WordPress Contracts in the UK excluding London

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UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 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 323 362 404
Rank change year-on-year +39 +42 +64
Contract jobs citing WordPress 13 37 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.18% 0.24%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.87% 2.08% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 22 47
10th Percentile £222 £105 £205
25th Percentile £311 £131 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £149 £325
Median % change year-on-year +155.46% -54.23% -
75th Percentile £431 £334 £400
90th Percentile £488 £375 £420
UK median daily rate £463 £300 £350
% change year-on-year +54.17% -14.29% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.35 £15.00 £21.00
Median hourly rate £13.90 £15.42 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.86% -29.91% -37.14%
75th Percentile £14.45 £27.50 £23.00
90th Percentile - £29.38 -
UK median hourly rate £13.90 £17.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -18.24% -22.73% -32.82%

All Application Platform Skills
UK excluding London

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 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%

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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 1 May 2025.

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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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 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 +46 4 - - 53
North of England +13 3 £350 +44.33% 56
Scotland +10 3 £380 +73.52% 4
North West +16 2 £350 +118.75% 36
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 1
South West +46 1 - - 18
North East -1 1 - - 6
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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 8 (61.54%) CMS
2 4 (30.77%) Apache
2 4 (30.77%) Confluence
2 4 (30.77%) Drupal
3 2 (15.38%) EPiServer
3 2 (15.38%) Umbraco
4 1 (7.69%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) Google Analytics
2 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) Canva
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon Lightsail
4 1 (7.69%) AWS
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) Internet
2 2 (15.38%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) MySQL
2 4 (30.77%) Relational Database
2 4 (30.77%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Bitbucket Server
1 4 (30.77%) Git
1 4 (30.77%) JIRA
General
1 4 (30.77%) Marketing
2 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
2 2 (15.38%) Publishing
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Developer
1 4 (30.77%) PHP Software Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) Software Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Content Editor
2 2 (15.38%) Digital Content Editor
2 2 (15.38%) Digital Editor
2 2 (15.38%) Web Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Administrator
3 1 (7.69%) Digital Project Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Junior
3 1 (7.69%) Junior Digital Project Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Junior Project Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Product Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Project Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Software Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Web Administrator
3 1 (7.69%) WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (53.85%) Web Services
2 5 (38.46%) CSS
2 5 (38.46%) HTML
3 4 (30.77%) Ajax
3 4 (30.77%) AngularJS
3 4 (30.77%) CodeIgniter
3 4 (30.77%) jQuery
3 4 (30.77%) LAMP
3 4 (30.77%) SOAP
4 3 (23.08%) RESTful
5 1 (7.69%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Legacy Code
2 2 (15.38%) Freedom of Information
2 2 (15.38%) Management Information System
2 2 (15.38%) Social Media
3 1 (7.69%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Linux
1 4 (30.77%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Analytics
2 5 (38.46%) Agile
2 5 (38.46%) SEO
3 4 (30.77%) Design Patterns
3 4 (30.77%) DevOps
3 4 (30.77%) Kanban
3 4 (30.77%) MVC
3 4 (30.77%) OO
3 4 (30.77%) OOP
3 4 (30.77%) Scrum
3 4 (30.77%) Secure Coding
3 4 (30.77%) Software Engineering
3 4 (30.77%) TDD
3 4 (30.77%) Web Development
4 3 (23.08%) Front End Development
5 2 (15.38%) Ideation Sessions
5 2 (15.38%) Regulatory Compliance
5 2 (15.38%) Requirements Gathering
5 2 (15.38%) Social Media Management
5 2 (15.38%) Social Media Marketing
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) PHP
2 4 (30.77%) Java
2 4 (30.77%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) GDPR
1 3 (23.08%) PERC
1 3 (23.08%) WCAG
2 2 (15.38%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Google
2 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 4 (30.77%) Zend
3 2 (15.38%) Facebook
3 2 (15.38%) Instagram
3 2 (15.38%) Twitter
4 1 (7.69%) Salesforce
4 1 (7.69%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (7.69%) Sitecore