WordPress Contract Job Trends in London

WordPress
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring WordPress skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 363 357 365
Rank change year-on-year -6 +8 +175
Contract jobs citing WordPress 17 12 40
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.12% 0.080% 0.21%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.08% 0.67% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 26
10th Percentile - £190 £182
25th Percentile £300 £211 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £291 £350
Median % change year-on-year +40.77% -16.79% -9.68%
75th Percentile £451 £416 £547
90th Percentile £520 £452 £594
England median daily rate £410 £320 £400
% change year-on-year +28.13% -20.00% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £22.88
25th Percentile - - £24.69
Median hourly rate - - £29.50
75th Percentile - - £32.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £27.50
% change year-on-year - - +35.97%

All Application Platform Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,578 1,797 2,062
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.97% 11.93% 10.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,092 1,165 1,441
10th Percentile £326 £303 £288
25th Percentile £413 £409 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £699 £650
90th Percentile £750 £825 £775
England median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 18 25
10th Percentile - £17.72 £18.60
25th Percentile £17.50 £21.70 £21.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.80 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.67% -13.45% +14.58%
75th Percentile £35.75 £41.18 £44.54
90th Percentile £60.32 £85.88 £64.50
England median hourly rate £32.77 £41.91 £25.00
% change year-on-year -21.81% +67.64% +37.17%

WordPress
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

WordPress job vacancy trend in London

WordPress
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing WordPress

WordPress
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WordPress in London over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WordPress in London

WordPress
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing WordPress

WordPress
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 WordPress within the London region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Central London +4 5 £410 -18.81%
WordPress
England

WordPress
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 11 (64.71%) CMS
2 6 (35.29%) Drupal
3 4 (23.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Magnolia
5 1 (5.88%) Confluence
5 1 (5.88%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Adobe XD
1 1 (5.88%) InVision
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.88%) Sketch
1 1 (5.88%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) Figma
2 3 (17.65%) GitHub
2 3 (17.65%) Miro
3 2 (11.76%) AWS
3 2 (11.76%) Google Analytics
4 1 (5.88%) Azure
4 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
1 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) JIRA
2 2 (11.76%) ESLint
2 2 (11.76%) Git
2 2 (11.76%) rollup.js
2 2 (11.76%) Visual Studio Code
2 2 (11.76%) webpack
3 1 (5.88%) JUnit
3 1 (5.88%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (52.94%) Marketing
2 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
3 6 (35.29%) Finance
4 4 (23.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (23.53%) Publishing
4 4 (23.53%) Retail
5 1 (5.88%) Banking
5 1 (5.88%) Brand Awareness
5 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) CMS Specialist
1 4 (23.53%) Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Product Owner
3 2 (11.76%) Content Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (11.76%) Lead
3 2 (11.76%) WordPress Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Agile Coach
4 1 (5.88%) Digital Content Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Marketing Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Technical Leader
4 1 (5.88%) Technical Leader
4 1 (5.88%) Web Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Website Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) HTML
2 3 (17.65%) React
3 2 (11.76%) Enzyme
3 2 (11.76%) Jest
3 2 (11.76%) Spring
4 1 (5.88%) CSS
4 1 (5.88%) Hibernate
4 1 (5.88%) JPA
4 1 (5.88%) REST
4 1 (5.88%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.88%) Blog
2 1 (5.88%) Educational Technology
2 1 (5.88%) e-Learning
2 1 (5.88%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.88%) Social Media
2 1 (5.88%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Content Management
2 6 (35.29%) Agile
3 5 (29.41%) Sprint Planning
4 4 (23.53%) Analytics
4 4 (23.53%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 4 (23.53%) User Experience
4 4 (23.53%) User Stories
5 3 (17.65%) Mentoring
5 3 (17.65%) Product Backlog
5 3 (17.65%) Prototyping
5 3 (17.65%) Scrum
5 3 (17.65%) SEO
6 2 (11.76%) Backlog Management
6 2 (11.76%) Backlog Refinement
6 2 (11.76%) Digital Marketing
6 2 (11.76%) Product Roadmap
6 2 (11.76%) Software Engineering
6 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (11.76%) TDD
6 2 (11.76%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) JavaScript
2 2 (11.76%) Java
2 2 (11.76%) PHP
2 2 (11.76%) TypeScript
3 1 (5.88%) Apex Code
3 1 (5.88%) C#
3 1 (5.88%) Python
3 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
1 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) Accessibility
2 2 (11.76%) QA
2 2 (11.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Adobe
2 2 (11.76%) Google
3 1 (5.88%) Hotjar
3 1 (5.88%) HubSpot
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) Salesforce