WordPress Jobs in the UK excluding London

WordPress
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for WordPress skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited WordPress over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 411 542 454
Rank change year-on-year +131 -88 -135
Permanent jobs citing WordPress 398 212 476
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.56% 0.35% 0.67%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.46% 3.46% 5.13%
Number of salaries quoted 367 165 359
10th Percentile £25,500 £31,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £29,750 £33,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 -
UK median annual salary £37,500 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -11.76% - -

All Application Platform Skills
UK excluding London

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 7,286 6,130 9,280
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.27% 10.17% 13.05%
Number of salaries quoted 4,684 3,973 5,787
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +0.92% +3.81%

WordPress
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing WordPress as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for WordPress in the UK excluding London

WordPress
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing WordPress in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for WordPress in the UK excluding London

WordPress
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing WordPress in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for WordPress in the UK excluding London

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Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WordPress within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +85 98 £33,500 -16.25% 47
Midlands +82 88 £35,000 -17.65% 37
South East -6 70 £39,500 -1.25% 27
West Midlands +69 61 £35,500 -18.86% 22
South West 0 59 £40,000 -11.11% 18
East of England +51 54 £35,000 -6.67% 20
Yorkshire +109 46 £32,750 -22.02% 11
North West +42 45 £33,500 -10.67% 30
East Midlands +8 27 £33,750 -15.63% 15
Wales - 16 £35,000 - 6
Scotland -51 10 £45,000 -14.29% 10
North East -23 7 £40,000 -8.57% 6
Northern Ireland +28 4 £33,500 -4.29% 2
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UK

WordPress
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 103 (25.88%) CMS
2 24 (6.03%) Drupal
3 16 (4.02%) Apache
4 14 (3.52%) nginx
4 14 (3.52%) SharePoint
5 8 (2.01%) Joomla!
6 6 (1.51%) Headless CMS
6 6 (1.51%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (1.51%) Umbraco
7 4 (1.01%) IIS
8 1 (0.25%) Confluence
8 1 (0.25%) PrestaShop
Applications
1 24 (6.03%) Photoshop
2 22 (5.53%) Adobe Illustrator
3 20 (5.03%) Adobe XD
3 20 (5.03%) Microsoft Excel
4 16 (4.02%) InDesign
5 13 (3.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 10 (2.51%) Microsoft Office
7 8 (2.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 7 (1.76%) Adobe After Effects
9 6 (1.51%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.75%) Adobe Premiere
10 3 (0.75%) Sketch
11 2 (0.50%) Acrobat
11 2 (0.50%) FileZilla
12 1 (0.25%) SketchUp
Business Applications
1 37 (9.30%) Shopify
2 30 (7.54%) Magento
3 7 (1.76%) Payment Gateway
4 6 (1.51%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.50%) OpenCart
6 1 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 33 (8.29%) Google Analytics
2 30 (7.54%) AWS
3 28 (7.04%) Microsoft 365
4 26 (6.53%) Figma
5 19 (4.77%) Azure
6 12 (3.02%) Power Platform
7 11 (2.76%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 9 (2.26%) Google Drive
8 9 (2.26%) MailChimp
9 8 (2.01%) GitHub
9 8 (2.01%) npm
10 7 (1.76%) Canva
10 7 (1.76%) OneDrive
10 7 (1.76%) SaaS
11 6 (1.51%) DigitalOcean
12 5 (1.26%) ChatGPT
12 5 (1.26%) Google Ads
12 5 (1.26%) Google Tag Manager
13 4 (1.01%) Cloud Computing
14 3 (0.75%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 27 (6.78%) DNS
2 18 (4.52%) Firewall
3 12 (3.02%) SSL
4 4 (1.01%) Fibre Channel
4 4 (1.01%) iSCSI
4 4 (1.01%) NAS
4 4 (1.01%) SAN
4 4 (1.01%) VPN
4 4 (1.01%) Wireless
5 3 (0.75%) Internet
6 2 (0.50%) DHCP
6 2 (0.50%) DKIM
6 2 (0.50%) DMARC
6 2 (0.50%) FTP
6 2 (0.50%) IP Telephony
6 2 (0.50%) PBX
6 2 (0.50%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.50%) VoIP
6 2 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.25%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (21.86%) MySQL
2 12 (3.02%) Power BI
3 8 (2.01%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.01%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (0.75%) Looker
6 2 (0.50%) phpMyAdmin
7 1 (0.25%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.25%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (0.25%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.25%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 64 (16.08%) Git
2 8 (2.01%) JIRA
3 4 (1.01%) Team Foundation Server
3 4 (1.01%) webpack
4 3 (0.75%) gulp
4 3 (0.75%) WiX
5 2 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.50%) Subversion
5 2 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.25%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.25%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.25%) Grunt
6 1 (0.25%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.25%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (0.25%) PHPUnit
6 1 (0.25%) Selenium
General
1 161 (40.45%) Marketing
2 107 (26.88%) Social Skills
3 28 (7.04%) Finance
4 25 (6.28%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (4.52%) Organisational Skills
6 17 (4.27%) Advertising
6 17 (4.27%) Retail
7 10 (2.51%) Publishing
8 9 (2.26%) Law
9 5 (1.26%) Brand Awareness
9 5 (1.26%) Games
9 5 (1.26%) Multimedia
10 4 (1.01%) French Language
10 4 (1.01%) German Language
10 4 (1.01%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.01%) Spanish Language
11 3 (0.75%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.50%) Automotive
12 2 (0.50%) Aviation
12 2 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 257 (64.57%) Developer
2 104 (26.13%) WordPress Developer
3 74 (18.59%) PHP Developer
4 62 (15.58%) Web Developer
5 39 (9.80%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 30 (7.54%) Senior
7 28 (7.04%) Full Stack Developer
8 26 (6.53%) Designer
9 25 (6.28%) PHP WordPress Developer
10 22 (5.53%) Junior
10 22 (5.53%) PHP Web Developer
11 21 (5.28%) Junior Developer
12 19 (4.77%) Senior Developer
13 17 (4.27%) Web Manager
14 15 (3.77%) Graphic Designer
15 14 (3.52%) HTML CSS Developer
15 14 (3.52%) HTML Developer
16 12 (3.02%) Digital Developer
16 12 (3.02%) Lead
16 12 (3.02%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 214 (53.77%) CSS
2 209 (52.51%) HTML
3 69 (17.34%) React
4 63 (15.83%) jQuery
5 53 (13.32%) Laravel
6 36 (9.05%) Vue
7 29 (7.29%) HTML5
8 27 (6.78%) LAMP
9 24 (6.03%) CSS3
9 24 (6.03%) Sass
10 15 (3.77%) Tailwind CSS
10 15 (3.77%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 13 (3.27%) Node.js
12 10 (2.51%) EDI
13 9 (2.26%) Next.js
13 9 (2.26%) RESTful
13 9 (2.26%) Symfony
14 8 (2.01%) REST
15 7 (1.76%) .NET
15 7 (1.76%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 47 (11.81%) Social Media
2 31 (7.79%) Graphic Design
3 30 (7.54%) Self-Motivation
4 21 (5.28%) Blog
5 16 (4.02%) Mobile App
6 15 (3.77%) Onboarding
7 11 (2.76%) Animation
8 10 (2.51%) Greenfield Project
8 10 (2.51%) Product Ownership
9 9 (2.26%) Data Centre
9 9 (2.26%) Management Information System
10 7 (1.76%) Low-Code
10 7 (1.76%) Video Editing
11 6 (1.51%) Driving Licence
11 6 (1.51%) Photography
12 5 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
13 4 (1.01%) Replication
14 3 (0.75%) CCTV
14 3 (0.75%) Digital Media
14 3 (0.75%) Motion Graphics
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.52%) Linux
1 14 (3.52%) Windows
2 6 (1.51%) Windows Server
3 5 (1.26%) Mac OS
3 5 (1.26%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.01%) Android
4 4 (1.01%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.01%) VMS
4 4 (1.01%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (1.01%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (0.75%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.50%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (32.91%) Web Development
2 105 (26.38%) Problem-Solving
3 82 (20.60%) E-Commerce
4 77 (19.35%) User Experience
5 59 (14.82%) SEO
6 53 (13.32%) Full Stack Development
7 51 (12.81%) Front End Development
8 47 (11.81%) Content Management
9 45 (11.31%) Analytics
10 42 (10.55%) Digital Marketing
11 40 (10.05%) Marketing Strategy
12 30 (7.54%) Agile
13 29 (7.29%) Project Management
13 29 (7.29%) UX Design
14 28 (7.04%) Collaborative Working
15 26 (6.53%) CRM
16 24 (6.03%) Clean Code
17 19 (4.77%) B2B
18 16 (4.02%) Computer Science
18 16 (4.02%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 216 (54.27%) PHP
2 195 (48.99%) JavaScript
3 22 (5.53%) SQL
4 10 (2.51%) Python
5 9 (2.26%) PowerShell
6 4 (1.01%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.25%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.25%) Java
7 1 (0.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 49 (12.31%) Degree
2 12 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (0.75%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.25%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.02%) GDPR
2 12 (3.02%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.76%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (1.26%) QA
5 2 (0.50%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 12 (3.02%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.76%) Docker
3 4 (1.01%) vSphere
4 3 (0.75%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.50%) Terminal Services
5 2 (0.50%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 5 (1.26%) cPanel
2 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (1.01%) SCCM
3 1 (0.25%) Ansible
3 1 (0.25%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.25%) Plesk
3 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 61 (15.33%) Adobe
2 57 (14.32%) Google
3 49 (12.31%) WooCommerce
4 37 (9.30%) Microsoft
5 13 (3.27%) Facebook
6 11 (2.76%) Instagram
7 9 (2.26%) Xero
8 8 (2.01%) Salesforce
9 6 (1.51%) Freshdesk
9 6 (1.51%) WorldPay
10 4 (1.01%) Ahrefs
10 4 (1.01%) ConnectWise
10 4 (1.01%) dotdigital
10 4 (1.01%) HubSpot
10 4 (1.01%) Palo Alto
10 4 (1.01%) ProCurve
10 4 (1.01%) Synology
10 4 (1.01%) Veeam
10 4 (1.01%) VMware
10 4 (1.01%) Zerto