WordPress Contracts

WordPress
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 498 570 717
Rank change year-on-year +72 +147 -154
Contract jobs citing WordPress 81 114 124
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.20% 0.14%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.90% 1.86% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 97 97
10th Percentile £131 £215 £200
25th Percentile £219 £300 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £350 £375
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -6.67% +15.38%
75th Percentile £438 £413 £500
90th Percentile £488 £530 £555
UK excluding London median daily rate £219 £325 £325
% change year-on-year -32.62% - +25.00%
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% -18.63%
75th Percentile £28.13 £23.00 £37.19
90th Percentile £31.71 - £41.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.00 £22.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -9.09% -37.14% +28.44%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 4,253 6,127 10,971
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.87% 10.87% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,960 4,293 7,583
10th Percentile £258 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% - +7.89%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 148 206
10th Percentile £13.28 £16.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.50 £21.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £30.08 £51.25 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.31% +127.78% +9.76%
75th Percentile £50.47 £66.00 £53.94
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -25.00% +116.22% -2.63%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for WordPress in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for WordPress in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WordPress over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WordPress in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for WordPress in the UK

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing WordPress over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for WordPress in the UK

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Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WordPress within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +60 66 £300 -14.29% 126
Work from Home +86 42 £300 -14.29% 72
UK excluding London +32 38 £219 -32.62% 96
London +90 31 £400 +14.29% 30
Midlands +33 14 £138 -72.50% 18
North of England +30 10 £275 -15.38% 33
West Midlands +23 10 £138 -31.25% 9
East of England +7 5 £110 - 13
Yorkshire +19 4 - - 10
North West +17 4 £218 -20.91% 21
East Midlands +10 4 £325 -35.00% 11
South East -17 4 £288 -11.54% 19
Scotland - 4 £219 - 5
North East - 2 £325 - 2
South West +9 1 £300 +13.21% 10

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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 14 (17.28%) CMS
1 14 (17.28%) Drupal
2 5 (6.17%) Moodle
3 2 (2.47%) IIS
3 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.47%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.23%) Joomla!
4 1 (1.23%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (1.23%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (6.17%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.47%) Elementor
3 1 (1.23%) Acrobat
3 1 (1.23%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (6.17%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 19 (23.46%) GitHub
2 15 (18.52%) AWS
3 11 (13.58%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 9 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
5 7 (8.64%) Google Analytics
6 5 (6.17%) GCP
6 5 (6.17%) MailChimp
7 4 (4.94%) Azure
8 3 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (3.70%) SaaS
9 2 (2.47%) OneDrive
10 1 (1.23%) Azure App Service
10 1 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.23%) Azure Functions
10 1 (1.23%) Azure Storage
10 1 (1.23%) Figma
10 1 (1.23%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 1 (1.23%) Serverless
10 1 (1.23%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.94%) Intranet
2 3 (3.70%) DNS
3 2 (2.47%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (2.47%) Firewall
3 2 (2.47%) iSCSI
3 2 (2.47%) NAS
3 2 (2.47%) SAN
3 2 (2.47%) VPN
3 2 (2.47%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (4.94%) MySQL
3 2 (2.47%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 6 (7.41%) Git
2 3 (3.70%) webpack
3 1 (1.23%) JIRA
General
1 22 (27.16%) Social Skills
2 7 (8.64%) Public Sector
3 4 (4.94%) Local Government
4 2 (2.47%) Health Technology
4 2 (2.47%) Marketing
5 1 (1.23%) Advertising
5 1 (1.23%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.23%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 48 (59.26%) Developer
2 33 (40.74%) WordPress Developer
3 9 (11.11%) Python Developer
4 7 (8.64%) Senior
5 5 (6.17%) Senior Developer
5 5 (6.17%) Senior WordPress Developer
5 5 (6.17%) Support Officer
5 5 (6.17%) Technical Support
5 5 (6.17%) Technical Support Officer
6 3 (3.70%) Full Stack Engineer
6 3 (3.70%) JavaScript Engineer
6 3 (3.70%) PHP Developer
7 2 (2.47%) Digital Product Owner
7 2 (2.47%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 2 (2.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (2.47%) Network Engineer
7 2 (2.47%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (2.47%) PHP WordPress Developer
7 2 (2.47%) Web Designer
7 2 (2.47%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (29.63%) React
2 18 (22.22%) CSS
3 17 (20.99%) HTML
4 11 (13.58%) Laravel
5 9 (11.11%) Vue
6 8 (9.88%) Node.js
7 5 (6.17%) .NET
8 4 (4.94%) Sass
8 4 (4.94%) Symfony
8 4 (4.94%) Tailwind CSS
9 3 (3.70%) Twig
9 3 (3.70%) Web Services
10 2 (2.47%) CSS3
10 2 (2.47%) HTML5
10 2 (2.47%) LAMP
10 2 (2.47%) Next.js
10 2 (2.47%) RESTful
11 1 (1.23%) ASP.NET Core
11 1 (1.23%) GraphQL
11 1 (1.23%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.17%) Distributed Architecture
1 5 (6.17%) Learning Management System
2 4 (4.94%) Social Media
3 2 (2.47%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (2.47%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.47%) Replication
3 2 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.47%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.23%) Animation
4 1 (1.23%) Life Science
4 1 (1.23%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.47%) Linux
1 2 (2.47%) Ubuntu
1 2 (2.47%) VMS
1 2 (2.47%) Windows
1 2 (2.47%) Windows Server
1 2 (2.47%) Windows Server 2016
1 2 (2.47%) Windows Server 2019
2 1 (1.23%) Android
2 1 (1.23%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
1 18 (22.22%) Web Development
2 11 (13.58%) Front End Development
3 10 (12.35%) Full Stack Development
4 9 (11.11%) Analytics
5 7 (8.64%) Content Management
5 7 (8.64%) E-Commerce
6 6 (7.41%) User Experience
7 5 (6.17%) Code Quality
7 5 (6.17%) Computer Science
7 5 (6.17%) Deployment Automation
7 5 (6.17%) SDLC
7 5 (6.17%) SEO
7 5 (6.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (6.17%) UX Design
8 4 (4.94%) Decision-Making
9 3 (3.70%) BEM - Block Element Modifier
9 3 (3.70%) CI/CD
9 3 (3.70%) Containerisation
9 3 (3.70%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 22 (27.16%) PHP
2 17 (20.99%) JavaScript
3 9 (11.11%) Python
4 4 (4.94%) Ruby
5 3 (3.70%) SQL
6 2 (2.47%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.23%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (7.41%) Degree
1 6 (7.41%) SC Cleared
1 6 (7.41%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.94%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.58%) Accessibility
2 8 (9.88%) QA
3 3 (3.70%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (3.70%) Docker
2 2 (2.47%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.47%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (2.47%) SCCM
Vendors
1 16 (19.75%) Google
2 15 (18.52%) Microsoft
2 15 (18.52%) Salesforce
3 5 (6.17%) WooCommerce
4 4 (4.94%) Hootsuite
5 2 (2.47%) Adobe
5 2 (2.47%) Aruba
5 2 (2.47%) Palo Alto
5 2 (2.47%) ProCurve
5 2 (2.47%) Synology
5 2 (2.47%) Veeam
5 2 (2.47%) VMware
5 2 (2.47%) Zerto
6 1 (1.23%) DocuSign
6 1 (1.23%) Sitecore