WordPress Contracts in the North West

WordPress
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 118 134 153
Rank change year-on-year +16 +19 +17
Contract jobs citing WordPress 2 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.10% 0.11% 0.13%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.65% 1.53% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £199 - £230
25th Percentile £253 £155 £238
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £160 £275
Median % change year-on-year +118.75% -41.82% +8.59%
75th Percentile £441 £165 £313
90th Percentile £491 - £320
England median daily rate £425 £300 £340
% change year-on-year +41.67% -11.76% -9.33%

All Application Platform Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 307 196 260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 15.60% 7.11% 8.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 123 187
10th Percentile £187 £230 £231
25th Percentile £325 £312 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £438 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -7.89% +5.56%
75th Percentile £510 £520 £550
90th Percentile £588 £613 £650
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 25 8
10th Percentile £16.25 - £15.18
25th Percentile £22.01 £13.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.59 £32.12 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.39% +56.66% +9.33%
75th Percentile £65.13 £45.00 £26.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £46.18 £39.93
England median hourly rate £52.50 £27.50 £31.25
% change year-on-year +90.91% -12.00% +49.59%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for WordPress in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for WordPress in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for WordPress in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for WordPress in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +18 2 £350 +118.75% 25
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (50.00%) CMS
1 1 (50.00%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Google Analytics
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Junior
1 1 (50.00%) Junior Digital Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Junior Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Product Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) API Integration
1 1 (50.00%) CRM
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Generation
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
1 1 (50.00%) Product Requirements
1 1 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) SEO
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) User Stories
1 1 (50.00%) Web Development
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Sitecore