WordPress Jobs

WordPress
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 2 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 482 425 710
Rank change year-on-year -57 +285 -168
Permanent jobs citing WordPress 190 514 317
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.38% 0.55% 0.29%
As % of the Application Platforms category 4.38% 5.11% 2.43%
Number of salaries quoted 108 482 242
10th Percentile £31,000 £25,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £36,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,500 £39,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - -12.22% +9.76%
75th Percentile £53,453 £53,750 £56,250
90th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £71,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £36,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -2.78% -15.29% +6.25%

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 4,333 10,068 13,037
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.57% 10.87% 11.79%
Number of salaries quoted 3,044 6,934 8,375
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £34,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +3.77%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,628 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +7.36% -10.53% +5.56%

WordPress
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing WordPress as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for WordPress in the UK

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Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for WordPress in the UK

WordPress
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing WordPress over the 6 months to 2 April 2025.

Salary histogram for WordPress in the UK

WordPress
Top 17 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 2 April 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
England -99 158 £37,250 -6.88% 166
Work from Home +40 92 £42,500 +6.25% 80
UK excluding London -59 87 £35,000 -2.78% 97
London +26 74 £67,500 +25.00% 80
Midlands +17 30 £35,000 +10.24% 28
East Midlands +54 23 £35,000 +12.90% 1
North of England +13 17 £33,000 -1.49% 27
South East +47 13 £45,000 +12.50% 27
South West +53 12 £42,500 +6.25% 8
East of England +16 12 £35,000 - 7
North West +7 12 £33,000 -1.49% 11
West Midlands -18 7 £34,624 -1.07% 27
Yorkshire +30 4 - - 14
Scotland +114 1 £47,500 +5.56% 1
North East +38 1 £25,000 -41.18% 4
Northern Ireland +37 1 - - 1
Wales +27 1 £45,000 +28.57%

WordPress
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
1 104 (54.74%) CMS
2 16 (8.42%) Drupal
3 7 (3.68%) SharePoint
4 6 (3.16%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (2.11%) Joomla!
5 4 (2.11%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.53%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.53%) SAS
Applications
1 16 (8.42%) Microsoft Office
1 16 (8.42%) Photoshop
2 12 (6.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (3.68%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 6 (3.16%) Adobe Premiere
4 6 (3.16%) Adobe XD
4 6 (3.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (2.63%) InDesign
5 5 (2.63%) Trello
6 4 (2.11%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (2.11%) Sketch
7 3 (1.58%) SOLIDWORKS
8 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (1.05%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.53%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.53%) InVision
9 1 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 20 (10.53%) Shopify
2 3 (1.58%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.05%) Raiser’s Edge
4 1 (0.53%) CiviCRM
4 1 (0.53%) Magento
4 1 (0.53%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 49 (25.79%) Google Analytics
2 21 (11.05%) GitHub
3 20 (10.53%) Slack
4 17 (8.95%) Zapier
5 15 (7.89%) AWS
6 13 (6.84%) Google Ads
7 12 (6.32%) Azure
7 12 (6.32%) Canva
8 11 (5.79%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (5.26%) SaaS
10 8 (4.21%) Figma
11 7 (3.68%) Stripe
12 6 (3.16%) Entra ID
12 6 (3.16%) MailChimp
13 4 (2.11%) Asana
13 4 (2.11%) GCP
13 4 (2.11%) Google Data Studio
14 3 (1.58%) Amazon EC2
14 3 (1.58%) Azure Sentinel
14 3 (1.58%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.21%) DNS
2 6 (3.16%) Internet
3 3 (1.58%) DHCP
3 3 (1.58%) DKIM
3 3 (1.58%) DMARC
3 3 (1.58%) Firewall
3 3 (1.58%) LAN
3 3 (1.58%) SSL
3 3 (1.58%) VLAN
3 3 (1.58%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (1.05%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.53%) Broadband
5 1 (0.53%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (22.11%) MySQL
2 6 (3.16%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.11%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.58%) Power BI
5 2 (1.05%) Tableau
6 1 (0.53%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.53%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.53%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 41 (21.58%) Git
2 6 (3.16%) JIRA
3 3 (1.58%) Jasmine
3 3 (1.58%) Mocha
3 3 (1.58%) PHPUnit
4 2 (1.05%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.05%) git-flow
5 1 (0.53%) Android Studio
5 1 (0.53%) GitLab
5 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 59 (31.05%) Marketing
2 55 (28.95%) Social Skills
3 19 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
4 11 (5.79%) Multimedia
5 10 (5.26%) Advertising
5 10 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (5.26%) Publishing
6 9 (4.74%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (3.16%) Spanish Language
8 4 (2.11%) Banking
8 4 (2.11%) Finance
8 4 (2.11%) French Language
9 3 (1.58%) Automotive
9 3 (1.58%) German Language
9 3 (1.58%) Greek Language
9 3 (1.58%) Italian Language
9 3 (1.58%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.58%) Retail
9 3 (1.58%) Romanian Language
10 1 (0.53%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 99 (52.11%) Developer
2 36 (18.95%) Web Developer
3 22 (11.58%) PHP Developer
4 15 (7.89%) Senior
5 14 (7.37%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 12 (6.32%) Lead
7 11 (5.79%) Full-Stack Developer
7 11 (5.79%) Lead Developer
7 11 (5.79%) Senior Developer
7 11 (5.79%) WordPress Developer
8 9 (4.74%) CMS Developer
8 9 (4.74%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
9 8 (4.21%) Communications Officer
9 8 (4.21%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
9 8 (4.21%) Website Developer
10 7 (3.68%) SEO Manager
11 6 (3.16%) Head of Digital
11 6 (3.16%) Paid Search Specialist
11 6 (3.16%) SEO Specialist
12 5 (2.63%) PHP WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (44.74%) HTML
2 82 (43.16%) CSS
3 43 (22.63%) Laravel
4 25 (13.16%) React
5 17 (8.95%) HTML5
6 12 (6.32%) CSS3
7 11 (5.79%) Django
8 10 (5.26%) AngularJS
8 10 (5.26%) Node.js
8 10 (5.26%) Vue
9 9 (4.74%) Ajax
9 9 (4.74%) FastAPI
9 9 (4.74%) jQuery
9 9 (4.74%) JSON
10 6 (3.16%) Sass
11 5 (2.63%) Tailwind CSS
11 5 (2.63%) XML
12 4 (2.11%) Bootstrap
12 4 (2.11%) REST
12 4 (2.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 41 (21.58%) Social Media
2 21 (11.05%) Blog
3 18 (9.47%) Mobile App
4 11 (5.79%) Graphic Design
5 9 (4.74%) Management Information System
5 9 (4.74%) Onboarding
6 8 (4.21%) Learning Management System
6 8 (4.21%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (3.16%) Animation
7 6 (3.16%) Photography
8 5 (2.63%) Algorithms
8 5 (2.63%) Augmented Reality
8 5 (2.63%) Motion Graphics
8 5 (2.63%) Virtual Reality
9 4 (2.11%) Digital Media
9 4 (2.11%) iPhone
10 3 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.58%) iPad
10 3 (1.58%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.21%) Linux
1 8 (4.21%) Windows
2 3 (1.58%) Mac OS
2 3 (1.58%) Mac OS X
2 3 (1.58%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.53%) Android
3 1 (0.53%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.53%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (40.00%) SEO
2 73 (38.42%) Web Development
3 55 (28.95%) User Experience
4 54 (28.42%) Analytics
5 48 (25.26%) Content Management
6 42 (22.11%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (20.53%) Project Management
8 37 (19.47%) E-Commerce
9 35 (18.42%) Front End Development
10 30 (15.79%) Agile
10 30 (15.79%) Full-Stack Development
11 25 (13.16%) Continuous Improvement
12 22 (11.58%) Computer Science
12 22 (11.58%) Responsive Web Design
13 21 (11.05%) Collaborative Working
13 21 (11.05%) UX Design
14 19 (10.00%) Digital Marketing
14 19 (10.00%) Digital Strategy
14 19 (10.00%) OO
15 18 (9.47%) Email Marketing
Programming Languages
1 84 (44.21%) PHP
2 63 (33.16%) JavaScript
3 31 (16.32%) Python
4 21 (11.05%) Java
5 6 (3.16%) PowerShell
6 5 (2.63%) C#
6 5 (2.63%) SQL
7 2 (1.05%) C++
8 1 (0.53%) Dart
8 1 (0.53%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 35 (18.42%) Degree
2 21 (11.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (3.16%) DBS Check
3 6 (3.16%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.53%) GISF
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (18.42%) Accessibility
2 13 (6.84%) WCAG
3 12 (6.32%) QA
4 5 (2.63%) GDPR
5 2 (1.05%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.05%) ISO 9001
5 2 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (3.68%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.63%) Docker
3 3 (1.58%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.58%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.53%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
1 3 (1.58%) Terraform
2 1 (0.53%) cPanel
Vendors
1 58 (30.53%) Google
2 41 (21.58%) Microsoft
3 22 (11.58%) Adobe
4 21 (11.05%) WooCommerce
5 14 (7.37%) Instagram
6 13 (6.84%) Ahrefs
7 12 (6.32%) Facebook
8 11 (5.79%) YouTube
9 9 (4.74%) Twitter
10 8 (4.21%) dotdigital
10 8 (4.21%) Salesforce
11 7 (3.68%) Hootsuite
11 7 (3.68%) Screaming Frog
12 6 (3.16%) Apple
12 6 (3.16%) Meraki
13 5 (2.63%) Cisco
14 4 (2.11%) HubSpot
14 4 (2.11%) SAP
15 3 (1.58%) Concur
15 3 (1.58%) DocuSign