WordPress job demand

A compact readout of job-demand proxies already stored in SQLite: Hacker News Who is hiring mention rates, WordPress/WooCommerce and PHP mentions, agency/studio mentions, jobs.wordpress.net snapshots, and current Remote OK plus Remotive term scans.

HN WP/Woo rate

0.00

mentions per 100 comments in 2026 Q2

Latest four-quarter rate

0.12

vs 0.53 before 2024

Jobs board listings

13

2026-06-14; -55.2% vs 2023-01-01

Development listings

7

-50.0% vs 2023-01-01

Remote listings

10

6 full-time listings in current snapshot

Remote OK WP/Woo

0

100 current Remote OK jobs scanned

Remotive WP/Woo

3

32 current Remotive jobs scanned

Decision lanes

HN mentions are lower WordPress/WooCommerce mentions in HN Who is hiring threads are lower than the stored pre-2024 baseline.
-77.4% vs 2012-Q1 to 2023-Q4
Jobs board is smaller The WordPress-specific jobs board has fewer visible open listings than the 2023 archived snapshot.
13
Development remains the largest current category Development listings are the largest visible category on jobs.wordpress.net in the latest snapshot.
7
Remote OK is low for WP/Woo The current Remote OK public API snapshot has no WordPress or WooCommerce matches in the scanned jobs.
0 of 100
Remotive shows a small WP signal The current Remotive public API snapshot has WordPress or WooCommerce matches in the scanned jobs.
3 of 32
Agency demand is a separate proxy Agency/studio mentions in HN hiring threads remain visible, but they are not WordPress-specific by themselves.
2.54

How to read this

This page separates WordPress-specific jobs board snapshots from broader hiring-thread mentions and current Remote OK plus Remotive public API snapshots. It helps show direction, but it is narrower than a multi-year labor-market export.

HN Who is hiring WordPress/WooCommerce, PHP, and agency/studio mention counts, Remote OK and Remotive current remote-job term counts, annual and quarterly WordPress Jobs board open-listing snapshots, a compact proxy-direction summary, and a job-demand companion view are included; broader multi-year labor-market demand still needs a hiring-platform time series.

HN hiring mention rates

Quarterly mentions per 100 top-level comments in Hacker News Who is hiring threads.

0.00 6.66 13.32 2012 Q1 2026 Q2
WP or Woo 0.00 PHP 1.32 Agency 2.54

HN hiring mention counts

Quarterly top-level comments mentioning WordPress or WooCommerce, PHP, or agency/studio terms.

0 85 169 2012 Q1 2026 Q2
WP or Woo 0 PHP 13 Agency 25

WordPress Jobs board snapshots

Quarterly Wayback snapshots plus the current jobs.wordpress.net page. These are visible open listings, not total postings over each quarter.

0 31 62 2016 Q1 2026 Q2
All listings 13 Development 7 Project 6 Remote 10

WordPress Jobs board category mix

Quarterly share of visible jobs.wordpress.net listings by category. This makes the demand mix easier to read than raw category counts.

0.0% 42.0% 84.0% 2016 Q1 2026 Q2
Development 53.9% Design 15.4% Support 7.7% Plugin dev 7.7% Theme work 7.7% Project-style 46.2%

Current jobs board categories

Visible open listings by category on the latest jobs.wordpress.net snapshot.

Development7 of 13
Design2 of 13
General2 of 13
Performance1 of 13
Theme Customization1 of 13

Remote OK current term matches

Current Remote OK public API snapshot scanned for WordPress, WooCommerce, PHP, hosted-builder, CMS, and agency/studio terms.

Agency/studio13 of 100
CMS2 of 100
Shopify1 of 100
PHP0 of 100
Squarespace0 of 100
Webflow0 of 100
Wix0 of 100
WooCommerce0 of 100
WordPress0 of 100

Remotive current term matches

Current Remotive public API snapshot scanned for WordPress, WooCommerce, PHP, hosted-builder, CMS, and agency/studio terms.

PHP13 of 32
Agency/studio7 of 32
Shopify3 of 32
WordPress3 of 32
CMS2 of 32
Squarespace1 of 32
Wix1 of 32
Webflow0 of 32
WooCommerce0 of 32

Rows come from hn_hiring_wordpress_quarterly, hn_hiring_demand_summary, remoteok_job_signal_snapshot, remoteok_matching_jobs_snapshot, remotive_job_signal_snapshot, remotive_matching_jobs_snapshot, wordpress_jobs_board_snapshots, wordpress_jobs_board_category_snapshots, wordpress_jobs_board_quarterly_snapshots, wordpress_jobs_board_quarterly_categories, and attention_demand_summary. Remote OK source snapshot collected 2026-06-14; Remotive source snapshot collected 2026-06-14. Integrity check: ok.