E-Commerce Contracts

E-Commerce (Electronic Commerce)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with 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 187 180 117
Rank change year-on-year -7 -63 -7
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 526 821 2,052
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.24% 1.43% 2.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.44% 1.60% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 563 1,527
10th Percentile £300 £352 £369
25th Percentile £400 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £638
90th Percentile £688 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 7 15
10th Percentile £10.42 £31.50 £40.55
25th Percentile £11.00 £35.00 £42.13
Median hourly rate £13.00 £65.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -80.15% +24.76% +18.91%
75th Percentile - £92.50 £69.56
90th Percentile £64.25 £98.50 £76.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £13.00 £95.00 £67.36
% change year-on-year -86.32% +41.03% +77.61%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%

E-Commerce
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing E-Commerce as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for E-Commerce in the UK

E-Commerce
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for E-Commerce in the UK

E-Commerce
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing E-Commerce over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for E-Commerce in the UK

E-Commerce
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing E-Commerce.

Hourly rate trend for E-Commerce in the UK

E-Commerce
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing E-Commerce over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for E-Commerce in the UK

E-Commerce
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing E-Commerce within the UK over the 6 months to 20 May 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 -12 472 £500 -6.98% 849
London +10 287 £550 -2.22% 421
Work from Home -23 209 £500 -7.41% 371
UK excluding London -28 180 £450 -10.00% 499
North of England +8 72 £450 -18.18% 176
North West +41 59 £450 -12.20% 111
South East +27 53 £450 -13.88% 143
East of England -3 24 £425 -18.74% 43
Midlands -33 19 £225 -45.78% 77
West Midlands +4 11 £463 +12.12% 39
Yorkshire -30 10 £400 -33.33% 57
East Midlands -18 8 £225 -45.78% 38
South West -18 4 £543 +11.28% 43
Scotland +39 3 £470 -24.80% 16
North East +14 3 £600 - 8
Northern Ireland - 3 £563 - 7
Wales +19 2 £300 -29.41% 1

E-Commerce
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 44 (8.37%) CMS
2 15 (2.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 15 (2.85%) Confluence
3 7 (1.33%) Headless CMS
3 7 (1.33%) WordPress
4 5 (0.95%) Drupal
5 4 (0.76%) Apache Solr
5 4 (0.76%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.57%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.38%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.38%) Umbraco
7 2 (0.38%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.19%) Apache
8 1 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.19%) IIS
8 1 (0.19%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.19%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.76%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (0.57%) InVision
4 3 (0.57%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.57%) Sketch
5 2 (0.38%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.38%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.38%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.38%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.38%) UserZoom
6 1 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.19%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 31 (5.89%) Shopify
2 20 (3.80%) Magento
3 15 (2.85%) SAP Hybris
4 10 (1.90%) ION MarketView
5 9 (1.71%) Payment Gateway
6 5 (0.95%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
8 2 (0.38%) JDE OneWorld
8 2 (0.38%) WebTrends
9 1 (0.19%) OpenCart
9 1 (0.19%) RMDS
9 1 (0.19%) SAP CAR
9 1 (0.19%) SAP SD
9 1 (0.19%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 86 (16.35%) AWS
2 35 (6.65%) Azure
3 29 (5.51%) GCP
4 21 (3.99%) GitHub
5 20 (3.80%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 19 (3.61%) BigCommerce
6 19 (3.61%) Serverless
7 16 (3.04%) Microsoft 365
8 15 (2.85%) Google Analytics
8 15 (2.85%) SaaS
9 14 (2.66%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (2.47%) Power Platform
11 12 (2.28%) Figma
12 10 (1.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 10 (1.90%) Amazon S3
13 9 (1.71%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (1.71%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
14 8 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
15 6 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
15 6 (1.14%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.42%) Internet
2 4 (0.76%) HTTP
2 4 (0.76%) LAN
2 4 (0.76%) WAN
3 3 (0.57%) FTP
4 2 (0.38%) Firewall
4 2 (0.38%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.19%) DHCP
5 1 (0.19%) DNS
5 1 (0.19%) Intranet
5 1 (0.19%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.19%) tcpdump
5 1 (0.19%) VLAN
5 1 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.19%) Wireless
5 1 (0.19%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.80%) KDB
2 17 (3.23%) MySQL
3 14 (2.66%) Tableau
4 13 (2.47%) Power BI
5 10 (1.90%) NoSQL
5 10 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (1.71%) Relational Database
7 7 (1.33%) Spark SQL
8 6 (1.14%) Data Lake
8 6 (1.14%) DynamoDB
9 4 (0.76%) Big Data
9 4 (0.76%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.57%) Amazon QuickSight
10 3 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.57%) Delta Lake
10 3 (0.57%) Looker
10 3 (0.57%) SQL Server
10 3 (0.57%) SQLite
11 2 (0.38%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 47 (8.94%) Git
2 37 (7.03%) JIRA
3 22 (4.18%) Jenkins
4 16 (3.04%) Postman
5 12 (2.28%) Cypress.io
6 10 (1.90%) Maven
6 10 (1.90%) SoapUI
7 8 (1.52%) GitLab
8 7 (1.33%) Selenium
9 5 (0.95%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.76%) webpack
11 3 (0.57%) Appium
11 3 (0.57%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.57%) Visual Website Optimizer
11 3 (0.57%) Zephyr
12 2 (0.38%) gulp
12 2 (0.38%) Storybook
12 2 (0.38%) TestCafe
12 2 (0.38%) WebDriver
12 2 (0.38%) WebPageTest
General
1 161 (30.61%) Social Skills
2 143 (27.19%) Retail
3 72 (13.69%) Marketing
4 49 (9.32%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (8.56%) Finance
6 18 (3.42%) Banking
7 14 (2.66%) Manufacturing
7 14 (2.66%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (2.28%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (2.09%) Legal
10 11 (2.09%) Publishing
11 10 (1.90%) Front Office
12 7 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.95%) Advertising
13 5 (0.95%) Back Office
13 5 (0.95%) Investment Banking
13 5 (0.95%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.76%) Billing
14 4 (0.76%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 143 (27.19%) Developer
2 68 (12.93%) Senior
3 65 (12.36%) Analyst
4 59 (11.22%) Project Manager
5 41 (7.79%) Business Analyst
6 31 (5.89%) Java Developer
7 24 (4.56%) Architect
8 23 (4.37%) E-Commerce Manager
9 22 (4.18%) E-Commerce Developer
10 20 (3.80%) Senior Developer
11 18 (3.42%) Consultant
11 18 (3.42%) Data Engineer
11 18 (3.42%) Designer
11 18 (3.42%) Software Engineer
12 16 (3.04%) Technical Analyst
12 16 (3.04%) Technical Business Analyst
13 14 (2.66%) Full Stack Developer
13 14 (2.66%) React Developer
14 13 (2.47%) Digital Project Manager
14 13 (2.47%) E-Commerce Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (10.46%) React
2 48 (9.13%) Node.js
3 37 (7.03%) CSS
4 36 (6.84%) HTML
5 25 (4.75%) GraphQL
6 20 (3.80%) Next.js
6 20 (3.80%) REST
7 15 (2.85%) RESTful
8 14 (2.66%) JSON
8 14 (2.66%) Web Services
9 13 (2.47%) AngularJS
9 13 (2.47%) VML
10 12 (2.28%) SOAP
11 11 (2.09%) Spring
12 10 (1.90%) OAuth
13 9 (1.71%) .NET
13 9 (1.71%) OpenID
14 8 (1.52%) FIX Protocol
14 8 (1.52%) HTML5
14 8 (1.52%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 44 (8.37%) Distributed Systems
2 36 (6.84%) Mobile App
3 28 (5.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 28 (5.32%) Product Ownership
4 21 (3.99%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (3.42%) Algorithms
6 17 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
6 17 (3.23%) Management Information System
7 12 (2.28%) Data Structures
7 12 (2.28%) FMCG
8 11 (2.09%) Virtual Team
9 10 (1.90%) EPoS
9 10 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.52%) Public Cloud
11 7 (1.33%) EMV
11 7 (1.33%) Marketing Technology
11 7 (1.33%) Taxonomies
12 6 (1.14%) Cloud Native
12 6 (1.14%) Social Media
13 5 (0.95%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 27 (5.13%) Linux
1 27 (5.13%) Unix
2 11 (2.09%) Android
3 8 (1.52%) Windows
4 7 (1.33%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.57%) Debian
5 3 (0.57%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.19%) CentOS
6 1 (0.19%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.19%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (31.18%) Agile
2 70 (13.31%) Analytics
3 65 (12.36%) Problem-Solving
4 59 (11.22%) CI/CD
4 59 (11.22%) Project Management
4 59 (11.22%) Scrum
5 58 (11.03%) User Experience
6 54 (10.27%) CRM
7 48 (9.13%) DevOps
8 47 (8.94%) Test Automation
9 43 (8.17%) Stakeholder Management
10 38 (7.22%) Computer Science
10 38 (7.22%) Roadmaps
11 36 (6.84%) Customer Experience
12 35 (6.65%) TDD
13 34 (6.46%) B2B
14 33 (6.27%) Continuous Integration
14 33 (6.27%) Microservices
15 32 (6.08%) Migration
16 30 (5.70%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 77 (14.64%) Java
2 66 (12.55%) JavaScript
3 61 (11.60%) Python
4 58 (11.03%) SQL
5 43 (8.17%) TypeScript
6 17 (3.23%) PHP
7 13 (2.47%) Bash
8 12 (2.28%) Scala
9 7 (1.33%) C++
9 7 (1.33%) Go
9 7 (1.33%) Kotlin
9 7 (1.33%) Perl
10 6 (1.14%) C#
11 4 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.76%) Groovy
12 2 (0.38%) Dart
12 2 (0.38%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.38%) Ruby
13 1 (0.19%) ABAP
13 1 (0.19%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 55 (10.46%) Degree
2 22 (4.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (1.71%) Master's Degree
4 6 (1.14%) Security Cleared
5 5 (0.95%) SC Cleared
6 4 (0.76%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 3 (0.57%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.57%) PhD
8 2 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.19%) ACCA
9 1 (0.19%) CCNA
9 1 (0.19%) CCNP
9 1 (0.19%) CCSP
9 1 (0.19%) CIMA
9 1 (0.19%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.19%) CISSP
9 1 (0.19%) GIAC
9 1 (0.19%) ISEB
9 1 (0.19%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (6.27%) QA
2 18 (3.42%) Accessibility
3 12 (2.28%) PMO
4 7 (1.33%) PCI DSS
5 5 (0.95%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.95%) ISO 9001
5 5 (0.95%) WCAG
6 3 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.57%) ISO 22301
6 3 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.57%) SLA
7 2 (0.38%) GDPR
7 2 (0.38%) PSD2
System Software
1 26 (4.94%) Docker
2 6 (1.14%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.76%) zsh
4 1 (0.19%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (4.37%) Kubernetes
2 21 (3.99%) Terraform
3 5 (0.95%) Podman
3 5 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (0.76%) Grafana
5 3 (0.57%) Ansible
5 3 (0.57%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.19%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 1 (0.19%) CSIRT
6 1 (0.19%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.19%) Kibana
6 1 (0.19%) Nessus
6 1 (0.19%) SCCM
6 1 (0.19%) WSUS
Vendors
1 51 (9.70%) SAP
2 48 (9.13%) Salesforce
3 41 (7.79%) Google
4 37 (7.03%) Adobe
5 35 (6.65%) Microsoft
6 18 (3.42%) Sitecore
7 12 (2.28%) ION Trading
8 9 (1.71%) Splunk
9 8 (1.52%) Dell
10 7 (1.33%) Intel
11 6 (1.14%) Databricks
12 5 (0.95%) Okta
13 4 (0.76%) Oracle
13 4 (0.76%) Roku
13 4 (0.76%) Solace
13 4 (0.76%) TIBCO
13 4 (0.76%) Tradeweb
14 3 (0.57%) Cisco
14 3 (0.57%) Facebook
14 3 (0.57%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud