Ripple
Junior WordPress Developer
Job Description
Salary: £63,000 - 91,000 per year
Requirements:- Some commercial experience working, ideally within an agency, software house, or in-house development team.
- Solid experience customising, building, or maintaining WordPress sites, including themes and plugins.
- Strong grasp of HTML5, CSS/SCSS, JavaScript, and responsive web design.
- Practical understanding of database interactions and basic query writing with MySQL/SQL.
- Comfortable using IDEs such as Visual Studio Code, Git/version control, and local development environments.
- A genuine passion for web technology and a drive to expand our skill set toward Full Stack development.
- Exposure to modern JavaScript frameworks such as React or Vue, or experience with TypeScript.
- Familiarity with Python or other back-end scripting languages.
- Basic awareness of UI/UX design principles or technical SEO.
- Assist in creating, customising, and maintaining bespoke WordPress themes and plugins.
- Turn design wireframes into clean, responsive, cross-browser compatible web pages.
- Develop clean, scalable code using HTML, SCSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, and PHP.
- Learn to write and optimize SQL queries for database performance and reliability.
- Gain hands-on exposure to deployment processes, AWS cloud platforms, and Linux environments.
- Troubleshoot functional issues, fix bugs, and implement clean solutions across client sites.
- Stay curious about emerging web technologies, frameworks, and modern developer tooling.
- Work closely with experienced developers and designers in a collaborative, design-led environment.
- Build experience across the full development lifecycle, from front-end WordPress work to back-end logic and cloud infrastructure.
- Progress toward full stack development with support from a senior mentor and structured training.
- AWS
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- CSS
- Git
- HTML5
- Support
- JavaScript
- Linux
- MySQL
- PHP
- Python
- React
- SCSS
- SQL
- TypeScript
- Visual Studio
- Vue
- Web
- WordPress
- UX UI Design
- NodeJS
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We are an ambitious digital agency based in Basingstoke, offering a hybrid working arrangement with around two days per week onsite and a comfortable commuting distance preferred, ideally with access to a car. We are growing our development team and provide a structured pathway for a Junior Developer to progress into a Full Stack Developer role. You will work in a collaborative, design-led environment alongside experienced developers and designers, with direct access to senior mentoring, regular performance and salary reviews, and hands-on training across WordPress, PHP, databases, AWS, CI/CD, and modern JavaScript frameworks. We offer a relaxed and inclusive culture, a company pension scheme, and free on-site parking.
last updated 31 week of 2026
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Ripple
Basingstoke
IT
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£77,000
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£32,000
UK median
This salary is 141% above the UK median for Junior roles (£32,000/yr).
Based on 2024–2025 UK technology sector benchmarks