Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Skill Sets
Period
to 23 January 2022

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 23 January 2022 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

WordPress
UK > Work from Home
6 months to
23 Jan 2022		 Same period 2021 Same period 2020
Rank 321 222 235
Rank change year-on-year -99 +13 -7
Permanent jobs citing WordPress 254 122 52
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.87% 1.13% 0.71%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.32% 7.23% 4.95%
Number of salaries quoted 221 109 49
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,250 £29,100
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% - +21.43%
75th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £50,000
90th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £67,750
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 4,016 1,687 1,050
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.82% 15.61% 14.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2,720 1,438 904
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £80,000 £85,000
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 23 January 2022.

WordPress salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

For the 6 months to 23 January 2022, 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.

1 175 (68.90%) JavaScript
2 166 (65.35%) PHP
3 132 (51.97%) Web Development
4 128 (50.39%) HTML
5 111 (43.70%) CSS
6 88 (34.65%) Laravel
7 81 (31.89%) Full Stack Development
8 78 (30.71%) Agile Software Development
9 77 (30.31%) React
10 67 (26.38%) User Experience
11 62 (24.41%) Git (software)
12 57 (22.44%) Front End Development
13 56 (22.05%) CMS
14 52 (20.47%) Marketing
15 47 (18.50%) WooCommerce
16 46 (18.11%) JSON
16 46 (18.11%) XML
17 41 (16.14%) CSS3
17 41 (16.14%) HTML5
18 40 (15.75%) OO
18 40 (15.75%) E-Commerce
19 39 (15.35%) Google
20 38 (14.96%) Unit Testing
21 37 (14.57%) SEO
21 37 (14.57%) MVC
21 37 (14.57%) MySQL
22 33 (12.99%) RESTful
23 32 (12.60%) React Native
24 31 (12.20%) UX Design
24 31 (12.20%) Sass

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 56 (22.05%) CMS
2 22 (8.66%) Apache
3 20 (7.87%) Drupal
4 14 (5.51%) Umbraco
5 12 (4.72%) EPiServer
5 12 (4.72%) Joomla!
6 11 (4.33%) SharePoint
7 10 (3.94%) Apache Solr
8 8 (3.15%) IIS
9 6 (2.36%) Confluence
9 6 (2.36%) MODX
9 6 (2.36%) Sitecore CMS
10 4 (1.57%) Headless CMS
10 4 (1.57%) Kentico
11 3 (1.18%) DNN
12 2 (0.79%) Office Communications Server
12 2 (0.79%) PrestaShop
13 1 (0.39%) nginx
Applications
1 14 (5.51%) Adobe Illustrator
2 7 (2.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.57%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 4 (1.57%) Sketch
4 3 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.79%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.39%) MadCap Flare
Business Applications
1 16 (6.30%) Magento
2 6 (2.36%) Sage 200
3 3 (1.18%) Shopify
4 1 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.39%) OpenCart
Cloud Services
1 24 (9.45%) Figma
2 18 (7.09%) AWS
2 18 (7.09%) SaaS
3 15 (5.91%) GCP
4 13 (5.12%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (4.72%) Azure
5 12 (4.72%) Google Analytics
6 10 (3.94%) Firebase
6 10 (3.94%) GitHub
6 10 (3.94%) Rackspace Cloud
7 6 (2.36%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 6 (2.36%) IaaS
7 6 (2.36%) Mimecast
7 6 (2.36%) OneDrive
7 6 (2.36%) PaaS
8 5 (1.97%) Azure Active Directory
8 5 (1.97%) Power Automate
8 5 (1.97%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (1.18%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.91%) Internet
2 14 (5.51%) DNS
2 14 (5.51%) SSL
3 8 (3.15%) DHCP
3 8 (3.15%) Firewall
3 8 (3.15%) IPsec
3 8 (3.15%) TCP/IP
3 8 (3.15%) VLAN
3 8 (3.15%) VoIP
3 8 (3.15%) VPN
4 7 (2.76%) Intranet
4 7 (2.76%) IPv4
4 7 (2.76%) IPv6
5 2 (0.79%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.39%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (14.57%) MySQL
2 22 (8.66%) SQL Server
3 15 (5.91%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (3.94%) MariaDB
4 10 (3.94%) NoSQL
5 8 (3.15%) RDBMS
5 8 (3.15%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.97%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 62 (24.41%) Git (software)
2 12 (4.72%) JIRA
3 11 (4.33%) webpack
4 10 (3.94%) Jenkins
5 6 (2.36%) Cypress.io
5 6 (2.36%) Visual Studio
6 5 (1.97%) GitLab
6 5 (1.97%) Postman
7 3 (1.18%) PHPUnit
8 2 (0.79%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.79%) gulp
8 2 (0.79%) Mercurial
8 2 (0.79%) Selenium
8 2 (0.79%) Subversion
8 2 (0.79%) WiX
9 1 (0.39%) Babel
9 1 (0.39%) Grunt
9 1 (0.39%) PostCSS
9 1 (0.39%) Storybook
General
1 52 (20.47%) Marketing
2 29 (11.42%) Social Skills
3 8 (3.15%) Retail
4 7 (2.76%) Pharmaceutical
5 6 (2.36%) Games
5 6 (2.36%) Manufacturing
6 5 (1.97%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (1.97%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.18%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.18%) Publishing
9 2 (0.79%) Automotive
10 1 (0.39%) Electronics
10 1 (0.39%) Finance
10 1 (0.39%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.39%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 216 (85.04%) Developer
2 95 (37.40%) PHP Developer
3 55 (21.65%) WordPress Developer
4 46 (18.11%) Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 33 (12.99%) Web Developer
6 30 (11.81%) Senior Developer
7 13 (5.12%) JavaScript Developer
8 12 (4.72%) Joomla! Developer
8 12 (4.72%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 11 (4.33%) Full Stack Developer
10 8 (3.15%) Backend Developer
10 8 (3.15%) CMS Developer
10 8 (3.15%) Database Developer
10 8 (3.15%) DevOps Engineer
10 8 (3.15%) Linux DevOps Engineer
10 8 (3.15%) Linux Engineer
10 8 (3.15%) Linux/Unix DevOps
10 8 (3.15%) Xamarin Developer
11 7 (2.76%) Linux Scripter
12 6 (2.36%) Senior WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (50.39%) HTML
2 111 (43.70%) CSS
3 88 (34.65%) Laravel
4 77 (30.31%) React
5 46 (18.11%) JSON
5 46 (18.11%) XML
6 41 (16.14%) CSS3
6 41 (16.14%) HTML5
7 33 (12.99%) RESTful
8 32 (12.60%) React Native
9 31 (12.20%) Sass
10 23 (9.06%) Vue.js
11 17 (6.69%) jQuery
12 13 (5.12%) REST
13 11 (4.33%) .NET
13 11 (4.33%) LAMP
14 10 (3.94%) AngularJS
14 10 (3.94%) Node.js
15 9 (3.54%) Flutter
15 9 (3.54%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 67 (26.38%) User Experience
2 25 (9.84%) Mobile App
3 12 (4.72%) Greenfield Project
3 12 (4.72%) Smartphone
4 9 (3.54%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (2.76%) Data Centre
6 6 (2.36%) Renewable Energy
7 5 (1.97%) 3D Printing
7 5 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.97%) Industry 4.0
7 5 (1.97%) Legacy Applications
7 5 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.97%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.97%) NHS
8 2 (0.79%) BBC
8 2 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.79%) EPoS
8 2 (0.79%) FMCG
8 2 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.79%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 25 (9.84%) Linux
2 22 (8.66%) Android
3 20 (7.87%) Apple iOS
4 11 (4.33%) Windows
5 10 (3.94%) Windows Server
6 8 (3.15%) Windows 10
7 7 (2.76%) CentOS
7 7 (2.76%) Fedora
8 6 (2.36%) Windows Server 2012
8 6 (2.36%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (1.57%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.79%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (51.97%) Web Development
2 81 (31.89%) Full Stack Development
3 78 (30.71%) Agile Software Development
4 57 (22.44%) Front End Development
5 40 (15.75%) E-Commerce
5 40 (15.75%) OO
6 38 (14.96%) Unit Testing
7 37 (14.57%) MVC
7 37 (14.57%) SEO
8 31 (12.20%) Software Engineering
8 31 (12.20%) UX Design
9 28 (11.02%) TDD
10 21 (8.27%) Wireframes
11 20 (7.87%) Content Management
12 18 (7.09%) Analytics
12 18 (7.09%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
12 18 (7.09%) Problem-Solving
12 18 (7.09%) Time Management
13 16 (6.30%) Continuous Integration
14 15 (5.91%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 175 (68.90%) JavaScript
2 166 (65.35%) PHP
3 18 (7.09%) SQL
4 16 (6.30%) Python
5 11 (4.33%) PowerShell
6 7 (2.76%) Shell Script
7 4 (1.57%) Ruby
8 3 (1.18%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.39%) C++
9 1 (0.39%) ES6
9 1 (0.39%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.39%) VB
9 1 (0.39%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 13 (5.12%) Degree
2 6 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.30%) Accessibility
2 7 (2.76%) GDPR
3 6 (2.36%) WCAG
4 5 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.18%) QA
System Software
1 22 (8.66%) Docker
2 13 (5.12%) Active Directory
3 8 (3.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.36%) vSphere
5 2 (0.79%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 11 (4.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (3.15%) Puppet
3 7 (2.76%) HAProxy
3 7 (2.76%) Icinga
4 5 (1.97%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.79%) cPanel
5 2 (0.79%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 47 (18.50%) WooCommerce
2 39 (15.35%) Google
3 21 (8.27%) Adobe
4 20 (7.87%) Apple
5 18 (7.09%) Microsoft
6 10 (3.94%) Rackspace
7 8 (3.15%) Sage
7 8 (3.15%) VMware
7 8 (3.15%) Xamarin
8 6 (2.36%) Palo Alto
8 6 (2.36%) Sitecore
8 6 (2.36%) Sophos
9 4 (1.57%) Cisco
10 3 (1.18%) HubSpot
11 2 (0.79%) Facebook
11 2 (0.79%) HP
11 2 (0.79%) Meraki
11 2 (0.79%) SAP
11 2 (0.79%) Spotify
12 1 (0.39%) DoubleClick