WordPress Contracts in England

WordPress
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for WordPress skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited WordPress over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 471 543 680
Rank change year-on-year +72 +137 -177
Contract jobs citing WordPress 66 104 99
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.18% 0.22% 0.14%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.88% 2.02% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 87 78
10th Percentile £121 £190 £189
25th Percentile £183 £297 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £325 £350
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £438 £400 £488
90th Percentile £538 £510 £575
UK median daily rate £300 £340 £375
% change year-on-year -11.76% -9.33% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 6 4
10th Percentile - - £28.33
25th Percentile £15.00 £21.00 £29.56
Median hourly rate £17.00 £22.00 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% -32.82% -27.22%
75th Percentile £28.13 £23.00 £37.19
90th Percentile £31.71 - £41.13
UK median hourly rate £17.00 £22.00 £32.75
% change year-on-year -22.73% -32.82% -20.61%

All Application Platform Skills
England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,502 5,161 8,796
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.61% 10.73% 12.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,515 3,680 6,076
10th Percentile £256 £263 £263
25th Percentile £363 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.94% +7.37%
75th Percentile £623 £650 £625
90th Percentile £775 £763 £719
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -2.44% - +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 132 192
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.55 £13.54
25th Percentile £15.06 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.52 £35.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.39% +55.56% +13.95%
75th Percentile £46.18 £65.81 £53.19
90th Percentile £69.75 £79.19 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £45.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -33.33% +83.67% +14.49%

WordPress
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for WordPress in England

WordPress
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for WordPress in England

WordPress
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WordPress in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WordPress in England

WordPress
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for WordPress in England

WordPress
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing WordPress in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for WordPress in England

WordPress
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 17 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 +80 33 £425 +21.43% 84
Midlands +37 13 £138 -50.00% 36
West Midlands +33 10 £138 -31.25% 23
North of England +26 9 £243 -25.38% 56
East of England +9 5 £110 - 18
Yorkshire +11 4 - - 12
South East -13 4 £288 -11.54% 24
North West +16 3 £160 -41.82% 36
East Midlands +12 3 - - 13
North East - 2 £325 - 8
South West +1 1 £300 +13.21% 17
WordPress
UK

WordPress
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 12 (18.18%) CMS
2 7 (10.61%) Drupal
3 5 (7.58%) Moodle
4 3 (4.55%) IIS
4 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (4.55%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (1.52%) Joomla!
5 1 (1.52%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (1.52%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (6.06%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.52%) Elementor
2 1 (1.52%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 11 (16.67%) GitHub
2 7 (10.61%) AWS
3 6 (9.09%) Google Analytics
4 5 (7.58%) MailChimp
5 4 (6.06%) Azure
5 4 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (4.55%) OneDrive
6 3 (4.55%) SaaS
7 2 (3.03%) Squarespace
8 1 (1.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.52%) Azure App Service
8 1 (1.52%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.52%) Azure Storage
8 1 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.52%) GCP
8 1 (1.52%) PaaS
8 1 (1.52%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (1.52%) Serverless
8 1 (1.52%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.58%) Intranet
2 3 (4.55%) DNS
2 3 (4.55%) Fibre Channel
2 3 (4.55%) Firewall
2 3 (4.55%) iSCSI
2 3 (4.55%) NAS
2 3 (4.55%) SAN
2 3 (4.55%) VPN
2 3 (4.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.06%) MySQL
2 3 (4.55%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (9.09%) Git
2 3 (4.55%) webpack
3 1 (1.52%) JIRA
3 1 (1.52%) WiX
General
1 14 (21.21%) Social Skills
2 4 (6.06%) Local Government
2 4 (6.06%) Public Sector
3 1 (1.52%) Advertising
3 1 (1.52%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (1.52%) Health Technology
3 1 (1.52%) Marketing
3 1 (1.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 33 (50.00%) Developer
2 27 (40.91%) WordPress Developer
3 6 (9.09%) Senior
4 5 (7.58%) Support Officer
4 5 (7.58%) Technical Support
4 5 (7.58%) Technical Support Officer
5 4 (6.06%) Senior Developer
5 4 (6.06%) Senior WordPress Developer
6 3 (4.55%) Full Stack Engineer
6 3 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (4.55%) JavaScript Engineer
6 3 (4.55%) Network Engineer
6 3 (4.55%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (4.55%) PHP Developer
7 2 (3.03%) Content Editor
7 2 (3.03%) Designer
7 2 (3.03%) Digital Product Owner
7 2 (3.03%) PHP WordPress Developer
7 2 (3.03%) Product Owner
7 2 (3.03%) Web Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (24.24%) React
2 13 (19.70%) CSS
3 12 (18.18%) HTML
4 11 (16.67%) Laravel
5 9 (13.64%) Vue
6 8 (12.12%) Node.js
7 6 (9.09%) .NET
8 4 (6.06%) Sass
8 4 (6.06%) Symfony
9 3 (4.55%) LAMP
9 3 (4.55%) Tailwind CSS
9 3 (4.55%) Twig
10 2 (3.03%) CSS3
10 2 (3.03%) HTML5
11 1 (1.52%) ASP.NET
11 1 (1.52%) ASP.NET Core
11 1 (1.52%) jQuery
11 1 (1.52%) Next.js
11 1 (1.52%) RESTful
11 1 (1.52%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.58%) Distributed Architecture
1 5 (7.58%) Learning Management System
2 3 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (4.55%) Replication
2 3 (4.55%) Social Media
3 2 (3.03%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.52%) Life Science
4 1 (1.52%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.55%) Linux
1 3 (4.55%) Ubuntu
1 3 (4.55%) VMS
1 3 (4.55%) Windows
1 3 (4.55%) Windows Server
1 3 (4.55%) Windows Server 2016
1 3 (4.55%) Windows Server 2019
2 1 (1.52%) Android
2 1 (1.52%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (22.73%) Web Development
2 11 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (15.15%) Full Stack Development
4 9 (13.64%) Front End Development
5 6 (9.09%) Analytics
6 5 (7.58%) Agile
6 5 (7.58%) Content Management
6 5 (7.58%) Deployment Automation
6 5 (7.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (7.58%) User Experience
6 5 (7.58%) UX Design
7 4 (6.06%) Decision-Making
7 4 (6.06%) E-Commerce
7 4 (6.06%) Scrum
8 3 (4.55%) B2C
8 3 (4.55%) BEM - Block Element Modifier
8 3 (4.55%) CI/CD
8 3 (4.55%) Containerisation
8 3 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (4.55%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 21 (31.82%) PHP
2 14 (21.21%) JavaScript
3 5 (7.58%) Ruby
4 3 (4.55%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.03%) SQL
6 1 (1.52%) C#
6 1 (1.52%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (6.06%) DBS Check
2 2 (3.03%) SC Cleared
2 2 (3.03%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.52%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.64%) Accessibility
2 4 (6.06%) QA
System Software
1 3 (4.55%) Active Directory
1 3 (4.55%) Docker
1 3 (4.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (4.55%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (12.12%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.61%) Google
2 7 (10.61%) Salesforce
3 4 (6.06%) Hootsuite
3 4 (6.06%) WooCommerce
4 3 (4.55%) Aruba
4 3 (4.55%) Palo Alto
4 3 (4.55%) ProCurve
4 3 (4.55%) Synology
4 3 (4.55%) Veeam
4 3 (4.55%) VMware
4 3 (4.55%) Zerto
5 2 (3.03%) Adobe
6 1 (1.52%) DocuSign
6 1 (1.52%) Sitecore