WordPress Job Trends in the Midlands

WordPress
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring WordPress skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 217 207 243
Rank change year-on-year -10 +36 +53
Permanent jobs citing WordPress 29 19 94
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.23% 0.38% 0.67%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.11% 4.30% 8.52%
Number of salaries quoted 28 15 74
10th Percentile £29,075 £29,800 £24,075
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £35,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% - -15.15%
75th Percentile - £37,500 £42,500
90th Percentile £48,750 - £50,000
England median annual salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year +2.67% - -10.71%

All Application Platform Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 408 442 1,103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.30% 8.80% 7.90%
Number of salaries quoted 321 315 846
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £25,688
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% - -10.53%
75th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £56,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £70,000
England median annual salary £51,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.27% +10.00% -13.04%

WordPress
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

WordPress job vacancy trend in the Midlands

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Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing WordPress.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing WordPress

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Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing WordPress in the Midlands over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

Salary histogram for WordPress in the Midlands

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Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WordPress within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 June 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
West Midlands -5 24 £45,000 +30.43% 2
East Midlands -28 5 £35,000 - 1
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 5 (17.24%) CMS
2 1 (3.45%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (17.24%) Shopify
2 3 (10.34%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 12 (41.38%) Figma
2 6 (20.69%) AWS
2 6 (20.69%) Azure
2 6 (20.69%) GitHub
3 4 (13.79%) MailChimp
3 4 (13.79%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (10.34%) Canva
4 3 (10.34%) Power Platform
4 3 (10.34%) SaaS
5 1 (3.45%) Algolia
5 1 (3.45%) Google Ads
5 1 (3.45%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 6 (20.69%) Internet
2 1 (3.45%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) MySQL
1 3 (10.34%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (24.14%) Git
2 1 (3.45%) Vite
General
1 8 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.69%) Multimedia
3 5 (17.24%) Marketing
4 3 (10.34%) Finance
5 2 (6.90%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (41.38%) Designer
1 12 (41.38%) HTML CSS Designer
1 12 (41.38%) Web Designer
2 6 (20.69%) Administrator
2 6 (20.69%) Trainee
2 6 (20.69%) Trainee Administrator
2 6 (20.69%) Web Administrator
3 3 (10.34%) IT Manager
3 3 (10.34%) Marketing Executive
3 3 (10.34%) Senior
3 3 (10.34%) Senior Marketing Executive
4 2 (6.90%) Developer
5 1 (3.45%) Coordinator
5 1 (3.45%) E-Commerce Manager
5 1 (3.45%) Lead
5 1 (3.45%) Web Developer
5 1 (3.45%) Website Developer
5 1 (3.45%) WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (72.41%) CSS
1 21 (72.41%) HTML
2 3 (10.34%) RESTful
3 1 (3.45%) Alpine.js
3 1 (3.45%) Laravel
3 1 (3.45%) REST
3 1 (3.45%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Web Conferencing
2 3 (10.34%) Blog
2 3 (10.34%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (10.34%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (10.34%) Social Media
3 1 (3.45%) FMCG
3 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.34%) Linux
2 1 (3.45%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (24.14%) B2B
2 6 (20.69%) Web Development
3 5 (17.24%) Analytics
3 5 (17.24%) CRM
3 5 (17.24%) Digital Marketing
3 5 (17.24%) E-Commerce
3 5 (17.24%) SEO
4 4 (13.79%) Lead Generation
5 3 (10.34%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (10.34%) Content Management
5 3 (10.34%) Copywriting
5 3 (10.34%) ERP
5 3 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (10.34%) Project Delivery
5 3 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (6.90%) AI
7 1 (3.45%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (3.45%) Email Marketing
7 1 (3.45%) Logistics
7 1 (3.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 13 (44.83%) PHP
2 9 (31.03%) Python
3 7 (24.14%) JavaScript
4 6 (20.69%) R
5 3 (10.34%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) AWS Certification
1 6 (20.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 6 (20.69%) Azure Certification
1 6 (20.69%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.45%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Docker
Vendors
1 9 (31.03%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.34%) Adobe
3 2 (6.90%) Google
3 2 (6.90%) WooCommerce
4 1 (3.45%) Ahrefs
4 1 (3.45%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.45%) Screaming Frog