WordPress Contracts in the North of England

WordPress
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring WordPress skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited WordPress over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 176 211
Rank change year-on-year +13 +35 +15
Contract jobs citing WordPress 3 9 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.091% 0.19% 0.15%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.60% 2.54% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 7
10th Percentile £199 £171 £185
25th Percentile £253 £194 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £243 £350
Median % change year-on-year +44.33% -30.71% +15.51%
75th Percentile £441 £294 £488
90th Percentile £491 £320 £551
England median daily rate £425 £300 £340
% change year-on-year +41.67% -11.76% -9.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £15.00 -
England median hourly rate £13.90 £25.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -44.40% +13.64% -32.82%

All Application Platform Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 498 355 493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 15.11% 7.45% 8.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 332 235 355
10th Percentile £188 £203 £200
25th Percentile £333 £313 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% -2.63% +8.57%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £550
90th Percentile £610 £650 £650
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 38 10
10th Percentile £16.85 £13.00 £15.89
25th Percentile £24.76 £13.31 £16.63
Median hourly rate £41.00 £15.23 £22.25
Median % change year-on-year +169.21% -31.55% +20.27%
75th Percentile £57.59 £44.47 £28.06
90th Percentile £77.00 £46.18 £36.98
England median hourly rate £52.50 £27.50 £31.25
% change year-on-year +90.91% -12.00% +49.59%

WordPress
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for WordPress in the North of England

WordPress
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WordPress in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for WordPress in the North of England

WordPress
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WordPress in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WordPress in the North of England

WordPress
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WordPress in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for WordPress in the North of England

WordPress
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WordPress within the North of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North West +16 2 £350 +118.75% 34
North East -1 1 - - 6
WordPress
England

WordPress
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (66.67%) CMS
2 1 (33.33%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Lightsail
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (33.33%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Digital Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Junior
1 1 (33.33%) Junior Digital Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Junior Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Product Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Marketing Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) API Integration
1 1 (33.33%) CRM
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Digital Marketing
1 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (33.33%) Lead Generation
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
1 1 (33.33%) Product Requirements
1 1 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
1 1 (33.33%) Project Management
1 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
1 1 (33.33%) SEO
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (33.33%) User Stories
1 1 (33.33%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Sitecore