) Microsoft
5 12 (18.75%) Dell
5 12 (18.75%) Intel
6 6 (9.38%) Google
7 5 (7.81%) CheckPoint
7 5 (7.81%) HubSpot
8 3 (4.69%) Aruba
8 3 (4.69%) Cisco
8 3 (4.69%) F5
8 3 (4.69%) Meraki
9 2 (3.13%) Apple
9 2 (3.13%) MuleSoft
9 2 (3.13%) Optimizely
9 2 (3.13%) Sophos
10 1 (1.56%) Anaplan
10 1 (1.56%) Databricks