Drupal Job Trends

Drupal
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Drupal skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 618 672 642
Rank change year-on-year +54 -30 +254
Permanent jobs citing Drupal 36 70 68
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.064% 0.11% 0.13%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.97% 1.27% 1.18%
Number of salaries quoted 16 45 64
10th Percentile - £32,750 £36,275
25th Percentile £26,250 £49,140 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,656 £57,500 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -43.21% +0.88% +26.67%
75th Percentile £37,625 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £53,750 £63,000 £76,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £31,500 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -47.50% +20.00% +33.33%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

Drupal 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,694 5,520 5,777
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.55% 8.89% 11.45%
Number of salaries quoted 2,519 3,403 4,551
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £37,900
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - -
75th Percentile £73,750 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £91,934
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,750 £47,500 £47,103
% change year-on-year -12.11% +0.84% -0.84%

Drupal
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Drupal job vacancy trend in the UK

Drupal
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Drupal.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Drupal

Drupal
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Drupal over the 6 months to 9 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Drupal in the UK

Drupal
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Drupal within the UK over the 6 months to 9 December 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
Work from Home +87 21 £27,500 -45.00% 9
England +54 19 £33,250 -41.67% 16
UK excluding London +81 16 £31,500 -47.50% 13
North of England +25 7 £27,500 -21.43% 6
Yorkshire - 7 £27,500 - 1
South East +43 6 £35,000 -41.67% 6
London +37 5 £60,000 +20.00% 7
Wales - 2 - -
South West +26 1 - -

Drupal
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 23 (63.89%) CMS
2 10 (27.78%) WordPress
3 5 (13.89%) nginx
3 5 (13.89%) Umbraco
4 3 (8.33%) Joomla!
5 2 (5.56%) EPiServer
6 1 (2.78%) Kentico
Applications
1 7 (19.44%) Photoshop
2 6 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (11.11%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (11.11%) Adobe Premiere
4 3 (8.33%) InDesign
4 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Dynamics GP
2 3 (8.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 10 (27.78%) Google Analytics
1 10 (27.78%) Google Tag Manager
2 6 (16.67%) AWS
3 5 (13.89%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (11.11%) Adobe Creative Cloud
5 3 (8.33%) Google Ads
6 2 (5.56%) Contentsquare
6 2 (5.56%) Figma
6 2 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (5.56%) npm
6 2 (5.56%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.78%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.78%) Canva
7 1 (2.78%) Cloud9 IDE
7 1 (2.78%) Cloudflare
7 1 (2.78%) MailChimp
7 1 (2.78%) Mimecast
7 1 (2.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.33%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.89%) Looker
1 5 (13.89%) MariaDB
2 2 (5.56%) Metadata
2 2 (5.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Git
1 3 (8.33%) Visual Website Optimizer
2 2 (5.56%) Grunt
2 2 (5.56%) gulp
2 2 (5.56%) webpack
3 1 (2.78%) JIRA
General
1 16 (44.44%) Marketing
2 12 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 7 (19.44%) Police
4 6 (16.67%) Public Sector
5 5 (13.89%) Local Government
6 4 (11.11%) Advertising
6 4 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (8.33%) Brand Awareness
7 3 (8.33%) Multimedia
8 2 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (2.78%) Finance
9 1 (2.78%) Legal
9 1 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (2.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (25.00%) Developer
2 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure Security Specialist
2 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure Support
2 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
2 5 (13.89%) Security Specialist
2 5 (13.89%) Support Specialist
3 4 (11.11%) Senior
3 4 (11.11%) Web Manager
4 3 (8.33%) Digital Product Manager
4 3 (8.33%) Drupal Developer
4 3 (8.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 3 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (8.33%) Lead
4 3 (8.33%) Marketing Specialist
4 3 (8.33%) Product Manager
4 3 (8.33%) SEO Specialist
4 3 (8.33%) Technical Leader
5 2 (5.56%) Digital Developer
5 2 (5.56%) Senior Drupal Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (27.78%) HTML
2 7 (19.44%) CSS
3 3 (8.33%) Sass
4 2 (5.56%) CSS3
4 2 (5.56%) HTML5
4 2 (5.56%) Node.js
4 2 (5.56%) Redux
4 2 (5.56%) RESTful
5 1 (2.78%) Bootstrap
5 1 (2.78%) Drush
5 1 (2.78%) LAMP
5 1 (2.78%) Twig
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.22%) Social Media
2 5 (13.89%) Graphic Design
3 3 (8.33%) Photography
3 3 (8.33%) Video Editing
4 1 (2.78%) Blog
4 1 (2.78%) Educational Technology
4 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.78%) Video Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (52.78%) User Experience
2 16 (44.44%) SEO
3 11 (30.56%) Analytics
3 11 (30.56%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (19.44%) Front End Development
5 6 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (16.67%) Digital Marketing
6 5 (13.89%) Content Strategy
6 5 (13.89%) Conversion Rate Optimisation
6 5 (13.89%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (13.89%) Security Patching
7 4 (11.11%) Agile
7 4 (11.11%) AI
7 4 (11.11%) Content Management
7 4 (11.11%) Decision-Making
7 4 (11.11%) Migration
7 4 (11.11%) Project Management
8 3 (8.33%) Competitor Analysis
8 3 (8.33%) Creative Marketing
8 3 (8.33%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.78%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (13.89%) AWS Certification
2 4 (11.11%) DBS Check
3 3 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (27.78%) Accessibility
2 5 (13.89%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (13.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 5 (13.89%) ISO 9001
2 5 (13.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (8.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (13.89%) Docker
Vendors
1 13 (36.11%) Google
2 11 (30.56%) Microsoft
3 5 (13.89%) Hotjar
4 4 (11.11%) Adobe
5 3 (8.33%) Screaming Frog
6 1 (2.78%) Salesforce