WordPress
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 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 437 656 560
Rank change year-on-year +219 -96 -171
Permanent jobs citing WordPress 534 331 900
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.54% 0.32% 0.58%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.00% 2.74% 4.24%
Number of salaries quoted 499 258 588
10th Percentile £25,750 £32,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £30,250 £36,250 £32,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +5.88% -
75th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £65,750 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £36,250 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -9.38% - +6.67%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for application platform skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 10,690 12,060 21,210
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.90% 11.52% 13.76%
Number of salaries quoted 7,047 7,947 11,793
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% +2.86%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £97,290 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% -

WordPress
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for WordPress in the UK

WordPress
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing WordPress.

Salary trend for WordPress in the UK

WordPress
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing WordPress over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for WordPress in the UK

WordPress
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WordPress within the UK 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +247 493 £39,500 -12.22% 108
UK excluding London +160 395 £36,250 -9.38% 88
Work from Home +169 235 £40,000 -15.34% 59
London +159 126 £52,500 - 25
North of England +96 98 £33,500 -16.25% 24
Midlands +83 87 £35,000 -15.15% 21
South East +18 70 £39,500 -1.25% 16
West Midlands +83 61 £35,500 -18.86% 13
South West +20 57 £40,000 -11.11% 12
East of England +52 54 £35,000 -6.67% 10
Yorkshire +123 46 £32,750 -22.49% 6
North West +48 45 £33,500 -10.67% 15
East Midlands +5 26 £32,500 -16.13% 8
Wales - 16 £35,000 - 2
Scotland -56 10 £45,000 -14.29% 5
North East -23 7 £40,000 -8.57% 3
Northern Ireland +32 4 £33,500 -4.29%

WordPress
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
1 131 (24.53%) CMS
2 42 (7.87%) Drupal
3 21 (3.93%) SharePoint
4 17 (3.18%) Apache
5 15 (2.81%) nginx
6 14 (2.62%) Umbraco
7 12 (2.25%) Confluence
7 12 (2.25%) Microsoft Exchange
8 10 (1.87%) IIS
8 10 (1.87%) Joomla!
9 7 (1.31%) Headless CMS
10 6 (1.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 6 (1.12%) Apache Solr
10 6 (1.12%) Sitecore CMS
11 5 (0.94%) Moodle
12 1 (0.19%) PrestaShop
Applications
1 35 (6.55%) Photoshop
2 26 (4.87%) Adobe Illustrator
3 24 (4.49%) Microsoft Excel
4 20 (3.75%) Adobe XD
5 16 (3.00%) InDesign
6 14 (2.62%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 11 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 10 (1.87%) Adobe After Effects
8 10 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
9 9 (1.69%) Adobe Premiere
10 7 (1.31%) Spreadsheet
11 6 (1.12%) Sketch
12 3 (0.56%) Final Cut Pro
12 3 (0.56%) InVision
13 2 (0.37%) Acrobat
13 2 (0.37%) FileZilla
14 1 (0.19%) Elementor
14 1 (0.19%) SketchUp
Business Applications
1 44 (8.24%) Shopify
2 30 (5.62%) Magento
3 7 (1.31%) Payment Gateway
4 6 (1.12%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.37%) CiviCRM
5 2 (0.37%) OpenCart
6 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.19%) Yoast SEO
Cloud Services
1 44 (8.24%) AWS
2 41 (7.68%) Google Analytics
3 39 (7.30%) Azure
4 34 (6.37%) Figma
4 34 (6.37%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (3.18%) Canva
6 16 (3.00%) MailChimp
7 15 (2.81%) GitHub
7 15 (2.81%) Power Platform
7 15 (2.81%) SaaS
8 13 (2.43%) OneDrive
9 11 (2.06%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 9 (1.69%) Google Drive
11 8 (1.50%) GCP
11 8 (1.50%) npm
11 8 (1.50%) PaaS
12 7 (1.31%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (1.12%) DigitalOcean
13 6 (1.12%) Google Ads
13 6 (1.12%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (6.74%) DNS
2 24 (4.49%) Firewall
3 22 (4.12%) Intranet
4 12 (2.25%) SSL
5 10 (1.87%) Fibre Channel
5 10 (1.87%) iSCSI
5 10 (1.87%) NAS
5 10 (1.87%) SAN
5 10 (1.87%) VPN
5 10 (1.87%) Wireless
6 3 (0.56%) Internet
7 2 (0.37%) DHCP
7 2 (0.37%) DKIM
7 2 (0.37%) DMARC
7 2 (0.37%) FTP
7 2 (0.37%) IP Telephony
7 2 (0.37%) PBX
7 2 (0.37%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (0.37%) VoIP
7 2 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (18.16%) MySQL
2 23 (4.31%) SQL Server
3 15 (2.81%) Power BI
4 6 (1.12%) Relational Database
5 5 (0.94%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (0.56%) Looker
7 3 (0.56%) QGIS
8 2 (0.37%) phpMyAdmin
9 1 (0.19%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.19%) Crystal Reports
9 1 (0.19%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.19%) Mixpanel
9 1 (0.19%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.19%) Redis
Development Applications
1 74 (13.86%) Git
2 21 (3.93%) JIRA
3 5 (0.94%) Team Foundation Server
3 5 (0.94%) webpack
4 4 (0.75%) GitLab
4 4 (0.75%) gulp
5 3 (0.56%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.56%) WiX
6 2 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.37%) Subversion
6 2 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.19%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.19%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.19%) Grunt
7 1 (0.19%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.19%) JMeter
7 1 (0.19%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (0.19%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.19%) Selenium
General
1 189 (35.39%) Marketing
2 158 (29.59%) Social Skills
3 44 (8.24%) Finance
4 41 (7.68%) Publishing
5 38 (7.12%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (4.49%) Advertising
7 21 (3.93%) Retail
8 20 (3.75%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (1.69%) Law
10 8 (1.50%) German Language
10 8 (1.50%) Legal
11 7 (1.31%) Spanish Language
12 6 (1.12%) French Language
12 6 (1.12%) Games
12 6 (1.12%) Multimedia
13 5 (0.94%) Brand Awareness
14 4 (0.75%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.75%) Public Sector
15 3 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 303 (56.74%) Developer
2 130 (24.34%) WordPress Developer
3 73 (13.67%) PHP Developer
4 71 (13.30%) Web Developer
5 48 (8.99%) Senior
6 45 (8.43%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 40 (7.49%) Web Manager
8 36 (6.74%) Full Stack Developer
9 31 (5.81%) Designer
10 27 (5.06%) Senior Developer
11 26 (4.87%) Junior
12 25 (4.68%) PHP WordPress Developer
13 23 (4.31%) Website Manager
14 22 (4.12%) PHP Web Developer
15 21 (3.93%) Junior Developer
16 18 (3.37%) Lead
17 17 (3.18%) HTML Developer
18 16 (3.00%) Graphic Designer
19 15 (2.81%) HTML CSS Developer
20 13 (2.43%) Digital Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 241 (45.13%) CSS
2 236 (44.19%) HTML
3 78 (14.61%) React
4 66 (12.36%) jQuery
5 62 (11.61%) Laravel
6 38 (7.12%) Vue
7 37 (6.93%) HTML5
8 35 (6.55%) LAMP
9 31 (5.81%) CSS3
10 28 (5.24%) Sass
11 17 (3.18%) Node.js
12 16 (3.00%) Tailwind CSS
13 15 (2.81%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 13 (2.43%) EDI
15 12 (2.25%) AngularJS
15 12 (2.25%) Next.js
16 10 (1.87%) .NET
16 10 (1.87%) REST
16 10 (1.87%) RESTful
17 9 (1.69%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 59 (11.05%) Social Media
2 35 (6.55%) Self-Motivation
3 33 (6.18%) Graphic Design
4 24 (4.49%) Blog
5 20 (3.75%) Mobile App
6 16 (3.00%) Onboarding
7 12 (2.25%) Animation
7 12 (2.25%) Management Information System
7 12 (2.25%) Video Editing
8 11 (2.06%) Linux Command Line
8 11 (2.06%) Product Ownership
9 10 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (1.87%) Replication
10 9 (1.69%) Data Centre
10 9 (1.69%) Driving Licence
11 7 (1.31%) Educational Technology
11 7 (1.31%) Low-Code
12 6 (1.12%) Photography
13 5 (0.94%) Digital Media
13 5 (0.94%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 26 (4.87%) Linux
2 22 (4.12%) Windows
3 12 (2.25%) Windows Server
4 11 (2.06%) Ubuntu
5 10 (1.87%) VMS
5 10 (1.87%) Windows Server 2016
5 10 (1.87%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (0.94%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.75%) Android
7 4 (0.75%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.56%) Unix
8 3 (0.56%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.37%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (28.84%) Web Development
2 117 (21.91%) Problem-Solving
3 98 (18.35%) E-Commerce
4 94 (17.60%) User Experience
5 72 (13.48%) SEO
6 63 (11.80%) Full Stack Development
7 57 (10.67%) Front End Development
8 55 (10.30%) Content Management
9 53 (9.93%) Analytics
10 51 (9.55%) Digital Marketing
11 50 (9.36%) Marketing Strategy
12 47 (8.80%) Agile
13 39 (7.30%) Project Management
14 36 (6.74%) UX Design
15 35 (6.55%) Collaborative Working
15 35 (6.55%) CRM
16 33 (6.18%) DevOps
17 27 (5.06%) Mentoring
18 23 (4.31%) Clean Code
18 23 (4.31%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 263 (49.25%) PHP
2 228 (42.70%) JavaScript
3 26 (4.87%) SQL
4 15 (2.81%) PowerShell
5 14 (2.62%) Python
6 7 (1.31%) TypeScript
7 3 (0.56%) Bash
8 2 (0.37%) Java
9 1 (0.19%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.19%) C
9 1 (0.19%) Rust
9 1 (0.19%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 68 (12.73%) Degree
2 18 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (1.12%) DBS Check
4 5 (0.94%) Security Cleared
5 4 (0.75%) Master's Degree
5 4 (0.75%) SC Cleared
6 2 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.19%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.31%) GDPR
2 18 (3.37%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials
3 8 (1.50%) QA
4 6 (1.12%) ISO 20022
4 6 (1.12%) PSD2
5 3 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.56%) SLA
6 2 (0.37%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.37%) WCAG
7 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 18 (3.37%) Active Directory
2 15 (2.81%) Docker
3 10 (1.87%) vSphere
4 3 (0.56%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.37%) Terminal Services
5 2 (0.37%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 10 (1.87%) Microsoft Intune
1 10 (1.87%) SCCM
2 8 (1.50%) cPanel
3 6 (1.12%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.12%) Terraform
4 1 (0.19%) Ansible
4 1 (0.19%) Plesk
4 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 74 (13.86%) Adobe
2 71 (13.30%) Google
3 56 (10.49%) WooCommerce
4 44 (8.24%) Microsoft
5 18 (3.37%) Facebook
5 18 (3.37%) Instagram
6 12 (2.25%) HubSpot
6 12 (2.25%) Salesforce
7 10 (1.87%) Aruba
7 10 (1.87%) Palo Alto
7 10 (1.87%) ProCurve
7 10 (1.87%) Synology
7 10 (1.87%) Veeam
7 10 (1.87%) VMware
7 10 (1.87%) Zerto
8 9 (1.69%) Xero
9 8 (1.50%) Ahrefs
10 7 (1.31%) Atlassian
10 7 (1.31%) WorldPay
11 6 (1.12%) Marketo