WordPress Developer
UK

The median WordPress Developer salary in the UK is £37,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

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

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 763 905 1136
Rank change year-on-year +142 +231 -315
Permanent jobs requiring a WordPress Developer 133 70 101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.070% 0.063%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.076% 0.066%
Number of salaries quoted 126 67 70
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,250 £37,500 £30,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £45,000 £39,250
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.65% -4.85%
75th Percentile £47,188 £49,375 £49,375
90th Percentile £65,000 £69,000 £58,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £45,000 £31,500
% change year-on-year -22.22% +42.86% -16.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 93,739 91,836 153,630
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.65% 91.52% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 67,104 57,926 84,939
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,604
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

WordPress Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for WordPress Developer in the UK

WordPress Developer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing WordPress Developer.

Salary trend for WordPress Developer in the UK

WordPress Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing WordPress Developer over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for WordPress Developer in the UK

WordPress Developer
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 Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +129 114 £38,750 -13.89% 24
UK excluding London +49 105 £35,000 -22.22% 18
Work from Home +86 60 £40,000 -11.11% 18
North of England +59 30 £33,500 -16.25% 5
London +130 25 £62,500 +47.06% 6
South West -18 23 £40,000 -15.79% 3
Midlands +19 15 £35,000 -22.22% 5
East of England - 15 £35,000 - 2
North West +15 13 £33,500 -16.25% 5
Wales - 13 £35,000 -
Yorkshire - 12 £33,000 -
West Midlands +14 9 £36,000 -20.00% 3
South East -7 6 £30,750 -23.13% 3
East Midlands - 6 £32,500 - 2
North East -4 5 £42,500 -5.56%
Northern Ireland - 3 £33,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 14 May 2024, WordPress Developer 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 permanent job ads featuring WordPress Developer in the job title.

1 133 (100.00%) WordPress
2 103 (77.44%) PHP
3 86 (64.66%) CSS
4 83 (62.41%) JavaScript
5 81 (60.90%) HTML
6 49 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
7 46 (34.59%) Web Development
8 39 (29.32%) E-Commerce
9 37 (27.82%) Git
9 37 (27.82%) Social Skills
10 36 (27.07%) WooCommerce
11 29 (21.80%) Marketing
12 28 (21.05%) jQuery
13 26 (19.55%) React
14 24 (18.05%) CMS
15 21 (15.79%) MySQL
15 21 (15.79%) User Experience
15 21 (15.79%) Front End Development
16 17 (12.78%) Full Stack Development
17 13 (9.77%) SEO
17 13 (9.77%) CSS3
18 12 (9.02%) Adobe
18 12 (9.02%) Clean Code
19 10 (7.52%) Agile
19 10 (7.52%) HTML5
19 10 (7.52%) Sass
20 9 (6.77%) Laravel
21 8 (6.02%) Vue
21 8 (6.02%) Google
22 7 (5.26%) UX Design

WordPress Developer Skill Set
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
1 133 (100.00%) WordPress
2 24 (18.05%) CMS
3 2 (1.50%) Apache
3 2 (1.50%) nginx
4 1 (0.75%) Drupal
4 1 (0.75%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 4 (3.01%) Adobe Illustrator
2 3 (2.26%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.75%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 7 (5.26%) Shopify
2 1 (0.75%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 6 (4.51%) Stripe
2 5 (3.76%) npm
3 3 (2.26%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 3 (2.26%) DigitalOcean
3 3 (2.26%) Google Tag Manager
4 2 (1.50%) SaaS
5 1 (0.75%) AWS
5 1 (0.75%) Figma
5 1 (0.75%) GitHub
5 1 (0.75%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (15.79%) MySQL
2 3 (2.26%) Looker
3 1 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.75%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 37 (27.82%) Git
2 2 (1.50%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.75%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.75%) GitLab
3 1 (0.75%) JIRA
3 1 (0.75%) webpack
General
1 37 (27.82%) Social Skills
2 29 (21.80%) Marketing
3 6 (4.51%) Finance
4 4 (3.01%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (3.01%) Retail
5 2 (1.50%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (64.66%) CSS
2 81 (60.90%) HTML
3 28 (21.05%) jQuery
4 26 (19.55%) React
5 13 (9.77%) CSS3
6 10 (7.52%) HTML5
6 10 (7.52%) Sass
7 9 (6.77%) Laravel
8 8 (6.02%) Vue
9 7 (5.26%) RESTful
10 4 (3.01%) REST
10 4 (3.01%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 3 (2.26%) Web Services
12 2 (1.50%) LAMP
12 2 (1.50%) Next.js
12 2 (1.50%) Node.js
12 2 (1.50%) Tailwind CSS
12 2 (1.50%) Twig
13 1 (0.75%) GraphQL
13 1 (0.75%) GreenSock GSAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (2.26%) Photography
2 2 (1.50%) Animation
2 2 (1.50%) Learning Management System
3 1 (0.75%) Educational Technology
3 1 (0.75%) Mobile App
3 1 (0.75%) NHS
3 1 (0.75%) Taxonomies
3 1 (0.75%) Virtual Reality
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
2 46 (34.59%) Web Development
3 39 (29.32%) E-Commerce
4 21 (15.79%) Front End Development
4 21 (15.79%) User Experience
5 17 (12.78%) Full Stack Development
6 13 (9.77%) SEO
7 12 (9.02%) Clean Code
8 10 (7.52%) Agile
9 7 (5.26%) UX Design
10 6 (4.51%) Computer Science
10 6 (4.51%) Responsive Web Design
11 5 (3.76%) API Integration
11 5 (3.76%) Kalman Filter
11 5 (3.76%) Software Engineering
12 4 (3.01%) Analytics
12 4 (3.01%) Collaborative Culture
12 4 (3.01%) Collaborative Working
12 4 (3.01%) Digital Marketing
12 4 (3.01%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 103 (77.44%) PHP
2 83 (62.41%) JavaScript
3 1 (0.75%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (4.51%) Degree
2 4 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.26%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.50%) QA
3 1 (0.75%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (1.50%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 2 (1.50%) cPanel
Vendors
1 36 (27.07%) WooCommerce
2 12 (9.02%) Adobe
3 8 (6.02%) Google
4 3 (2.26%) Facebook
4 3 (2.26%) HubSpot
5 1 (0.75%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.75%) Panasonic
5 1 (0.75%) WorldPay