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

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 502 648 764
Rank change year-on-year +146 +116 -128
Contract jobs citing Shopify 71 52 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.091% 0.11%
As % of the Business Applications category 2.24% 1.42% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 31 56
10th Percentile £238 £200 £359
25th Percentile £269 £241 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £350 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% -35.78% +45.33%
75th Percentile £400 £481 £639
90th Percentile £450 £650 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £248 £450
% change year-on-year +66.67% -45.00% +50.00%

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 3,168 3,663 5,007
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.45% 6.41% 5.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,840 2,104 3,097
10th Percentile £375 £363 £375
25th Percentile £463 £462 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £688 £684 £653
90th Percentile £787 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £530 £515
% change year-on-year -0.94% +2.91% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 57 55
10th Percentile £14.71 £22.58 £16.13
25th Percentile £21.25 £30.25 £21.00
Median hourly rate £40.16 £49.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.04% +40.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £59.50 £65.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £80.00 £61.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.33 £50.00 £23.53
% change year-on-year -19.35% +112.54% -5.90%

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 15 May 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 15 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 +103 57 £350 -6.67% 90
London +107 40 £313 -26.47% 40
Work from Home +124 22 £313 - 38
UK excluding London +57 16 £413 +66.67% 55
South East +24 7 £450 +73.08% 6
East of England +15 5 £375 - 8
South West - 3 - - 5
North of England +20 1 £525 +55.56% 21
North West - 1 £525 - 16

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 (4.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (2.82%) Anypoint
3 1 (1.41%) CMS
3 1 (1.41%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (4.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (1.41%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (1.41%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (1.41%) Final Cut Pro
2 1 (1.41%) InVision
2 1 (1.41%) Photoshop
2 1 (1.41%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (2.82%) NetSuite
1 2 (2.82%) WebTrends
2 1 (1.41%) Magento
2 1 (1.41%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 30 (42.25%) BigCommerce
2 11 (15.49%) Azure
3 8 (11.27%) AWS
4 4 (5.63%) Google Analytics
4 4 (5.63%) Serverless
5 3 (4.23%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (4.23%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (4.23%) Figma
5 3 (4.23%) GCP
5 3 (4.23%) Google Tag Manager
5 3 (4.23%) Power Platform
5 3 (4.23%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
6 2 (2.82%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.82%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (2.82%) Bloomreach
6 2 (2.82%) Contentsquare
6 2 (2.82%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.82%) PowerApps
6 2 (2.82%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.23%) Firewall
1 3 (4.23%) VoIP
1 3 (4.23%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (2.82%) FTP
3 1 (1.41%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.63%) MySQL
2 2 (2.82%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.41%) Power BI
3 1 (1.41%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (1.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (18.31%) Git
2 9 (12.68%) webpack
3 5 (7.04%) Maven
4 2 (2.82%) Babel
4 2 (2.82%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (2.82%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.41%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.41%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 37 (52.11%) Retail
2 32 (45.07%) Social Skills
3 25 (35.21%) Marketing
4 7 (9.86%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (8.45%) Finance
5 6 (8.45%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (7.04%) Brand Awareness
7 3 (4.23%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.82%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.41%) Legal
Job Titles
1 20 (28.17%) Developer
2 14 (19.72%) Shopify Developer
3 7 (9.86%) Lead
4 5 (7.04%) Senior
5 4 (5.63%) Analyst
5 4 (5.63%) Business Analyst
5 4 (5.63%) Marketing Manager
6 3 (4.23%) Architect
6 3 (4.23%) Delivery Manager
6 3 (4.23%) Head of E-Commerce
6 3 (4.23%) Network Engineer
6 3 (4.23%) Senior Manager
6 3 (4.23%) Service Delivery Manager
6 3 (4.23%) Service Manager
6 3 (4.23%) Technical Analyst
6 3 (4.23%) Technical Architect
6 3 (4.23%) Technical Business Analyst
7 2 (2.82%) Azure Developer
7 2 (2.82%) E-Commerce Developer
7 2 (2.82%) Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (29.58%) VML
2 11 (15.49%) React
3 9 (12.68%) CSS
4 6 (8.45%) HTML
5 5 (7.04%) REST
5 5 (7.04%) Spring
5 5 (7.04%) Web Services
6 4 (5.63%) GraphQL
6 4 (5.63%) Kafka
6 4 (5.63%) Node.js
7 3 (4.23%) AngularJS
7 3 (4.23%) J2EE
7 3 (4.23%) jQuery
7 3 (4.23%) Sass
7 3 (4.23%) Spring MVC
7 3 (4.23%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 2 (2.82%) .NET
8 2 (2.82%) .NET Framework
8 2 (2.82%) OAuth
8 2 (2.82%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.63%) Social Media
2 3 (4.23%) Data Centre
2 3 (4.23%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (4.23%) Management Information System
2 3 (4.23%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.23%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.82%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.82%) Graphic Design
3 2 (2.82%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.41%) Animation
4 1 (1.41%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.41%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.41%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.86%) Windows
2 3 (4.23%) Linux
2 3 (4.23%) Unix
3 2 (2.82%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (46.48%) E-Commerce
2 28 (39.44%) B2B
3 26 (36.62%) Customer Acquisition
4 19 (26.76%) Agile
5 18 (25.35%) Customer Experience
5 18 (25.35%) Technology Strategy
6 16 (22.54%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (22.54%) Time Management
7 12 (16.90%) Global Marketing
8 10 (14.08%) CRM
8 10 (14.08%) Web Development
9 8 (11.27%) Analytics
9 8 (11.27%) DevOps
10 7 (9.86%) User Experience
11 6 (8.45%) Decision-Making
11 6 (8.45%) Roadmaps
11 6 (8.45%) Software Delivery
11 6 (8.45%) Strategic Thinking
11 6 (8.45%) TDD
11 6 (8.45%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 22 (30.99%) JavaScript
2 5 (7.04%) Java
2 5 (7.04%) TypeScript
3 3 (4.23%) Python
3 3 (4.23%) SQL
4 2 (2.82%) C#
4 2 (2.82%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.82%) Ruby
5 1 (1.41%) Go
5 1 (1.41%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (4.23%) Degree
2 1 (1.41%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.23%) Accessibility
1 3 (4.23%) SLA
2 2 (2.82%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (4.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 29 (40.85%) SAP
2 27 (38.03%) Salesforce
3 26 (36.62%) Adobe
3 26 (36.62%) Sitecore
4 17 (23.94%) Microsoft
5 12 (16.90%) Dell
5 12 (16.90%) Intel
6 7 (9.86%) Google
7 5 (7.04%) CheckPoint
7 5 (7.04%) HubSpot
8 3 (4.23%) Aruba
8 3 (4.23%) Cisco
8 3 (4.23%) F5
8 3 (4.23%) Meraki
8 3 (4.23%) Optimizely
9 2 (2.82%) Apple
9 2 (2.82%) MuleSoft
9 2 (2.82%) Sophos
10 1 (1.41%) Anaplan