WordPress Job Trends in the South West

WordPress
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring WordPress skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 218 158 208
Rank change year-on-year -60 +50 +7
Permanent jobs citing WordPress 18 5 32
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.19% 0.15% 0.41%
As % of the Application Platforms category 4.43% 1.58% 5.25%
Number of salaries quoted 18 4 17
10th Percentile £31,250 £24,875 £22,750
25th Percentile £32,188 £32,188 £26,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £37,500 £32,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +17.19% -20.00%
75th Percentile £46,500 £39,688 £36,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £41,375 £47,500
England median annual salary £37,500 £39,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +11.43% -12.50%

All Application Platform Skills
South West

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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 406 317 609
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 4.24% 9.27% 7.89%
Number of salaries quoted 217 219 397
10th Percentile £27,225 £29,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £42,500 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.47% -15.84% +2.02%
75th Percentile £65,000 £58,750 £64,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £80,500
England median annual salary £50,844 £54,285 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.34% -1.30% -4.35%

WordPress
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

WordPress job vacancy trend in the South West

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Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing WordPress.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing WordPress

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Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing WordPress in the South West over the 6 months to 4 September 2026.

Salary histogram for WordPress in the South West

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Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WordPress within the South West region over the 6 months to 4 September 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
Cornwall - 9 £35,000 -
Gloucestershire - 4 £65,000 - 1
Bristol - 3 £40,000 -
Dorset -4 2 £43,750 +9.38%
WordPress
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 (5.56%) Apache
1 1 (5.56%) CMS
1 1 (5.56%) Confluence
1 1 (5.56%) Drupal
1 1 (5.56%) Headless CMS
1 1 (5.56%) IIS
1 1 (5.56%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) AWS
1 6 (33.33%) Azure
1 6 (33.33%) Google Analytics
2 5 (27.78%) GCP
3 4 (22.22%) Canva
3 4 (22.22%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (22.22%) Power Platform
4 2 (11.11%) GitHub
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (5.56%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) CloudFront
5 1 (5.56%) Figma
5 1 (5.56%) Smartsheet
5 1 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) Power BI
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.56%) InterSystems Cache
2 1 (5.56%) Redis
2 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) Gatling
2 1 (5.56%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) JMeter
2 1 (5.56%) Vagrant
General
1 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 7 (38.89%) Marketing
3 6 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (27.78%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (22.22%) Advertising
5 4 (22.22%) Brand Awareness
6 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
7 1 (5.56%) Multimedia
7 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Lead
2 4 (22.22%) Lead Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Marketing Executive
3 3 (16.67%) Development Manager
3 3 (16.67%) WordPress Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Marketing Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Administrator
5 1 (5.56%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) CMS Developer
5 1 (5.56%) CRM Manager
5 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Marketing Automation Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Sales Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Web Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Trainee
5 1 (5.56%) Trainee Administrator
5 1 (5.56%) Web Administrator
5 1 (5.56%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) .NET
2 2 (11.11%) CSS
2 2 (11.11%) HTML
3 1 (5.56%) .NET Framework
3 1 (5.56%) ARM Templates
3 1 (5.56%) Memcached
3 1 (5.56%) Next.js
3 1 (5.56%) Tailwind CSS
3 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Analytical Mindset
1 4 (22.22%) Podcast
1 4 (22.22%) Social Media
1 4 (22.22%) Video Editing
1 4 (22.22%) Web Conferencing
2 2 (11.11%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
1 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Analytics
1 7 (38.89%) Marketing Automation
2 6 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (27.78%) B2B
3 5 (27.78%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (27.78%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (27.78%) Mentoring
3 5 (27.78%) Project Management
3 5 (27.78%) SEO
4 4 (22.22%) Agile
4 4 (22.22%) API Integration
4 4 (22.22%) Content Strategy
4 4 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (22.22%) Digital Marketing
4 4 (22.22%) Email Marketing
4 4 (22.22%) IT Strategy
4 4 (22.22%) Marketing Strategy
4 4 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (22.22%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) PHP
2 4 (22.22%) C#
2 4 (22.22%) SQL
3 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.56%) Python
4 1 (5.56%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Degree
2 2 (11.11%) AWS Certification
2 2 (11.11%) Azure Certification
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) GDPR
1 2 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.56%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Ansible
1 1 (5.56%) Consul
1 1 (5.56%) Packer
1 1 (5.56%) Progress Chef
1 1 (5.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 7 (38.89%) Google
3 6 (33.33%) HubSpot
4 4 (22.22%) Adobe
4 4 (22.22%) Marketo
4 4 (22.22%) Pardot
5 1 (5.56%) TOWER Software
5 1 (5.56%) WooCommerce