Drupal Contract Job Trends in England

Drupal
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Drupal skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 496 473 564
Rank change year-on-year -23 +91 +70
Contract jobs citing Drupal 15 53 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.054% 0.16% 0.11%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.48% 1.51% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 30 35
10th Percentile £155 £225 £328
25th Percentile £350 £308 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £350 £425
Median % change year-on-year +17.14% -17.65% -
75th Percentile £500 £375 £581
90th Percentile £635 £475 £688
UK median daily rate £410 £350 £450
% change year-on-year +17.14% -22.22% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 3
10th Percentile - £24.60 £18.16
25th Percentile - £30.00 £20.15
Median hourly rate - £33.04 £23.46
Median % change year-on-year - +40.81% -70.68%
75th Percentile - £33.07 £29.23
90th Percentile - - £32.69
UK median hourly rate - £33.04 £23.46
% change year-on-year - +40.81% -70.68%

All Application Platform Skills
England

Drupal falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,147 3,512 4,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.31% 10.65% 10.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,070 2,390 3,029
10th Percentile £275 £285 £250
25th Percentile £390 £404 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £499 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £850 £745
UK median daily rate £478 £525 £510
% change year-on-year -9.05% +2.94% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 81 140
10th Percentile £16.96 £17.08 £15.45
25th Percentile £25.88 £23.80 £20.50
Median hourly rate £43.00 £47.50 £46.09
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% +3.06% +109.50%
75th Percentile £67.63 £70.00 £70.70
90th Percentile £78.71 £74.44 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £39.28 £38.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year +3.37% -29.63% +132.26%

Drupal
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Drupal in England

Drupal
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Drupal.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Drupal

Drupal
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Drupal in England over the 6 months to 12 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Drupal in England

Drupal
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Drupal.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Drupal

Drupal
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 Drupal within the England region over the 6 months to 12 September 2025. 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 -7 11 £410 +17.14% 15
Yorkshire -8 3 £400 -20.00% 2
North of England -17 3 £400 +21.21% 2
South East +2 1 £645 +84.26% 8
Drupal
UK

Drupal
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 11 (73.33%) CMS
2 6 (40.00%) WordPress
3 1 (6.67%) SAS
3 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
3 1 (6.67%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Adobe XD
1 1 (6.67%) InVision
1 1 (6.67%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) Figma
2 3 (20.00%) Miro
3 1 (6.67%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) JUnit
General
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Finance
2 3 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Marketing
3 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Content Designer
1 3 (20.00%) Designer
1 3 (20.00%) Junior
1 3 (20.00%) Junior Content Designer
1 3 (20.00%) Junior Designer
1 3 (20.00%) Product Owner
2 2 (13.33%) Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Digital Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Drupal Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (6.67%) Java Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Lead
3 1 (6.67%) Senior
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Software Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) HTML
1 2 (13.33%) Spring
1 2 (13.33%) Spring Boot
2 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
2 1 (6.67%) CSS
2 1 (6.67%) Hibernate
2 1 (6.67%) JPA
2 1 (6.67%) jQuery
2 1 (6.67%) Node.js
2 1 (6.67%) React
2 1 (6.67%) REST
2 1 (6.67%) RESTful
2 1 (6.67%) Sass
2 1 (6.67%) Twig
2 1 (6.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Educational Technology
2 1 (6.67%) e-Learning
2 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Agile
1 5 (33.33%) User Experience
2 4 (26.67%) Content Management
2 4 (26.67%) SEO
2 4 (26.67%) User Stories
2 4 (26.67%) UX Design
3 3 (20.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 3 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (20.00%) DevOps
3 3 (20.00%) Logistics
3 3 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (20.00%) Product Backlog
3 3 (20.00%) Prototyping
3 3 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 3 (20.00%) Scrum
3 3 (20.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 2 (13.33%) OO
4 2 (13.33%) Product Requirements
4 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
4 2 (13.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) Java
1 4 (26.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (13.33%) C#
2 2 (13.33%) PHP
3 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) Degree
3 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) Accessibility
2 3 (20.00%) QA
3 1 (6.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (13.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Adobe
1 1 (6.67%) Atlassian
1 1 (6.67%) Sitecore