Drupal Developer Contracts

Drupal Developer
UK

The median Drupal Developer daily rate in the UK is £350 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 573 677 779
Rank change year-on-year +104 +102 -135
Contract jobs requiring a Drupal Developer 17 26 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.039% 0.044% 0.091%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.042% 0.046% 0.096%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 23 65
10th Percentile - £325 £302
25th Percentile £325 £330 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £431 £555 £475
90th Percentile £469 £630 £525
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 £360 £350
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,241 56,070 84,738
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,194 39,189 59,507
10th Percentile £277 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,676 1,567 2,091
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.16 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +91.49% +4.44%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.75 £48.76
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.55 £42.37 £19.52
% change year-on-year -6.64% +117.03% +2.74%

Drupal Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Drupal Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Drupal Developer in the UK

Drupal Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Drupal Developer in the UK

Drupal Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Drupal Developer.

Hourly rate trend for Drupal Developer in the UK

Drupal Developer
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Drupal Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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 +120 17 £350 -17.65% 3
UK excluding London +60 16 £350 -2.78% 3
South East +24 9 £350 -
North of England +33 6 £463 +32.14%
Yorkshire - 6 £463 -
Work from Home +112 4 £463 +15.63% 6
South West - 1 £350 - 1

Drupal Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, Drupal Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Drupal Developer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) Drupal
2 11 (64.71%) JavaScript
3 10 (58.82%) PHP
4 9 (52.94%) MySQL
5 6 (35.29%) Agile
5 6 (35.29%) Git
6 5 (29.41%) Full Stack Development
6 5 (29.41%) BDD
6 5 (29.41%) Sass
6 5 (29.41%) TDD
6 5 (29.41%) CSS
7 4 (23.53%) HTML
7 4 (23.53%) Migration
7 4 (23.53%) CMS
8 3 (17.65%) .NET
8 3 (17.65%) Umbraco
8 3 (17.65%) Advertising
8 3 (17.65%) Web Development
8 3 (17.65%) Accessibility
8 3 (17.65%) Moodle
9 2 (11.76%) AWS
9 2 (11.76%) Containerisation
9 2 (11.76%) SharePoint
10 1 (5.88%) SOAP
10 1 (5.88%) Linux
10 1 (5.88%) Scrum
10 1 (5.88%) Brio
10 1 (5.88%) Content Management
10 1 (5.88%) Marketing
10 1 (5.88%) React

Drupal Developer Skill Set
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 17 (100.00%) Drupal
2 4 (23.53%) CMS
3 3 (17.65%) Moodle
3 3 (17.65%) Umbraco
4 2 (11.76%) SharePoint
5 1 (5.88%) SharePoint 2013
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (52.94%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Git
General
1 3 (17.65%) Advertising
2 1 (5.88%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) CSS
1 5 (29.41%) Sass
2 4 (23.53%) HTML
3 3 (17.65%) .NET
4 1 (5.88%) React
4 1 (5.88%) SOAP
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Agile
2 5 (29.41%) BDD
2 5 (29.41%) Full Stack Development
2 5 (29.41%) TDD
3 4 (23.53%) Migration
4 3 (17.65%) Web Development
5 2 (11.76%) Containerisation
6 1 (5.88%) Content Management
6 1 (5.88%) DevOps
6 1 (5.88%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 11 (64.71%) JavaScript
2 10 (58.82%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) Brio