WordPress Contract Job Trends

WordPress
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring WordPress skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 606 486 502
Rank change year-on-year -120 +16 +82
Contract jobs citing WordPress 35 38 82
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.070% 0.13% 0.19%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.81% 1.15% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 18 53
10th Percentile £218 £266 £131
25th Percentile £263 £390 £219
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £300
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% +54.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £525 £534 £438
90th Percentile £630 £550 £450
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £380 £190
% change year-on-year +18.42% +100.53% -41.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 11
10th Percentile £14.55 - -
25th Percentile £15.00 £13.35 £15.00
Median hourly rate £20.07 £13.90 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.37% -18.24% -22.73%
75th Percentile £41.00 £14.45 £28.13
90th Percentile £41.40 - £31.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.00 £13.90 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.91% -30.50% -9.09%

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 4,307 3,302 4,373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.61% 11.19% 10.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,886 2,180 3,059
10th Percentile £313 £281 £263
25th Percentile £404 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £486 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.83% -2.75% -2.15%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £623
90th Percentile £675 £701 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 68 162
10th Percentile £16.03 £17.33 £13.50
25th Percentile £19.25 £26.42 £16.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £52.50 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -38.10% +65.56% -39.60%
75th Percentile £61.58 £70.63 £51.91
90th Percentile £74.93 £79.13 £73.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £53.61 £30.41
% change year-on-year -39.38% +76.28% -37.29%

WordPress
Job Vacancy Trend

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

WordPress job vacancy trend in the UK

WordPress
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WordPress over the 6 months to 13 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for WordPress in the UK

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing WordPress over the 6 months to 13 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for WordPress in the UK

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Top 7 Contract Job 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 13 June 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 32 £419 +4.69% 55
London -48 25 £500 +42.86% 15
Work from Home -76 9 £475 -5.00% 22
UK excluding London -115 7 £450 +18.42% 47
South West -18 3 - - 5
Scotland -15 2 £463 +21.71%
South East -63 2 £150 - 16

WordPress
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 12 (34.29%) SharePoint
2 8 (22.86%) CMS
3 5 (14.29%) Drupal
4 4 (11.43%) Kentico
5 1 (2.86%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (8.57%) AWS
2 2 (5.71%) Google Analytics
3 1 (2.86%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) Algolia
3 1 (2.86%) Apple Pay
3 1 (2.86%) Canva
3 1 (2.86%) Cloudflare
3 1 (2.86%) Google Pay
3 1 (2.86%) Stripe
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) MySQL
1 2 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (5.71%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.86%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (11.43%) JIRA
2 3 (8.57%) Git
3 2 (5.71%) JUnit
4 1 (2.86%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.86%) GitLab
General
1 8 (22.86%) Legal
2 6 (17.14%) Organisational Skills
3 5 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (14.29%) Marketing
3 5 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 4 (11.43%) Legal Technology
4 4 (11.43%) Public Sector
5 3 (8.57%) Banking
5 3 (8.57%) Finance
6 2 (5.71%) Back Office
6 2 (5.71%) Local Government
6 2 (5.71%) Military
7 1 (2.86%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 8 (22.86%) Developer
2 7 (20.00%) Systems Manager
3 6 (17.14%) Knowledge Manager
4 3 (8.57%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 3 (8.57%) Linux Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Migration Specialist
4 3 (8.57%) UX Developer
4 3 (8.57%) UX Specialist
4 3 (8.57%) Web Developer
5 2 (5.71%) Administrator
5 2 (5.71%) Data Manager
5 2 (5.71%) Designer
5 2 (5.71%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Senior
5 2 (5.71%) WordPress Developer
6 1 (2.86%) Communications Officer
6 1 (2.86%) Content Editor
6 1 (2.86%) Lead
6 1 (2.86%) Senior WordPress Developer
6 1 (2.86%) UI Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (22.86%) HTML
2 7 (20.00%) CSS
3 4 (11.43%) .NET
3 4 (11.43%) Middleware
3 4 (11.43%) REST
4 3 (8.57%) cloud-init
5 2 (5.71%) Hibernate
5 2 (5.71%) JPA
5 2 (5.71%) OAuth
5 2 (5.71%) Spring
5 2 (5.71%) Spring Boot
5 2 (5.71%) Vue
6 1 (2.86%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.86%) CSS3
6 1 (2.86%) HTML5
6 1 (2.86%) JSON
6 1 (2.86%) Laravel
6 1 (2.86%) Node.js
6 1 (2.86%) Open Graph
6 1 (2.86%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 4 (11.43%) Low-Code
3 3 (8.57%) Legacy Applications
3 3 (8.57%) Social Media
4 2 (5.71%) Educational Technology
4 2 (5.71%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.86%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.57%) Linux
1 3 (8.57%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (28.57%) Line Management
2 8 (22.86%) AI
3 7 (20.00%) Migration
3 7 (20.00%) User Experience
4 6 (17.14%) Analytics
4 6 (17.14%) Data Management
4 6 (17.14%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (14.29%) Front End Development
5 5 (14.29%) Project Management
5 5 (14.29%) SEO
6 4 (11.43%) Content Management
6 4 (11.43%) Digital Marketing
6 4 (11.43%) Knowledge Management
6 4 (11.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (11.43%) UX Design
6 4 (11.43%) Web Development
7 3 (8.57%) Agile
7 3 (8.57%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (8.57%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (8.57%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 7 (20.00%) PHP
2 6 (17.14%) JavaScript
3 3 (8.57%) Bash
3 3 (8.57%) C#
4 2 (5.71%) Java
5 1 (2.86%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (8.57%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.71%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (28.57%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.86%) GDPR
2 1 (2.86%) GLP
2 1 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 6 (17.14%) Docker
2 3 (8.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (8.57%) Ansible
1 3 (8.57%) systemd
2 2 (5.71%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (28.57%) Sitecore
2 3 (8.57%) Google
3 1 (2.86%) Adobe
3 1 (2.86%) Apple
3 1 (2.86%) Facebook
3 1 (2.86%) GoCardless
3 1 (2.86%) HubSpot
3 1 (2.86%) Instagram
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.86%) WooCommerce
3 1 (2.86%) YouTube