WordPress Developer Contracts

WordPress Developer
UK

The median WordPress Developer daily rate in the UK is £300 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 553 681 828
Rank change year-on-year +128 +147 -194
Contract jobs requiring a WordPress Developer 29 31 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.066% 0.052% 0.030%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.072% 0.054% 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 29 23
10th Percentile £131 £255 £200
25th Percentile £161 £263 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £350 £303
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +15.51% +5.39%
75th Percentile £438 £400 £388
90th Percentile £488 £445 £548
UK excluding London median daily rate £138 £356 £302
% change year-on-year -61.40% +18.16% +40.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £22.50 - £41.25
Median hourly rate £26.25 - £42.50
75th Percentile £30.31 - £43.75
90th Percentile £33.13 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.25 - £42.50

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 40,476 56,906 85,219
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,420 39,710 59,771
10th Percentile £275 £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 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,641 1,614 2,118
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.92 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

WordPress Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for WordPress Developer in the UK

WordPress Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for WordPress Developer in the UK

WordPress Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WordPress Developer over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WordPress Developer in the UK

WordPress Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for WordPress Developer in the UK

WordPress Developer
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WordPress Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 24 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
England +124 28 £300 -11.11% 27
London +106 15 £425 +41.67% 9
Work from Home +114 13 £406 +25.00% 19
UK excluding London +54 13 £138 -61.40% 20
Midlands +45 9 £138 -42.11% 4
West Midlands +37 6 £138 -31.25% 2
East Midlands +15 3 - - 2
South East +7 2 - - 5
North of England +38 1 - - 5
South West +18 1 £300 -20.00% 3
North East - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, WordPress 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 WordPress Developer in the job title.

1 29 (100.00%) WordPress
2 16 (55.17%) PHP
3 9 (31.03%) GitHub
4 8 (27.59%) Vue
4 8 (27.59%) JavaScript
4 8 (27.59%) CSS
5 7 (24.14%) HTML
5 7 (24.14%) Web Development
5 7 (24.14%) Accessibility
5 7 (24.14%) Front End Development
6 6 (20.69%) React
7 5 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (17.24%) Git
8 4 (13.79%) UX Design
8 4 (13.79%) AWS
8 4 (13.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 4 (13.79%) Deployment Automation
8 4 (13.79%) User Experience
8 4 (13.79%) Ruby
8 4 (13.79%) Local Government
8 4 (13.79%) .NET
8 4 (13.79%) Intranet
8 4 (13.79%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
9 3 (10.34%) Social Skills
9 3 (10.34%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (10.34%) CI/CD
9 3 (10.34%) Containerisation
9 3 (10.34%) SEO
9 3 (10.34%) Docker

WordPress 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 29 (100.00%) WordPress
2 1 (3.45%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 9 (31.03%) GitHub
2 4 (13.79%) AWS
3 3 (10.34%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (3.45%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.79%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) MySQL
1 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (17.24%) Git
General
1 4 (13.79%) Local Government
2 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
2 3 (10.34%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Health Technology
4 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (27.59%) CSS
1 8 (27.59%) Vue
2 7 (24.14%) HTML
3 6 (20.69%) React
4 4 (13.79%) .NET
5 2 (6.90%) Laravel
5 2 (6.90%) Node.js
5 2 (6.90%) Symfony
6 1 (3.45%) CSS3
6 1 (3.45%) GraphQL
6 1 (3.45%) HTML5
6 1 (3.45%) REST
6 1 (3.45%) Sass
6 1 (3.45%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (24.14%) Front End Development
1 7 (24.14%) Web Development
2 5 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (13.79%) Deployment Automation
3 4 (13.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (13.79%) User Experience
3 4 (13.79%) UX Design
4 3 (10.34%) CI/CD
4 3 (10.34%) Containerisation
4 3 (10.34%) SEO
5 2 (6.90%) Project Management
6 1 (3.45%) Agile
6 1 (3.45%) Analytics
6 1 (3.45%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (3.45%) CRM
6 1 (3.45%) DevOps
6 1 (3.45%) Migration
6 1 (3.45%) MVC
6 1 (3.45%) Scrum
6 1 (3.45%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 16 (55.17%) PHP
2 8 (27.59%) JavaScript
3 4 (13.79%) Ruby
4 1 (3.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (24.14%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (3.45%) Google
1 1 (3.45%) WooCommerce