WordPress Contracts in the UK excluding London

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UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for WordPress skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited WordPress over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 350 388 466
Rank change year-on-year +38 +78 -90
Contract jobs citing WordPress 38 59 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.25% 0.14%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.15% 2.22% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 48 31
10th Percentile £105 £210 £180
25th Percentile £131 £309 £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £160 £325 £325
Median % change year-on-year -50.77% - +30.00%
75th Percentile £331 £400 £413
90th Percentile £375 £441 £550
UK median daily rate £300 £350 £375
% change year-on-year -14.29% -6.67% +15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 3
10th Percentile - - £29.00
25th Percentile £15.00 £21.00 £31.25
Median hourly rate £15.42 £22.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.91% -37.14% +33.33%
75th Percentile £27.50 £23.00 £39.38
90th Percentile £29.38 - £42.00
UK median hourly rate £17.00 £22.00 £32.75
% change year-on-year -22.73% -32.82% -20.61%

All Application Platform Skills
UK excluding London

WordPress is in the Application Platforms category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,764 2,653 3,876
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.55% 11.11% 12.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,185 1,902 2,678
10th Percentile £208 £203 £185
25th Percentile £319 £350 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £580 £548
90th Percentile £650 £675 £631
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 102 139
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.01 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.25 £17.56 £15.02
Median hourly rate £23.63 £26.48 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.78% +43.14% -2.63%
75th Percentile £46.18 £65.44 £36.63
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.00 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £40.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -31.25% +77.78% +5.14%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for WordPress in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for WordPress in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WordPress in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WordPress in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for WordPress in the UK excluding London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing WordPress in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for WordPress in the UK excluding London

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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 WordPress within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 May 2024. 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
Midlands +38 13 £138 -50.00% 25
West Midlands +28 10 £138 -31.25% 16
North of England +27 9 £243 -30.71% 30
Scotland +44 6 £219 -12.40% 4
East of England +8 5 £110 - 13
Yorkshire +20 4 - - 6
South East -6 4 £288 -11.54% 17
North West +25 3 £160 -41.82% 21
East Midlands +18 3 - - 9
North East - 2 £325 - 3
South West +21 1 £300 -6.25% 13
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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 7 (18.42%) Moodle
2 3 (7.89%) CMS
2 3 (7.89%) Drupal
3 2 (5.26%) IIS
3 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (5.26%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.63%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (13.16%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.63%) Acrobat
Cloud Services
1 5 (13.16%) Google Analytics
1 5 (13.16%) MailChimp
2 4 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (7.89%) AWS
3 3 (7.89%) Azure
4 2 (5.26%) GitHub
4 2 (5.26%) OneDrive
5 1 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.63%) Squarespace
5 1 (2.63%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.26%) DNS
1 2 (5.26%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (5.26%) Firewall
1 2 (5.26%) iSCSI
1 2 (5.26%) NAS
1 2 (5.26%) SAN
1 2 (5.26%) VPN
1 2 (5.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.26%) SQL Server
General
1 11 (28.95%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.89%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.26%) Marketing
3 2 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.63%) Advertising
4 1 (2.63%) Health Technology
4 1 (2.63%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 18 (47.37%) Developer
2 13 (34.21%) WordPress Developer
3 5 (13.16%) Support Officer
3 5 (13.16%) Technical Support
3 5 (13.16%) Technical Support Officer
4 2 (5.26%) Analyst
4 2 (5.26%) Digital Product Owner
4 2 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (5.26%) IT Analyst
4 2 (5.26%) IT Support
4 2 (5.26%) IT Support Analyst
4 2 (5.26%) Network Engineer
4 2 (5.26%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (5.26%) Product Owner
4 2 (5.26%) Support Analyst
5 1 (2.63%) Analytics Developer
5 1 (2.63%) Full Stack Developer
5 1 (2.63%) SEO Developer
5 1 (2.63%) Symfony Developer
5 1 (2.63%) Umbraco Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (18.42%) Vue
2 4 (10.53%) HTML
2 4 (10.53%) Symfony
3 3 (7.89%) React
3 3 (7.89%) Web Services
4 2 (5.26%) CSS
4 2 (5.26%) LAMP
4 2 (5.26%) Laravel
5 1 (2.63%) .NET
5 1 (2.63%) ASP.NET
5 1 (2.63%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (2.63%) CSS3
5 1 (2.63%) HTML5
5 1 (2.63%) RESTful
5 1 (2.63%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.16%) Learning Management System
2 2 (5.26%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (5.26%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.26%) Replication
2 2 (5.26%) Social Media
2 2 (5.26%) VLE
3 1 (2.63%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.26%) Linux
1 2 (5.26%) Ubuntu
1 2 (5.26%) VMS
1 2 (5.26%) Windows
1 2 (5.26%) Windows Server
1 2 (5.26%) Windows Server 2016
1 2 (5.26%) Windows Server 2019
2 1 (2.63%) Android
2 1 (2.63%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (31.58%) Web Development
2 5 (13.16%) Analytics
2 5 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (10.53%) Decision-Making
4 3 (7.89%) Full Stack Development
4 3 (7.89%) SEO
5 2 (5.26%) B2C
5 2 (5.26%) DevOps
5 2 (5.26%) E-Commerce
5 2 (5.26%) E-Procurement
5 2 (5.26%) Front End Development
5 2 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (5.26%) Roadmaps
5 2 (5.26%) Service Design
5 2 (5.26%) Strategic Roadmap
5 2 (5.26%) Web Accessibility
6 1 (2.63%) Android Development
6 1 (2.63%) iOS Development
6 1 (2.63%) Mobile Development
6 1 (2.63%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 12 (31.58%) PHP
2 4 (10.53%) JavaScript
3 2 (5.26%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.63%) C#
4 1 (2.63%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (10.53%) DBS Check
2 1 (2.63%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) Accessibility
2 3 (7.89%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (5.26%) Active Directory
1 2 (5.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (5.26%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.16%) Google
2 5 (13.16%) Salesforce
3 4 (10.53%) Hootsuite
4 2 (5.26%) Aruba
4 2 (5.26%) Palo Alto
4 2 (5.26%) ProCurve
4 2 (5.26%) Synology
4 2 (5.26%) Veeam
4 2 (5.26%) VMware
4 2 (5.26%) Zerto
5 1 (2.63%) Adobe