WordPress Contracts in the UK excluding London

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UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring WordPress skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited WordPress over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 362 376 458
Rank change year-on-year +14 +82 -72
Contract jobs citing WordPress 39 54 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.24% 0.15%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.14% 2.20% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 44 32
10th Percentile £105 £158 £181
25th Percentile £131 £300 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £190 £325 £325
Median % change year-on-year -41.69% - +24.40%
75th Percentile £328 £400 £459
90th Percentile £364 £485 £549
UK median daily rate £300 £350 £378
% change year-on-year -14.29% -7.28% +16.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 3
10th Percentile - - £29.00
25th Percentile £15.00 £21.00 £31.25
Median hourly rate £20.00 £22.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -37.14% +28.44%
75th Percentile £27.81 £23.00 £39.38
90th Percentile £30.63 - £42.00
UK median hourly rate £17.00 £22.00 £32.75
% change year-on-year -22.73% -32.82% -18.63%

All Application Platform Skills
UK excluding London

WordPress falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,824 2,453 3,785
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.55% 10.81% 12.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,245 1,714 2,654
10th Percentile £215 £200 £185
25th Percentile £325 £331 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +4.65%
75th Percentile £570 £576 £551
90th Percentile £650 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £511 £520
% change year-on-year -2.15% -1.73% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 99 136
10th Percentile £13.03 £16.10 £13.33
25th Percentile £15.19 £20.88 £14.25
Median hourly rate £30.41 £48.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.29% +162.16% -
75th Percentile £51.91 £65.13 £44.27
90th Percentile £74.40 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £31.71 £52.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year -39.60% +128.26% +15.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing WordPress as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for WordPress in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WordPress in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for WordPress in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WordPress in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WordPress in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WordPress in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for WordPress in the UK excluding London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing WordPress in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for WordPress in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
Midlands +27 16 £138 -72.50% 40
North of England +20 11 £275 -21.43% 56
West Midlands +26 10 £138 -31.25% 21
East Midlands +9 6 £325 -35.00% 21
North West +18 5 £218 -27.50% 31
East of England +4 5 £110 - 28
Yorkshire +12 4 - - 17
South East -13 3 £225 -30.77% 31
Scotland - 3 £219 - 10
North East - 2 £325 - 8
South West +1 1 £300 +13.21% 20
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (12.82%) Moodle
2 4 (10.26%) CMS
2 4 (10.26%) Drupal
3 2 (5.13%) IIS
3 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (5.13%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.56%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (10.26%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (12.82%) Google Analytics
1 5 (12.82%) MailChimp
2 3 (7.69%) Azure
3 2 (5.13%) AWS
3 2 (5.13%) GitHub
3 2 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (5.13%) OneDrive
3 2 (5.13%) Squarespace
4 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.56%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) DNS
1 2 (5.13%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (5.13%) Firewall
1 2 (5.13%) iSCSI
1 2 (5.13%) NAS
1 2 (5.13%) SAN
1 2 (5.13%) VPN
1 2 (5.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.13%) SQL Server
General
1 10 (25.64%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.69%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.56%) Advertising
3 1 (2.56%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 21 (53.85%) Developer
2 17 (43.59%) WordPress Developer
3 5 (12.82%) Support Officer
3 5 (12.82%) Technical Support
3 5 (12.82%) Technical Support Officer
4 2 (5.13%) Digital Product Owner
4 2 (5.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (5.13%) Network Engineer
4 2 (5.13%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (5.13%) Product Owner
5 1 (2.56%) Analytics Developer
5 1 (2.56%) Content Editor
5 1 (2.56%) Digital Content Editor
5 1 (2.56%) Digital Editor
5 1 (2.56%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (2.56%) Full Stack Developer
5 1 (2.56%) Full Stack PHP Developer
5 1 (2.56%) PHP Developer
5 1 (2.56%) SEO Developer
5 1 (2.56%) Umbraco Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.95%) Vue
2 6 (15.38%) CSS
3 5 (12.82%) HTML
4 3 (7.69%) GraphQL
4 3 (7.69%) Next.js
4 3 (7.69%) Symfony
4 3 (7.69%) Tailwind CSS
4 3 (7.69%) Web Services
5 2 (5.13%) LAMP
5 2 (5.13%) React
6 1 (2.56%) .NET
6 1 (2.56%) ASP.NET
6 1 (2.56%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (2.56%) CSS3
6 1 (2.56%) HTML5
6 1 (2.56%) Laravel
6 1 (2.56%) RESTful
6 1 (2.56%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.82%) Learning Management System
2 2 (5.13%) Life Science
2 2 (5.13%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (5.13%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.13%) Replication
2 2 (5.13%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.13%) Linux
1 2 (5.13%) Ubuntu
1 2 (5.13%) VMS
1 2 (5.13%) Windows
1 2 (5.13%) Windows Server
1 2 (5.13%) Windows Server 2016
1 2 (5.13%) Windows Server 2019
2 1 (2.56%) Android
2 1 (2.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (33.33%) Web Development
2 6 (15.38%) Analytics
2 6 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (10.26%) Decision-Making
4 3 (7.69%) SEO
5 2 (5.13%) B2C
5 2 (5.13%) Content Management
5 2 (5.13%) DevOps
5 2 (5.13%) E-Commerce
5 2 (5.13%) Front End Development
5 2 (5.13%) Full Stack Development
5 2 (5.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (5.13%) Roadmaps
5 2 (5.13%) Service Design
5 2 (5.13%) Statistics
5 2 (5.13%) Strategic Roadmap
5 2 (5.13%) Web Accessibility
6 1 (2.56%) Android Development
6 1 (2.56%) iOS Development
6 1 (2.56%) Mobile Development
Programming Languages
1 11 (28.21%) PHP
2 4 (10.26%) JavaScript
3 2 (5.13%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.56%) C#
4 1 (2.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (10.26%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.69%) WCAG
2 2 (5.13%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (5.13%) Active Directory
1 2 (5.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (5.13%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.82%) Google
2 5 (12.82%) Salesforce
3 4 (10.26%) Hootsuite
4 2 (5.13%) Aruba
4 2 (5.13%) Palo Alto
4 2 (5.13%) ProCurve
4 2 (5.13%) Synology
4 2 (5.13%) Veeam
4 2 (5.13%) VMware
4 2 (5.13%) Zerto
5 1 (2.56%) WooCommerce