WordPress Contracts in England

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UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for WordPress skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited WordPress over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 467 560 681
Rank change year-on-year +93 +121 -189
Contract jobs citing WordPress 68 103 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.18% 0.20% 0.14%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.98% 1.88% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 84 75
10th Percentile £118 £208 £194
25th Percentile £169 £300 £238
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £340 £375
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -9.33% +15.38%
75th Percentile £438 £400 £478
90th Percentile £538 £518 £575
UK median daily rate £300 £350 £375
% change year-on-year -14.29% -6.67% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 6 4
10th Percentile - - £28.33
25th Percentile £15.00 £21.00 £29.56
Median hourly rate £25.00 £22.00 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -32.82% -27.22%
75th Percentile £30.50 £23.00 £37.19
90th Percentile £32.34 - £41.13
UK median hourly rate £17.00 £22.00 £32.75
% change year-on-year -22.73% -32.82% -12.67%

All Application Platform Skills
England

WordPress is in the Application Platforms category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,433 5,476 8,907
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.29% 10.83% 12.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,453 3,934 6,115
10th Percentile £250 £261 £263
25th Percentile £358 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £755 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £520
% change year-on-year -1.96% -1.92% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 131 189
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.10 £13.97
25th Percentile £15.00 £18.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +54.76% -1.89%
75th Percentile £45.59 £66.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £80.25 £65.90
UK median hourly rate £27.52 £42.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -35.26% +93.18% -2.22%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing WordPress as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for WordPress in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for WordPress in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WordPress in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WordPress in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WordPress in England.

Hourly rate trend for WordPress in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing WordPress in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for WordPress in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WordPress within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
London +99 36 £425 +21.43% 25
Midlands +30 12 £138 -50.00% 21
West Midlands +37 9 £138 -31.25% 13
North of England +33 9 £243 -30.71% 23
East of England +16 5 £110 - 9
Yorkshire +19 4 - - 6
South East -1 4 £288 -11.54% 16
East Midlands +18 3 - - 8
North West +15 3 £160 -41.82% 14
North East - 2 £325 - 3
South West +20 1 £300 -6.25% 12
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 13 (19.12%) CMS
2 9 (13.24%) Drupal
3 5 (7.35%) Moodle
4 3 (4.41%) IIS
4 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (4.41%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (1.47%) Joomla!
5 1 (1.47%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 4 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.47%) Elementor
2 1 (1.47%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 10 (14.71%) GitHub
2 6 (8.82%) AWS
2 6 (8.82%) Google Analytics
3 5 (7.35%) MailChimp
4 4 (5.88%) Azure
5 3 (4.41%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (4.41%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (4.41%) OneDrive
5 3 (4.41%) SaaS
5 3 (4.41%) Squarespace
6 1 (1.47%) Azure App Service
6 1 (1.47%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.47%) Azure Storage
6 1 (1.47%) PaaS
6 1 (1.47%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (1.47%) Serverless
6 1 (1.47%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.35%) Intranet
2 3 (4.41%) DNS
2 3 (4.41%) Fibre Channel
2 3 (4.41%) Firewall
2 3 (4.41%) iSCSI
2 3 (4.41%) NAS
2 3 (4.41%) SAN
2 3 (4.41%) VPN
2 3 (4.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.35%) MySQL
2 3 (4.41%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.47%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (8.82%) Git
2 3 (4.41%) webpack
3 2 (2.94%) WiX
4 1 (1.47%) JIRA
General
1 15 (22.06%) Social Skills
2 4 (5.88%) Local Government
2 4 (5.88%) Public Sector
3 3 (4.41%) Marketing
4 2 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.47%) Advertising
5 1 (1.47%) Finance
5 1 (1.47%) Health Technology
5 1 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 32 (47.06%) Developer
2 28 (41.18%) WordPress Developer
3 6 (8.82%) Senior
4 5 (7.35%) Support Officer
4 5 (7.35%) Technical Support
4 5 (7.35%) Technical Support Officer
5 4 (5.88%) PHP Developer
5 4 (5.88%) Senior Developer
5 4 (5.88%) Senior WordPress Developer
6 3 (4.41%) Full Stack Engineer
6 3 (4.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (4.41%) JavaScript Engineer
6 3 (4.41%) Network Engineer
6 3 (4.41%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (4.41%) PHP WordPress Developer
7 2 (2.94%) Consultant
7 2 (2.94%) Content Editor
7 2 (2.94%) Designer
7 2 (2.94%) Web Consultant
7 2 (2.94%) Web Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (22.06%) React
2 14 (20.59%) CSS
3 13 (19.12%) HTML
4 11 (16.18%) Laravel
5 9 (13.24%) Vue
6 8 (11.76%) Node.js
7 5 (7.35%) .NET
8 4 (5.88%) Sass
8 4 (5.88%) Symfony
9 3 (4.41%) LAMP
9 3 (4.41%) Tailwind CSS
9 3 (4.41%) Twig
10 2 (2.94%) CSS3
10 2 (2.94%) HTML5
11 1 (1.47%) GraphQL
11 1 (1.47%) jQuery
11 1 (1.47%) Next.js
11 1 (1.47%) REST
11 1 (1.47%) RESTful
11 1 (1.47%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.35%) Distributed Architecture
1 5 (7.35%) Learning Management System
1 5 (7.35%) Social Media
2 3 (4.41%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (4.41%) Replication
3 2 (2.94%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.47%) Life Science
4 1 (1.47%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.41%) Linux
1 3 (4.41%) Ubuntu
1 3 (4.41%) VMS
1 3 (4.41%) Windows
1 3 (4.41%) Windows Server
1 3 (4.41%) Windows Server 2016
1 3 (4.41%) Windows Server 2019
2 1 (1.47%) Android
2 1 (1.47%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (22.06%) Web Development
2 11 (16.18%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (14.71%) Full Stack Development
4 9 (13.24%) Front End Development
5 7 (10.29%) Analytics
5 7 (10.29%) Content Management
6 6 (8.82%) Agile
7 5 (7.35%) Deployment Automation
7 5 (7.35%) E-Commerce
7 5 (7.35%) Scrum
7 5 (7.35%) SEO
7 5 (7.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (7.35%) User Experience
7 5 (7.35%) UX Design
8 4 (5.88%) B2C
8 4 (5.88%) Decision-Making
9 3 (4.41%) BEM - Block Element Modifier
9 3 (4.41%) CI/CD
9 3 (4.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 3 (4.41%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (32.35%) PHP
2 15 (22.06%) JavaScript
3 5 (7.35%) Ruby
4 3 (4.41%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.94%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (5.88%) DBS Check
2 1 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (1.47%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.47%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.24%) Accessibility
2 4 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 3 (4.41%) Active Directory
1 3 (4.41%) Docker
1 3 (4.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (4.41%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (11.76%) Salesforce
2 7 (10.29%) Google
2 7 (10.29%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.35%) WooCommerce
4 4 (5.88%) Hootsuite
5 3 (4.41%) Aruba
5 3 (4.41%) Palo Alto
5 3 (4.41%) ProCurve
5 3 (4.41%) Synology
5 3 (4.41%) Veeam
5 3 (4.41%) VMware
5 3 (4.41%) Zerto
6 2 (2.94%) Adobe
6 2 (2.94%) Marketo
6 2 (2.94%) Pardot
7 1 (1.47%) DocuSign
7 1 (1.47%) Sitecore