WooCommerce Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

WooCommerce
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring knowledge or experience of WooCommerce products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited WooCommerce over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within WooCommerce.

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 440 342 396
Rank change year-on-year -98 +54 +31
Contract jobs citing WooCommerce 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.004% 0.008% 0.005%
As % of the Vendors category 0.010% 0.016% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - £238
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £275
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +81.82% +83.33%
75th Percentile £475 - £313
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% +54.55%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

WooCommerce falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 9,944 6,383 8,715
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 39.73% 49.17% 42.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,242 4,011 5,281
10th Percentile £275 £220 £208
25th Percentile £400 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.02% -2.20% -
75th Percentile £588 £585 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £515
% change year-on-year -1.96% -0.97% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 895 443 968
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.50 £11.94
25th Percentile £18.25 £16.95 £14.16
Median hourly rate £29.50 £22.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.11% +4.65% -45.64%
75th Percentile £58.75 £51.95 £59.93
90th Percentile £75.00 £69.93 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £26.04 £22.50
% change year-on-year +24.81% +15.73% -47.67%

WooCommerce
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing WooCommerce relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

WooCommerce job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

WooCommerce
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing WooCommerce.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing WooCommerce

WooCommerce
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 WooCommerce within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
Scotland - 1 £450 -
WooCommerce
UK

WooCommerce
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (100.00%) CMS
1 1 (100.00%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Algolia
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Laravel
1 1 (100.00%) Open Graph
1 1 (100.00%) YAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) SEO
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker