Drupal Contracts

Drupal
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Drupal skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Drupal over the 6 months to 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 521 628 616
Rank change year-on-year +107 -12 -43
Contract jobs citing Drupal 69 60 231
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.11% 0.26%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.60% 0.99% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 52 182
10th Percentile £229 £308 £313
25th Percentile £291 £361 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £419 £581 £459
90th Percentile £492 £682 £525
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 £488 £438
% change year-on-year -28.21% +11.43% +34.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile - £24.61 £39.50
25th Percentile £31.71 £26.35 £46.25
Median hourly rate £33.00 £29.23 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.90% -49.17% +98.28%
75th Percentile £33.07 £32.12 £68.75
90th Percentile - £33.85 £75.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Application Platform Skills
UK

Drupal 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 4,323 6,045 11,036
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.95% 10.84% 12.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,013 4,229 7,633
10th Percentile £262 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +8.42%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £625
90th Percentile £763 £750 £720
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +4.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 164 147 207
10th Percentile £13.33 £16.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.61 £21.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £30.16 £52.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.55% +133.33% +9.76%
75th Percentile £51.91 £66.00 £54.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.00 £75.34
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £46.75 £18.50
% change year-on-year -35.83% +152.70% -2.63%

Drupal
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Drupal in the UK

Drupal
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Drupal in the UK

Drupal
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Drupal over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Drupal in the UK

Drupal
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Drupal in the UK

Drupal
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Drupal within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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 +93 59 £350 -22.22% 24
UK excluding London +64 31 £350 -28.21% 12
London +86 27 £350 -22.22% 9
Work from Home +112 25 £350 -22.22% 14
North of England +27 12 £450 +28.57% 3
South East +20 11 £350 -34.88% 5
Yorkshire +23 10 £450 +20.00% 1
Midlands +17 6 £675 +15.88% 1
West Midlands +14 6 £675 +7.14%
North West +19 2 £160 -54.29% 2
South West +13 1 £275 -38.89%
Scotland - 1 £179 - 1

Drupal
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 31 (44.93%) CMS
2 15 (21.74%) WordPress
3 7 (10.14%) Umbraco
4 3 (4.35%) Moodle
5 1 (1.45%) Joomla!
5 1 (1.45%) Kentico
5 1 (1.45%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.45%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 4 (5.80%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.90%) FileZilla
3 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (7.25%) Magento
2 2 (2.90%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 15 (21.74%) AWS
2 10 (14.49%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (13.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 9 (13.04%) Dynamics 365
3 9 (13.04%) GitHub
4 8 (11.59%) GCP
5 5 (7.25%) Azure
6 3 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (4.35%) Serverless
7 2 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.90%) Squarespace
7 2 (2.90%) WhatsApp
8 1 (1.45%) Azure App Service
8 1 (1.45%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.45%) Azure Storage
8 1 (1.45%) Figma
8 1 (1.45%) Kontent
8 1 (1.45%) PaaS
8 1 (1.45%) Siteimprove
8 1 (1.45%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.35%) DNS
1 3 (4.35%) SSL
2 2 (2.90%) FTP
2 2 (2.90%) Intranet
2 2 (2.90%) WinSCP
3 1 (1.45%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (15.94%) MySQL
2 9 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.90%) MS Access
3 2 (2.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.45%) Metadata
4 1 (1.45%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (13.04%) Git
2 8 (11.59%) JIRA
3 3 (4.35%) Artifactory
3 3 (4.35%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.35%) Selenium
3 3 (4.35%) Subversion
4 2 (2.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 11 (15.94%) Social Skills
2 7 (10.14%) Publishing
3 6 (8.70%) Marketing
4 5 (7.25%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.25%) Local Government
5 4 (5.80%) Finance
5 4 (5.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (5.80%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.35%) Advertising
7 2 (2.90%) Legal
8 1 (1.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (46.38%) Developer
2 17 (24.64%) Drupal Developer
3 9 (13.04%) Python Developer
4 7 (10.14%) Full Stack Developer
5 5 (7.25%) Content Manager
5 5 (7.25%) Digital Content Manager
5 5 (7.25%) Digital Project Manager
5 5 (7.25%) Project Manager
5 5 (7.25%) Web Producer
6 3 (4.35%) Architect
6 3 (4.35%) Digital Producer
7 2 (2.90%) Drupal Architect
7 2 (2.90%) PHP Developer
7 2 (2.90%) Senior
7 2 (2.90%) Software Engineer
7 2 (2.90%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.90%) Umbraco Developer
7 2 (2.90%) Web Content Producer
8 1 (1.45%) Full Stack PHP Developer
8 1 (1.45%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.49%) React
2 8 (11.59%) CSS
3 6 (8.70%) HTML
4 5 (7.25%) .NET
4 5 (7.25%) Sass
5 2 (2.90%) CSS3
5 2 (2.90%) HTML5
5 2 (2.90%) jQuery
5 2 (2.90%) Laravel
6 1 (1.45%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.45%) Apache Camel
6 1 (1.45%) Middleware
6 1 (1.45%) REST
6 1 (1.45%) RESTful
6 1 (1.45%) SOAP
6 1 (1.45%) Symfony
6 1 (1.45%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.80%) Social Media
2 3 (4.35%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.35%) Mobile App
2 3 (4.35%) Private Cloud
3 2 (2.90%) Graphic Design
3 2 (2.90%) Life Science
4 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.45%) Legacy Code
4 1 (1.45%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.45%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.45%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.45%) Android
1 1 (1.45%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (23.19%) Agile
2 14 (20.29%) Content Management
3 12 (17.39%) Project Management
4 10 (14.49%) Full Stack Development
4 10 (14.49%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (13.04%) Scrum
5 9 (13.04%) TDD
5 9 (13.04%) User Experience
6 8 (11.59%) SDLC
6 8 (11.59%) User Stories
7 7 (10.14%) SEO
8 6 (8.70%) Migration
9 5 (7.25%) BDD
9 5 (7.25%) Code Quality
9 5 (7.25%) Computer Science
9 5 (7.25%) E-Commerce
10 4 (5.80%) Acceptance Criteria
10 4 (5.80%) DevOps
10 4 (5.80%) Product Backlog
10 4 (5.80%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 16 (23.19%) PHP
2 13 (18.84%) JavaScript
3 12 (17.39%) Python
4 3 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (8.70%) Degree
2 5 (7.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (7.25%) SC Cleared
2 5 (7.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (17.39%) Accessibility
1 12 (17.39%) QA
2 1 (1.45%) GDPR
2 1 (1.45%) PMO
2 1 (1.45%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 3 (4.35%) Ansible
Vendors
1 16 (23.19%) Microsoft
2 13 (18.84%) Salesforce
3 10 (14.49%) Google
4 4 (5.80%) Hotjar
4 4 (5.80%) Screaming Frog
5 3 (4.35%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.90%) LexisNexis
6 2 (2.90%) Sage
7 1 (1.45%) Brio
7 1 (1.45%) Sitecore