WordPress Contract Job Trends

WordPress
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring WordPress skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 516 509 559
Rank change year-on-year -7 +50 +167
Contract jobs citing WordPress 42 60 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.16% 0.18%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.16% 1.46% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 38 68
10th Percentile £390 £189 £200
25th Percentile £403 £228 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £325 £375
Median % change year-on-year +53.85% -13.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £538 £409 £434
90th Percentile £550 £440 £550
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £250 £400
% change year-on-year +95.00% -37.50% +18.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £11.52
25th Percentile £13.35 - £13.08
Median hourly rate £13.90 - £19.67
75th Percentile £14.45 - £23.00
90th Percentile - - £27.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £13.90 - £17.34
% change year-on-year - - -6.02%

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 3,608 4,120 5,274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.96% 10.69% 10.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,323 2,730 3,567
10th Percentile £278 £275 £256
25th Percentile £388 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% +2.94% -2.86%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £645
90th Percentile £711 £825 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £470 £475
% change year-on-year -4.26% -1.05% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 88 158
10th Percentile £17.40 £17.08 £16.21
25th Percentile £24.25 £23.80 £21.06
Median hourly rate £36.50 £38.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.95% -29.63% +140.00%
75th Percentile £65.06 £70.00 £69.06
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.03 £48.56 £46.09
% change year-on-year -21.68% +5.36% +131.32%

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
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

WordPress
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WordPress over the 6 months to 13 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WordPress in the UK

WordPress
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

WordPress
Top 12 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 September 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 -4 27 £438 +35.66% 351
Work from Home +25 22 £500 +50.94% 66
UK excluding London -27 12 £488 +95.00% 297
London +27 11 £410 +8.61% 120
North of England -14 7 £488 +77.27% 74
Yorkshire - 5 £450 - 21
South East +14 2 £504 +123.87% 75
Scotland -2 1 - - 13
East of England -5 1 - - 39
North West -12 1 £525 +90.91% 46
South West - 1 - - 24
North East - 1 - - 8

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 23 (54.76%) CMS
2 14 (33.33%) Drupal
3 3 (7.14%) SAS
4 2 (4.76%) Headless CMS
4 2 (4.76%) SilverStripe
4 2 (4.76%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (2.38%) Confluence
5 1 (2.38%) Joomla!
5 1 (2.38%) Strapi
5 1 (2.38%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (9.52%) Trello
2 1 (2.38%) Adobe XD
2 1 (2.38%) InVision
2 1 (2.38%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (9.52%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 16 (38.10%) AWS
2 8 (19.05%) Figma
3 6 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 6 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
3 6 (14.29%) Amazon Lightsail
3 6 (14.29%) AWS Fargate
4 5 (11.90%) Miro
5 4 (9.52%) Asana
5 4 (9.52%) Google Ads
5 4 (9.52%) Wix.com
6 3 (7.14%) GitHub
7 2 (4.76%) Azure
7 2 (4.76%) Serverless
8 1 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.38%) Google Analytics
8 1 (2.38%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (2.38%) Sentry
8 1 (2.38%) Storyblok
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.67%) MySQL
2 4 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (7.14%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (19.05%) Git
2 7 (16.67%) JIRA
3 4 (9.52%) Cypress.io
4 3 (7.14%) JUnit
5 1 (2.38%) Axure RP
5 1 (2.38%) Balsamiq
5 1 (2.38%) TeamCity
General
1 15 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 9 (21.43%) Marketing
3 7 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 3 (7.14%) Finance
5 2 (4.76%) Military
6 1 (2.38%) Banking
6 1 (2.38%) Brand Awareness
6 1 (2.38%) Games
6 1 (2.38%) Legal
6 1 (2.38%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 17 (40.48%) Developer
2 7 (16.67%) PHP Developer
3 5 (11.90%) Product Owner
4 4 (9.52%) Coordinator
4 4 (9.52%) Principal Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) Project Coordinator
4 4 (9.52%) Software Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 3 (7.14%) Software Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Lead
6 2 (4.76%) PHP Software Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Senior
6 2 (4.76%) Web Developer
6 2 (4.76%) WordPress Developer
7 1 (2.38%) Content Designer
7 1 (2.38%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) PHP WordPress Developer
7 1 (2.38%) Salesforce Technical Leader
7 1 (2.38%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (30.95%) Node.js
2 10 (23.81%) CSS
2 10 (23.81%) HTML
3 4 (9.52%) React
3 4 (9.52%) REST
3 4 (9.52%) Spring Boot
4 3 (7.14%) Hibernate
4 3 (7.14%) JPA
4 3 (7.14%) Spring
4 3 (7.14%) Vue
5 2 (4.76%) Tailwind CSS
6 1 (2.38%) CSS3
6 1 (2.38%) Django
6 1 (2.38%) GraphQL
6 1 (2.38%) HTML5
6 1 (2.38%) Next.js
6 1 (2.38%) Playwright
6 1 (2.38%) RESTful
6 1 (2.38%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.38%) Blog
2 1 (2.38%) Educational Technology
2 1 (2.38%) e-Learning
2 1 (2.38%) Marketing Technology
2 1 (2.38%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.38%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.38%) Social Media
2 1 (2.38%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (33.33%) DevOps
2 13 (30.95%) Agile
3 9 (21.43%) CI/CD
3 9 (21.43%) User Stories
4 8 (19.05%) SEO
5 6 (14.29%) Digital Marketing
5 6 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
6 5 (11.90%) Backlog Refinement
6 5 (11.90%) Containerisation
6 5 (11.90%) Continuous Delivery
6 5 (11.90%) Front End Development
6 5 (11.90%) OO
6 5 (11.90%) Product Backlog
6 5 (11.90%) Product Requirements
6 5 (11.90%) Product Roadmap
6 5 (11.90%) Project Management
6 5 (11.90%) Roadmaps
6 5 (11.90%) Scrum
6 5 (11.90%) Software Engineering
6 5 (11.90%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 20 (47.62%) PHP
2 15 (35.71%) JavaScript
3 6 (14.29%) TypeScript
4 5 (11.90%) C#
4 5 (11.90%) Java
5 2 (4.76%) Python
6 1 (2.38%) Apex Code
6 1 (2.38%) Ruby
6 1 (2.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (40.48%) Security Cleared
2 15 (35.71%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.52%) Accessibility
2 3 (7.14%) QA
3 1 (2.38%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (23.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (23.81%) Kubernetes
2 5 (11.90%) Terraform
3 1 (2.38%) Bitnami
Vendors
1 2 (4.76%) Google
1 2 (4.76%) Salesforce
1 2 (4.76%) Sitecore
2 1 (2.38%) Adobe
2 1 (2.38%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud