WordPress
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for WordPress skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited WordPress over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 570 729 405
Rank change year-on-year +159 -324 -21
Permanent jobs citing WordPress 160 358 1,053
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.29% 0.82%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.08% 2.48% 6.58%
Number of salaries quoted 153 299 780
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +25.00% -
75th Percentile £56,000 £55,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £65,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £47,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year -15.79% +26.67% +1.27%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

WordPress is in the Application Platforms category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 5,189 14,436 16,006
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.79% 11.75% 12.49%
Number of salaries quoted 3,931 8,523 10,326
10th Percentile £31,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £41,250 £37,883
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,875 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,290 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,565 £50,000 £45,369
% change year-on-year -0.87% +10.21% +0.82%

WordPress
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for WordPress in the UK

WordPress
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 7 December 2023.

Salary histogram for WordPress in the UK

WordPress
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 within the UK over the 6 months to 7 December 2023. 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 +165 141 £45,000 -10.00% 172
Work from Home +102 95 £45,000 -10.00% 93
UK excluding London +125 83 £40,000 -15.79% 139
London +220 61 £52,500 - 63
South East +112 29 £37,500 -25.00% 37
North of England +114 19 £33,750 -32.50% 34
South West +57 13 £43,750 +9.38% 11
North West +112 12 £23,850 -52.30% 17
West Midlands +114 10 £40,000 -11.11% 19
Midlands +108 10 £40,000 -11.11% 33
Yorkshire +84 6 £35,000 -20.90% 11
Wales +18 6 £50,000 +42.86% 13
East of England +119 3 £45,000 -18.18% 11
Scotland +21 2 £50,000 - 6
North East +40 1 £40,000 -20.00% 8
Northern Ireland +35 1 £36,000 -33.02% 1

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 39 (24.38%) CMS
2 12 (7.50%) Drupal
3 10 (6.25%) Confluence
4 8 (5.00%) Joomla!
5 4 (2.50%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.88%) Apache
7 2 (1.25%) IIS
7 2 (1.25%) MODX
7 2 (1.25%) Moodle
7 2 (1.25%) MS Exchange
7 2 (1.25%) Site Server
7 2 (1.25%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.63%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.63%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (2.50%) Photoshop
2 3 (1.88%) Adobe XD
3 2 (1.25%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.63%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.63%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (0.63%) InDesign
4 1 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 18 (11.25%) Magento
2 6 (3.75%) Shopify
3 4 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (2.50%) Dynamics GP
4 2 (1.25%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.63%) osCommerce
Cloud Services
1 21 (13.13%) AWS
2 15 (9.38%) Google Analytics
3 14 (8.75%) Azure
4 10 (6.25%) GitHub
5 9 (5.63%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (5.63%) Figma
5 9 (5.63%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (5.00%) Canva
7 7 (4.38%) Amazon S3
7 7 (4.38%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (4.38%) Serverless
8 6 (3.75%) Power Platform
9 5 (3.13%) GCP
9 5 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (3.13%) Google Ads
9 5 (3.13%) MailChimp
9 5 (3.13%) Power Automate
10 4 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (2.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (2.50%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.25%) Internet
2 7 (4.38%) PPP
3 5 (3.13%) DNS
4 4 (2.50%) Wireless
5 2 (1.25%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (1.25%) Firewall
5 2 (1.25%) IP Telephony
5 2 (1.25%) iSCSI
5 2 (1.25%) NAS
5 2 (1.25%) SAN
5 2 (1.25%) VPN
6 1 (0.63%) HTTP
6 1 (0.63%) Intranet
6 1 (0.63%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (23.13%) MySQL
2 6 (3.75%) Power BI
3 5 (3.13%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.50%) Data Lake
4 4 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.88%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.63%) Looker
6 1 (0.63%) Mixpanel
6 1 (0.63%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.63%) Redis
6 1 (0.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 29 (18.13%) Git
2 14 (8.75%) JIRA
3 12 (7.50%) webpack
4 4 (2.50%) Browser DevTools
4 4 (2.50%) CircleCI
4 4 (2.50%) Firebug
4 4 (2.50%) TeamCity
4 4 (2.50%) Visual Studio
5 3 (1.88%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.25%) GitLab
6 2 (1.25%) gulp
6 2 (1.25%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.63%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.63%) Grunt
7 1 (0.63%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.63%) JMeter
7 1 (0.63%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 33 (20.63%) Social Skills
2 28 (17.50%) Marketing
3 13 (8.13%) Manufacturing
4 11 (6.88%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.00%) Finance
6 6 (3.75%) Publishing
6 6 (3.75%) Retail
7 4 (2.50%) Games
8 3 (1.88%) Advertising
8 3 (1.88%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.25%) Electronics
9 2 (1.25%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.63%) Banking
10 1 (0.63%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.63%) Legal
10 1 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 115 (71.88%) Developer
2 45 (28.13%) WordPress Developer
3 31 (19.38%) Web Developer
4 27 (16.88%) PHP Developer
5 22 (13.75%) Senior
6 20 (12.50%) Senior Developer
7 17 (10.63%) Full Stack Developer
8 13 (8.13%) Senior WordPress Developer
9 11 (6.88%) Magento Developer
10 10 (6.25%) Designer
11 8 (5.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 8 (5.00%) JavaScript Developer
12 7 (4.38%) Lead
12 7 (4.38%) UX Designer
13 6 (3.75%) Joomla! Developer
13 6 (3.75%) PHP Joomla! Developer
13 6 (3.75%) Senior PHP Developer
14 5 (3.13%) Digital Executive
14 5 (3.13%) Full Stack JavaScript Developer
15 4 (2.50%) HTML CSS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (48.75%) CSS
2 76 (47.50%) HTML
3 34 (21.25%) Laravel
4 33 (20.63%) jQuery
5 20 (12.50%) React
6 19 (11.88%) Sass
7 17 (10.63%) HTML5
8 11 (6.88%) LESS
9 10 (6.25%) AngularJS
9 10 (6.25%) Symfony
10 9 (5.63%) CSS3
10 9 (5.63%) Node.js
10 9 (5.63%) Vue
11 8 (5.00%) Tailwind CSS
12 7 (4.38%) .NET
12 7 (4.38%) LAMP
12 7 (4.38%) Twig
12 7 (4.38%) Web Services
13 6 (3.75%) JSON
14 4 (2.50%) RSS
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.38%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (3.75%) Legacy Code
2 6 (3.75%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (3.75%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (3.75%) Mobile App
3 5 (3.13%) Social Media
4 4 (2.50%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.50%) Educational Technology
5 3 (1.88%) Graphic Design
6 2 (1.25%) Blog
6 2 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.25%) Handset
6 2 (1.25%) iPhone
6 2 (1.25%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.25%) Replication
6 2 (1.25%) VLE
7 1 (0.63%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.63%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.63%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.63%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.88%) Linux
2 7 (4.38%) Windows
3 5 (3.13%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.50%) Android
5 2 (1.25%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.25%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.25%) VMS
5 2 (1.25%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (1.25%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.63%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (26.25%) Web Development
2 37 (23.13%) User Experience
3 34 (21.25%) Agile
4 31 (19.38%) E-Commerce
5 28 (17.50%) Full Stack Development
6 24 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (11.88%) UX Design
8 17 (10.63%) Analytics
9 15 (9.38%) CRM
10 14 (8.75%) Front End Development
11 13 (8.13%) Clean Code
11 13 (8.13%) Content Management
12 12 (7.50%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (7.50%) Digital Marketing
12 12 (7.50%) Migration
12 12 (7.50%) SEO
13 10 (6.25%) Computer Science
13 10 (6.25%) Pair Programming
13 10 (6.25%) Project Management
13 10 (6.25%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 101 (63.13%) PHP
2 86 (53.75%) JavaScript
3 23 (14.38%) SQL
4 7 (4.38%) Python
4 7 (4.38%) TypeScript
5 6 (3.75%) Bash
6 3 (1.88%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.25%) C#
7 2 (1.25%) Java
7 2 (1.25%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (9.38%) Degree
2 8 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.88%) DBS Check
3 3 (1.88%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.25%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.63%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.63%) Accessibility
2 8 (5.00%) QA
3 2 (1.25%) GDPR
3 2 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.25%) WCAG
4 1 (0.63%) NCSC
4 1 (0.63%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 6 (3.75%) Docker
2 2 (1.25%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.25%) Varnish
2 2 (1.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (2.50%) Kibana
3 3 (1.88%) Terraform
4 2 (1.25%) cPanel
4 2 (1.25%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.25%) SCCM
5 1 (0.63%) Plesk
Vendors
1 21 (13.13%) Google
2 16 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 9 (5.63%) Salesforce
3 9 (5.63%) WooCommerce
4 8 (5.00%) Adobe
4 8 (5.00%) Hotjar
5 4 (2.50%) Apple
5 4 (2.50%) DocuSign
5 4 (2.50%) New Relic
6 2 (1.25%) Aruba
6 2 (1.25%) Facebook
6 2 (1.25%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.25%) ProCurve
6 2 (1.25%) SAP
6 2 (1.25%) Synology
6 2 (1.25%) Veeam
6 2 (1.25%) VMware
6 2 (1.25%) Zend
6 2 (1.25%) Zerto
7 1 (0.63%) Xamarin