WordPress Developer Contract Job Trends in London

WordPress Developer
England > London

The median WordPress Developer daily rate in London is £433, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 441 - 383
Rank change year-on-year - - +83
Contract jobs requiring a WordPress Developer 2 0 12
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.010% - 0.074%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.011% - 0.078%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 11
10th Percentile £361 - £300
25th Percentile £377 - £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 - £380
Median % change year-on-year - - +26.67%
75th Percentile £467 - £438
90th Percentile £470 - -
England median daily rate £425 £363 £363
% change year-on-year +17.24% - +3.57%

All Contract IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 18,770 12,756 15,334
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.05% 92.95% 94.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,276 8,635 10,898
10th Percentile £363 £325 £344
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £653 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 354 203 201
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.75
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.83 £22.00
Median hourly rate £38.25 £30.00 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +27.50% -9.28% -11.44%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £78.69 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £45.00 £26.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +73.08% -42.22% +4.65%

WordPress Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'WordPress Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

WordPress Developer job vacancy trend in London

WordPress Developer
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for WordPress Developer job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for WordPress Developer job vacancies in London

WordPress Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for WordPress Developer job vacancies in London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for WordPress Developer job vacancies in London

WordPress Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 2 August 2026, WordPress Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring WordPress Developer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) PHP
1 2 (100.00%) WordPress
2 1 (50.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) CMS
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) CSS3
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Database Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Load Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Memcached
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) React
2 1 (50.00%) Redis
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) Sass
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery

WordPress Developer Skill Set
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 2 (100.00%) WordPress
2 1 (50.00%) CMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) CSS3
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) Memcached
2 1 (50.00%) React
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) Database Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (50.00%) Load Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PHP
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Varnish