Drupal Contracts in the UK excluding London

Drupal
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Drupal skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Drupal 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 330 368 445
Rank change year-on-year +38 +77 -6
Contract jobs citing Drupal 6 31 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.047% 0.15% 0.071%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.40% 1.74% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 25 14
10th Percentile £266 £240 £325
25th Percentile £280 £325 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £306 £350 £488
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -28.21% +12.72%
75th Percentile £330 £469 £628
90th Percentile £342 £603 £630
UK median daily rate £350 £350 £475
% change year-on-year - -26.32% +15.15%

All Application Platform Skills
UK excluding London

Drupal 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,494 1,779 2,683
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.70% 8.56% 11.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 977 1,187 1,925
10th Percentile £213 £213 £201
25th Percentile £350 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £625 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 123 98
10th Percentile £16.25 £13.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £20.30 £14.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £46.18 £23.75 £26.24
Median % change year-on-year +94.44% -9.49% +41.84%
75th Percentile £64.50 £46.18 £65.44
90th Percentile £77.50 £69.75 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £27.52 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.01% -31.21% +81.82%

Drupal
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Drupal as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Drupal in the UK excluding London

Drupal
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Drupal in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Drupal in the UK excluding London

Drupal
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Drupal in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Drupal in the UK excluding London

Drupal
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Drupal within the UK excluding London 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
South East +40 4 - - 8
Scotland +13 1 £263 +46.79% 1
East of England - 1 £350 - 1
Drupal
UK

Drupal
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (83.33%) CMS
2 4 (66.67%) Apache
2 4 (66.67%) Confluence
2 4 (66.67%) WordPress
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) MySQL
1 4 (66.67%) Relational Database
1 4 (66.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Bitbucket Server
1 4 (66.67%) Git
1 4 (66.67%) JIRA
General
1 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) PHP Software Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Management Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Platform Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Web Services
2 4 (66.67%) Ajax
2 4 (66.67%) AngularJS
2 4 (66.67%) CodeIgniter
2 4 (66.67%) CSS
2 4 (66.67%) HTML
2 4 (66.67%) jQuery
2 4 (66.67%) LAMP
2 4 (66.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
1 4 (66.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) Design Patterns
2 4 (66.67%) Kanban
2 4 (66.67%) MVC
2 4 (66.67%) OO
2 4 (66.67%) OOP
2 4 (66.67%) Scrum
2 4 (66.67%) Secure Coding
2 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) TDD
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Biology
4 1 (16.67%) Content Management
4 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Java
1 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 4 (66.67%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
1 1 (16.67%) WCAG
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 4 (66.67%) Zend