WordPress Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

WordPress
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 287 302 407
Rank change year-on-year +15 +105 +149
Contract jobs citing WordPress 17 43 70
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.17% 0.28% 0.27%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.51% 2.76% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 30 54
10th Percentile £230 £105 £263
25th Percentile £318 £221 £301
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £300 £350
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -14.29% -6.67%
75th Percentile £519 £438 £400
90th Percentile £538 £538 £493
UK median daily rate £463 £300 £350
% change year-on-year +54.17% -14.29% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 6
10th Percentile - £15.42 -
25th Percentile - £17.19 £21.00
Median hourly rate - £25.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -32.31%
75th Percentile - £28.44 £23.00
90th Percentile - £31.88 -
UK median hourly rate £13.90 £17.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -18.24% -22.73% -32.82%

All Application Platform Skills
Work from Home

WordPress falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,129 1,560 2,932
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.40% 10.17% 11.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 811 1,093 2,063
10th Percentile £313 £300 £313
25th Percentile £406 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year - -1.38% -2.50%
75th Percentile £633 £608 £638
90th Percentile £825 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 39 72
10th Percentile £27.03 £16.28 £19.33
25th Percentile £38.39 £22.55 £22.16
Median hourly rate £57.00 £30.16 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +88.99% -45.16% +57.14%
75th Percentile £64.50 £47.94 £66.69
90th Percentile £66.00 £71.50 £82.40
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £27.52 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.01% -31.21% +81.82%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing WordPress as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

WordPress trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing WordPress.

WordPress daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing WordPress over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

WordPress daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing WordPress.

WordPress hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 12 (70.59%) CMS
2 4 (23.53%) Apache
2 4 (23.53%) Confluence
2 4 (23.53%) Drupal
3 2 (11.76%) EPiServer
3 2 (11.76%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) AWS
2 3 (17.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (17.65%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (17.65%) Amazon Lightsail
2 3 (17.65%) AWS Fargate
2 3 (17.65%) DigitalOcean
2 3 (17.65%) Figma
2 3 (17.65%) GitHub
2 3 (17.65%) Google Analytics
2 3 (17.65%) Google Workspace
2 3 (17.65%) Heroku
2 3 (17.65%) Slack
3 2 (11.76%) Azure
3 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (11.76%) Canva
3 2 (11.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) Internet
2 3 (17.65%) DNS
3 2 (11.76%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (41.18%) MySQL
2 4 (23.53%) Relational Database
2 4 (23.53%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Bitbucket Server
1 4 (23.53%) Git
1 4 (23.53%) JIRA
2 3 (17.65%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Finance
3 3 (17.65%) Marketing
4 2 (11.76%) Publishing
5 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Developer
2 4 (23.53%) PHP Software Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Software Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Content Editor
3 2 (11.76%) Digital Content Editor
3 2 (11.76%) Digital Editor
4 1 (5.88%) Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) CRM Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Digital Project Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (5.88%) Junior
4 1 (5.88%) Junior Digital Project Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Junior Project Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Node.js Developer
4 1 (5.88%) PHP Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Project Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Software Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Web Developer
4 1 (5.88%) WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (47.06%) CSS
2 6 (35.29%) Web Services
3 5 (29.41%) HTML
4 4 (23.53%) Ajax
4 4 (23.53%) AngularJS
4 4 (23.53%) CodeIgniter
4 4 (23.53%) jQuery
4 4 (23.53%) LAMP
4 4 (23.53%) SOAP
5 3 (17.65%) Alpine.js
5 3 (17.65%) Bootstrap
5 3 (17.65%) Laravel
5 3 (17.65%) Node.js
5 3 (17.65%) Tailwind CSS
6 2 (11.76%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Legacy Code
2 2 (11.76%) Freedom of Information
2 2 (11.76%) Management Information System
2 2 (11.76%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Linux
1 4 (23.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Analytics
1 8 (47.06%) DevOps
2 5 (29.41%) Front End Development
2 5 (29.41%) Project Management
3 4 (23.53%) Agile
3 4 (23.53%) CRM
3 4 (23.53%) Design Patterns
3 4 (23.53%) Kanban
3 4 (23.53%) MVC
3 4 (23.53%) OO
3 4 (23.53%) OOP
3 4 (23.53%) Scrum
3 4 (23.53%) Secure Coding
3 4 (23.53%) Software Engineering
3 4 (23.53%) TDD
4 3 (17.65%) Prototyping
4 3 (17.65%) SEO
4 3 (17.65%) Technology Strategy
4 3 (17.65%) Web Analytics
4 3 (17.65%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) PHP
2 4 (23.53%) Java
2 4 (23.53%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
1 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) Accessibility
1 2 (11.76%) GDPR
1 2 (11.76%) PERC
1 2 (11.76%) WCAG
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Google
2 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 4 (23.53%) Zend
3 3 (17.65%) Sage
4 2 (11.76%) Facebook
4 2 (11.76%) Instagram
4 2 (11.76%) Twitter
5 1 (5.88%) HubSpot
5 1 (5.88%) Sitecore