WordPress Contracts

WordPress
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 492 504 585
Rank change year-on-year +12 +81 +176
Contract jobs citing WordPress 38 83 101
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.19% 0.18%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.10% 1.88% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 54 85
10th Percentile £348 £131 £200
25th Percentile £398 £221 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £300 £350
Median % change year-on-year +45.83% -14.29% -11.39%
75th Percentile £528 £438 £413
90th Percentile £550 £488 £558
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £149 £350
% change year-on-year +168.91% -57.50% +5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 6
10th Percentile - - £18.92
25th Percentile £13.35 £15.00 £21.00
Median hourly rate £13.90 £21.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.81% -4.55% -27.87%
75th Percentile £14.45 £28.44 £23.00
90th Percentile - £32.04 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £13.90 £20.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -30.50% -9.09% -32.31%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,459 4,405 5,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.15% 10.15% 10.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,244 3,068 4,088
10th Percentile £289 £263 £263
25th Percentile £400 £367 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £645
90th Percentile £713 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 161 159
10th Percentile £17.33 £13.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £26.25 £16.50 £21.13
Median hourly rate £52.50 £32.12 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.48% -38.83% +128.26%
75th Percentile £67.00 £51.91 £66.00
90th Percentile £78.88 £74.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £32.12 £46.75
% change year-on-year +63.48% -31.30% +133.75%

WordPress
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing WordPress as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for WordPress in the UK

WordPress
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WordPress.

Daily rate trend for WordPress in the UK

WordPress
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WordPress over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WordPress in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WordPress.

Hourly rate trend for WordPress in the UK

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Top 13 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 2 July 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
England +9 22 £410 +36.67% 912
Work from Home +14 19 £455 +46.77% 445
UK excluding London +24 16 £400 +168.91% 546
London +14 10 £400 +5.26% 419
South East +53 4 - - 163
Scotland +7 4 £380 +73.52% 24
North of England +2 4 £450 +63.64% 154
North West +7 2 £350 +27.27% 86
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 9
East of England +16 1 - - 56
North East -2 1 - - 10
Yorkshire -5 1 £450 - 59
South West - 1 - - 50

WordPress
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 25 (65.79%) CMS
2 15 (39.47%) Drupal
3 4 (10.53%) Apache
3 4 (10.53%) Confluence
4 3 (7.89%) Sitecore CMS
4 3 (7.89%) Umbraco
5 2 (5.26%) EPiServer
5 2 (5.26%) Headless CMS
6 1 (2.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (2.63%) Joomla!
6 1 (2.63%) Strapi
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 10 (26.32%) AWS
2 6 (15.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 6 (15.79%) Amazon ECS
2 6 (15.79%) Amazon Lightsail
2 6 (15.79%) AWS Fargate
2 6 (15.79%) Figma
3 5 (13.16%) Azure
4 4 (10.53%) Google Analytics
4 4 (10.53%) Miro
5 3 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (5.26%) Canva
6 2 (5.26%) Serverless
7 1 (2.63%) DigitalOcean
7 1 (2.63%) GitHub
7 1 (2.63%) Google Workspace
7 1 (2.63%) Heroku
7 1 (2.63%) Slack
7 1 (2.63%) Storyblok
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.53%) Internet
2 2 (5.26%) Intranet
3 1 (2.63%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (26.32%) MySQL
2 4 (10.53%) Relational Database
2 4 (10.53%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (21.05%) Git
1 8 (21.05%) JIRA
2 4 (10.53%) Bitbucket Server
2 4 (10.53%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.63%) Axure RP
3 1 (2.63%) Balsamiq
3 1 (2.63%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 11 (28.95%) Social Skills
2 9 (23.68%) Marketing
3 6 (15.79%) Public Sector
4 4 (10.53%) Finance
5 3 (7.89%) Publishing
6 1 (2.63%) Games
6 1 (2.63%) Legal
6 1 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (36.84%) Developer
2 7 (18.42%) Software Engineer
3 6 (15.79%) PHP Software Engineer
4 5 (13.16%) PHP Developer
5 4 (10.53%) Product Owner
6 3 (7.89%) Web Developer
7 2 (5.26%) Content Editor
7 2 (5.26%) Digital Content Editor
7 2 (5.26%) Digital Editor
7 2 (5.26%) Scrum Master
7 2 (5.26%) Senior
7 2 (5.26%) Software Developer
8 1 (2.63%) Campaign Specialist
8 1 (2.63%) Content Designer
8 1 (2.63%) Designer
8 1 (2.63%) Digital Project Manager
8 1 (2.63%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 1 (2.63%) Marketing Specialist
8 1 (2.63%) Node.js Developer
8 1 (2.63%) WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (28.95%) CSS
1 11 (28.95%) Node.js
2 10 (26.32%) HTML
3 7 (18.42%) Web Services
4 4 (10.53%) Ajax
4 4 (10.53%) AngularJS
4 4 (10.53%) CodeIgniter
4 4 (10.53%) jQuery
4 4 (10.53%) LAMP
4 4 (10.53%) SOAP
5 3 (7.89%) React
5 3 (7.89%) RESTful
6 1 (2.63%) Alpine.js
6 1 (2.63%) Bootstrap
6 1 (2.63%) GraphQL
6 1 (2.63%) Laravel
6 1 (2.63%) Next.js
6 1 (2.63%) Playwright
6 1 (2.63%) REST
6 1 (2.63%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.53%) Legacy Code
1 4 (10.53%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.26%) Freedom of Information
2 2 (5.26%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.26%) Social Media
3 1 (2.63%) Graphic Design
3 1 (2.63%) Marketing Technology
3 1 (2.63%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.63%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.53%) Linux
1 4 (10.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (36.84%) DevOps
2 13 (34.21%) Agile
3 10 (26.32%) Scrum
4 9 (23.68%) Analytics
5 7 (18.42%) CI/CD
5 7 (18.42%) SEO
5 7 (18.42%) Software Engineering
6 6 (15.79%) Front End Development
6 6 (15.79%) Sprint Planning
6 6 (15.79%) Web Development
7 5 (13.16%) Containerisation
7 5 (13.16%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (13.16%) Test Automation
7 5 (13.16%) User Stories
8 4 (10.53%) Design Patterns
8 4 (10.53%) MVC
8 4 (10.53%) Product Backlog
8 4 (10.53%) Product Requirements
8 4 (10.53%) Prototyping
8 4 (10.53%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 17 (44.74%) PHP
2 10 (26.32%) JavaScript
3 6 (15.79%) TypeScript
4 4 (10.53%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (23.68%) SC Cleared
1 9 (23.68%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.89%) Degree
3 1 (2.63%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.16%) Accessibility
2 3 (7.89%) GDPR
2 3 (7.89%) PERC
2 3 (7.89%) QA
2 3 (7.89%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (13.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (13.16%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (15.79%) Google
2 4 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.53%) Sitecore
2 4 (10.53%) Zend
3 2 (5.26%) Facebook
3 2 (5.26%) Instagram
3 2 (5.26%) Twitter
4 1 (2.63%) Adobe
4 1 (2.63%) HubSpot
4 1 (2.63%) Sage
4 1 (2.63%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.63%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud