Headless CMS Contracts in England

Headless Content Management System (Headless CMS)
UK > England

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 509 608 768
Rank change year-on-year +99 +160 -184
Contract jobs citing Headless CMS 33 31 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.089% 0.065% 0.037%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.92% 0.61% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 26 19
10th Percentile £393 £347 £375
25th Percentile £419 £403 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £596 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.95% +19.25% +5.26%
75th Percentile £623 £700 £700
90th Percentile £626 £700 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £546 £550
% change year-on-year -8.47% -0.68% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 - -

All Application Platform Skills
England

Headless 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 advertised in England with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,594 5,072 8,830
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.73% 10.62% 12.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,584 3,619 6,156
10th Percentile £258 £263 £263
25th Percentile £363 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.94% +7.37%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £625
90th Percentile £788 £764 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -2.44% - +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 132 186
10th Percentile £13.05 £16.14 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.48 £21.00 £15.44
Median hourly rate £30.00 £46.25 £20.57
Median % change year-on-year -35.14% +124.90% +4.15%
75th Percentile £46.18 £65.81 £52.93
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.07 £76.58
UK median hourly rate £30.08 £51.25 £22.50
% change year-on-year -41.31% +127.78% +9.76%

Headless CMS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Headless CMS in England

Headless CMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Headless CMS in England

Headless CMS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Headless CMS in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Headless CMS in England

Headless CMS
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 Headless CMS within the England region over the 6 months to 2 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 +107 25 £590 +18.00% 10
North West - 3 £500 - 2
North of England - 3 £500 - 3
Midlands +26 2 - - 1
West Midlands +16 2 - -
South East +7 2 - - 1
Headless CMS
UK

Headless 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 33 (100.00%) CMS
2 4 (12.12%) Confluence
3 2 (6.06%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (6.06%) Kentico
Business Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 6 (18.18%) Contentstack
2 4 (12.12%) Contentful
3 3 (9.09%) prismic.io
4 2 (6.06%) Azure
4 2 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.06%) SaaS
5 1 (3.03%) Amplience
5 1 (3.03%) AWS
5 1 (3.03%) GCP
5 1 (3.03%) GitHub
5 1 (3.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (3.03%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.09%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.03%) Jackrabbit
1 1 (3.03%) Looker
1 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (15.15%) Git
2 4 (12.12%) JIRA
3 3 (9.09%) webpack
4 2 (6.06%) gulp
4 2 (6.06%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 8 (24.24%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.15%) Finance
2 5 (15.15%) Marketing
2 5 (15.15%) Retail
3 4 (12.12%) Banking
4 3 (9.09%) Corporate Banking
4 3 (9.09%) Investment Banking
4 3 (9.09%) Publishing
4 3 (9.09%) Retail Banking
5 1 (3.03%) Multimedia
5 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.03%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 21 (63.64%) Developer
2 5 (15.15%) CMS Developer
2 5 (15.15%) React Developer
3 4 (12.12%) JavaScript Developer
4 3 (9.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 3 (9.09%) Lead
4 3 (9.09%) Web Developer
5 2 (6.06%) Angular Developer
5 2 (6.06%) Backend Developer
5 2 (6.06%) Consultant
5 2 (6.06%) E-Commerce Developer
6 1 (3.03%) Applications Developer
6 1 (3.03%) CMS Consultant
6 1 (3.03%) Content Designer
6 1 (3.03%) Content Manager
6 1 (3.03%) Content Strategist
6 1 (3.03%) Designer
6 1 (3.03%) Full Stack Developer
6 1 (3.03%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (51.52%) HTML
2 14 (42.42%) CSS
3 13 (39.39%) React
4 10 (30.30%) GraphQL
5 8 (24.24%) Next.js
6 7 (21.21%) HTML5
7 5 (15.15%) AngularJS
7 5 (15.15%) Web Services
8 3 (9.09%) Jest
8 3 (9.09%) Nunjucks
8 3 (9.09%) Nuxt
8 3 (9.09%) REST
8 3 (9.09%) Vue
9 2 (6.06%) Apache Sling
9 2 (6.06%) CSS3
9 2 (6.06%) Express.js
9 2 (6.06%) GatsbyJS
9 2 (6.06%) Node.js
9 2 (6.06%) OSGi
9 2 (6.06%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.21%) Acoustics
2 4 (12.12%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.06%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (39.39%) Agile
2 10 (30.30%) SEO
2 10 (30.30%) User Experience
3 7 (21.21%) Code Quality
3 7 (21.21%) Content Management
3 7 (21.21%) E-Commerce
3 7 (21.21%) Software Engineering
4 6 (18.18%) Performance Optimisation
5 5 (15.15%) Analytics
5 5 (15.15%) B2C
5 5 (15.15%) Multithreading
5 5 (15.15%) Non-Blocking Code
5 5 (15.15%) Scrum
5 5 (15.15%) Web Development
6 4 (12.12%) Design Patterns
6 4 (12.12%) Personalization
6 4 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (12.12%) Refactoring
6 4 (12.12%) Visual Effects
7 3 (9.09%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 10 (30.30%) JavaScript
2 7 (21.21%) TypeScript
3 3 (9.09%) Java
4 2 (6.06%) Python
5 1 (3.03%) C#
5 1 (3.03%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (3.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.03%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (3.03%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.06%) Google
3 1 (3.03%) Adobe
3 1 (3.03%) Netlify
3 1 (3.03%) Optimizely