Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Skill Sets
Period
to 19 October 2021

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 19 October 2021 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

WordPress
UK > Work from Home
6 months to
19 Oct 2021		 Same period 2020 Same period 2019
Rank 270 194 229
Rank change year-on-year -76 +35 -42
Permanent jobs citing WordPress 285 64 68
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.03% 1.03% 0.89%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.11% 6.94% 6.25%
Number of salaries quoted 213 60 66
10th Percentile £30,095 £27,375 £27,625
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £38,750
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +16.13% +10.71%
75th Percentile £51,000 £52,500 £50,938
90th Percentile £60,000 £68,875 £65,000
UK median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year - +6.67% +7.14%

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 WFH option and a requirement for application platform skills.

All Application Platform Skills
Work from Home
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 4,011 922 1,088
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 14.56% 14.89% 14.26%
Number of salaries quoted 2,734 818 929
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £54,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.99% -1.36% +4.76%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £79,125 £86,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

WordPress
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing WordPress as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

WordPress trend for jobs with a WFH option

WordPress
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing WordPress.

WordPress salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

WordPress
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing WordPress over the 6 months to 19 October 2021.

WordPress salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

For the 6 months to 19 October 2021, WordPress job roles required the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with a WFH option and a requirement for WordPress.

1 198 (69.47%) JavaScript
2 173 (60.70%) HTML
3 159 (55.79%) CSS
4 156 (54.74%) PHP
5 116 (40.70%) Web Development
6 104 (36.49%) User Experience
7 97 (34.04%) Git (software)
8 88 (30.88%) Agile Software Development
9 86 (30.18%) CMS
10 71 (24.91%) Social Skills
11 70 (24.56%) React
12 65 (22.81%) Laravel
13 61 (21.40%) Front End Development
14 59 (20.70%) CSS3
15 58 (20.35%) Sass
16 55 (19.30%) HTML5
17 54 (18.95%) SEO
18 53 (18.60%) Unit Testing
18 53 (18.60%) Marketing
19 52 (18.25%) Full Stack Development
20 50 (17.54%) WooCommerce
21 48 (16.84%) Android
22 47 (16.49%) Apple iOS
22 47 (16.49%) E-Commerce
23 42 (14.74%) Linux
23 42 (14.74%) AWS
23 42 (14.74%) RESTful
24 40 (14.04%) MySQL
25 39 (13.68%) MVC
26 38 (13.33%) jQuery

WordPress
Co-occurring IT Skills with a WFH Option by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 86 (30.18%) CMS
2 35 (12.28%) Apache
3 20 (7.02%) Drupal
4 18 (6.32%) Apache Solr
5 17 (5.96%) MODX
5 17 (5.96%) Umbraco
6 14 (4.91%) Confluence
6 14 (4.91%) Sitecore CMS
7 13 (4.56%) SharePoint
8 12 (4.21%) IIS
9 7 (2.46%) EPiServer
10 5 (1.75%) Joomla!
10 5 (1.75%) nginx
11 4 (1.40%) Kentico
12 3 (1.05%) DNN
12 3 (1.05%) Gunicorn
13 2 (0.70%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 37 (12.98%) Figma
2 9 (3.16%) Sketch
3 7 (2.46%) Adobe Illustrator
4 6 (2.11%) Photoshop
5 4 (1.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.70%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.70%) Weka
7 1 (0.35%) MadCap Flare
7 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 23 (8.07%) Magento
2 12 (4.21%) Shopify
3 11 (3.86%) Sage 200
4 3 (1.05%) SAP Hybris
5 2 (0.70%) WebTrends
6 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.35%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.35%) OpenCart
Cloud Services
1 42 (14.74%) AWS
2 28 (9.82%) SaaS
3 23 (8.07%) GCP
4 22 (7.72%) Azure
5 18 (6.32%) Firebase
5 18 (6.32%) Rackspace Cloud
6 16 (5.61%) PaaS
7 15 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
8 12 (4.21%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (3.86%) Amazon S3
9 11 (3.86%) IaaS
9 11 (3.86%) Mimecast
9 11 (3.86%) OneDrive
10 9 (3.16%) CloudFront
10 9 (3.16%) GitHub
11 8 (2.81%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 8 (2.81%) npm
12 7 (2.46%) Google Analytics
13 6 (2.11%) Route 53
14 5 (1.75%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (12.28%) Internet
2 29 (10.18%) DNS
3 23 (8.07%) SSL
4 13 (4.56%) VoIP
5 12 (4.21%) DHCP
5 12 (4.21%) Firewall
5 12 (4.21%) IPsec
5 12 (4.21%) TCP/IP
5 12 (4.21%) VLAN
5 12 (4.21%) VPN
6 10 (3.51%) Bluetooth
6 10 (3.51%) IPv4
6 10 (3.51%) IPv6
7 9 (3.16%) Intranet
8 6 (2.11%) HTTP
9 1 (0.35%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (14.04%) MySQL
2 26 (9.12%) NoSQL
3 23 (8.07%) SQL Server
4 14 (4.91%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (3.86%) MariaDB
6 5 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.05%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.05%) Power BI
7 3 (1.05%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.70%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (0.70%) Big Data
8 2 (0.70%) Data Mining
8 2 (0.70%) HBase
8 2 (0.70%) Tableau
9 1 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 97 (34.04%) Git (software)
2 16 (5.61%) JIRA
2 16 (5.61%) webpack
3 14 (4.91%) Jenkins
4 13 (4.56%) Visual Studio
5 4 (1.40%) Mercurial
5 4 (1.40%) Selenium
5 4 (1.40%) Subversion
6 3 (1.05%) gulp
7 2 (0.70%) Grunt
7 2 (0.70%) Storybook
8 1 (0.35%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.35%) PHPUnit
General
1 71 (24.91%) Social Skills
2 53 (18.60%) Marketing
3 12 (4.21%) Pharmaceutical
4 11 (3.86%) Finance
5 8 (2.81%) Games
5 8 (2.81%) Retail
6 6 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (0.70%) Brand Awareness
7 2 (0.70%) Publishing
8 1 (0.35%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.35%) Electronics
8 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.35%) Multimedia
8 1 (0.35%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 233 (81.75%) Developer
2 74 (25.96%) WordPress Developer
3 63 (22.11%) PHP Developer
3 63 (22.11%) Senior Developer
4 58 (20.35%) Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 49 (17.19%) Web Developer
6 23 (8.07%) Full Stack Developer
7 18 (6.32%) CMS Developer
8 14 (4.91%) Database Developer
8 14 (4.91%) Junior
8 14 (4.91%) Senior Web Developer
9 13 (4.56%) Full Stack Web Developer
9 13 (4.56%) Junior Developer
10 12 (4.21%) Backend Developer
10 12 (4.21%) DevOps Engineer
10 12 (4.21%) Linux DevOps Engineer
10 12 (4.21%) Linux Engineer
10 12 (4.21%) Linux/Unix DevOps
11 11 (3.86%) IT Manager
12 10 (3.51%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (60.70%) HTML
2 159 (55.79%) CSS
3 70 (24.56%) React
4 65 (22.81%) Laravel
5 59 (20.70%) CSS3
6 58 (20.35%) Sass
7 55 (19.30%) HTML5
8 42 (14.74%) RESTful
9 38 (13.33%) jQuery
10 29 (10.18%) React Native
11 22 (7.72%) Next.js
11 22 (7.72%) Node.js
12 21 (7.37%) Vue.js
13 19 (6.67%) GatsbyJS
13 19 (6.67%) Symfony
14 18 (6.32%) JSON
14 18 (6.32%) XML
15 16 (5.61%) REST
16 14 (4.91%) LAMP
17 12 (4.21%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 104 (36.49%) User Experience
2 34 (11.93%) Mobile App
3 16 (5.61%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (5.26%) Renewable Energy
5 11 (3.86%) Smartphone
6 10 (3.51%) Data Centre
7 8 (2.81%) Algorithms
7 8 (2.81%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (2.11%) BYOD
8 6 (2.11%) Social Media
9 5 (1.75%) Legacy Applications
9 5 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.40%) Blog
10 4 (1.40%) e-Learning
11 3 (1.05%) Augmented Reality
12 2 (0.70%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.70%) Video Conferencing
13 1 (0.35%) Enterprise Software
13 1 (0.35%) Graphic Design
13 1 (0.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 48 (16.84%) Android
2 47 (16.49%) Apple iOS
3 42 (14.74%) Linux
4 16 (5.61%) Windows
5 14 (4.91%) Windows Server
6 12 (4.21%) Windows 10
7 11 (3.86%) Windows Server 2012
7 11 (3.86%) Windows Server 2019
8 10 (3.51%) CentOS
8 10 (3.51%) Fedora
9 5 (1.75%) Ubuntu
10 3 (1.05%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (40.70%) Web Development
2 88 (30.88%) Agile Software Development
3 61 (21.40%) Front End Development
4 54 (18.95%) SEO
5 53 (18.60%) Unit Testing
6 52 (18.25%) Full Stack Development
7 47 (16.49%) E-Commerce
8 39 (13.68%) MVC
9 37 (12.98%) OO
10 36 (12.63%) Problem-Solving
11 34 (11.93%) Software Engineering
12 33 (11.58%) TDD
12 33 (11.58%) Wireframes
13 32 (11.23%) DevOps
14 31 (10.88%) Time Management
15 28 (9.82%) Project Management
16 27 (9.47%) Content Management
16 27 (9.47%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
16 27 (9.47%) Web Design
17 23 (8.07%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 198 (69.47%) JavaScript
2 156 (54.74%) PHP
3 25 (8.77%) SQL
4 21 (7.37%) Python
5 17 (5.96%) TypeScript
6 15 (5.26%) Shell Script
7 14 (4.91%) Bash Shell
8 11 (3.86%) C#
8 11 (3.86%) PowerShell
9 10 (3.51%) ES6
10 3 (1.05%) PHP 5
10 3 (1.05%) PHP 7
10 3 (1.05%) Ruby
11 2 (0.70%) C++
11 2 (0.70%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.70%) R
11 2 (0.70%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.35%) VB
12 1 (0.35%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.35%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 13 (4.56%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (1.75%) Degree
3 2 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.70%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.35%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (10.18%) Accessibility
2 15 (5.26%) QA
3 11 (3.86%) WCAG
4 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 26 (9.12%) Docker
2 12 (4.21%) Active Directory
2 12 (4.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (3.86%) vSphere
4 1 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 12 (4.21%) Puppet
2 11 (3.86%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (3.51%) HAProxy
3 10 (3.51%) Icinga
4 1 (0.35%) cPanel
4 1 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 50 (17.54%) WooCommerce
2 33 (11.58%) Google
3 24 (8.42%) Adobe
4 21 (7.37%) Apple
5 18 (6.32%) Rackspace
5 18 (6.32%) Sage
6 17 (5.96%) Microsoft
7 14 (4.91%) Sitecore
8 12 (4.21%) VMware
9 11 (3.86%) Palo Alto
9 11 (3.86%) Sophos
10 8 (2.81%) Zend
11 5 (1.75%) SAP
12 3 (1.05%) Atlassian
12 3 (1.05%) hybris
13 2 (0.70%) comScore
13 2 (0.70%) Facebook
13 2 (0.70%) Hootsuite
14 1 (0.35%) HubSpot
14 1 (0.35%) Meraki