Drupal Contract Job Trends in London

Drupal
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Drupal skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 378 311 365
Rank change year-on-year -67 +54 +119
Contract jobs citing Drupal 13 45 32
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.081% 0.34% 0.17%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.83% 2.86% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 25 16
10th Percentile £211 £225 £263
25th Percentile £213 £308 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £420 £350
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +20.00% -44.00%
75th Percentile £630 £475 £613
90th Percentile - £637 £689
England median daily rate £563 £375 £388
% change year-on-year +50.00% -3.23% -18.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 8
10th Percentile - £39.58 £23.23
25th Percentile - £40.46 £26.56
Median hourly rate - £41.91 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year - +39.70% -
75th Percentile - - £32.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £41.91 £30.00
% change year-on-year - +39.70% -

All Application Platform Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,564 1,574 2,007
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.75% 12.06% 10.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,085 1,016 1,451
10th Percentile £350 £313 £263
25th Percentile £419 £406 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £507
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +3.55% -7.82%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £625
90th Percentile £726 £808 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.06% -5.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 9 32
10th Percentile £15.15 - £17.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £23.80 £22.00
Median hourly rate £18.50 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.14% +16.67% +32.57%
75th Percentile £28.78 £39.00 £34.38
90th Percentile £62.35 £41.91 £48.63
England median hourly rate £27.21 £42.50 £25.25
% change year-on-year -35.98% +68.32% +13.94%

Drupal
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Drupal relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Drupal job vacancy trend in London

Drupal
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Drupal

Drupal
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Drupal in London over the 6 months to 9 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Drupal in London

Drupal
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Drupal

Drupal
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 10 (76.92%) CMS
2 6 (46.15%) Sitecore CMS
3 4 (30.77%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (7.69%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) Contentful
2 2 (15.38%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) Figma
3 1 (7.69%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (53.85%) Metadata
2 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Git
1 2 (15.38%) JUnit
General
1 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Marketing
3 2 (15.38%) German Language
4 1 (7.69%) Finance
4 1 (7.69%) French Language
4 1 (7.69%) Italian Language
4 1 (7.69%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Senior
2 2 (15.38%) Administrator
2 2 (15.38%) Principal Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Web Administrator
2 2 (15.38%) Web Content Administrator
3 1 (7.69%) Agile Coach
3 1 (7.69%) Communications Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Content Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Digital Content Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Intranet Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) VML
2 2 (15.38%) Hibernate
2 2 (15.38%) JPA
2 2 (15.38%) REST
2 2 (15.38%) Spring
2 2 (15.38%) Spring Boot
2 2 (15.38%) Vue
3 1 (7.69%) CSS
3 1 (7.69%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Taxonomies
2 2 (15.38%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Domain Models
1 6 (46.15%) Personalization
1 6 (46.15%) Semantic Enrichment
2 3 (23.08%) Backlog Refinement
2 3 (23.08%) Content Management
2 3 (23.08%) Mentoring
3 2 (15.38%) Analytics
3 2 (15.38%) Data Protection
3 2 (15.38%) Database Tuning
3 2 (15.38%) Front End Development
3 2 (15.38%) High Availability
3 2 (15.38%) Microservices
3 2 (15.38%) Migration
3 2 (15.38%) OO
3 2 (15.38%) OOA/OOD
3 2 (15.38%) SOLID
3 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (15.38%) TDD
3 2 (15.38%) User Experience
3 2 (15.38%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) C#
1 2 (15.38%) Java
1 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
1 2 (15.38%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) Degree
3 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
1 2 (15.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Optimizely
1 6 (46.15%) Sitecore
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) Google
3 1 (7.69%) Hotjar
3 1 (7.69%) HubSpot