WordPress Developer Jobs

WordPress Developer
UK

The median WordPress Developer salary in the UK is £36,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 June 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
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 771 854 1185
Rank change year-on-year +83 +331 -357
Permanent jobs requiring a WordPress Developer 138 66 100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.071% 0.058%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.078% 0.061%
Number of salaries quoted 128 63 61
10th Percentile £28,525 £32,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £30,250 £37,500 £30,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +12.50% -3.03%
75th Percentile £45,000 £49,375 £50,000
90th Percentile £55,000 £67,500 £58,750
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 102,593 85,161 165,180
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.87% 91.21% 95.99%
Number of salaries quoted 72,456 55,290 85,908
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,518 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,500
% change year-on-year -6.54% +5.94% +6.32%

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 8 June 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 8 June 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 +70 120 £37,500 -16.67% 26
UK excluding London +31 111 £35,000 -22.22% 20
Work from Home +71 63 £38,750 -13.89% 16
North of England +39 32 £33,500 -16.25% 6
London +78 24 £60,000 +41.18% 6
South West -24 24 £40,000 -11.11% 2
Midlands -22 16 £35,000 -22.22% 4
East of England - 16 £35,000 - 2
North West +4 14 £33,000 -17.50% 4
Yorkshire +81 13 £33,000 +22.22% 2
Wales - 12 £35,000 -
West Midlands +5 10 £36,000 -20.00% 1
South East -15 8 £31,500 -21.25% 6
East Midlands - 6 £32,500 - 3
North East -14 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 8 June 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.

1 138 (100.00%) WordPress
2 107 (77.54%) PHP
3 86 (62.32%) CSS
4 84 (60.87%) JavaScript
5 81 (58.70%) HTML
6 50 (36.23%) Web Development
7 49 (35.51%) Problem-Solving
8 40 (28.99%) E-Commerce
9 38 (27.54%) WooCommerce
10 37 (26.81%) Git
11 35 (25.36%) Social Skills
12 31 (22.46%) jQuery
12 31 (22.46%) Marketing
13 27 (19.57%) React
14 26 (18.84%) CMS
15 23 (16.67%) User Experience
16 22 (15.94%) Front End Development
17 21 (15.22%) MySQL
18 15 (10.87%) SEO
19 14 (10.14%) Full Stack Development
20 13 (9.42%) Adobe
21 12 (8.70%) CSS3
21 12 (8.70%) Sass
21 12 (8.70%) Clean Code
22 10 (7.25%) Agile
23 9 (6.52%) Laravel
23 9 (6.52%) HTML5
23 9 (6.52%) Vue
24 8 (5.80%) Google
25 7 (5.07%) 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
1 138 (100.00%) WordPress
2 26 (18.84%) CMS
3 2 (1.45%) Apache
3 2 (1.45%) nginx
4 1 (0.72%) Drupal
4 1 (0.72%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 4 (2.90%) Adobe Illustrator
2 3 (2.17%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.72%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.72%) Elementor
3 1 (0.72%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.72%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 7 (5.07%) Shopify
2 1 (0.72%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 6 (4.35%) Stripe
2 5 (3.62%) npm
3 3 (2.17%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 3 (2.17%) DigitalOcean
3 3 (2.17%) Google Tag Manager
4 2 (1.45%) AWS
4 2 (1.45%) Figma
4 2 (1.45%) SaaS
5 1 (0.72%) Basecamp
5 1 (0.72%) Cloudflare
5 1 (0.72%) GitHub
5 1 (0.72%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (15.22%) MySQL
2 3 (2.17%) Looker
3 1 (0.72%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 37 (26.81%) Git
2 2 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (1.45%) webpack
3 1 (0.72%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.72%) GitLab
3 1 (0.72%) JIRA
3 1 (0.72%) YouTrack
General
1 35 (25.36%) Social Skills
2 31 (22.46%) Marketing
3 7 (5.07%) Finance
4 4 (2.90%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (2.90%) Retail
5 2 (1.45%) Advertising
6 1 (0.72%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (62.32%) CSS
2 81 (58.70%) HTML
3 31 (22.46%) jQuery
4 27 (19.57%) React
5 12 (8.70%) CSS3
5 12 (8.70%) Sass
6 9 (6.52%) HTML5
6 9 (6.52%) Laravel
6 9 (6.52%) Vue
7 7 (5.07%) RESTful
8 5 (3.62%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 4 (2.90%) REST
10 3 (2.17%) Web Services
11 2 (1.45%) LAMP
11 2 (1.45%) Next.js
11 2 (1.45%) Node.js
11 2 (1.45%) Tailwind CSS
11 2 (1.45%) Twig
12 1 (0.72%) AngularJS
12 1 (0.72%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 4 (2.90%) Photography
2 3 (2.17%) Mobile App
3 2 (1.45%) Animation
3 2 (1.45%) Learning Management System
4 1 (0.72%) Educational Technology
4 1 (0.72%) IoT
4 1 (0.72%) NHS
4 1 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.72%) Taxonomies
4 1 (0.72%) Virtual Reality
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (36.23%) Web Development
2 49 (35.51%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (28.99%) E-Commerce
4 23 (16.67%) User Experience
5 22 (15.94%) Front End Development
6 15 (10.87%) SEO
7 14 (10.14%) Full Stack Development
8 12 (8.70%) Clean Code
9 10 (7.25%) Agile
10 7 (5.07%) UX Design
11 6 (4.35%) API Integration
11 6 (4.35%) Responsive Web Design
12 5 (3.62%) Computer Science
12 5 (3.62%) Digital Marketing
12 5 (3.62%) Kalman Filter
12 5 (3.62%) Software Engineering
13 4 (2.90%) Analytics
13 4 (2.90%) Collaborative Culture
13 4 (2.90%) Storytelling
14 3 (2.17%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 107 (77.54%) PHP
2 84 (60.87%) JavaScript
3 1 (0.72%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (3.62%) Degree
2 3 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.07%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.45%) QA
3 1 (0.72%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (0.72%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 2 (1.45%) cPanel
Vendors
1 38 (27.54%) WooCommerce
2 13 (9.42%) Adobe
3 8 (5.80%) Google
4 3 (2.17%) Facebook
4 3 (2.17%) HubSpot
5 1 (0.72%) Hotjar
5 1 (0.72%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.72%) Panasonic
5 1 (0.72%) WorldPay