WordPress Job Trends in the East of England

WordPress
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring WordPress skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 159 123
Rank change year-on-year -17 -36 +37
Permanent jobs citing WordPress 29 15 49
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.40% 0.44% 1.04%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.36% 5.45% 14.71%
Number of salaries quoted 28 14 42
10th Percentile £18,000 £33,750 £26,500
25th Percentile £25,125 £36,250 £30,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £38,250 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +9.29% -44.00%
75th Percentile £42,500 £40,813 £45,000
90th Percentile £44,750 £42,125 £55,000
England median annual salary £38,000 £39,000 £35,175
% change year-on-year -2.56% +10.87% -12.06%

All Application Platform Skills
East of England

WordPress falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring application platform skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 394 275 333
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 5.45% 7.99% 7.07%
Number of salaries quoted 289 221 270
10th Percentile £28,950 £27,500 £26,200
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £41,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +14.46% -17.00%
75th Percentile £58,750 £63,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £75,000 £67,550
England median annual salary £50,588 £53,688 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.78% -2.39% -4.35%

WordPress
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing WordPress relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

WordPress job vacancy trend in the East of England

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Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing WordPress.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing WordPress

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Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing WordPress in the East of England over the 6 months to 12 August 2026.

Salary histogram for WordPress in the East of England

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Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WordPress within the East of England region over the 6 months to 12 August 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridgeshire -18 8 £38,500 -1.28% 4
Hertfordshire -25 7 £18,000 -52.00% 1
Essex -13 6 £35,000 - 9
Norfolk -19 6 £40,000 +8.11%
Bedfordshire - 2 £43,750 - 1
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England

WordPress
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 1 (3.45%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (24.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (24.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (51.72%) Azure
2 8 (27.59%) AWS
2 8 (27.59%) Google Ads
3 7 (24.14%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (17.24%) GitHub
5 2 (6.90%) Anthropic Claude
5 2 (6.90%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 12 (41.38%) Internet
2 7 (24.14%) DNS
2 7 (24.14%) Firewall
2 7 (24.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.45%) MySQL
2 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (17.24%) Git
2 2 (6.90%) Claude Code
General
1 7 (24.14%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.69%) Marketing
3 5 (17.24%) Games
3 5 (17.24%) Multimedia
4 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (34.48%) Developer
2 5 (17.24%) Administrator
2 5 (17.24%) Trainee
2 5 (17.24%) Trainee Administrator
2 5 (17.24%) Web Administrator
3 3 (10.34%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Digital Developer
4 2 (6.90%) Digital Marketing Developer
4 2 (6.90%) Software Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Web Developer
4 2 (6.90%) WordPress Developer
5 1 (3.45%) Digital Executive
5 1 (3.45%) Digital Marketing Executive
5 1 (3.45%) Junior
5 1 (3.45%) Junior Developer
5 1 (3.45%) Marketing Executive
5 1 (3.45%) PHP Developer
5 1 (3.45%) Senior Digital Marketing Executive
5 1 (3.45%) Senior Marketing Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (27.59%) Laravel
2 5 (17.24%) CSS
2 5 (17.24%) HTML
3 3 (10.34%) Nuxt
3 3 (10.34%) Ruby on Rails
4 1 (3.45%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.45%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 7 (24.14%) Apple iOS
1 7 (24.14%) Mac OS
1 7 (24.14%) Windows
1 7 (24.14%) Windows Server
2 3 (10.34%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (34.48%) AI
2 9 (31.03%) Web Development
3 7 (24.14%) Mathematics
3 7 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (20.69%) Digital Marketing
5 5 (17.24%) Clean Code
6 3 (10.34%) CI/CD
6 3 (10.34%) Containerisation
6 3 (10.34%) DevOps
6 3 (10.34%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (10.34%) Incident Response
6 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (6.90%) Agile
7 2 (6.90%) Analytics
7 2 (6.90%) B2B
7 2 (6.90%) B2B Marketing
7 2 (6.90%) Conversion Rate Optimisation
7 2 (6.90%) SEO
7 2 (6.90%) Software Engineering
7 2 (6.90%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 8 (27.59%) PHP
2 7 (24.14%) SQL
3 5 (17.24%) JavaScript
3 5 (17.24%) Python
3 5 (17.24%) R
4 3 (10.34%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (17.24%) AWS Certification
1 5 (17.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 5 (17.24%) Azure Certification
1 5 (17.24%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (27.59%) QA
2 7 (24.14%) SLA
3 1 (3.45%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (3.45%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 3 (10.34%) Ansible
1 3 (10.34%) Proxmox
1 3 (10.34%) Terraform
1 3 (10.34%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 13 (44.83%) Microsoft
2 9 (31.03%) Google
3 7 (24.14%) Apple
4 1 (3.45%) Facebook
4 1 (3.45%) Hotjar
4 1 (3.45%) Instagram
4 1 (3.45%) Salesforce