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 29 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 340 367 427
Rank change year-on-year +27 +60 +10
Contract jobs citing Drupal 10 30 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.072% 0.14% 0.074%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.63% 1.65% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 22 13
10th Percentile £294 £229 £325
25th Percentile - £325 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £350 £450
Median % change year-on-year - -22.22% +2.86%
75th Percentile £400 £464 £500
90th Percentile £460 £670 £562
UK median daily rate £355 £350 £450
% change year-on-year +1.43% -22.22% +5.88%
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 - - -
UK median hourly rate - £32.36 £23.46
% change year-on-year - +37.92% -70.68%

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 1,584 1,819 2,442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.48% 8.59% 10.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,009 1,229 1,693
10th Percentile £235 £215 £200
25th Percentile £355 £325 £337
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £569 £575
90th Percentile £625 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £489 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -2.20% -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 125 111
10th Percentile £16.17 £13.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £32.05 £15.65 £20.63
Median hourly rate £53.06 £32.12 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.20% -28.63% +143.24%
75th Percentile £72.50 £55.00 £65.88
90th Percentile £79.38 £74.26 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £32.12 £52.50
% change year-on-year +63.48% -38.83% +128.26%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Drupal in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 29 June 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 +41 4 - - 7
North of England +1 3 £400 -11.11% 2
Yorkshire -3 3 £400 -11.11% 2
Scotland +2 2 £263 +46.79% 1
East of England - 1 £350 - 3
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 9 (90.00%) CMS
2 6 (60.00%) WordPress
3 4 (40.00%) Apache
3 4 (40.00%) Confluence
4 1 (10.00%) Joomla!
4 1 (10.00%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (10.00%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) MySQL
1 4 (40.00%) Relational Database
1 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Bitbucket Server
1 4 (40.00%) Git
1 4 (40.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) Axure RP
2 1 (10.00%) Balsamiq
General
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Marketing
2 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) PHP Software Engineer
1 4 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Angular Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Content Designer
2 1 (10.00%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Designer
2 1 (10.00%) Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Drupal Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Lead
2 1 (10.00%) Management Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Platform Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Senior
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 5 (50.00%) Web Services
2 4 (40.00%) Ajax
2 4 (40.00%) CodeIgniter
2 4 (40.00%) CSS
2 4 (40.00%) HTML
2 4 (40.00%) jQuery
2 4 (40.00%) LAMP
2 4 (40.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Linux
1 4 (40.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) Design Patterns
2 4 (40.00%) Kanban
2 4 (40.00%) MVC
2 4 (40.00%) OO
2 4 (40.00%) OOP
2 4 (40.00%) Scrum
2 4 (40.00%) Secure Coding
2 4 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (40.00%) TDD
3 2 (20.00%) Content Strategy
3 2 (20.00%) Migration
4 1 (10.00%) Analytics
4 1 (10.00%) Biology
4 1 (10.00%) Content Management
4 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis
4 1 (10.00%) E-Commerce
4 1 (10.00%) Prototyping
4 1 (10.00%) SEO
4 1 (10.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Java
2 4 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (40.00%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (10.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (40.00%) Zend
2 1 (10.00%) Sitecore