Drupal Contract Job Trends

Drupal
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Drupal skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 643 522 496
Rank change year-on-year -121 -26 +115
Contract jobs citing Drupal 17 29 67
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.032% 0.088% 0.17%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.37% 0.80% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 21 35
10th Percentile £399 £155 £225
25th Percentile £450 £350 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £410 £350
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +17.14% -22.22%
75th Percentile £584 £550 £425
90th Percentile £608 £623 £539
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £413 £350
% change year-on-year +45.45% +17.86% -17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile £18.34 - £24.60
25th Percentile £19.98 - £30.00
Median hourly rate £22.57 - £33.04
75th Percentile £23.47 - £33.07
90th Percentile £24.02 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Application Platform Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 4,655 3,627 4,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.70% 10.96% 10.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,071 2,368 2,834
10th Percentile £300 £281 £280
25th Percentile £404 £392 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £486 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.83% -7.38% +0.96%
75th Percentile £597 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £720 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £470
% change year-on-year +2.78% -4.26% -1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 89 104
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.33 £16.00
25th Percentile £18.63 £26.00 £21.19
Median hourly rate £32.50 £43.09 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -24.58% +31.57% -32.47%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.71 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £46.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -29.62% +2.62% +63.64%

Drupal
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Drupal relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Drupal job vacancy trend in the UK

Drupal
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Drupal.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Drupal

Drupal
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Drupal over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Drupal in the UK

Drupal
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Drupal.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Drupal

Drupal
Top 8 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 17 August 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
England -114 17 £513 +35.76% 1
London -76 11 £475 +33.80% 1
UK excluding London -104 4 £600 +45.45% 1
South East -61 2 £600 -6.96%
North of England -70 2 £450 +12.50%
Work from Home -75 2 £525 +26.89%
Yorkshire -36 1 - -
North West - 1 £450 -

Drupal
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 13 (76.47%) CMS
2 5 (29.41%) WordPress
3 2 (11.76%) Confluence
3 2 (11.76%) SharePoint
4 1 (5.88%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.88%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) Google Analytics
2 2 (11.76%) Adobe Creative Cloud
2 2 (11.76%) Azure
2 2 (11.76%) Canva
2 2 (11.76%) Figma
3 1 (5.88%) AWS
3 1 (5.88%) Azure AKS
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Functions
3 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.88%) Google Workspace
3 1 (5.88%) Power Automate
3 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Metadata
1 1 (5.88%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) Claude Code
2 1 (5.88%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) Subversion
General
1 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 7 (41.18%) Organisational Skills
3 6 (35.29%) Marketing
4 5 (29.41%) Public Sector
5 3 (17.65%) Local Government
5 3 (17.65%) Publishing
6 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Designer
2 3 (17.65%) Architect
2 3 (17.65%) Content Designer
2 3 (17.65%) Lead
2 3 (17.65%) Web Designer
3 2 (11.76%) Communications Officer
3 2 (11.76%) Drupal Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Project Leader
3 2 (11.76%) Web Content Designer
3 2 (11.76%) Web Editor
4 1 (5.88%) Content Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Drupal Designer
4 1 (5.88%) Drupal Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Intranet Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Platform Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Power Platform Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Drupal Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior WordPress Developer
4 1 (5.88%) WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) HTML
2 2 (11.76%) CSS
3 1 (5.88%) .NET
3 1 (5.88%) Compass CSS Framework
3 1 (5.88%) CSS3
3 1 (5.88%) HTML5
3 1 (5.88%) jQuery
3 1 (5.88%) Microformats
3 1 (5.88%) OOCSS
3 1 (5.88%) Sass
3 1 (5.88%) XHTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Educational Technology
2 2 (11.76%) Management Information System
2 2 (11.76%) Social Media
3 1 (5.88%) Blog
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.88%) Photography
3 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Analytics
2 7 (41.18%) Content Management
3 6 (35.29%) User Experience
4 5 (29.41%) Content Strategy
5 4 (23.53%) SEO
6 3 (17.65%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (17.65%) Digital Marketing
6 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (17.65%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 2 (11.76%) Agile
7 2 (11.76%) Marketing Strategy
7 2 (11.76%) Migration
7 2 (11.76%) Performance Metrics
7 2 (11.76%) Roadmaps
7 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (11.76%) Technical Architecture
7 2 (11.76%) User Research
7 2 (11.76%) Web Development
8 1 (5.88%) B2C
8 1 (5.88%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) C#
1 1 (5.88%) Java
1 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
1 1 (5.88%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) Degree
1 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (58.82%) Accessibility
2 6 (35.29%) WCAG
3 2 (11.76%) GDPR
4 1 (5.88%) WAI
4 1 (5.88%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Google
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.76%) Adobe
4 1 (5.88%) CODA
4 1 (5.88%) Facebook
4 1 (5.88%) Instagram
4 1 (5.88%) MuleSoft
4 1 (5.88%) Pardot
4 1 (5.88%) Salesforce
4 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.88%) YouTube