WordPress Contracts with Work from Home Options

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UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 297 392 538
Rank change year-on-year +95 +146 -119
Contract jobs citing WordPress 44 65 85
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.30% 0.27% 0.19%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.63% 2.46% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 51 70
10th Percentile £105 £263 £200
25th Percentile £224 £306 £261
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £350 £400
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -12.50% +23.08%
75th Percentile £381 £410 £525
90th Percentile £438 £510 £551
UK median daily rate £300 £350 £378
% change year-on-year -14.29% -7.28% +16.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 2
10th Percentile - - £28.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £21.00 £29.38
Median hourly rate £26.25 £22.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.32% -32.31% +116.67%
75th Percentile £30.31 £23.00 £34.38
90th Percentile £33.13 - £34.75
UK median hourly rate £17.00 £22.00 £32.75
% change year-on-year -22.73% -32.82% -18.63%

All Application Platform Skills
Work from Home

WordPress falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,670 2,646 5,457
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.32% 11.08% 12.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,226 1,866 3,980
10th Percentile £300 £322 £321
25th Percentile £400 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £850 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £511 £520
% change year-on-year -2.15% -1.73% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 71 87
10th Percentile £16.50 £20.00 £15.77
25th Percentile £22.61 £22.16 £20.75
Median hourly rate £31.14 £55.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.39% +10.00% +92.31%
75th Percentile £45.41 £66.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £73.13 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £31.71 £52.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year -39.60% +128.26% +15.00%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing WordPress as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

WordPress trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing WordPress.

WordPress daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing WordPress over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

WordPress daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing WordPress.

WordPress hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 7 (15.91%) CMS
1 7 (15.91%) Drupal
2 5 (11.36%) Moodle
3 1 (2.27%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (2.27%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Elementor
Cloud Services
1 8 (18.18%) AWS
1 8 (18.18%) GitHub
2 4 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
2 4 (9.09%) Google Analytics
2 4 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (6.82%) SaaS
4 2 (4.55%) Azure
4 2 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.27%) Azure App Service
5 1 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.27%) Azure Functions
5 1 (2.27%) Azure Storage
5 1 (2.27%) Canva
5 1 (2.27%) Figma
5 1 (2.27%) MailChimp
5 1 (2.27%) PaaS
5 1 (2.27%) Serverless
5 1 (2.27%) Sprout Social
5 1 (2.27%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.55%) Intranet
2 1 (2.27%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.09%) MySQL
1 4 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 3 (6.82%) webpack
General
1 6 (13.64%) Public Sector
1 6 (13.64%) Social Skills
2 1 (2.27%) Health Technology
2 1 (2.27%) Marketing
2 1 (2.27%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 27 (61.36%) Developer
2 18 (40.91%) WordPress Developer
3 5 (11.36%) Support Officer
3 5 (11.36%) Technical Support
3 5 (11.36%) Technical Support Officer
4 4 (9.09%) Python Developer
5 3 (6.82%) Full Stack Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) JavaScript Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) PHP Developer
6 2 (4.55%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (4.55%) PHP WordPress Developer
6 2 (4.55%) Web Developer
7 1 (2.27%) Analytics Developer
7 1 (2.27%) CMS Developer
7 1 (2.27%) Digital Communications Manager
7 1 (2.27%) Full Stack Developer
7 1 (2.27%) Full Stack PHP Developer
7 1 (2.27%) Senior WordPress Developer
7 1 (2.27%) SEO Developer
7 1 (2.27%) Umbraco Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (31.82%) CSS
2 13 (29.55%) HTML
3 12 (27.27%) React
4 9 (20.45%) Laravel
5 8 (18.18%) Node.js
6 5 (11.36%) Tailwind CSS
7 4 (9.09%) Next.js
8 3 (6.82%) .NET
8 3 (6.82%) GraphQL
8 3 (6.82%) Sass
8 3 (6.82%) Symfony
8 3 (6.82%) Twig
8 3 (6.82%) Web Services
9 2 (4.55%) RESTful
9 2 (4.55%) Vue
10 1 (2.27%) ASP.NET Core
10 1 (2.27%) CSS3
10 1 (2.27%) HTML5
10 1 (2.27%) jQuery
10 1 (2.27%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.36%) Learning Management System
2 2 (4.55%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.27%) Animation
3 1 (2.27%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.27%) Android
1 1 (2.27%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (25.00%) Web Development
2 9 (20.45%) Full Stack Development
3 5 (11.36%) Analytics
3 5 (11.36%) Front End Development
4 4 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (9.09%) SEO
5 3 (6.82%) Agile
5 3 (6.82%) BEM - Block Element Modifier
6 2 (4.55%) CI/CD
6 2 (4.55%) Containerisation
6 2 (4.55%) DevOps
6 2 (4.55%) MVC
6 2 (4.55%) Scrum
6 2 (4.55%) Service Design
6 2 (4.55%) Web Accessibility
7 1 (2.27%) Copywriting
7 1 (2.27%) Digital Marketing
7 1 (2.27%) Integration Patterns
7 1 (2.27%) Responsive Web Design
7 1 (2.27%) Website Architecture
Programming Languages
1 14 (31.82%) PHP
2 13 (29.55%) JavaScript
3 4 (9.09%) Python
4 3 (6.82%) SQL
5 2 (4.55%) Ruby
6 1 (2.27%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 3 (6.82%) QA
2 3 (6.82%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (4.55%) Docker
Vendors
1 8 (18.18%) Google
2 5 (11.36%) Salesforce
3 4 (9.09%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.82%) WooCommerce
5 1 (2.27%) Sitecore