CMS Contracts in England

Content Management System (CMS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring CMS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CMS over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 277 310 343
Rank change year-on-year +33 +33 -53
Contract jobs citing CMS 301 370 560
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.80% 0.79% 0.80%
As % of the Application Platforms category 8.13% 7.48% 6.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 277 415
10th Percentile £208 £260 £324
25th Percentile £275 £319 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £556 £569 £600
90th Percentile £650 £655 £713
UK median daily rate £420 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% -10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 5 18
10th Percentile £12.83 - £28.83
25th Percentile £13.00 £16.77 £44.19
Median hourly rate £14.13 £18.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.65% -75.33% +278.50%
75th Percentile £31.71 £23.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £33.05 £30.20 £81.00
UK median hourly rate £14.13 £18.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year -23.65% -75.33% +283.44%

All Application Platform Skills
England

CMS 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%

CMS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for CMS in England

CMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for CMS in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CMS in England over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CMS in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for CMS in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CMS in England over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for CMS 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 CMS within the England region over the 6 months to 13 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 +80 178 £425 -12.82% 72
North of England +4 29 £400 -0.62% 60
South West +9 28 £315 -16.00% 13
Midlands +22 24 £600 +24.68% 29
West Midlands +26 23 £600 +33.33% 9
North West +3 19 £388 -3.73% 33
South East -17 15 £540 +37.14% 32
East of England -23 15 £650 +52.94% 11
Yorkshire +13 9 £379 -1.94% 20
North East +9 1 £650 +20.93% 7
East Midlands +4 1 £410 -18.00% 20
CMS
UK

CMS
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 34 (11.30%) Headless CMS
2 26 (8.64%) Drupal
3 24 (7.97%) Sitecore CMS
4 19 (6.31%) Umbraco
5 15 (4.98%) SharePoint
6 11 (3.65%) WordPress
7 8 (2.66%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 8 (2.66%) Confluence
8 4 (1.33%) IIS
8 4 (1.33%) Kentico
9 3 (1.00%) EPiServer
9 3 (1.00%) Jadu
9 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.66%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.33%) Apache
11 1 (0.33%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.33%) CoreMedia CMS
11 1 (0.33%) Joomla!
11 1 (0.33%) Magnolia
11 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 23 (7.64%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (4.65%) MS Visio
2 14 (4.65%) Photoshop
3 12 (3.99%) Adobe Illustrator
4 6 (1.99%) PTC Creo
5 3 (1.00%) Acrobat
5 3 (1.00%) Windchill
6 2 (0.66%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.33%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.33%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.33%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (2.99%) Magento
2 4 (1.33%) Workfront
3 3 (1.00%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.66%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 43 (14.29%) Azure
2 26 (8.64%) Azure DevOps
3 24 (7.97%) AWS
4 17 (5.65%) GCP
5 15 (4.98%) Azure Monitor
5 15 (4.98%) Azure Pipelines
6 14 (4.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 14 (4.65%) Azure Service Bus
6 14 (4.65%) Contentful
7 10 (3.32%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 8 (2.66%) SaaS
9 7 (2.33%) Contentstack
9 7 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (1.99%) GitHub
11 5 (1.66%) Figma
12 4 (1.33%) Asana
12 4 (1.33%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (1.33%) Google Analytics
12 4 (1.33%) PaaS
13 3 (1.00%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.65%) Intranet
2 10 (3.32%) HTTP
3 8 (2.66%) DNS
3 8 (2.66%) SSL
4 5 (1.66%) FTP
4 5 (1.66%) SMTP
5 3 (1.00%) Internet
6 2 (0.66%) Skype
6 2 (0.66%) VPN
7 1 (0.33%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.64%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.33%) DB2
3 2 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (0.66%) Metadata
3 2 (0.66%) MySQL
3 2 (0.66%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.66%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.33%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.33%) InterSystems Cache
4 1 (0.33%) Jackrabbit
4 1 (0.33%) Looker
4 1 (0.33%) MariaDB
4 1 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.33%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.33%) Redis
4 1 (0.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 32 (10.63%) Git
2 28 (9.30%) JIRA
3 9 (2.99%) Selenium
4 6 (1.99%) webpack
5 5 (1.66%) Bitbucket
5 5 (1.66%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.00%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.00%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.00%) Jasmine
6 3 (1.00%) SpecFlow
6 3 (1.00%) Subversion
6 3 (1.00%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.66%) gulp
7 2 (0.66%) HP UFT
7 2 (0.66%) LoadRunner
7 2 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.33%) Dreamweaver
8 1 (0.33%) JMeter
8 1 (0.33%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.33%) WebDriver
General
1 82 (27.24%) Social Skills
2 41 (13.62%) Marketing
3 27 (8.97%) Public Sector
4 23 (7.64%) Publishing
5 20 (6.64%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (6.31%) Finance
7 17 (5.65%) Retail
8 8 (2.66%) Back Office
8 8 (2.66%) Banking
9 6 (1.99%) Local Government
9 6 (1.99%) Manufacturing
9 6 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.66%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.33%) French Language
11 4 (1.33%) Wearables
12 3 (1.00%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (1.00%) Investment Banking
12 3 (1.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 89 (29.57%) Developer
2 37 (12.29%) Analyst
3 35 (11.63%) Senior
4 22 (7.31%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 18 (5.98%) Project Manager
6 17 (5.65%) Architect
6 17 (5.65%) Senior Developer
6 17 (5.65%) SOC Analyst
7 16 (5.32%) .NET Developer
8 14 (4.65%) Applications Support
8 14 (4.65%) Applications Support Analyst
8 14 (4.65%) Project Analyst
8 14 (4.65%) Project Support Analyst
8 14 (4.65%) Support Analyst
9 13 (4.32%) Digital Project Manager
9 13 (4.32%) Full Stack Developer
9 13 (4.32%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 12 (3.99%) Consultant
10 12 (3.99%) Web Manager
11 11 (3.65%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (21.26%) HTML
2 60 (19.93%) CSS
3 48 (15.95%) React
4 44 (14.62%) .NET
5 22 (7.31%) .NET Core
6 19 (6.31%) AngularJS
6 19 (6.31%) ASP.NET
7 17 (5.65%) jQuery
8 14 (4.65%) Next.js
9 13 (4.32%) ASP.NET MVC
9 13 (4.32%) GraphQL
10 12 (3.99%) REST
11 10 (3.32%) Node.js
12 8 (2.66%) Entity Framework
12 8 (2.66%) HTML5
12 8 (2.66%) Laravel
12 8 (2.66%) Web Services
13 7 (2.33%) .NET Framework
13 7 (2.33%) Sass
14 6 (1.99%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 17 (5.65%) Product Ownership
2 15 (4.98%) Cyberattack
3 14 (4.65%) Security Operations Centre
3 14 (4.65%) Social Media
4 11 (3.65%) Management Information System
5 9 (2.99%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 7 (2.33%) Acoustics
6 7 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.33%) Mobile App
7 5 (1.66%) EPoS
7 5 (1.66%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.66%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.33%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.33%) Graphic Design
8 4 (1.33%) Handset
8 4 (1.33%) Life Science
8 4 (1.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 4 (1.33%) Wiki
9 3 (1.00%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 20 (6.64%) Linux
1 20 (6.64%) Windows
2 4 (1.33%) VMS
3 3 (1.00%) Android
3 3 (1.00%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (25.58%) Agile
2 76 (25.25%) Content Management
3 57 (18.94%) User Experience
4 42 (13.95%) SEO
5 38 (12.62%) DevOps
6 34 (11.30%) E-Commerce
7 32 (10.63%) Problem-Solving
8 31 (10.30%) Project Management
9 30 (9.97%) Analytics
9 30 (9.97%) Front End Development
9 30 (9.97%) Scrum
10 28 (9.30%) Migration
11 25 (8.31%) MVC
12 23 (7.64%) Full Stack Development
13 21 (6.98%) Web Development
14 20 (6.64%) Cybersecurity
15 19 (6.31%) Stakeholder Management
15 19 (6.31%) TDD
16 18 (5.98%) CI/CD
16 18 (5.98%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 49 (16.28%) JavaScript
2 34 (11.30%) C#
3 30 (9.97%) TypeScript
4 16 (5.32%) Bicep
5 13 (4.32%) SQL
6 9 (2.99%) Java
6 9 (2.99%) Python
7 7 (2.33%) PHP
8 4 (1.33%) COBOL
9 3 (1.00%) Perl
9 3 (1.00%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.00%) Ruby
9 3 (1.00%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.66%) Bash
10 2 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.66%) REXX
10 2 (0.66%) SELCOPY
11 1 (0.33%) C++
Qualifications
1 28 (9.30%) Security Cleared
2 17 (5.65%) Degree
3 6 (1.99%) SC Cleared
4 4 (1.33%) DV Cleared
4 4 (1.33%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.00%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 24 (7.97%) QA
3 22 (7.31%) WCAG
4 5 (1.66%) PMO
5 3 (1.00%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.66%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.66%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.33%) DICOM
7 1 (0.33%) GDPR
7 1 (0.33%) GxP
7 1 (0.33%) HL7
System Software
1 16 (5.32%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.66%) Docker
3 2 (0.66%) Time Sharing Option
4 1 (0.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 9 (2.99%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.33%) Terraform
3 3 (1.00%) Ansible
3 3 (1.00%) Opsgenie
4 1 (0.33%) AppManager
4 1 (0.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 61 (20.27%) Microsoft
2 24 (7.97%) Sitecore
3 20 (6.64%) Splunk
4 17 (5.65%) Darktrace
4 17 (5.65%) FireEye
4 17 (5.65%) LogRhythm
5 16 (5.32%) Adobe
6 12 (3.99%) Optimizely
7 10 (3.32%) Google
8 9 (2.99%) Salesforce
9 8 (2.66%) Atlassian
10 7 (2.33%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.99%) SAP
12 5 (1.66%) IronPort
12 5 (1.66%) Symantec
13 4 (1.33%) Dynatrace
13 4 (1.33%) Hotjar
13 4 (1.33%) IBM
13 4 (1.33%) ICL
13 4 (1.33%) Screaming Frog