WordPress Contracts in England

WordPress
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring WordPress skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited WordPress over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 461 472 550
Rank change year-on-year +11 +78 +137
Contract jobs citing WordPress 24 70 103
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.099% 0.19% 0.20%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.85% 2.02% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 47 84
10th Percentile £236 £121 £208
25th Percentile £252 £183 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £300 £340
Median % change year-on-year +41.67% -11.76% -9.33%
75th Percentile £534 £438 £400
90th Percentile £590 £538 £518
UK median daily rate £463 £300 £350
% change year-on-year +54.17% -14.29% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 13 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.35 £15.00 £21.00
Median hourly rate £13.90 £25.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.40% +13.64% -32.82%
75th Percentile £14.45 £30.50 £23.00
90th Percentile - £32.34 -
UK median hourly rate £13.90 £17.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -18.24% -22.73% -32.82%

All Application Platform Skills
England

WordPress 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 2,817 3,461 5,453
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.57% 9.31% 10.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,884 2,471 3,915
10th Percentile £283 £250 £263
25th Percentile £400 £360 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
75th Percentile £625 £608 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £754
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 139 128
10th Percentile £16.25 £13.00 £15.38
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.00 £18.13
Median hourly rate £52.50 £27.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +90.91% -12.00% +49.59%
75th Percentile £64.50 £45.59 £66.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £65.00 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £27.52 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.01% -31.21% +81.82%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for WordPress in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for WordPress in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WordPress in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WordPress in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for WordPress in England

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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 WordPress within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +14 14 £363 -14.71% 112
South East +46 4 - - 51
North of England +13 3 £350 +44.33% 53
North West +16 2 £350 +118.75% 34
South West +46 1 - - 16
North East -1 1 - - 6
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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 15 (62.50%) CMS
2 7 (29.17%) Drupal
3 5 (20.83%) Confluence
4 4 (16.67%) Apache
5 3 (12.50%) Sitecore CMS
6 2 (8.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Trello
2 1 (4.17%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 6 (25.00%) AWS
2 3 (12.50%) DigitalOcean
2 3 (12.50%) Figma
2 3 (12.50%) GitHub
2 3 (12.50%) Google Workspace
2 3 (12.50%) Heroku
2 3 (12.50%) Slack
3 2 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (8.33%) Amazon Lightsail
3 2 (8.33%) AWS Fargate
3 2 (8.33%) Google Analytics
3 2 (8.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 1 (4.17%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) Internet
2 3 (12.50%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (25.00%) MySQL
2 4 (16.67%) Relational Database
2 4 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Git
1 5 (20.83%) JIRA
2 4 (16.67%) Bitbucket Server
3 3 (12.50%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (8.33%) Cypress.io
4 2 (8.33%) PHPUnit
5 1 (4.17%) Selenium
5 1 (4.17%) TeamCity
General
1 12 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (33.33%) Marketing
3 3 (12.50%) Finance
4 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Developer
2 5 (20.83%) Software Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) PHP Software Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Marketing Specialist
4 2 (8.33%) Project Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Trainer
5 1 (4.17%) Administrator
5 1 (4.17%) Campaign Specialist
5 1 (4.17%) Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) Digital Marketing Specialist
5 1 (4.17%) Digital Project Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (4.17%) Junior
5 1 (4.17%) Junior Digital Project Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Salesforce Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Salesforce Project Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Scrum Master
5 1 (4.17%) SEO Manager
5 1 (4.17%) SEO Specialist
5 1 (4.17%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (41.67%) CSS
2 7 (29.17%) HTML
3 5 (20.83%) AngularJS
4 4 (16.67%) Ajax
4 4 (16.67%) CodeIgniter
4 4 (16.67%) jQuery
4 4 (16.67%) LAMP
4 4 (16.67%) SOAP
4 4 (16.67%) Web Services
5 3 (12.50%) Alpine.js
5 3 (12.50%) Bootstrap
5 3 (12.50%) Laravel
5 3 (12.50%) Node.js
5 3 (12.50%) Tailwind CSS
6 2 (8.33%) Jest
6 2 (8.33%) Playwright
7 1 (4.17%) Next.js
7 1 (4.17%) React
7 1 (4.17%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Legacy Code
2 1 (4.17%) Algorithms
2 1 (4.17%) Graphic Design
2 1 (4.17%) Marketing Technology
2 1 (4.17%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Linux
1 4 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (33.33%) Analytics
2 7 (29.17%) CRM
2 7 (29.17%) Project Management
3 6 (25.00%) Agile
3 6 (25.00%) SEO
4 5 (20.83%) DevOps
4 5 (20.83%) Scrum
4 5 (20.83%) Software Engineering
4 5 (20.83%) TDD
4 5 (20.83%) Web Analytics
5 4 (16.67%) Design Patterns
5 4 (16.67%) Kanban
5 4 (16.67%) MVC
5 4 (16.67%) OO
5 4 (16.67%) OOP
5 4 (16.67%) Secure Coding
5 4 (16.67%) Web Development
6 3 (12.50%) Content Management
6 3 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (12.50%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 10 (41.67%) PHP
2 7 (29.17%) JavaScript
3 5 (20.83%) Java
4 2 (8.33%) Python
5 1 (4.17%) Apex Code
5 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) Degree
2 2 (8.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (4.17%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) Google
2 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.67%) Sitecore
2 4 (16.67%) Zend
3 3 (12.50%) Adobe
3 3 (12.50%) Sage
3 3 (12.50%) Salesforce
4 2 (8.33%) HubSpot
5 1 (4.17%) Ahrefs
5 1 (4.17%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (4.17%) Screaming Frog