WordPress Contract Job Trends in the North West

WordPress
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring WordPress skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 124 123
Rank change year-on-year -51 -1 +33
Contract jobs citing WordPress 3 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.080% 0.092% 0.17%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.97% 0.72% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £241 £199 £172
25th Percentile £271 £253 £196
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £345 £350 £275
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% +27.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £421 £441 £313
90th Percentile £454 £491 -
England median daily rate £383 £410 £320
% change year-on-year -6.71% +28.13% -8.57%

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 310 278 186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 8.24% 12.76% 7.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 212 125
10th Percentile £213 £263 £223
25th Percentile £358 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £411 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.42% -8.61% -5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £488 £538
90th Percentile £621 £611 £641
England median daily rate £500 £496 £525
% change year-on-year +0.81% -5.52% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 14 12
10th Percentile £23.01 £34.50 £13.00
25th Percentile £25.44 £37.80 £13.75
Median hourly rate £61.57 £45.11 £28.15
Median % change year-on-year +36.50% +60.23% +37.32%
75th Percentile £74.26 £71.09 £45.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £76.75 £48.38
England median hourly rate £32.50 £44.50 £32.11
% change year-on-year -26.97% +38.61% -30.48%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

WordPress job vacancy trend in the North West

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Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing WordPress.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing WordPress

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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 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for WordPress in the North West

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing WordPress.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing WordPress

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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 August 2026. 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
Merseyside - 3 £345 - 1
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (33.33%) CMS
1 1 (33.33%) Drupal
1 1 (33.33%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Claude Code
1 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Web Developer
2 2 (66.67%) WordPress Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Drupal Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Drupal Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Web Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) GraphQL
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) Tailwind CSS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) User Experience
1 2 (66.67%) Web Development
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) API Integration
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Load Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PHP
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (33.33%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) MuleSoft
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce