WordPress Developer Contracts in England

WordPress Developer
UK > England

The median WordPress Developer daily rate in England is £325 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 506 608 733
Rank change year-on-year +102 +125 -131
Contract jobs requiring a WordPress Developer 31 29 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.084% 0.061% 0.043%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.091% 0.065% 0.045%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 27 25
10th Percentile £131 £215 £200
25th Percentile £238 £263 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £325 £300
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £438 £400 £375
90th Percentile £488 £495 £533
UK median daily rate £300 £325 £302
% change year-on-year -7.69% +7.79% +9.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £22.50 - £41.25
Median hourly rate £26.25 - £42.50
75th Percentile £30.31 - £43.75
90th Percentile £33.13 - -
UK median hourly rate £26.25 - £42.50
% change year-on-year - - -1.16%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,105 44,948 67,278
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.59% 95.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,534 31,954 48,043
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.91%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,538 1,319 1,809
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +91.49% +9.30%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +87.50% +6.90%

WordPress Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured WordPress Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for WordPress Developer in England

WordPress Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WordPress Developer in England.

Daily rate trend for WordPress Developer in England

WordPress Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WordPress Developer in England over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WordPress Developer in England

WordPress Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WordPress Developer in England.

Hourly rate trend for WordPress Developer in England

WordPress Developer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WordPress Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 29 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +87 16 £425 +41.67% 6
Midlands +28 10 £138 -42.11% 3
West Midlands +20 6 £138 -31.25% 1
East Midlands +14 4 £325 +18.18% 2
North of England +28 2 £275 - 6
South East +1 2 - - 5
North West +22 1 £275 - 4
South West - 1 £300 - 3
North East - 1 - -
WordPress Developer
UK

WordPress Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 29 May 2024, WordPress Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring WordPress Developer in the job title.

1 31 (100.00%) WordPress
2 16 (51.61%) PHP
3 11 (35.48%) CSS
4 10 (32.26%) JavaScript
5 9 (29.03%) HTML
5 9 (29.03%) Web Development
5 9 (29.03%) GitHub
6 8 (25.81%) Vue
7 7 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (22.58%) Front End Development
7 7 (22.58%) Accessibility
8 6 (19.35%) React
9 5 (16.13%) User Experience
9 5 (16.13%) Git
10 4 (12.90%) Social Skills
10 4 (12.90%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (12.90%) SEO
10 4 (12.90%) Intranet
10 4 (12.90%) Ruby
10 4 (12.90%) Local Government
10 4 (12.90%) UX Design
10 4 (12.90%) AWS
10 4 (12.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 4 (12.90%) .NET
10 4 (12.90%) Deployment Automation
11 3 (9.68%) Public Sector
11 3 (9.68%) Analytics
11 3 (9.68%) Docker
11 3 (9.68%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (9.68%) CI/CD

WordPress Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 31 (100.00%) WordPress
2 1 (3.23%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Elementor
Cloud Services
1 9 (29.03%) GitHub
2 4 (12.90%) AWS
3 3 (9.68%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (3.23%) Figma
4 1 (3.23%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.90%) Intranet
2 1 (3.23%) DNS
Development Applications
1 5 (16.13%) Git
General
1 4 (12.90%) Local Government
1 4 (12.90%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.68%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.23%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (35.48%) CSS
2 9 (29.03%) HTML
3 8 (25.81%) Vue
4 6 (19.35%) React
5 4 (12.90%) .NET
6 2 (6.45%) Laravel
6 2 (6.45%) Node.js
6 2 (6.45%) Symfony
6 2 (6.45%) Tailwind CSS
7 1 (3.23%) CSS3
7 1 (3.23%) GraphQL
7 1 (3.23%) HTML5
7 1 (3.23%) Next.js
7 1 (3.23%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (3.23%) Animation
2 1 (3.23%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.23%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (29.03%) Web Development
2 7 (22.58%) Front End Development
2 7 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (16.13%) User Experience
4 4 (12.90%) Deployment Automation
4 4 (12.90%) SEO
4 4 (12.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (12.90%) UX Design
5 3 (9.68%) Analytics
5 3 (9.68%) CI/CD
5 3 (9.68%) Containerisation
6 1 (3.23%) Clean Code
6 1 (3.23%) DevOps
6 1 (3.23%) Full Stack Development
6 1 (3.23%) Mentoring
6 1 (3.23%) Migration
6 1 (3.23%) MVC
6 1 (3.23%) Scrum
6 1 (3.23%) Storytelling
6 1 (3.23%) Virtual Team Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (51.61%) PHP
2 10 (32.26%) JavaScript
3 4 (12.90%) Ruby
4 2 (6.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (22.58%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (9.68%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (3.23%) Google
1 1 (3.23%) WooCommerce