WordPress
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring WordPress skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 535 481 442
Rank change year-on-year -54 -39 +141
Permanent jobs citing WordPress 229 208 520
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.42% 0.51%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.28% 4.69% 5.38%
Number of salaries quoted 199 120 463
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £40,000 £36,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% +11.11% -11.54%
75th Percentile £45,000 £60,625 £48,750
90th Percentile £57,250 £73,075 £62,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% - -12.50%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 4,334 4,439 9,666
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.39% 9.02% 9.55%
Number of salaries quoted 3,132 2,949 6,888
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £110,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year - +5.88% -11.55%

WordPress
Job Vacancy Trend

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

WordPress job vacancy trend in the UK

WordPress
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing WordPress.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing WordPress

WordPress
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing WordPress over the 6 months to 12 July 2026.

Salary histogram for WordPress in the UK

WordPress
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WordPress within the UK over the 6 months to 12 July 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
England -16 206 £38,500 - 57
UK excluding London -1 164 £37,500 +7.14% 49
Work from Home -42 66 £40,000 - 16
North of England +13 52 £31,500 -10.00% 14
London -38 47 £48,676 -25.11% 16
North West +3 32 £37,500 +0.67% 7
Midlands -16 29 £45,000 +28.57% 10
South East -33 27 £42,500 +21.43% 13
East of England -7 26 £38,500 +6.94% 11
South West -40 25 £35,000 -3.45% 3
West Midlands -5 24 £45,000 +40.63% 6
Yorkshire -24 10 £31,500 - 5
North East -46 10 £30,750 -1.44% 2
Scotland +14 5 £32,500 -31.58%
East Midlands -26 5 £35,000 - 4

WordPress
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 61 (26.64%) CMS
2 6 (2.62%) Apache
2 6 (2.62%) Drupal
2 6 (2.62%) Headless CMS
3 5 (2.18%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.31%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.87%) IIS
5 2 (0.87%) nginx
6 1 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.44%) Confluence
6 1 (0.44%) Joomla!
6 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.44%) Moodle
6 1 (0.44%) Tomcat
Applications
1 22 (9.61%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 17 (7.42%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (5.24%) Photoshop
4 11 (4.80%) Adobe Illustrator
5 9 (3.93%) Microsoft Excel
6 7 (3.06%) Adobe Premiere
6 7 (3.06%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (2.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 3 (1.31%) Elementor
9 2 (0.87%) Trello
10 1 (0.44%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 9 (3.93%) Shopify
2 4 (1.75%) Magento
3 3 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 66 (28.82%) AWS
2 65 (28.38%) Azure
3 47 (20.52%) GitHub
4 27 (11.79%) Google Analytics
5 26 (11.35%) Canva
6 21 (9.17%) Figma
6 21 (9.17%) SaaS
7 13 (5.68%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (5.24%) Google Ads
9 10 (4.37%) Power Platform
10 6 (2.62%) MailChimp
11 5 (2.18%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (2.18%) Power Automate
12 4 (1.75%) GCP
12 4 (1.75%) OneDrive
13 3 (1.31%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (1.31%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (1.31%) Serverless
13 3 (1.31%) Vercel
14 2 (0.87%) Contentful
Communications & Networking
1 48 (20.96%) Internet
2 6 (2.62%) DNS
2 6 (2.62%) Firewall
3 5 (2.18%) VPN
4 2 (0.87%) Intranet
5 1 (0.44%) SSL
5 1 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.30%) MySQL
2 10 (4.37%) Power BI
3 6 (2.62%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.18%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.75%) Metadata
6 3 (1.31%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.87%) phpMyAdmin
8 1 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.44%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (0.44%) Looker
8 1 (0.44%) Redis
Development Applications
1 57 (24.89%) Git
2 4 (1.75%) JIRA
3 2 (0.87%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.44%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.44%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (0.44%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.44%) Gatling
4 1 (0.44%) JMeter
4 1 (0.44%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.44%) Vagrant
4 1 (0.44%) Vite
4 1 (0.44%) webpack
General
1 83 (36.24%) Marketing
2 78 (34.06%) Social Skills
3 50 (21.83%) Multimedia
4 26 (11.35%) Organisational Skills
5 15 (6.55%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (6.11%) Brand Awareness
7 11 (4.80%) Advertising
8 7 (3.06%) Games
8 7 (3.06%) Legal
9 6 (2.62%) Aviation
9 6 (2.62%) Finance
9 6 (2.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.62%) Publishing
10 5 (2.18%) Public Sector
10 5 (2.18%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.44%) Law
11 1 (0.44%) Local Government
11 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.44%) Retail
11 1 (0.44%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 53 (23.14%) Developer
2 47 (20.52%) Administrator
3 43 (18.78%) Trainee
3 43 (18.78%) Trainee Administrator
3 43 (18.78%) Web Administrator
4 20 (8.73%) Designer
4 20 (8.73%) Marketing Executive
4 20 (8.73%) Web Designer
5 19 (8.30%) Senior
6 18 (7.86%) HTML CSS Designer
6 18 (7.86%) Marketing Manager
6 18 (7.86%) WordPress Developer
7 15 (6.55%) Web Developer
8 11 (4.80%) Full-Stack Developer
9 10 (4.37%) Coordinator
9 10 (4.37%) Lead
9 10 (4.37%) Senior Developer
10 6 (2.62%) Product Manager
11 5 (2.18%) PHP Developer
11 5 (2.18%) Website Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (43.23%) CSS
2 98 (42.79%) HTML
3 18 (7.86%) Laravel
4 8 (3.49%) .NET
4 8 (3.49%) CSS3
4 8 (3.49%) REST
5 7 (3.06%) Ajax
5 7 (3.06%) HTML5
5 7 (3.06%) JSON
6 6 (2.62%) Bootstrap
6 6 (2.62%) Node.js
7 5 (2.18%) Express.js
7 5 (2.18%) React
7 5 (2.18%) Redux
8 4 (1.75%) jQuery
8 4 (1.75%) RESTful
9 3 (1.31%) Middleware
9 3 (1.31%) Nuxt
9 3 (1.31%) Ruby on Rails
9 3 (1.31%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 30 (13.10%) Social Media
2 19 (8.30%) Web Conferencing
3 17 (7.42%) Blog
4 13 (5.68%) Onboarding
5 11 (4.80%) Podcast
6 7 (3.06%) Management Information System
6 7 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.18%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.75%) IoT
8 4 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.75%) Video Editing
9 2 (0.87%) Educational Technology
9 2 (0.87%) Learning Management System
9 2 (0.87%) Photography
10 1 (0.44%) Digital Media
10 1 (0.44%) e-Learning
10 1 (0.44%) FMCG
10 1 (0.44%) Graphic Design
10 1 (0.44%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.80%) Linux
2 8 (3.49%) Windows
2 8 (3.49%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.62%) Apple iOS
4 5 (2.18%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.44%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (0.44%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (31.88%) Web Development
2 47 (20.52%) B2B
2 47 (20.52%) Digital Marketing
3 45 (19.65%) Analytics
4 38 (16.59%) AI
4 38 (16.59%) SEO
5 34 (14.85%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (13.54%) Project Management
7 29 (12.66%) User Experience
8 28 (12.23%) CRM
9 25 (10.92%) Content Management
10 24 (10.48%) Agile
11 21 (9.17%) Copywriting
12 20 (8.73%) Collaborative Working
13 19 (8.30%) Business Intelligence
13 19 (8.30%) Responsive Web Design
13 19 (8.30%) Stakeholder Management
14 17 (7.42%) Marketing Strategy
15 16 (6.99%) B2B Marketing
15 16 (6.99%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 77 (33.62%) JavaScript
2 65 (28.38%) PHP
3 50 (21.83%) Python
4 43 (18.78%) R
5 14 (6.11%) SQL
6 9 (3.93%) C#
7 3 (1.31%) Ruby
7 3 (1.31%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.44%) Bash
Qualifications
1 45 (19.65%) Microsoft Certification
2 44 (19.21%) AWS Certification
2 44 (19.21%) Azure Certification
3 43 (18.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 36 (15.72%) Degree
5 7 (3.06%) Master's Degree
6 6 (2.62%) MBA
7 5 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.31%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.87%) Security Cleared
10 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.44%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (11.79%) Accessibility
2 20 (8.73%) QA
3 12 (5.24%) GDPR
4 8 (3.49%) WCAG
5 5 (2.18%) SLA
6 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.44%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.44%) NCSC
6 1 (0.44%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (1.31%) Docker
2 2 (0.87%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.44%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (1.75%) Ansible
1 4 (1.75%) Terraform
2 3 (1.31%) Proxmox
2 3 (1.31%) ZABBIX
3 1 (0.44%) Consul
3 1 (0.44%) Kibana
3 1 (0.44%) Packer
3 1 (0.44%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.44%) Puppet
Vendors
1 69 (30.13%) Microsoft
2 41 (17.90%) Google
3 26 (11.35%) Adobe
4 17 (7.42%) HubSpot
5 9 (3.93%) Pardot
6 8 (3.49%) WooCommerce
7 7 (3.06%) Apple
7 7 (3.06%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.75%) Facebook
8 4 (1.75%) Marketo
8 4 (1.75%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.31%) Ahrefs
9 3 (1.31%) Hotjar
9 3 (1.31%) Instagram
9 3 (1.31%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.87%) Hootsuite
10 2 (0.87%) TOWER Software
11 1 (0.44%) New Relic
11 1 (0.44%) Screaming Frog
11 1 (0.44%) YouTube