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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 515 452 635
Rank change year-on-year -63 +183 -86
Permanent jobs citing WordPress 201 535 346
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.54% 0.34%
As % of the Application Platforms category 4.43% 5.00% 3.00%
Number of salaries quoted 111 498 275
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £30,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £37,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -11.76% +3.66%
75th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £66,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £36,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -2.78% -10.00% -

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 4,541 10,703 11,542
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.20% 10.78% 11.39%
Number of salaries quoted 2,997 7,103 7,762
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £34,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +0.22%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £93,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.88% -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

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 13 May 2025.

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 13 May 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 -121 161 £38,500 +1.32% 213
Work from Home -6 98 £42,500 +6.25% 102
UK excluding London -72 89 £35,000 -2.78% 137
London +50 75 £65,000 +30.00% 111
Midlands +9 25 £35,000 - 16
South East +51 23 £30,000 -24.05% 50
East Midlands +24 17 £35,000 +3.70% 1
North of England -32 16 £33,000 -1.49% 44
East of England -2 12 £35,000 - 18
North West -21 12 £33,000 -1.49% 22
South West +70 10 £35,000 -12.50% 14
West Midlands -4 8 £36,062 +3.03% 15
Yorkshire +30 4 - - 13
Scotland +115 1 £47,500 +5.56% 3
Northern Ireland +41 1 - - 1
Wales +24 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
1 107 (53.23%) CMS
2 20 (9.95%) Drupal
3 7 (3.48%) SharePoint
3 7 (3.48%) Umbraco
4 5 (2.49%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.49%) Joomla!
6 2 (1.00%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.50%) SAS
Applications
1 22 (10.95%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (5.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (5.97%) Photoshop
3 8 (3.98%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 8 (3.98%) Adobe Premiere
4 6 (2.99%) Adobe XD
4 6 (2.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (2.49%) Trello
6 4 (1.99%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (1.99%) Sketch
7 3 (1.49%) Final Cut Pro
8 2 (1.00%) InDesign
8 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (1.00%) MS Visio
8 2 (1.00%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.50%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.50%) InVision
9 1 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (7.96%) Shopify
2 5 (2.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.49%) Magento
4 2 (1.00%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.50%) CiviCRM
5 1 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.50%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 53 (26.37%) Google Analytics
2 18 (8.96%) GitHub
3 15 (7.46%) Slack
4 14 (6.97%) AWS
4 14 (6.97%) Azure
4 14 (6.97%) Canva
5 13 (6.47%) Google Ads
6 12 (5.97%) Zapier
7 10 (4.98%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (4.98%) SaaS
8 8 (3.98%) Figma
9 7 (3.48%) MailChimp
9 7 (3.48%) Stripe
10 5 (2.49%) Entra ID
11 4 (1.99%) Asana
11 4 (1.99%) GCP
11 4 (1.99%) Google Data Studio
11 4 (1.99%) Google Tag Manager
12 3 (1.49%) Google Workspace
12 3 (1.49%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.47%) DNS
2 5 (2.49%) Internet
3 3 (1.49%) LAN
3 3 (1.49%) SSL
3 3 (1.49%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (1.00%) DHCP
4 2 (1.00%) DKIM
4 2 (1.00%) DMARC
4 2 (1.00%) Firewall
4 2 (1.00%) Intranet
4 2 (1.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.00%) VLAN
5 1 (0.50%) Broadband
5 1 (0.50%) SMS
5 1 (0.50%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (16.42%) MySQL
2 7 (3.48%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.99%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.49%) Power BI
5 2 (1.00%) Tableau
6 1 (0.50%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.50%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.50%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 37 (18.41%) Git
2 6 (2.99%) JIRA
3 4 (1.99%) Jasmine
4 3 (1.49%) Mocha
4 3 (1.49%) PHPUnit
5 2 (1.00%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.00%) git-flow
6 1 (0.50%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.50%) Babel
6 1 (0.50%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.50%) GitLab
6 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.50%) Visual Website Optimizer
6 1 (0.50%) webpack
General
1 63 (31.34%) Marketing
2 56 (27.86%) Social Skills
3 20 (9.95%) Organisational Skills
4 12 (5.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (4.48%) Advertising
5 9 (4.48%) Publishing
5 9 (4.48%) Retail
6 8 (3.98%) Legal
7 7 (3.48%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (3.48%) Finance
8 6 (2.99%) Multimedia
8 6 (2.99%) Spanish Language
9 4 (1.99%) French Language
10 3 (1.49%) Automotive
10 3 (1.49%) Banking
10 3 (1.49%) German Language
10 3 (1.49%) Greek Language
10 3 (1.49%) Italian Language
10 3 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.49%) Romanian Language
Job Titles
1 90 (44.78%) Developer
2 28 (13.93%) Web Developer
3 21 (10.45%) PHP Developer
4 15 (7.46%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 13 (6.47%) Full-Stack Developer
5 13 (6.47%) Senior
6 12 (5.97%) Lead
6 12 (5.97%) WordPress Developer
7 10 (4.98%) CMS Developer
7 10 (4.98%) Communications Officer
7 10 (4.98%) IT Support
8 9 (4.48%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
8 9 (4.48%) Lead Developer
8 9 (4.48%) Senior Developer
9 8 (3.98%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
9 8 (3.98%) SEO Manager
9 8 (3.98%) Website Developer
10 7 (3.48%) 1st Line Support
11 6 (2.99%) PHP WordPress Developer
11 6 (2.99%) SEO Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (41.29%) CSS
2 82 (40.80%) HTML
3 34 (16.92%) Laravel
4 26 (12.94%) React
5 13 (6.47%) HTML5
6 12 (5.97%) Django
7 11 (5.47%) AngularJS
7 11 (5.47%) jQuery
8 10 (4.98%) FastAPI
8 10 (4.98%) Node.js
8 10 (4.98%) Vue
9 9 (4.48%) CSS3
10 6 (2.99%) Ajax
10 6 (2.99%) JSON
10 6 (2.99%) Sass
11 5 (2.49%) .NET
11 5 (2.49%) Tailwind CSS
11 5 (2.49%) XML
12 4 (1.99%) REST
12 4 (1.99%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 38 (18.91%) Social Media
2 18 (8.96%) Blog
3 16 (7.96%) Graphic Design
3 16 (7.96%) Mobile App
4 11 (5.47%) Management Information System
5 9 (4.48%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (3.98%) Digital Media
6 8 (3.98%) Learning Management System
6 8 (3.98%) Onboarding
7 7 (3.48%) Video Editing
8 6 (2.99%) Animation
8 6 (2.99%) Driving Licence
9 5 (2.49%) Algorithms
9 5 (2.49%) Augmented Reality
9 5 (2.49%) Motion Graphics
9 5 (2.49%) Photography
9 5 (2.49%) Virtual Reality
10 4 (1.99%) iPhone
11 3 (1.49%) iPad
11 3 (1.49%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.47%) Windows
2 7 (3.48%) Linux
3 3 (1.49%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.00%) Mac OS X
4 2 (1.00%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.50%) Android
5 1 (0.50%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (38.31%) SEO
2 62 (30.85%) Web Development
3 59 (29.35%) Analytics
4 55 (27.36%) User Experience
5 44 (21.89%) Content Management
6 38 (18.91%) E-Commerce
7 37 (18.41%) Project Management
8 36 (17.91%) Problem-Solving
9 31 (15.42%) Front End Development
10 29 (14.43%) Agile
11 28 (13.93%) Digital Marketing
12 27 (13.43%) Full-Stack Development
13 26 (12.94%) Continuous Improvement
14 24 (11.94%) Digital Strategy
15 22 (10.95%) Collaborative Working
16 19 (9.45%) OO
16 19 (9.45%) Pay per click
17 18 (8.96%) Marketing Strategy
17 18 (8.96%) Responsive Web Design
18 17 (8.46%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 82 (40.80%) PHP
2 68 (33.83%) JavaScript
3 27 (13.43%) Python
4 16 (7.96%) Java
5 6 (2.99%) C#
6 5 (2.49%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.99%) SQL
8 2 (1.00%) C++
8 2 (1.00%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.50%) Dart
Qualifications
1 35 (17.41%) Degree
2 16 (7.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (2.99%) DBS Check
4 5 (2.49%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.50%) GISF
5 1 (0.50%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (20.90%) Accessibility
2 14 (6.97%) WCAG
3 12 (5.97%) GDPR
4 11 (5.47%) QA
5 2 (1.00%) ISO 9001
5 2 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 6 (2.99%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.49%) Docker
3 3 (1.49%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.00%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.50%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (1.99%) Terraform
2 2 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.50%) cPanel
3 1 (0.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 61 (30.35%) Google
2 42 (20.90%) Microsoft
3 23 (11.44%) Adobe
4 21 (10.45%) Ahrefs
5 20 (9.95%) WooCommerce
6 14 (6.97%) Instagram
7 12 (5.97%) Facebook
8 11 (5.47%) Cisco
8 11 (5.47%) Meraki
8 11 (5.47%) Salesforce
8 11 (5.47%) YouTube
9 10 (4.98%) Screaming Frog
10 8 (3.98%) Twitter
11 6 (2.99%) Apple
12 5 (2.49%) Hotjar
12 5 (2.49%) HubSpot
13 4 (1.99%) Hootsuite
13 4 (1.99%) SAP
14 3 (1.49%) dotdigital
14 3 (1.49%) Zscaler