WordPress Developer Contracts

WordPress Developer
UK

The median WordPress Developer daily rate in the UK is £300, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 550 670 816
Rank change year-on-year +120 +146 -123
Contract jobs requiring a WordPress Developer 34 27 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.078% 0.049% 0.037%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.084% 0.051% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 25 26
10th Percentile £131 £225 £200
25th Percentile £163 £263 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £325 £302
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +7.79% +14.86%
75th Percentile £438 £400 £397
90th Percentile £445 £505 £531
UK excluding London median daily rate £138 £338 £250
% change year-on-year -59.26% +35.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £22.50 - £41.25
Median hourly rate £26.25 - £42.50
75th Percentile £30.31 - £43.75
90th Percentile £33.13 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.25 - £42.50
% change year-on-year - - -1.16%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for WordPress Developer in the UK

WordPress Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for WordPress Developer in the UK

WordPress Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for WordPress Developer in the UK

WordPress Developer
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 WordPress Developer within the UK 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
England +91 32 £300 -7.69% 25
Work from Home +115 18 £331 +6.00% 13
UK excluding London +34 17 £138 -59.26% 18
London +84 15 £400 +23.08% 5
Midlands +27 12 £138 -42.11% 2
West Midlands +23 6 £138 -31.25% 1
East Midlands +12 6 £325 +18.18% 1
North of England +16 2 £275 -8.33% 7
South East +10 2 - - 5
North West +15 1 £275 -8.33% 5
South West - 1 £300 - 2
North East - 1 - -

WordPress Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, WordPress Developer contract 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 contract job ads featuring WordPress Developer in the job title.

1 34 (100.00%) WordPress
2 17 (50.00%) PHP
3 12 (35.29%) CSS
4 10 (29.41%) JavaScript
5 9 (26.47%) Web Development
6 8 (23.53%) HTML
6 8 (23.53%) GitHub
6 8 (23.53%) Vue
7 6 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (17.65%) Accessibility
7 6 (17.65%) React
7 6 (17.65%) Front End Development
8 5 (14.71%) User Experience
8 5 (14.71%) Git
9 4 (11.76%) UX Design
9 4 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 4 (11.76%) SEO
9 4 (11.76%) Local Government
9 4 (11.76%) Deployment Automation
9 4 (11.76%) Tailwind CSS
9 4 (11.76%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (8.82%) Next.js
10 3 (8.82%) Social Skills
10 3 (8.82%) GraphQL
10 3 (8.82%) Analytics
10 3 (8.82%) AWS
11 2 (5.88%) SQL
11 2 (5.88%) .NET
11 2 (5.88%) Intranet
11 2 (5.88%) Node.js

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 34 (100.00%) WordPress
2 1 (2.94%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Elementor
Cloud Services
1 8 (23.53%) GitHub
2 3 (8.82%) AWS
3 2 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (2.94%) Figma
4 1 (2.94%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.88%) Intranet
2 1 (2.94%) DNS
Development Applications
1 5 (14.71%) Git
General
1 4 (11.76%) Local Government
2 3 (8.82%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.88%) Health Technology
3 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (35.29%) CSS
2 8 (23.53%) HTML
2 8 (23.53%) Vue
3 6 (17.65%) React
4 4 (11.76%) Tailwind CSS
5 3 (8.82%) GraphQL
5 3 (8.82%) Next.js
6 2 (5.88%) .NET
6 2 (5.88%) Laravel
6 2 (5.88%) Node.js
6 2 (5.88%) Symfony
7 1 (2.94%) CSS3
7 1 (2.94%) HTML5
7 1 (2.94%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (2.94%) Animation
2 1 (2.94%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (26.47%) Web Development
2 6 (17.65%) Front End Development
2 6 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (14.71%) User Experience
4 4 (11.76%) Deployment Automation
4 4 (11.76%) SEO
4 4 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (11.76%) UX Design
5 3 (8.82%) Analytics
6 2 (5.88%) CI/CD
6 2 (5.88%) Containerisation
7 1 (2.94%) Agile
7 1 (2.94%) DevOps
7 1 (2.94%) Fintech
7 1 (2.94%) Mentoring
7 1 (2.94%) MVC
7 1 (2.94%) Project Management
7 1 (2.94%) Scrum
7 1 (2.94%) Storytelling
7 1 (2.94%) Virtual Team Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (50.00%) PHP
2 10 (29.41%) JavaScript
3 2 (5.88%) Ruby
3 2 (5.88%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.65%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (5.88%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (2.94%) Google
1 1 (2.94%) WooCommerce