CMS Contracts

Content Management System (CMS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for CMS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited CMS over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 280 306 337
Rank change year-on-year +26 +31 -62
Contract jobs citing CMS 344 462 700
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.80% 0.82% 0.80%
As % of the Application Platforms category 8.09% 7.58% 6.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 348 505
10th Percentile £204 £262 £319
25th Percentile £274 £350 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £540 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £400 £451
% change year-on-year -6.25% -11.21% +12.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 18
10th Percentile £12.83 £16.77 £28.83
25th Percentile - £17.02 £44.19
Median hourly rate £13.00 £18.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.73% -75.33% +283.44%
75th Percentile £29.66 £22.06 £77.50
90th Percentile £32.61 £29.00 £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £13.00 £16.77 £75.00
% change year-on-year -22.48% -77.64% +280.95%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

CMS 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 4,252 6,095 10,952
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.88% 10.87% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,959 4,271 7,550
10th Percentile £258 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% - +7.89%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 148 208
10th Percentile £13.28 £16.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.50 £21.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £30.08 £51.25 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year -41.31% +125.27% +10.98%
75th Percentile £50.47 £66.00 £54.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -25.00% +116.22% -2.63%

CMS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for CMS in the UK

CMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for CMS in the UK

CMS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CMS over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CMS in the UK

CMS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for CMS in the UK

CMS
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CMS over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for CMS in the UK

CMS
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CMS within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 +32 304 £425 - 232
London +94 180 £425 -15.00% 70
UK excluding London -23 130 £375 -6.25% 166
Work from Home +11 119 £443 -1.61% 131
North of England +11 30 £404 +0.31% 53
South West +14 29 £308 -18.00% 12
Midlands +26 24 £600 +24.68% 37
West Midlands +21 23 £600 +33.33% 14
North West +10 19 £388 -3.73% 29
Scotland +30 17 £179 -59.81% 8
East of England -25 16 £650 +40.54% 12
South East -20 14 £540 +35.00% 43
Yorkshire +17 10 £408 +5.50% 18
North East +12 1 £650 +20.93% 6
East Midlands +9 1 £410 -18.00% 23

CMS
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 39 (11.34%) Headless CMS
2 30 (8.72%) Drupal
3 24 (6.98%) Sitecore CMS
4 19 (5.52%) Umbraco
5 16 (4.65%) SharePoint
6 14 (4.07%) WordPress
7 11 (3.20%) Kentico
8 9 (2.62%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 7 (2.03%) Confluence
10 5 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (1.16%) IIS
11 4 (1.16%) Skype for Business
12 3 (0.87%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.87%) Jadu
13 1 (0.29%) Apache
13 1 (0.29%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.29%) CoreMedia CMS
13 1 (0.29%) Magnolia
13 1 (0.29%) SharePoint 2013
13 1 (0.29%) Tomcat
Applications
1 25 (7.27%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (4.07%) MS Visio
3 13 (3.78%) Photoshop
4 11 (3.20%) Adobe Illustrator
5 6 (1.74%) PTC Creo
6 3 (0.87%) Acrobat
6 3 (0.87%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (0.87%) Windchill
7 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
8 1 (0.29%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (3.78%) Magento
2 4 (1.16%) Workfront
3 3 (0.87%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.58%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.29%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 51 (14.83%) Azure
2 30 (8.72%) AWS
2 30 (8.72%) Azure DevOps
3 23 (6.69%) GCP
4 15 (4.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 15 (4.36%) Azure Pipelines
4 15 (4.36%) Azure Service Bus
5 14 (4.07%) Azure Monitor
5 14 (4.07%) Contentful
5 14 (4.07%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (2.91%) GitHub
6 10 (2.91%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 8 (2.33%) SaaS
8 7 (2.03%) Contentstack
9 6 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (1.74%) Google Analytics
10 5 (1.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (1.45%) PaaS
10 5 (1.45%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
11 4 (1.16%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.36%) Intranet
2 8 (2.33%) HTTP
3 7 (2.03%) DNS
3 7 (2.03%) SSL
4 4 (1.16%) FTP
4 4 (1.16%) Skype
4 4 (1.16%) SMTP
4 4 (1.16%) VPN
5 3 (0.87%) Internet
6 1 (0.29%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (5.81%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.74%) Metadata
3 5 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.16%) DB2
5 2 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.58%) Jackrabbit
5 2 (0.58%) Looker
5 2 (0.58%) MySQL
5 2 (0.58%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.58%) Redis
5 2 (0.58%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.29%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.29%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.29%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (0.29%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.29%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 39 (11.34%) Git
2 26 (7.56%) JIRA
3 9 (2.62%) Selenium
4 8 (2.33%) webpack
5 7 (2.03%) Visual Studio Code
6 5 (1.45%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.45%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.87%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.87%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.87%) Jasmine
7 3 (0.87%) SpecFlow
7 3 (0.87%) Subversion
7 3 (0.87%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.58%) gulp
8 2 (0.58%) HP UFT
8 2 (0.58%) LoadRunner
8 2 (0.58%) rollup.js
8 2 (0.58%) Storybook
8 2 (0.58%) Vite
9 1 (0.29%) Gatling
General
1 105 (30.52%) Social Skills
2 44 (12.79%) Marketing
3 42 (12.21%) Public Sector
4 30 (8.72%) Publishing
5 21 (6.10%) Finance
6 19 (5.52%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (5.23%) Retail
8 8 (2.33%) Back Office
8 8 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (2.03%) Banking
9 7 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.74%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.45%) Legal
11 5 (1.45%) Local Government
11 5 (1.45%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.16%) French Language
12 4 (1.16%) Wearables
13 3 (0.87%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 102 (29.65%) Developer
2 47 (13.66%) Senior
3 40 (11.63%) Analyst
4 28 (8.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 21 (6.10%) Designer
6 20 (5.81%) Content Designer
7 19 (5.52%) SOC Analyst
8 18 (5.23%) Architect
8 18 (5.23%) Project Manager
8 18 (5.23%) Senior Developer
9 17 (4.94%) .NET Developer
10 15 (4.36%) Content Manager
11 14 (4.07%) Applications Support
11 14 (4.07%) Applications Support Analyst
11 14 (4.07%) Project Analyst
11 14 (4.07%) Project Support Analyst
11 14 (4.07%) Support Analyst
12 13 (3.78%) Consultant
12 13 (3.78%) Senior Analyst
12 13 (3.78%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (20.06%) HTML
2 65 (18.90%) CSS
3 57 (16.57%) React
4 47 (13.66%) .NET
5 25 (7.27%) .NET Core
6 19 (5.52%) ASP.NET
7 18 (5.23%) AngularJS
7 18 (5.23%) GraphQL
7 18 (5.23%) jQuery
8 13 (3.78%) ASP.NET MVC
8 13 (3.78%) Next.js
8 13 (3.78%) Node.js
9 12 (3.49%) REST
10 9 (2.62%) DOM
10 9 (2.62%) Vue
11 8 (2.33%) Laravel
12 7 (2.03%) Entity Framework
12 7 (2.03%) HTML5
12 7 (2.03%) Sass
12 7 (2.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (4.94%) Cyberattack
1 17 (4.94%) Product Ownership
2 16 (4.65%) Security Operations Centre
3 15 (4.36%) Social Media
4 14 (4.07%) Management Information System
5 11 (3.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 7 (2.03%) Acoustics
6 7 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.03%) Mobile App
7 6 (1.74%) EPoS
7 6 (1.74%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.45%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.16%) Blackberry
9 4 (1.16%) Handset
9 4 (1.16%) Marketing Technology
9 4 (1.16%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 4 (1.16%) Wiki
10 3 (0.87%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.87%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (6.40%) Linux
1 22 (6.40%) Windows
2 4 (1.16%) VMS
3 3 (0.87%) Android
3 3 (0.87%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.87%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (30.23%) Content Management
2 87 (25.29%) Agile
3 62 (18.02%) User Experience
4 44 (12.79%) SEO
5 43 (12.50%) DevOps
6 42 (12.21%) E-Commerce
7 37 (10.76%) Front End Development
8 36 (10.47%) Problem-Solving
9 34 (9.88%) Analytics
9 34 (9.88%) Project Management
10 31 (9.01%) Scrum
11 29 (8.43%) Migration
12 27 (7.85%) MVC
13 26 (7.56%) Web Development
14 23 (6.69%) Content Strategy
15 22 (6.40%) Cybersecurity
15 22 (6.40%) Full Stack Development
16 21 (6.10%) Stakeholder Management
17 20 (5.81%) Roadmaps
18 19 (5.52%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 53 (15.41%) JavaScript
2 35 (10.17%) C#
3 32 (9.30%) TypeScript
4 15 (4.36%) Bicep
5 13 (3.78%) Python
5 13 (3.78%) SQL
6 10 (2.91%) Java
7 8 (2.33%) PHP
8 4 (1.16%) COBOL
9 3 (0.87%) Perl
9 3 (0.87%) Ruby
9 3 (0.87%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.58%) Bash
10 2 (0.58%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.58%) REXX
10 2 (0.58%) SELCOPY
11 1 (0.29%) C++
11 1 (0.29%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 31 (9.01%) Security Cleared
2 25 (7.27%) Degree
3 10 (2.91%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.16%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.16%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (0.87%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (15.41%) Accessibility
2 30 (8.72%) QA
3 25 (7.27%) WCAG
4 5 (1.45%) PMO
5 4 (1.16%) Disclosure Scotland
5 4 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.87%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.58%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.58%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.29%) DICOM
8 1 (0.29%) GDPR
8 1 (0.29%) GxP
8 1 (0.29%) HL7
System Software
1 18 (5.23%) Active Directory
2 9 (2.62%) Docker
3 2 (0.58%) Time Sharing Option
4 1 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 10 (2.91%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.45%) Terraform
3 3 (0.87%) Ansible
3 3 (0.87%) Opsgenie
4 1 (0.29%) AppManager
4 1 (0.29%) Grafana
Vendors
1 71 (20.64%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.98%) Sitecore
3 22 (6.40%) Splunk
4 19 (5.52%) Darktrace
4 19 (5.52%) FireEye
4 19 (5.52%) LogRhythm
5 17 (4.94%) Adobe
6 15 (4.36%) Google
7 13 (3.78%) Salesforce
8 12 (3.49%) Optimizely
9 10 (2.91%) ServiceNow
10 8 (2.33%) Atlassian
11 6 (1.74%) SAP
12 4 (1.16%) Becrypt
12 4 (1.16%) Citrix
12 4 (1.16%) Dynatrace
12 4 (1.16%) IBM
12 4 (1.16%) ICL
12 4 (1.16%) IronPort
12 4 (1.16%) Symantec