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 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 399 318 353
Rank change year-on-year -81 +35 +127
Contract jobs citing Drupal 15 39 30
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.087% 0.31% 0.17%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.89% 2.64% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 23 16
10th Percentile £211 £219 -
25th Percentile £272 £316 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £350
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +28.57% -26.32%
75th Percentile £607 £506 £542
90th Percentile £630 £641 £689
England median daily rate £525 £450 £350
% change year-on-year +16.67% +28.57% -26.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 6
10th Percentile - £39.58 -
25th Percentile £20.89 £40.46 £27.50
Median hourly rate £22.64 £41.91 £30.86
Median % change year-on-year -45.99% +35.83% +5.56%
75th Percentile £24.38 - £32.50
90th Percentile - - £32.75
England median hourly rate £22.64 £41.91 £30.86
% change year-on-year -45.99% +35.83% +5.56%

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 1,685 1,479 1,997
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.74% 11.68% 11.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,142 990 1,470
10th Percentile £353 £325 £263
25th Percentile £425 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year - +2.94% -7.27%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £635
90th Percentile £726 £814 £788
England median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 10 30
10th Percentile £15.30 £23.80 £20.15
25th Percentile £17.50 £26.14 £22.44
Median hourly rate £22.64 £32.73 £30.08
Median % change year-on-year -30.83% +8.79% +14.59%
75th Percentile £28.82 £41.91 £40.00
90th Percentile £55.34 £50.38 £58.13
England median hourly rate £30.00 £52.50 £28.50
% change year-on-year -42.86% +84.21% +24.92%

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 April 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
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Drupal within the London region over the 6 months to 9 April 2026. 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
South London -21 1 £450 -
Drupal
England

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 12 (80.00%) CMS
2 6 (40.00%) Sitecore CMS
3 5 (33.33%) WordPress
4 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (6.67%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) Contentful
2 2 (13.33%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) Figma
3 1 (6.67%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Canva
3 1 (6.67%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (46.67%) Metadata
2 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Git
1 2 (13.33%) JUnit
General
1 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Marketing
3 2 (13.33%) German Language
3 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.67%) Finance
4 1 (6.67%) French Language
4 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Italian Language
4 1 (6.67%) Local Government
4 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Publishing
4 1 (6.67%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (13.33%) Administrator
2 2 (13.33%) Principal Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Web Administrator
2 2 (13.33%) Web Content Administrator
3 1 (6.67%) Agile Coach
3 1 (6.67%) Communications Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Communications Officer
3 1 (6.67%) Content Designer
3 1 (6.67%) Content Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Designer
3 1 (6.67%) Digital Content Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Intranet Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Web Content Designer
3 1 (6.67%) Web Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) VML
2 2 (13.33%) Hibernate
2 2 (13.33%) HTML
2 2 (13.33%) JPA
2 2 (13.33%) REST
2 2 (13.33%) Spring
2 2 (13.33%) Spring Boot
2 2 (13.33%) Vue
3 1 (6.67%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Taxonomies
2 2 (13.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (6.67%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Domain Models
1 6 (40.00%) Personalization
1 6 (40.00%) Semantic Enrichment
2 4 (26.67%) Analytics
2 4 (26.67%) Content Management
3 3 (20.00%) Backlog Refinement
3 3 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 3 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (20.00%) User Experience
4 2 (13.33%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (13.33%) Content Writing
4 2 (13.33%) DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (13.33%) Front End Development
4 2 (13.33%) High Availability
4 2 (13.33%) Microservices
4 2 (13.33%) Observability
4 2 (13.33%) SOLID
4 2 (13.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) C#
1 2 (13.33%) Java
1 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
1 2 (13.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) Degree
3 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) Accessibility
2 2 (13.33%) WCAG
3 1 (6.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (13.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Optimizely
1 6 (40.00%) Sitecore
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) Adobe
3 1 (6.67%) Facebook
3 1 (6.67%) Google
3 1 (6.67%) Hotjar
3 1 (6.67%) HubSpot
3 1 (6.67%) Instagram
3 1 (6.67%) YouTube