WordPress Contracts

WordPress
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for WordPress skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited WordPress over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 514 601 733
Rank change year-on-year +87 +132 -225
Contract jobs citing WordPress 84 118 116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.20% 0.13%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.03% 1.79% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 96 89
10th Percentile £131 £238 £198
25th Percentile £215 £300 £256
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £350 £375
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £438 £400 £480
90th Percentile £538 £525 £565
UK excluding London median daily rate £160 £325 £338
% change year-on-year -50.77% -3.70% +35.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 6 4
10th Percentile £15.00 - £28.33
25th Percentile £15.21 £21.00 £29.56
Median hourly rate £17.00 £22.00 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% -32.82% -12.67%
75th Percentile £29.63 £23.00 £37.19
90th Percentile £32.18 - £41.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.42 £22.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -29.91% -37.14% +33.33%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

WordPress is in the Application Platforms category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 4,145 6,581 11,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.57% 11.00% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,849 4,620 7,600
10th Percentile £250 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £520
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -1.92% +9.47%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 150 212
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.42 £18.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.52 £42.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.26% +93.18% -2.22%
75th Percentile £46.18 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £79.19 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.75 £26.24 £18.75
% change year-on-year -9.49% +39.95% -6.25%

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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 27 April 2024.

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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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing WordPress over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for WordPress in the UK

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Top 16 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 27 April 2024. 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 +93 68 £300 -11.76% 106
Work from Home +102 42 £300 -14.29% 57
UK excluding London +44 38 £160 -50.77% 86
London +99 36 £425 +21.43% 25
Midlands +30 12 £138 -50.00% 21
West Midlands +37 9 £138 -31.25% 13
North of England +33 9 £243 -30.71% 23
Scotland +37 6 £219 -12.40% 5
East of England +16 5 £110 - 9
Yorkshire +19 4 - - 6
South East -1 4 £288 -11.54% 16
East Midlands +18 3 - - 8
North West +15 3 £160 -41.82% 14
North East - 2 £325 - 3
South West +20 1 £300 -6.25% 12
Wales +14 1 £350 -3.45% 2

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 17 (20.24%) CMS
1 17 (20.24%) Drupal
2 7 (8.33%) Moodle
3 3 (3.57%) IIS
3 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (3.57%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.19%) Joomla!
4 1 (1.19%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 5 (5.95%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.19%) Acrobat
3 1 (1.19%) Elementor
3 1 (1.19%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (4.76%) Magento
2 1 (1.19%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 18 (21.43%) GitHub
2 14 (16.67%) AWS
3 13 (15.48%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (9.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 8 (9.52%) Dynamics 365
5 7 (8.33%) Google Analytics
6 5 (5.95%) Azure
6 5 (5.95%) MailChimp
7 4 (4.76%) GCP
8 3 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (3.57%) OneDrive
8 3 (3.57%) SaaS
8 3 (3.57%) Squarespace
9 1 (1.19%) Azure App Service
9 1 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.19%) Azure Functions
9 1 (1.19%) Azure Storage
9 1 (1.19%) PaaS
9 1 (1.19%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 1 (1.19%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.95%) Intranet
2 3 (3.57%) DNS
2 3 (3.57%) Fibre Channel
2 3 (3.57%) Firewall
2 3 (3.57%) iSCSI
2 3 (3.57%) NAS
2 3 (3.57%) SAN
2 3 (3.57%) VPN
2 3 (3.57%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (5.95%) MySQL
3 3 (3.57%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.19%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (8.33%) Git
2 3 (3.57%) webpack
3 2 (2.38%) WiX
4 1 (1.19%) JIRA
General
1 22 (26.19%) Social Skills
2 7 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 4 (4.76%) Local Government
3 4 (4.76%) Marketing
4 3 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.38%) Health Technology
5 2 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.19%) Advertising
6 1 (1.19%) Finance
6 1 (1.19%) Mandarin Language
6 1 (1.19%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 43 (51.19%) Developer
2 29 (34.52%) WordPress Developer
3 8 (9.52%) Python Developer
4 6 (7.14%) Senior
5 5 (5.95%) PHP Developer
5 5 (5.95%) Support Officer
5 5 (5.95%) Technical Support
5 5 (5.95%) Technical Support Officer
6 4 (4.76%) Senior Developer
6 4 (4.76%) Senior WordPress Developer
7 3 (3.57%) Full Stack Engineer
7 3 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (3.57%) JavaScript Engineer
7 3 (3.57%) Network Engineer
7 3 (3.57%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (3.57%) PHP WordPress Developer
8 2 (2.38%) Content Editor
8 2 (2.38%) Designer
8 2 (2.38%) IT Support
8 2 (2.38%) Web Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (27.38%) React
2 16 (19.05%) HTML
3 15 (17.86%) CSS
4 12 (14.29%) Laravel
5 9 (10.71%) Vue
6 8 (9.52%) Node.js
7 5 (5.95%) .NET
8 4 (4.76%) Sass
8 4 (4.76%) Symfony
9 3 (3.57%) LAMP
9 3 (3.57%) Tailwind CSS
9 3 (3.57%) Twig
9 3 (3.57%) Web Services
10 2 (2.38%) CSS3
10 2 (2.38%) GraphQL
10 2 (2.38%) HTML5
10 2 (2.38%) RESTful
11 1 (1.19%) Next.js
11 1 (1.19%) REST
11 1 (1.19%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.14%) Social Media
2 5 (5.95%) Distributed Architecture
2 5 (5.95%) Learning Management System
3 3 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (3.57%) Replication
4 2 (2.38%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.38%) VLE
5 1 (1.19%) Life Science
5 1 (1.19%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.57%) Linux
1 3 (3.57%) Ubuntu
1 3 (3.57%) VMS
1 3 (3.57%) Windows
1 3 (3.57%) Windows Server
1 3 (3.57%) Windows Server 2016
1 3 (3.57%) Windows Server 2019
2 1 (1.19%) Android
2 1 (1.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (19.05%) Web Development
2 15 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (13.10%) Content Management
3 11 (13.10%) Full Stack Development
4 10 (11.90%) E-Commerce
4 10 (11.90%) Front End Development
5 8 (9.52%) Analytics
6 6 (7.14%) Agile
6 6 (7.14%) SEO
7 5 (5.95%) Deployment Automation
7 5 (5.95%) Scrum
7 5 (5.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (5.95%) User Experience
7 5 (5.95%) UX Design
8 4 (4.76%) B2C
8 4 (4.76%) Code Quality
8 4 (4.76%) Computer Science
8 4 (4.76%) Decision-Making
8 4 (4.76%) SDLC
9 3 (3.57%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (27.38%) PHP
2 16 (19.05%) JavaScript
3 8 (9.52%) Python
4 5 (5.95%) Ruby
5 3 (3.57%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (5.95%) Degree
1 5 (5.95%) SC Cleared
1 5 (5.95%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (4.76%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (15.48%) Accessibility
2 8 (9.52%) QA
3 3 (3.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (3.57%) Active Directory
1 3 (3.57%) Docker
1 3 (3.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (3.57%) SCCM
Vendors
1 17 (20.24%) Microsoft
2 16 (19.05%) Google
2 16 (19.05%) Salesforce
3 5 (5.95%) WooCommerce
4 4 (4.76%) Hootsuite
5 3 (3.57%) Adobe
5 3 (3.57%) Aruba
5 3 (3.57%) Palo Alto
5 3 (3.57%) ProCurve
5 3 (3.57%) Synology
5 3 (3.57%) Veeam
5 3 (3.57%) VMware
5 3 (3.57%) Zerto
6 2 (2.38%) Marketo
6 2 (2.38%) Pardot
7 1 (1.19%) DocuSign
7 1 (1.19%) Sitecore