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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 485 515 596
Rank change year-on-year +30 +81 +146
Contract jobs citing WordPress 34 85 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.19% 0.20%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.03% 2.03% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 52 96
10th Percentile £244 £131 £238
25th Percentile £339 £217 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £300 £350
Median % change year-on-year +54.17% -14.29% -6.67%
75th Percentile £528 £438 £400
90th Percentile £561 £533 £525
UK excluding London median daily rate £380 £160 £325
% change year-on-year +137.50% -50.77% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 15 6
10th Percentile - £15.00 -
25th Percentile £13.35 £15.21 £21.00
Median hourly rate £13.90 £17.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.24% -22.73% -32.82%
75th Percentile £14.45 £29.63 £23.00
90th Percentile - £32.18 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £13.90 £15.42 £22.00
% change year-on-year -9.86% -29.91% -37.14%

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 3,308 4,179 6,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.31% 9.59% 10.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,205 2,874 4,603
10th Percentile £275 £250 £263
25th Percentile £400 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -0.97%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £713 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £453 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +0.72% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 161 147
10th Percentile £16.65 £13.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £22.25 £15.42 £18.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £27.52 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.01% -31.21% +81.82%
75th Percentile £64.13 £46.18 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.50 £68.00 £78.48
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.18 £23.75 £26.24
% change year-on-year +94.44% -9.49% +41.84%

WordPress
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for WordPress in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for WordPress in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WordPress over the 6 months to 30 April 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 11 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 30 April 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 +18 24 £425 +41.67% 194
Work from Home +24 17 £400 +33.33% 113
London +12 14 £363 -14.71% 82
UK excluding London +29 13 £380 +137.50% 115
South East +43 4 - - 21
North of England +22 3 £350 +44.33% 46
Scotland +6 3 £380 +73.52% 1
North West +10 2 £350 +118.75% 28
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 1
South West +45 1 - - 15
North East -1 1 - - 6

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 21 (61.76%) CMS
2 7 (20.59%) Drupal
3 5 (14.71%) Confluence
4 4 (11.76%) Apache
5 3 (8.82%) Sitecore CMS
6 2 (5.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (5.88%) EPiServer
6 2 (5.88%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Trello
2 1 (2.94%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 10 (29.41%) AWS
2 6 (17.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 6 (17.65%) Amazon ECS
2 6 (17.65%) Amazon Lightsail
2 6 (17.65%) AWS Fargate
2 6 (17.65%) Google Analytics
3 3 (8.82%) Azure
3 3 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (8.82%) DigitalOcean
3 3 (8.82%) Figma
3 3 (8.82%) GitHub
3 3 (8.82%) Google Workspace
3 3 (8.82%) Heroku
3 3 (8.82%) Slack
4 2 (5.88%) Canva
4 2 (5.88%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 2 (5.88%) Serverless
5 1 (2.94%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.76%) Internet
2 3 (8.82%) DNS
3 2 (5.88%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (29.41%) MySQL
2 4 (11.76%) Relational Database
2 4 (11.76%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (14.71%) Git
1 5 (14.71%) JIRA
2 4 (11.76%) Bitbucket Server
3 3 (8.82%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (5.88%) Cypress.io
4 2 (5.88%) PHPUnit
5 1 (2.94%) Selenium
5 1 (2.94%) TeamCity
General
1 14 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 10 (29.41%) Marketing
3 4 (11.76%) Finance
4 2 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.88%) Publishing
5 1 (2.94%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 11 (32.35%) Developer
2 7 (20.59%) Software Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) PHP Software Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Content Editor
4 2 (5.88%) Digital Content Editor
4 2 (5.88%) Digital Editor
4 2 (5.88%) Marketing Specialist
4 2 (5.88%) Project Manager
4 2 (5.88%) SEO Manager
4 2 (5.88%) Software Developer
4 2 (5.88%) Technical Manager
4 2 (5.88%) Trainer
4 2 (5.88%) Web Developer
5 1 (2.94%) Campaign Specialist
5 1 (2.94%) Digital Project Manager
5 1 (2.94%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (2.94%) Salesforce Developer
5 1 (2.94%) Salesforce Project Manager
5 1 (2.94%) Scrum Master
5 1 (2.94%) WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (32.35%) CSS
2 8 (23.53%) HTML
2 8 (23.53%) Node.js
3 7 (20.59%) Web Services
4 6 (17.65%) AngularJS
5 4 (11.76%) Ajax
5 4 (11.76%) CodeIgniter
5 4 (11.76%) jQuery
5 4 (11.76%) LAMP
5 4 (11.76%) SOAP
6 3 (8.82%) Alpine.js
6 3 (8.82%) Bootstrap
6 3 (8.82%) Laravel
6 3 (8.82%) RESTful
6 3 (8.82%) Tailwind CSS
7 2 (5.88%) Jest
7 2 (5.88%) Next.js
7 2 (5.88%) Playwright
7 2 (5.88%) React
8 1 (2.94%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Legacy Code
2 2 (5.88%) Algorithms
2 2 (5.88%) Freedom of Information
2 2 (5.88%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.88%) Social Media
3 1 (2.94%) Graphic Design
3 1 (2.94%) Marketing Technology
3 1 (2.94%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.76%) Linux
1 4 (11.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (41.18%) Analytics
2 12 (35.29%) DevOps
3 10 (29.41%) SEO
4 8 (23.53%) Web Development
5 7 (20.59%) CRM
5 7 (20.59%) Project Management
5 7 (20.59%) Software Engineering
6 6 (17.65%) Agile
6 6 (17.65%) Front End Development
7 5 (14.71%) Content Management
7 5 (14.71%) Scrum
7 5 (14.71%) TDD
7 5 (14.71%) Web Analytics
8 4 (11.76%) Design Patterns
8 4 (11.76%) Kanban
8 4 (11.76%) MVC
8 4 (11.76%) OO
8 4 (11.76%) OOP
8 4 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (11.76%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 14 (41.18%) PHP
2 8 (23.53%) JavaScript
3 5 (14.71%) Java
4 2 (5.88%) Python
5 1 (2.94%) Apex Code
5 1 (2.94%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (20.59%) SC Cleared
1 7 (20.59%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.76%) Degree
3 2 (5.88%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.82%) GDPR
1 3 (8.82%) PERC
1 3 (8.82%) WCAG
2 2 (5.88%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.88%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (5.88%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (2.94%) Ansible
Vendors
1 10 (29.41%) Google
2 4 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.76%) Sitecore
2 4 (11.76%) Zend
3 3 (8.82%) Adobe
3 3 (8.82%) Sage
3 3 (8.82%) Salesforce
4 2 (5.88%) Ahrefs
4 2 (5.88%) Facebook
4 2 (5.88%) HubSpot
4 2 (5.88%) Instagram
4 2 (5.88%) Screaming Frog
4 2 (5.88%) Twitter
5 1 (2.94%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud