WordPress Contracts in Reading

WordPress
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 89 88
Rank change year-on-year +26 -1 +14
Contract jobs citing WordPress 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.17% 0.089% 0.091%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.39% 1.20% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £645 £225 -
Median % change year-on-year +186.63% - -
Berkshire median daily rate £645 £225 -
% change year-on-year +186.63% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.84
Median hourly rate - - £17.34
75th Percentile - - £17.84
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate - - £17.34
% change year-on-year - - -46.65%

All Application Platform Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 72 83 80
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 11.98% 7.36% 7.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 40 57
10th Percentile £340 £450 £385
25th Percentile £350 £471 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £582 £520
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +11.83% +15.56%
75th Percentile £575 £608 £631
90th Percentile £600 - £700
Berkshire median daily rate £505 £534 £475
% change year-on-year -5.39% +12.37% +3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £27.84
25th Percentile - - £44.34
Median hourly rate - - £67.10
Median % change year-on-year - - +123.65%
75th Percentile - - £79.19
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £62.50 £52.91 £63.00
% change year-on-year +18.12% -16.01% +80.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for WordPress in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for WordPress in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for WordPress in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 (100.00%) CMS
1 1 (100.00%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Vue
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Refinement
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOD
1 1 (100.00%) SFIA
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Review
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform