WordPress Contracts in the Midlands

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England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for WordPress skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited WordPress over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 157 197
Rank change year-on-year +38 +40 -41
Contract jobs citing WordPress 13 6 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.47% 0.18% 0.16%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.40% 1.40% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 5
10th Percentile - £210 £216
25th Percentile £131 £263 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £138 £275 £550
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% -50.00% +238.46%
75th Percentile £344 £500 -
90th Percentile £1,000 - £573
England median daily rate £300 £350 £363
% change year-on-year -14.29% -3.45% +11.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £22.50 - -
Median hourly rate £25.00 - -
75th Percentile £28.13 - -
90th Percentile £28.50 - -
England median hourly rate £21.00 £22.00 £32.75
% change year-on-year -4.55% -32.82% -27.22%

All Application Platform Skills
Midlands

WordPress is in the Application Platforms category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 203 429 669
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 7.39% 12.54% 13.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 316 452
10th Percentile £146 £188 £198
25th Percentile £290 £363 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £373 £450 £448
Median % change year-on-year -17.22% +0.45% +12.00%
75th Percentile £500 £540 £532
90th Percentile £638 £624 £593
England median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 9 15
10th Percentile £15.79 £14.48 £16.10
25th Percentile £22.12 £16.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £30.50 £18.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +64.86% -7.50% +23.08%
75th Percentile £51.91 £26.48 £23.63
90th Percentile - £34.93 £32.50
England median hourly rate £25.50 £33.75 £20.89
% change year-on-year -24.44% +61.56% +4.94%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for WordPress in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for WordPress in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WordPress in the Midlands over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WordPress in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for WordPress in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WordPress within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 May 2024. 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
West Midlands +28 10 £138 -31.25% 16
East Midlands +18 3 - - 7
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (15.38%) CMS
1 2 (15.38%) IIS
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (15.38%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.69%) Drupal
2 1 (7.69%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) Azure
1 2 (15.38%) GitHub
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (15.38%) OneDrive
2 1 (7.69%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) DNS
1 2 (15.38%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (15.38%) Firewall
1 2 (15.38%) iSCSI
1 2 (15.38%) NAS
1 2 (15.38%) SAN
1 2 (15.38%) VPN
1 2 (15.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (84.62%) Developer
2 9 (69.23%) WordPress Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Network Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) CMS Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Full Stack Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Full Stack PHP Developer
4 1 (7.69%) PHP Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Umbraco Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (53.85%) Vue
2 3 (23.08%) Symfony
3 2 (15.38%) LAMP
3 2 (15.38%) React
4 1 (7.69%) .NET
4 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET
4 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (7.69%) CSS
4 1 (7.69%) HTML
4 1 (7.69%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (15.38%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
1 2 (15.38%) Ubuntu
1 2 (15.38%) VMS
1 2 (15.38%) Windows
1 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
1 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2016
1 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2019
2 1 (7.69%) Android
2 1 (7.69%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Web Development
2 2 (15.38%) Full Stack Development
2 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (7.69%) Android Development
3 1 (7.69%) iOS Development
3 1 (7.69%) Mobile Development
3 1 (7.69%) MVC
3 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) PHP
2 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
2 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.69%) C#
3 1 (7.69%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
1 2 (15.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (15.38%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Aruba
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
1 2 (15.38%) Palo Alto
1 2 (15.38%) ProCurve
1 2 (15.38%) Synology
1 2 (15.38%) Veeam
1 2 (15.38%) VMware
1 2 (15.38%) Zerto