WordPress Developer Jobs

WordPress Developer
UK

The median WordPress Developer salary in the UK is £35,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 773 881 1160
Rank change year-on-year +108 +279 -346
Permanent jobs requiring a WordPress Developer 134 66 101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.070% 0.060%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.076% 0.062%
Number of salaries quoted 126 63 62
10th Percentile £28,375 £32,500 £26,300
25th Percentile £30,250 £37,500 £30,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,500 £45,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.11% +12.50% -3.03%
75th Percentile £45,000 £49,375 £49,375
90th Percentile £55,000 £67,500 £58,400
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 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
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 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

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 1 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 1 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 +90 116 £37,500 -16.67% 29
UK excluding London +36 108 £35,000 -22.22% 21
Work from Home +62 61 £37,500 -16.67% 19
North of England +58 32 £33,500 -16.25% 7
South West -17 24 £40,000 -11.11% 3
London +116 23 £60,000 +41.18% 7
Midlands +1 15 £35,000 -22.22% 3
North West +7 14 £33,000 -17.50% 4
East of England - 14 £35,000 - 3
Yorkshire +75 13 £33,000 +22.22% 3
Wales - 12 £35,000 -
West Midlands -6 9 £36,000 -20.00% 1
South East -15 8 £31,500 -21.25% 5
East Midlands - 6 £32,500 - 2
North East -8 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 1 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.

1 134 (100.00%) WordPress
2 104 (77.61%) PHP
3 85 (63.43%) CSS
4 82 (61.19%) JavaScript
5 80 (59.70%) HTML
6 49 (36.57%) Problem-Solving
7 47 (35.07%) Web Development
8 39 (29.10%) E-Commerce
9 37 (27.61%) Git
9 37 (27.61%) WooCommerce
10 35 (26.12%) Social Skills
11 31 (23.13%) jQuery
12 30 (22.39%) Marketing
13 26 (19.40%) CMS
13 26 (19.40%) React
14 22 (16.42%) User Experience
15 21 (15.67%) Front End Development
15 21 (15.67%) MySQL
16 14 (10.45%) SEO
17 13 (9.70%) Adobe
17 13 (9.70%) Full Stack Development
18 12 (8.96%) Clean Code
18 12 (8.96%) CSS3
19 11 (8.21%) Sass
20 10 (7.46%) Agile
21 9 (6.72%) Laravel
21 9 (6.72%) HTML5
22 8 (5.97%) Vue
22 8 (5.97%) Google
23 7 (5.22%) 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
1 134 (100.00%) WordPress
2 26 (19.40%) CMS
3 2 (1.49%) Apache
3 2 (1.49%) nginx
4 1 (0.75%) Drupal
4 1 (0.75%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 4 (2.99%) Adobe Illustrator
2 3 (2.24%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.75%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.75%) Elementor
3 1 (0.75%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.75%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 7 (5.22%) Shopify
2 1 (0.75%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 6 (4.48%) Stripe
2 5 (3.73%) npm
3 3 (2.24%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 3 (2.24%) DigitalOcean
3 3 (2.24%) Google Tag Manager
4 2 (1.49%) AWS
4 2 (1.49%) Figma
4 2 (1.49%) SaaS
5 1 (0.75%) Basecamp
5 1 (0.75%) GitHub
5 1 (0.75%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (15.67%) MySQL
2 3 (2.24%) Looker
3 1 (0.75%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 37 (27.61%) Git
2 2 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.75%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.75%) GitLab
3 1 (0.75%) JIRA
3 1 (0.75%) webpack
3 1 (0.75%) YouTrack
General
1 35 (26.12%) Social Skills
2 30 (22.39%) Marketing
3 7 (5.22%) Finance
4 4 (2.99%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (2.99%) Retail
5 2 (1.49%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (63.43%) CSS
2 80 (59.70%) HTML
3 31 (23.13%) jQuery
4 26 (19.40%) React
5 12 (8.96%) CSS3
6 11 (8.21%) Sass
7 9 (6.72%) HTML5
7 9 (6.72%) Laravel
8 8 (5.97%) Vue
9 7 (5.22%) RESTful
10 5 (3.73%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 4 (2.99%) REST
12 3 (2.24%) Web Services
13 2 (1.49%) LAMP
13 2 (1.49%) Next.js
13 2 (1.49%) Node.js
13 2 (1.49%) Tailwind CSS
13 2 (1.49%) Twig
14 1 (0.75%) GraphQL
14 1 (0.75%) GreenSock GSAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (2.24%) Photography
2 2 (1.49%) Animation
2 2 (1.49%) Learning Management System
2 2 (1.49%) Mobile App
3 1 (0.75%) Educational Technology
3 1 (0.75%) NHS
3 1 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (0.75%) Taxonomies
3 1 (0.75%) Virtual Reality
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (36.57%) Problem-Solving
2 47 (35.07%) Web Development
3 39 (29.10%) E-Commerce
4 22 (16.42%) User Experience
5 21 (15.67%) Front End Development
6 14 (10.45%) SEO
7 13 (9.70%) Full Stack Development
8 12 (8.96%) Clean Code
9 10 (7.46%) Agile
10 7 (5.22%) UX Design
11 6 (4.48%) Responsive Web Design
12 5 (3.73%) API Integration
12 5 (3.73%) Kalman Filter
12 5 (3.73%) Software Engineering
13 4 (2.99%) Analytics
13 4 (2.99%) Collaborative Culture
13 4 (2.99%) Computer Science
13 4 (2.99%) Digital Marketing
13 4 (2.99%) Storytelling
14 3 (2.24%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 104 (77.61%) PHP
2 82 (61.19%) JavaScript
3 1 (0.75%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (2.99%) Degree
2 2 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.22%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.49%) QA
3 1 (0.75%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (0.75%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 2 (1.49%) cPanel
Vendors
1 37 (27.61%) WooCommerce
2 13 (9.70%) Adobe
3 8 (5.97%) Google
4 3 (2.24%) Facebook
4 3 (2.24%) HubSpot
5 1 (0.75%) Hotjar
5 1 (0.75%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.75%) Panasonic
5 1 (0.75%) WorldPay