WordPress Developer Jobs

WordPress Developer
UK

The median WordPress Developer salary in the UK is £35,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 744 826 1185
Rank change year-on-year +82 +359 -318
Permanent jobs requiring a WordPress Developer 98 61 90
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.076% 0.051%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.082% 0.054%
Number of salaries quoted 90 56 53
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £28,875
25th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £30,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +12.50% +3.23%
75th Percentile £45,000 £56,250 £55,250
90th Percentile £50,125 £69,375 £61,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £45,000 £31,500
% change year-on-year -22.22% +42.86% -10.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 85,709 74,085 167,386
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.83% 91.81% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 58,134 51,472 87,435
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,800 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% +9.47%

WordPress Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for WordPress Developer in the UK

WordPress Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for WordPress Developer in the UK

WordPress Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing WordPress Developer over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for WordPress Developer in the UK

WordPress Developer
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WordPress Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
England +64 83 £35,000 -22.22% 21
UK excluding London +21 78 £35,000 -22.22% 19
Work from Home +51 45 £36,000 -24.21% 13
London +74 19 £47,500 -7.32% 2
North of England +19 16 £33,250 -11.33% 3
Midlands -6 15 £35,500 -21.11% 4
South East +5 11 £30,750 -25.45% 7
South West -2 11 £32,000 -30.81% 3
Wales - 11 £35,000 -
East of England - 11 £35,000 - 5
West Midlands +6 10 £36,000 -20.00% 3
North West -3 7 £31,000 -14.48% 1
Yorkshire +63 6 £33,000 +22.22% 2
East Midlands - 5 £32,500 - 1
North East -11 3 £42,500 -5.56%
Northern Ireland - 3 £33,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, 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 featuring WordPress Developer in the job title.

1 98 (100.00%) WordPress
2 82 (83.67%) PHP
3 62 (63.27%) JavaScript
4 58 (59.18%) CSS
5 57 (58.16%) HTML
6 46 (46.94%) Web Development
7 41 (41.84%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (32.65%) E-Commerce
9 26 (26.53%) jQuery
10 24 (24.49%) CMS
11 23 (23.47%) Git
12 22 (22.45%) Marketing
12 22 (22.45%) WooCommerce
12 22 (22.45%) Social Skills
13 19 (19.39%) Front End Development
14 18 (18.37%) React
15 16 (16.33%) SEO
16 14 (14.29%) User Experience
16 14 (14.29%) MySQL
16 14 (14.29%) Adobe
17 10 (10.20%) CSS3
18 9 (9.18%) Laravel
18 9 (9.18%) HTML5
18 9 (9.18%) Full Stack Development
19 8 (8.16%) Vue
20 7 (7.14%) Sass
20 7 (7.14%) Agile
20 7 (7.14%) Clean Code
21 6 (6.12%) Stripe
21 6 (6.12%) RESTful

WordPress Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 98 (100.00%) WordPress
2 24 (24.49%) CMS
3 1 (1.02%) Apache
3 1 (1.02%) Drupal
3 1 (1.02%) Headless CMS
3 1 (1.02%) Joomla!
3 1 (1.02%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (4.08%) Adobe XD
2 3 (3.06%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (2.04%) Sketch
4 1 (1.02%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (1.02%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 6 (6.12%) Stripe
2 5 (5.10%) Figma
3 3 (3.06%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 3 (3.06%) AWS
4 2 (2.04%) DigitalOcean
5 1 (1.02%) Basecamp
5 1 (1.02%) Cloudflare
5 1 (1.02%) GitHub
5 1 (1.02%) Google Analytics
5 1 (1.02%) npm
5 1 (1.02%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.02%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (14.29%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 23 (23.47%) Git
2 2 (2.04%) webpack
3 1 (1.02%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.02%) GitLab
3 1 (1.02%) JIRA
3 1 (1.02%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.02%) YouTrack
General
1 22 (22.45%) Marketing
1 22 (22.45%) Social Skills
2 4 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (3.06%) Finance
4 2 (2.04%) Advertising
5 1 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.02%) Retail
5 1 (1.02%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (59.18%) CSS
2 57 (58.16%) HTML
3 26 (26.53%) jQuery
4 18 (18.37%) React
5 10 (10.20%) CSS3
6 9 (9.18%) HTML5
6 9 (9.18%) Laravel
7 8 (8.16%) Vue
8 7 (7.14%) Sass
9 6 (6.12%) RESTful
10 2 (2.04%) AngularJS
10 2 (2.04%) LAMP
10 2 (2.04%) Next.js
10 2 (2.04%) Node.js
10 2 (2.04%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 2 (2.04%) Web Services
11 1 (1.02%) GraphQL
11 1 (1.02%) JSON
11 1 (1.02%) React Native
11 1 (1.02%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.10%) Mobile App
2 2 (2.04%) Photography
3 1 (1.02%) Animation
3 1 (1.02%) Educational Technology
3 1 (1.02%) IoT
3 1 (1.02%) NHS
3 1 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.02%) Virtual Reality
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (46.94%) Web Development
2 41 (41.84%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (32.65%) E-Commerce
4 19 (19.39%) Front End Development
5 16 (16.33%) SEO
6 14 (14.29%) User Experience
7 9 (9.18%) Full Stack Development
8 7 (7.14%) Agile
8 7 (7.14%) Clean Code
9 6 (6.12%) API Integration
10 5 (5.10%) Responsive Web Design
10 5 (5.10%) Time Management
11 4 (4.08%) Analytics
11 4 (4.08%) Collaborative Culture
11 4 (4.08%) Digital Marketing
11 4 (4.08%) Process Improvement
11 4 (4.08%) Storytelling
11 4 (4.08%) Web Design
12 3 (3.06%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
12 3 (3.06%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 82 (83.67%) PHP
2 62 (63.27%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.02%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (2.04%) Degree
2 1 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.04%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.02%) QA
2 1 (1.02%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.02%) Varnish
Vendors
1 22 (22.45%) WooCommerce
2 14 (14.29%) Adobe
3 5 (5.10%) Google
4 3 (3.06%) HubSpot
5 1 (1.02%) Hotjar
5 1 (1.02%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.02%) Panasonic
5 1 (1.02%) WorldPay