WordPress Jobs in the UK excluding London

WordPress
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring WordPress skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries 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 470 412 540
Rank change year-on-year -58 +128 -81
Permanent jobs citing WordPress 87 397 208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.24% 0.56% 0.34%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.38% 5.43% 3.29%
Number of salaries quoted 59 366 161
10th Percentile £29,500 £25,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,500 £29,750 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £36,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £39,750 £47,500 £48,750
90th Percentile £49,250 £56,250 £52,500
UK median annual salary £42,500 £37,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +13.33% -16.67% +5.88%

All Application Platform Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 2,574 7,311 6,326
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.99% 10.40% 10.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1,718 4,699 4,035
10th Percentile £28,425 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,628 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +1.85%

WordPress
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing WordPress as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for WordPress in the UK excluding London

WordPress
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing WordPress in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for WordPress in the UK excluding London

WordPress
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing WordPress in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for WordPress in the UK excluding London

WordPress
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WordPress within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Midlands +21 26 £35,000 - 25
South East +58 20 £30,000 -24.05% 51
East Midlands +42 18 £35,000 +7.69% 3
North of England +4 16 £33,000 -1.49% 53
East of England +15 12 £35,000 - 14
North West -1 12 £33,000 -1.49% 34
South West +59 10 £35,000 -12.50% 16
West Midlands -3 8 £36,062 +1.58% 22
Yorkshire +34 4 - - 14
Scotland +123 1 £47,500 +5.56% 4
Northern Ireland +32 1 - - 1
Wales +31 1 £45,000 +28.57%
WordPress
UK

WordPress
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 42 (48.28%) CMS
2 4 (4.60%) Drupal
2 4 (4.60%) Joomla!
2 4 (4.60%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.45%) Umbraco
4 1 (1.15%) Headless CMS
4 1 (1.15%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (16.09%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (11.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (8.05%) Photoshop
4 5 (5.75%) Adobe Premiere
5 4 (4.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (3.45%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (2.30%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (1.15%) Acrobat
8 1 (1.15%) Adobe XD
8 1 (1.15%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 14 (16.09%) Shopify
2 2 (2.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.15%) Magento
3 1 (1.15%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 16 (18.39%) Google Analytics
2 14 (16.09%) GitHub
3 13 (14.94%) Slack
3 13 (14.94%) Zapier
4 7 (8.05%) Stripe
5 6 (6.90%) Azure
5 6 (6.90%) Canva
6 5 (5.75%) AWS
7 3 (3.45%) GCP
7 3 (3.45%) Google Ads
7 3 (3.45%) Google Data Studio
7 3 (3.45%) MailChimp
7 3 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (3.45%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.30%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (2.30%) DigitalOcean
8 2 (2.30%) Figma
8 2 (2.30%) Google Tag Manager
8 2 (2.30%) SaaS
9 1 (1.15%) Dropbox
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.30%) DNS
1 2 (2.30%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.15%) Broadband
2 1 (1.15%) Internet
2 1 (1.15%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (27.59%) MySQL
2 6 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (4.60%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.45%) Power BI
5 1 (1.15%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.15%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.15%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 30 (34.48%) Git
2 2 (2.30%) Bitbucket
2 2 (2.30%) git-flow
3 1 (1.15%) JIRA
General
1 22 (25.29%) Social Skills
2 20 (22.99%) Marketing
3 8 (9.20%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (6.90%) Advertising
4 6 (6.90%) Legal
5 3 (3.45%) Automotive
5 3 (3.45%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (3.45%) Retail
6 2 (2.30%) Multimedia
7 1 (1.15%) Mandarin Language
7 1 (1.15%) Publishing
7 1 (1.15%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 56 (64.37%) Developer
2 25 (28.74%) Web Developer
3 11 (12.64%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 8 (9.20%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
4 8 (9.20%) Website Developer
5 6 (6.90%) 1st Line Support
5 6 (6.90%) IT Support
5 6 (6.90%) PHP Developer
6 5 (5.75%) Digital Developer
6 5 (5.75%) WordPress Developer
7 3 (3.45%) Communications Officer
7 3 (3.45%) Creative Developer
7 3 (3.45%) Creative Web Developer
7 3 (3.45%) Digital Marketing Developer
7 3 (3.45%) Digital Marketing Specialist
7 3 (3.45%) Head of Communications
7 3 (3.45%) Head of Design
7 3 (3.45%) Head of Digital
7 3 (3.45%) Marketing Specialist
7 3 (3.45%) Web Marketing Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (52.87%) HTML
2 45 (51.72%) CSS
3 21 (24.14%) Laravel
4 8 (9.20%) AngularJS
4 8 (9.20%) React
5 7 (8.05%) HTML5
6 6 (6.90%) Vue
7 5 (5.75%) .NET
7 5 (5.75%) jQuery
7 5 (5.75%) Tailwind CSS
8 4 (4.60%) Bootstrap
8 4 (4.60%) Node.js
9 3 (3.45%) CSS3
9 3 (3.45%) REST
9 3 (3.45%) Sass
10 2 (2.30%) ASP.NET
10 2 (2.30%) Django
10 2 (2.30%) Flutter
10 2 (2.30%) Unreal Engine
11 1 (1.15%) Nuxt
Miscellaneous
1 15 (17.24%) Social Media
2 8 (9.20%) Graphic Design
3 7 (8.05%) Blog
3 7 (8.05%) Learning Management System
4 5 (5.75%) Augmented Reality
4 5 (5.75%) Digital Media
4 5 (5.75%) Driving Licence
4 5 (5.75%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (5.75%) Virtual Reality
5 4 (4.60%) Animation
5 4 (4.60%) Mobile App
5 4 (4.60%) Photography
6 3 (3.45%) Management Information System
6 3 (3.45%) Motion Graphics
6 3 (3.45%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.30%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.30%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.15%) EPoS
8 1 (1.15%) iPhone
8 1 (1.15%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.05%) Windows
2 2 (2.30%) Linux
3 1 (1.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (44.83%) Web Development
2 32 (36.78%) SEO
2 32 (36.78%) User Experience
3 29 (33.33%) E-Commerce
4 27 (31.03%) Front End Development
5 23 (26.44%) Content Management
5 23 (26.44%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (26.44%) Project Management
6 19 (21.84%) Responsive Web Design
7 18 (20.69%) Computer Science
8 17 (19.54%) Analytics
9 16 (18.39%) Full-Stack Development
10 15 (17.24%) UX Design
11 13 (14.94%) Server Management
12 12 (13.79%) Agile
13 11 (12.64%) Digital Marketing
14 9 (10.34%) Performance Optimisation
14 9 (10.34%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 8 (9.20%) Line Management
15 8 (9.20%) Marketing Strategy
Programming Languages
1 54 (62.07%) PHP
2 30 (34.48%) JavaScript
3 18 (20.69%) Python
4 17 (19.54%) Java
5 6 (6.90%) C#
6 4 (4.60%) SQL
7 2 (2.30%) C++
Qualifications
1 28 (32.18%) Degree
2 17 (19.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.45%) DBS Check
4 2 (2.30%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (16.09%) Accessibility
2 10 (11.49%) QA
3 7 (8.05%) WCAG
4 6 (6.90%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (2.30%) Docker
2 1 (1.15%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.15%) BitLocker
2 1 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.15%) cPanel
Vendors
1 25 (28.74%) Microsoft
2 21 (24.14%) Google
3 16 (18.39%) WooCommerce
4 11 (12.64%) Adobe
5 7 (8.05%) Twitter
5 7 (8.05%) YouTube
6 5 (5.75%) Cisco
6 5 (5.75%) Meraki
7 4 (4.60%) Facebook
7 4 (4.60%) Instagram
8 1 (1.15%) Apple
8 1 (1.15%) HubSpot
8 1 (1.15%) Oracle
8 1 (1.15%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.15%) SAP
8 1 (1.15%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.15%) VMware