WordPress Developer Jobs in England

WordPress Developer
UK > England

The median WordPress Developer salary in England is £51,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 651 718 861
Rank change year-on-year +67 +143 +200
Permanent jobs requiring a WordPress Developer 11 115 68
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.024% 0.13% 0.073%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.026% 0.14% 0.080%
Number of salaries quoted 10 109 65
10th Percentile £31,875 £28,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £36,563 £30,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.13% -11.11% +16.88%
75th Percentile £60,000 £47,500 £48,750
90th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £69,750
UK median annual salary £47,500 £37,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +26.67% -16.67% +12.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 41,555 80,517 84,778
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.29% 94.48% 91.54%
Number of salaries quoted 24,558 60,256 53,687
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,626
25th Percentile £42,415 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £54,000 £60,775
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% -11.15% +1.29%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,991 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,900 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.83% -

WordPress Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured WordPress Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for WordPress Developer in England

WordPress Developer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing WordPress Developer in England.

Salary trend for WordPress Developer in England

WordPress Developer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing WordPress Developer in England over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Salary histogram for WordPress Developer in England

WordPress Developer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WordPress Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +91 7 £60,000 -7.69% 10
North of England +65 2 £43,750 +30.60% 14
North West +10 2 £43,750 +30.60% 11
South West +96 1 £42,500 +6.25% 4
Midlands +50 1 £37,500 +7.14% 5
West Midlands +42 1 £37,500 +4.17% 3
WordPress Developer
UK

WordPress Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, WordPress Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring WordPress Developer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) WordPress
2 10 (90.91%) PHP
3 8 (72.73%) JavaScript
4 7 (63.64%) CSS
5 6 (54.55%) HTML
5 6 (54.55%) Git
6 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (45.45%) User Experience
6 5 (45.45%) Web Development
6 5 (45.45%) SEO
7 4 (36.36%) Marketing
8 3 (27.27%) HTML5
8 3 (27.27%) CSS3
8 3 (27.27%) React
8 3 (27.27%) AngularJS
8 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
8 3 (27.27%) Vue
8 3 (27.27%) MySQL
8 3 (27.27%) jQuery
9 2 (18.18%) Ajax
9 2 (18.18%) Google
9 2 (18.18%) Agile
9 2 (18.18%) TDD
9 2 (18.18%) Content Management
9 2 (18.18%) JSON
9 2 (18.18%) Google Analytics
9 2 (18.18%) Web Services
9 2 (18.18%) E-Commerce
9 2 (18.18%) CMS
9 2 (18.18%) Performance Optimisation

WordPress Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 11 (100.00%) WordPress
2 2 (18.18%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Adobe XD
1 1 (9.09%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Google Analytics
2 1 (9.09%) Figma
2 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Git
2 2 (18.18%) Jasmine
2 2 (18.18%) Mocha
2 2 (18.18%) PHPUnit
3 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
General
1 4 (36.36%) Marketing
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
3 1 (9.09%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (63.64%) CSS
2 6 (54.55%) HTML
3 3 (27.27%) AngularJS
3 3 (27.27%) CSS3
3 3 (27.27%) HTML5
3 3 (27.27%) jQuery
3 3 (27.27%) React
3 3 (27.27%) Vue
4 2 (18.18%) Ajax
4 2 (18.18%) Jest
4 2 (18.18%) JSON
4 2 (18.18%) Laravel
4 2 (18.18%) LESS
4 2 (18.18%) Node.js
4 2 (18.18%) Sass
4 2 (18.18%) Web Services
5 1 (9.09%) RESTful
5 1 (9.09%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Digital Media
1 1 (9.09%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (45.45%) SEO
1 5 (45.45%) User Experience
1 5 (45.45%) Web Development
2 2 (18.18%) Agile
2 2 (18.18%) Analytics
2 2 (18.18%) Content Management
2 2 (18.18%) Design Patterns
2 2 (18.18%) E-Commerce
2 2 (18.18%) Front End Development
2 2 (18.18%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (18.18%) SOLID
2 2 (18.18%) TDD
3 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (9.09%) MVC
3 1 (9.09%) OO
3 1 (9.09%) OOP
3 1 (9.09%) PLM
3 1 (9.09%) Project Delivery
3 1 (9.09%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) PHP
2 8 (72.73%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Google
1 2 (18.18%) WooCommerce
2 1 (9.09%) Adobe