WordPress Contracts in the South East

WordPress
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 161 180 180
Rank change year-on-year +19 0 +91
Contract jobs citing WordPress 2 7 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.057% 0.14% 0.54%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.55% 1.85% 5.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 28
10th Percentile £385 - £150
25th Percentile £428 - £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £225 £325
Median % change year-on-year +123.87% -30.77% -18.75%
75th Percentile £576 - £400
90th Percentile £617 - £402
England median daily rate £418 £310 £350
% change year-on-year +34.68% -11.43% 0.00%
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 - - -
England median hourly rate £13.90 £25.00 £19.67
% change year-on-year -44.40% +27.10% -34.98%

All Application Platform Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 362 378 582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 10.28% 7.68% 10.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 239 406
10th Percentile £220 £263 £199
25th Percentile £375 £350 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.67% - -4.36%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £598
90th Percentile £653 £638 £694
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 27 32
10th Percentile £13.25 £18.40 £22.02
25th Percentile £23.30 £30.00 £27.00
Median hourly rate £32.77 £67.02 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.10% +16.56% +187.50%
75th Percentile £58.09 £70.00 £63.94
90th Percentile £68.40 £72.00 £74.87
England median hourly rate £42.27 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +20.77% -22.22% +104.55%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for WordPress in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for WordPress in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WordPress in the South East over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WordPress in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for WordPress in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WordPress within the South East region over the 6 months to 14 August 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
Thames Valley +5 2 £504 +123.87% 21
Berkshire +7 1 £645 +186.63% 8
Buckinghamshire +3 1 £363 - 7
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) PHP Developer
1 1 (50.00%) PHP WordPress Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) CSS3
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) HTML5
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (50.00%) Vue
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) API Design
1 1 (50.00%) API Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Backlog Refinement
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) OO
1 1 (50.00%) OOD
1 1 (50.00%) SFIA
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Sprint Review
1 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform