WordPress Contracts in England

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UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 482 535 689
Rank change year-on-year +53 +154 -158
Contract jobs citing WordPress 68 101 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.18% 0.21% 0.14%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.84% 2.04% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 85 77
10th Percentile £121 £200 £200
25th Percentile £190 £300 £256
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £350 £375
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -6.67% +15.38%
75th Percentile £438 £408 £488
90th Percentile £465 £525 £568
UK median daily rate £300 £350 £378
% change year-on-year -14.29% -7.28% +16.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 6 4
10th Percentile - - £28.33
25th Percentile £15.00 £21.00 £29.56
Median hourly rate £17.00 £22.00 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% -32.82% -27.22%
75th Percentile £28.13 £23.00 £37.19
90th Percentile £31.71 - £41.13
UK median hourly rate £17.00 £22.00 £32.75
% change year-on-year -22.73% -32.82% -18.63%

All Application Platform Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,704 4,947 8,782
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.88% 10.52% 12.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,666 3,525 6,139
10th Percentile £263 £263 £263
25th Percentile £363 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +7.89%
75th Percentile £627 £650 £625
90th Percentile £788 £765 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £511 £520
% change year-on-year -2.15% -1.73% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 129 185
10th Percentile £13.30 £16.23 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.58 £21.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £30.16 £48.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.81% +120.45% +12.14%
75th Percentile £49.38 £66.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.19 £77.43
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 England

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

Job vacancy trend for WordPress in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for WordPress in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for WordPress in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for WordPress in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

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

Hourly rate histogram for WordPress in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WordPress within the England 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
London +72 31 £375 +7.14% 89
Midlands +27 16 £138 -72.50% 40
North of England +20 11 £275 -21.43% 57
West Midlands +26 10 £138 -31.25% 21
East Midlands +9 6 £325 -35.00% 21
North West +18 5 £218 -27.50% 32
East of England +4 5 £110 - 28
Yorkshire +12 4 - - 17
South East -13 3 £225 -30.77% 31
North East - 2 £325 - 8
South West +1 1 £300 +13.21% 20
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 11 (16.18%) CMS
2 7 (10.29%) Drupal
3 5 (7.35%) Moodle
4 2 (2.94%) IIS
4 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (2.94%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.47%) Joomla!
5 1 (1.47%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (1.47%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.94%) Elementor
3 1 (1.47%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 10 (14.71%) GitHub
2 7 (10.29%) Google Analytics
3 5 (7.35%) AWS
3 5 (7.35%) MailChimp
4 3 (4.41%) Azure
4 3 (4.41%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (4.41%) SaaS
5 2 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (2.94%) OneDrive
5 2 (2.94%) Squarespace
6 1 (1.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.47%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.47%) Canva
6 1 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.47%) Figma
6 1 (1.47%) GCP
6 1 (1.47%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (1.47%) Serverless
6 1 (1.47%) Sprout Social
6 1 (1.47%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.41%) DNS
2 2 (2.94%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (2.94%) Firewall
2 2 (2.94%) Intranet
2 2 (2.94%) iSCSI
2 2 (2.94%) NAS
2 2 (2.94%) SAN
2 2 (2.94%) VPN
2 2 (2.94%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.88%) MySQL
2 2 (2.94%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (8.82%) Git
2 3 (4.41%) webpack
3 1 (1.47%) JIRA
General
1 14 (20.59%) Social Skills
2 4 (5.88%) Local Government
3 3 (4.41%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.47%) Advertising
4 1 (1.47%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.47%) Health Technology
4 1 (1.47%) Marketing
4 1 (1.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 36 (52.94%) Developer
2 32 (47.06%) WordPress Developer
3 7 (10.29%) Senior
4 5 (7.35%) Senior Developer
4 5 (7.35%) Senior WordPress Developer
4 5 (7.35%) Support Officer
4 5 (7.35%) Technical Support
4 5 (7.35%) Technical Support Officer
5 4 (5.88%) PHP Developer
6 3 (4.41%) Full Stack Engineer
6 3 (4.41%) JavaScript Engineer
6 3 (4.41%) PHP WordPress Developer
7 2 (2.94%) Designer
7 2 (2.94%) Digital Product Owner
7 2 (2.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (2.94%) Network Engineer
7 2 (2.94%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (2.94%) Product Owner
7 2 (2.94%) Web Designer
8 1 (1.47%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (26.47%) CSS
2 15 (22.06%) React
3 13 (19.12%) HTML
4 10 (14.71%) Laravel
5 9 (13.24%) Vue
6 8 (11.76%) Node.js
7 6 (8.82%) Tailwind CSS
8 4 (5.88%) Next.js
8 4 (5.88%) Sass
9 3 (4.41%) .NET
9 3 (4.41%) GraphQL
9 3 (4.41%) Symfony
9 3 (4.41%) Twig
10 2 (2.94%) CSS3
10 2 (2.94%) HTML5
10 2 (2.94%) LAMP
11 1 (1.47%) ASP.NET
11 1 (1.47%) ASP.NET Core
11 1 (1.47%) jQuery
11 1 (1.47%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.35%) Distributed Architecture
1 5 (7.35%) Learning Management System
1 5 (7.35%) Social Media
2 2 (2.94%) Life Science
2 2 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (2.94%) Product Ownership
2 2 (2.94%) Replication
2 2 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (2.94%) Virtual Team
3 1 (1.47%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.94%) Linux
1 2 (2.94%) Ubuntu
1 2 (2.94%) VMS
1 2 (2.94%) Windows
1 2 (2.94%) Windows Server
1 2 (2.94%) Windows Server 2016
1 2 (2.94%) Windows Server 2019
2 1 (1.47%) Android
2 1 (1.47%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (25.00%) Web Development
2 13 (19.12%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (13.24%) Analytics
3 9 (13.24%) Full Stack Development
4 8 (11.76%) Front End Development
5 6 (8.82%) User Experience
6 5 (7.35%) Deployment Automation
6 5 (7.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (7.35%) UX Design
7 4 (5.88%) Agile
7 4 (5.88%) Content Management
7 4 (5.88%) Decision-Making
7 4 (5.88%) SEO
8 3 (4.41%) BEM - Block Element Modifier
8 3 (4.41%) E-Commerce
8 3 (4.41%) Scrum
9 2 (2.94%) B2C
9 2 (2.94%) MVC
9 2 (2.94%) Project Management
9 2 (2.94%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 22 (32.35%) PHP
2 16 (23.53%) JavaScript
3 3 (4.41%) SQL
4 2 (2.94%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.94%) Ruby
5 1 (1.47%) C#
5 1 (1.47%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (5.88%) DBS Check
2 1 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.47%) Degree
2 1 (1.47%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.47%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.76%) Accessibility
2 4 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.94%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.94%) Docker
1 2 (2.94%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (2.94%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (11.76%) Google
2 7 (10.29%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.29%) Salesforce
3 5 (7.35%) WooCommerce
4 4 (5.88%) Hootsuite
5 2 (2.94%) Aruba
5 2 (2.94%) Palo Alto
5 2 (2.94%) ProCurve
5 2 (2.94%) Synology
5 2 (2.94%) Veeam
5 2 (2.94%) VMware
5 2 (2.94%) Zerto
6 1 (1.47%) Adobe
6 1 (1.47%) DocuSign
6 1 (1.47%) Sitecore