WordPress
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for WordPress skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited WordPress over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 451 651 553
Rank change year-on-year +200 -98 -156
Permanent jobs citing WordPress 532 343 962
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.53% 0.35% 0.60%
As % of the Application Platforms category 4.98% 3.03% 4.26%
Number of salaries quoted 496 274 571
10th Percentile £25,750 £32,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £30,250 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £42,500 £41,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +3.66% -3.53%
75th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £66,750 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £36,000 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +6.67%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 10,685 11,308 22,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.70% 11.40% 14.05%
Number of salaries quoted 7,087 7,629 11,596
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £28,663
25th Percentile £34,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,667 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.18% +1.21% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,875 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £47,710 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.92% +6.02% -

WordPress
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for WordPress in the UK

WordPress
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for WordPress in the UK

WordPress
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing WordPress over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for WordPress in the UK

WordPress
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WordPress within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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 +217 491 £37,500 -11.76% 137
UK excluding London +118 397 £36,000 -10.00% 101
Work from Home +137 233 £40,000 -11.11% 79
London +134 123 £50,000 -3.42% 51
North of England +95 97 £33,500 -13.55% 34
Midlands +70 88 £35,000 -15.15% 17
South East -24 71 £39,500 -1.25% 24
West Midlands +69 60 £35,000 -17.65% 12
South West +1 58 £40,000 -11.11% 8
East of England +43 54 £35,000 -6.67% 10
Yorkshire +112 45 £32,500 -13.33% 7
North West +41 45 £33,500 -10.67% 21
East Midlands +15 28 £35,000 -12.50% 5
Wales - 16 £35,000 - 1
Scotland -55 10 £45,000 -14.29% 7
North East -28 7 £40,000 -11.11% 6
Northern Ireland +22 4 £33,500 -4.29% 2

WordPress
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
1 135 (25.38%) CMS
2 40 (7.52%) Drupal
3 20 (3.76%) SharePoint
4 18 (3.38%) Apache
5 15 (2.82%) nginx
6 14 (2.63%) Umbraco
7 12 (2.26%) Confluence
8 11 (2.07%) Microsoft Exchange
9 10 (1.88%) Joomla!
10 9 (1.69%) IIS
11 6 (1.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 6 (1.13%) Apache Solr
11 6 (1.13%) Headless CMS
11 6 (1.13%) Sitecore CMS
12 4 (0.75%) Moodle
13 1 (0.19%) PrestaShop
Applications
1 35 (6.58%) Photoshop
2 26 (4.89%) Adobe Illustrator
3 24 (4.51%) Microsoft Excel
4 20 (3.76%) Adobe XD
5 16 (3.01%) InDesign
6 14 (2.63%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 11 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
7 11 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 10 (1.88%) Adobe After Effects
9 9 (1.69%) Adobe Premiere
10 7 (1.32%) Spreadsheet
11 6 (1.13%) Sketch
12 3 (0.56%) Final Cut Pro
12 3 (0.56%) InVision
13 2 (0.38%) Acrobat
13 2 (0.38%) FileZilla
14 1 (0.19%) Elementor
14 1 (0.19%) SketchUp
Business Applications
1 44 (8.27%) Shopify
2 31 (5.83%) Magento
3 7 (1.32%) Payment Gateway
4 6 (1.13%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.38%) CiviCRM
5 2 (0.38%) OpenCart
6 1 (0.19%) iTrent
6 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.19%) Yoast SEO
Cloud Services
1 42 (7.89%) AWS
2 41 (7.71%) Google Analytics
3 35 (6.58%) Azure
4 34 (6.39%) Figma
5 33 (6.20%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (3.20%) Canva
7 16 (3.01%) MailChimp
8 15 (2.82%) Power Platform
8 15 (2.82%) SaaS
9 14 (2.63%) GitHub
10 12 (2.26%) OneDrive
11 11 (2.07%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 9 (1.69%) Google Drive
13 8 (1.50%) npm
13 8 (1.50%) PaaS
14 7 (1.32%) Amazon EC2
14 7 (1.32%) GCP
15 6 (1.13%) DigitalOcean
15 6 (1.13%) IaaS
15 6 (1.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 34 (6.39%) DNS
2 23 (4.32%) Firewall
3 21 (3.95%) Intranet
4 12 (2.26%) SSL
5 9 (1.69%) Fibre Channel
5 9 (1.69%) iSCSI
5 9 (1.69%) NAS
5 9 (1.69%) SAN
5 9 (1.69%) VPN
5 9 (1.69%) Wireless
6 2 (0.38%) DHCP
6 2 (0.38%) DKIM
6 2 (0.38%) DMARC
6 2 (0.38%) FTP
6 2 (0.38%) Internet
6 2 (0.38%) IP Telephony
6 2 (0.38%) PBX
6 2 (0.38%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.38%) VoIP
6 2 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (18.98%) MySQL
2 22 (4.14%) SQL Server
3 15 (2.82%) Power BI
4 6 (1.13%) Relational Database
5 5 (0.94%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (0.56%) Looker
7 3 (0.56%) QGIS
8 2 (0.38%) phpMyAdmin
9 1 (0.19%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.19%) Crystal Reports
9 1 (0.19%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.19%) Mixpanel
9 1 (0.19%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.19%) Redis
Development Applications
1 76 (14.29%) Git
2 21 (3.95%) JIRA
3 5 (0.94%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (0.75%) webpack
5 3 (0.56%) GitLab
5 3 (0.56%) gulp
5 3 (0.56%) WiX
6 2 (0.38%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.38%) Subversion
6 2 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.19%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.19%) Grunt
7 1 (0.19%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.19%) Selenium
General
1 189 (35.53%) Marketing
2 153 (28.76%) Social Skills
3 44 (8.27%) Finance
4 41 (7.71%) Publishing
5 38 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (4.51%) Advertising
7 21 (3.95%) Retail
8 20 (3.76%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (1.69%) Law
10 8 (1.50%) German Language
10 8 (1.50%) Legal
11 7 (1.32%) Games
11 7 (1.32%) Spanish Language
12 6 (1.13%) French Language
12 6 (1.13%) Multimedia
13 5 (0.94%) Brand Awareness
14 4 (0.75%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.75%) Public Sector
15 3 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 304 (57.14%) Developer
2 132 (24.81%) WordPress Developer
3 79 (14.85%) PHP Developer
4 72 (13.53%) Web Developer
5 51 (9.59%) Senior
6 41 (7.71%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 39 (7.33%) Web Manager
8 36 (6.77%) Full Stack Developer
9 31 (5.83%) Designer
9 31 (5.83%) Senior Developer
10 29 (5.45%) PHP WordPress Developer
11 26 (4.89%) Junior
12 24 (4.51%) PHP Web Developer
13 23 (4.32%) Website Manager
14 21 (3.95%) Junior Developer
15 19 (3.57%) HTML Developer
16 18 (3.38%) Lead
17 17 (3.20%) HTML CSS Developer
18 16 (3.01%) Graphic Designer
19 13 (2.44%) Drupal Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 238 (44.74%) CSS
2 233 (43.80%) HTML
3 77 (14.47%) React
4 71 (13.35%) jQuery
5 65 (12.22%) Laravel
6 38 (7.14%) Vue
7 35 (6.58%) HTML5
8 34 (6.39%) LAMP
9 30 (5.64%) CSS3
10 27 (5.08%) Sass
11 16 (3.01%) Node.js
12 15 (2.82%) Tailwind CSS
12 15 (2.82%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 13 (2.44%) EDI
14 11 (2.07%) AngularJS
14 11 (2.07%) REST
15 10 (1.88%) .NET
15 10 (1.88%) Next.js
16 9 (1.69%) RESTful
16 9 (1.69%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 59 (11.09%) Social Media
2 35 (6.58%) Self-Motivation
3 32 (6.02%) Graphic Design
4 24 (4.51%) Blog
5 20 (3.76%) Mobile App
6 16 (3.01%) Onboarding
7 12 (2.26%) Animation
7 12 (2.26%) Greenfield Project
7 12 (2.26%) Management Information System
7 12 (2.26%) Video Editing
8 11 (2.07%) Product Ownership
9 10 (1.88%) Linux Command Line
10 9 (1.69%) Data Centre
10 9 (1.69%) Driving Licence
10 9 (1.69%) Replication
11 7 (1.32%) Educational Technology
11 7 (1.32%) Low-Code
12 6 (1.13%) Learning Management System
12 6 (1.13%) Photography
13 5 (0.94%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 23 (4.32%) Linux
2 22 (4.14%) Windows
3 11 (2.07%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.88%) Ubuntu
5 9 (1.69%) VMS
5 9 (1.69%) Windows Server 2016
5 9 (1.69%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (0.94%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.75%) Android
7 4 (0.75%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.75%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.56%) Unix
9 2 (0.38%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (28.76%) Web Development
2 120 (22.56%) Problem-Solving
3 99 (18.61%) E-Commerce
4 90 (16.92%) User Experience
5 71 (13.35%) SEO
6 62 (11.65%) Full Stack Development
7 55 (10.34%) Content Management
7 55 (10.34%) Front End Development
8 53 (9.96%) Analytics
9 51 (9.59%) Digital Marketing
10 50 (9.40%) Marketing Strategy
11 46 (8.65%) Agile
12 39 (7.33%) Project Management
13 35 (6.58%) CRM
14 33 (6.20%) Collaborative Working
14 33 (6.20%) UX Design
15 31 (5.83%) DevOps
16 26 (4.89%) Mentoring
17 25 (4.70%) Clean Code
18 23 (4.32%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 264 (49.62%) PHP
2 228 (42.86%) JavaScript
3 26 (4.89%) SQL
4 14 (2.63%) PowerShell
5 13 (2.44%) Python
6 6 (1.13%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.38%) Bash
7 2 (0.38%) Java
8 1 (0.19%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.19%) C
8 1 (0.19%) Rust
8 1 (0.19%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 66 (12.41%) Degree
2 16 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (1.13%) DBS Check
4 4 (0.75%) Master's Degree
5 3 (0.56%) SC Cleared
5 3 (0.56%) Security Cleared
6 2 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.14%) GDPR
2 16 (3.01%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials
3 8 (1.50%) QA
4 6 (1.13%) ISO 20022
4 6 (1.13%) PSD2
5 3 (0.56%) SLA
6 2 (0.38%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 17 (3.20%) Active Directory
2 13 (2.44%) Docker
3 9 (1.69%) vSphere
4 3 (0.56%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.56%) Varnish
5 2 (0.38%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 9 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
1 9 (1.69%) SCCM
2 7 (1.32%) cPanel
3 5 (0.94%) Kubernetes
4 4 (0.75%) Terraform
5 1 (0.19%) Ansible
5 1 (0.19%) Plesk
5 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 74 (13.91%) Adobe
2 71 (13.35%) Google
3 56 (10.53%) WooCommerce
4 43 (8.08%) Microsoft
5 18 (3.38%) Facebook
5 18 (3.38%) Instagram
6 13 (2.44%) Salesforce
7 12 (2.26%) HubSpot
8 9 (1.69%) Aruba
8 9 (1.69%) Palo Alto
8 9 (1.69%) ProCurve
8 9 (1.69%) Synology
8 9 (1.69%) Veeam
8 9 (1.69%) VMware
8 9 (1.69%) Xero
8 9 (1.69%) Zerto
9 8 (1.50%) Ahrefs
10 7 (1.32%) Atlassian
10 7 (1.32%) WorldPay
11 6 (1.13%) Sitecore