Content Management System (CMS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for CMS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited CMS over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 359 393 304
Rank change year-on-year +34 -89 -55
Permanent jobs citing CMS 771 865 2,077
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.78% 0.86% 1.32%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.21% 7.51% 9.47%
Number of salaries quoted 676 656 986
10th Percentile £27,750 £35,086 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £42,454 £35,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £56,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.18% +12.00% -
75th Percentile £64,750 £71,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £75,772 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% -10.53%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 10,698 11,512 21,943
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.78% 11.40% 13.95%
Number of salaries quoted 7,102 7,724 11,594
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £54,882
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +0.22% +4.54%
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% -

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing CMS.

Salary trend for CMS in the UK

CMS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing CMS over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for CMS in the UK

CMS
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CMS within the UK over the 6 months to 10 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +42 712 £47,500 -16.67% 243
UK excluding London +33 520 £45,000 -10.00% 162
Work from Home +63 341 £50,000 -10.71% 154
London +32 222 £51,000 -21.54% 91
South East -14 169 £52,500 +5.00% 43
North of England +94 127 £44,000 -12.00% 52
North West +42 73 £42,500 -15.00% 25
South West -10 70 £61,500 +36.67% 13
Midlands +18 66 £42,500 +9.68% 33
East of England +24 54 £42,500 -37.04% 11
Yorkshire +107 49 £55,000 +25.00% 23
West Midlands +16 33 £37,500 -16.67% 16
East Midlands +2 33 £42,500 +22.00% 17
Scotland -51 14 £60,000 - 9
Northern Ireland +29 10 £33,500 -4.29% 3
Wales +9 10 £31,250 -48.98% 3
North East -17 5 £59,402 +18.80% 4
Channel Islands - 1 £57,500 -

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
1 134 (17.38%) WordPress
2 121 (15.69%) Umbraco
3 74 (9.60%) Sitecore CMS
4 66 (8.56%) Drupal
5 59 (7.65%) Kentico
6 56 (7.26%) Headless CMS
7 46 (5.97%) IIS
8 23 (2.98%) SharePoint
9 19 (2.46%) EPiServer
10 18 (2.33%) Apache
11 15 (1.95%) nginx
12 13 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
13 10 (1.30%) Joomla!
14 9 (1.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 9 (1.17%) Apache Solr
15 6 (0.78%) DNN
15 6 (0.78%) Immediacy CMS
15 6 (0.78%) Sitefinity
16 5 (0.65%) Skype for Business
17 4 (0.52%) Magnolia
Applications
1 55 (7.13%) Photoshop
2 43 (5.58%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (2.85%) Microsoft Excel
4 17 (2.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 14 (1.82%) Adobe Illustrator
6 9 (1.17%) InDesign
6 9 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 8 (1.04%) MS Visio
8 7 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
9 6 (0.78%) Trello
10 5 (0.65%) Acrobat
11 4 (0.52%) Adobe Premiere
11 4 (0.52%) Adobe XD
11 4 (0.52%) Maya
12 2 (0.26%) Windchill
13 1 (0.13%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 27 (3.50%) SDL Web 8
2 24 (3.11%) Shopify
3 21 (2.72%) Magento
4 7 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.65%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.13%) Cognos Business Intelligence
6 1 (0.13%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.13%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.13%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 139 (18.03%) Azure
2 93 (12.06%) AWS
3 67 (8.69%) Azure DevOps
4 56 (7.26%) Google Analytics
5 41 (5.32%) Kontent
6 29 (3.76%) GitHub
7 26 (3.37%) Microsoft 365
8 21 (2.72%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 17 (2.20%) SaaS
10 14 (1.82%) Canva
10 14 (1.82%) Figma
10 14 (1.82%) NuGet
10 14 (1.82%) Power Platform
11 12 (1.56%) PaaS
12 10 (1.30%) Google Tag Manager
13 9 (1.17%) Cloud Computing
13 9 (1.17%) npm
14 7 (0.91%) Basecamp
14 7 (0.91%) OneDrive
15 6 (0.78%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (4.54%) DNS
2 18 (2.33%) Firewall
3 16 (2.08%) Internet
3 16 (2.08%) Intranet
4 13 (1.69%) SSL
5 9 (1.17%) Extranet
5 9 (1.17%) WAN
6 8 (1.04%) MPLS
6 8 (1.04%) SD-WAN
7 5 (0.65%) NAS
7 5 (0.65%) SAN
7 5 (0.65%) Skype
7 5 (0.65%) VoIP
8 2 (0.26%) Multicast
8 2 (0.26%) SNA
8 2 (0.26%) VPN
9 1 (0.13%) FTP
9 1 (0.13%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.13%) SMTP
9 1 (0.13%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (14.27%) SQL Server
2 47 (6.10%) MySQL
3 11 (1.43%) MongoDB
3 11 (1.43%) Power BI
4 10 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (1.30%) NoSQL
5 7 (0.91%) MariaDB
6 6 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (0.78%) Relational Database
7 5 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.52%) MS Access
9 3 (0.39%) Redis
9 3 (0.39%) Tableau
10 2 (0.26%) Crystal Reports
10 2 (0.26%) DB2
10 2 (0.26%) DTS
10 2 (0.26%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.26%) Looker
10 2 (0.26%) Metadata
10 2 (0.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 143 (18.55%) Git
2 50 (6.49%) JIRA
3 39 (5.06%) Visual Studio
4 29 (3.76%) Moq
5 27 (3.50%) NUnit
5 27 (3.50%) TeamCity
6 17 (2.20%) Octopus Deploy
7 15 (1.95%) GitLab
7 15 (1.95%) Jenkins
8 14 (1.82%) git-flow
8 14 (1.82%) Sourcetree
8 14 (1.82%) SpecFlow
9 10 (1.30%) webpack
10 8 (1.04%) Team Foundation Server
11 4 (0.52%) gulp
12 3 (0.39%) Grunt
12 3 (0.39%) Selenium
12 3 (0.39%) WiX
13 2 (0.26%) Bower
13 2 (0.26%) WebDriver
General
1 231 (29.96%) Marketing
2 202 (26.20%) Social Skills
3 64 (8.30%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (7.78%) Finance
5 44 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 38 (4.93%) Organisational Skills
6 38 (4.93%) Retail
7 33 (4.28%) Legal
8 25 (3.24%) Publishing
9 18 (2.33%) Law
10 15 (1.95%) Advertising
11 14 (1.82%) Public Sector
12 13 (1.69%) Automotive
13 8 (1.04%) Multimedia
14 7 (0.91%) Manufacturing
15 6 (0.78%) Brand Awareness
15 6 (0.78%) Games
15 6 (0.78%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.65%) Local Government
16 5 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 345 (44.75%) Developer
2 150 (19.46%) Senior
3 109 (14.14%) Senior Developer
4 102 (13.23%) .NET Developer
5 72 (9.34%) Web Developer
6 71 (9.21%) CMS Developer
7 70 (9.08%) C# Developer
8 64 (8.30%) Applications Developer
9 63 (8.17%) .NET Applications Developer
9 63 (8.17%) Senior C# Developer
10 61 (7.91%) Project Manager
11 59 (7.65%) Full Stack Developer
12 58 (7.52%) Lead
13 57 (7.39%) Senior .NET Developer
14 54 (7.00%) C# .NET Developer
15 49 (6.36%) Senior C# .NET Developer
16 48 (6.23%) ASP.NET Developer
16 48 (6.23%) C# Application Developer
16 48 (6.23%) C# ASP.NET Developer
17 47 (6.10%) Senior Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 233 (30.22%) HTML
2 226 (29.31%) CSS
3 225 (29.18%) .NET
4 150 (19.46%) ASP.NET
5 147 (19.07%) React
6 121 (15.69%) .NET Framework
7 81 (10.51%) .NET Core
7 81 (10.51%) ASP.NET MVC
8 77 (9.99%) RESTful
9 66 (8.56%) jQuery
10 54 (7.00%) Web Services
11 51 (6.61%) Entity Framework
12 49 (6.36%) Next.js
13 47 (6.10%) Node.js
14 46 (5.97%) SOAP
14 46 (5.97%) Vue
15 43 (5.58%) XML
16 38 (4.93%) REST
17 36 (4.67%) AngularJS
18 33 (4.28%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 66 (8.56%) Social Media
2 55 (7.13%) Self-Motivation
3 34 (4.41%) Greenfield Project
4 30 (3.89%) Blog
5 27 (3.50%) Legacy Code
5 27 (3.50%) Management Information System
6 26 (3.37%) Digital Signage
7 24 (3.11%) Graphic Design
8 23 (2.98%) Mobile App
9 16 (2.08%) Video Editing
10 12 (1.56%) Marketing Technology
10 12 (1.56%) Product Ownership
11 11 (1.43%) Client/Server
12 9 (1.17%) e-Learning
13 8 (1.04%) Operational Technology
14 7 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
15 6 (0.78%) Educational Technology
15 6 (0.78%) NHS
15 6 (0.78%) Photography
15 6 (0.78%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 48 (6.23%) Windows
2 22 (2.85%) Android
3 17 (2.20%) Windows Server
4 12 (1.56%) Windows 10
5 11 (1.43%) Apple iOS
6 9 (1.17%) Linux
7 5 (0.65%) VMS
8 3 (0.39%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (28.66%) Content Management
2 189 (24.51%) Web Development
3 169 (21.92%) E-Commerce
4 149 (19.33%) DevOps
5 147 (19.07%) Problem-Solving
6 134 (17.38%) MVC
7 130 (16.86%) Agile
8 125 (16.21%) CRM
9 105 (13.62%) Project Management
10 100 (12.97%) Full Stack Development
11 94 (12.19%) SEO
12 92 (11.93%) User Experience
13 88 (11.41%) Project Delivery
14 84 (10.89%) Analytics
15 72 (9.34%) Front End Development
16 60 (7.78%) Digital Marketing
17 58 (7.52%) Scrum
18 49 (6.36%) Customer Service
19 46 (5.97%) Data Privacy
20 45 (5.84%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 270 (35.02%) JavaScript
2 184 (23.87%) C#
3 130 (16.86%) SQL
4 113 (14.66%) PHP
5 48 (6.23%) T-SQL
6 33 (4.28%) TypeScript
7 30 (3.89%) XPath
8 16 (2.08%) Python
9 13 (1.69%) PowerShell
10 8 (1.04%) C
11 7 (0.91%) Java
12 4 (0.52%) Bash
13 3 (0.39%) C++
14 2 (0.26%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.26%) Go
14 2 (0.26%) JSX
14 2 (0.26%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.26%) VB
14 2 (0.26%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.26%) XAML
Qualifications
1 111 (14.40%) Degree
2 17 (2.20%) Security Cleared
3 15 (1.95%) SC Cleared
4 13 (1.69%) DV Cleared
5 10 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (0.91%) HND
7 5 (0.65%) CCNA
7 5 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (0.65%) MCSE
8 3 (0.39%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.26%) ISEB
9 2 (0.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.26%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.26%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.13%) A+ Certification
10 1 (0.13%) MCP
10 1 (0.13%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (5.19%) QA
2 35 (4.54%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.20%) GDPR
4 10 (1.30%) SLA
5 7 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.52%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.39%) WCAG
8 2 (0.26%) ISO 14001
8 2 (0.26%) ISO 9000
8 2 (0.26%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 42 (5.45%) Docker
2 17 (2.20%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.04%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.13%) Firmware
4 1 (0.13%) Varnish
4 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (1.69%) SCOM
2 9 (1.17%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.26%) Plesk
3 2 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.26%) Terraform
4 1 (0.13%) cPanel
4 1 (0.13%) Kibana
4 1 (0.13%) TeamSite
4 1 (0.13%) vCenter Server
4 1 (0.13%) WSUS
Vendors
1 148 (19.20%) Microsoft
2 82 (10.64%) Adobe
3 74 (9.60%) Google
3 74 (9.60%) Sitecore
4 47 (6.10%) Optimizely
5 17 (2.20%) WooCommerce
6 16 (2.08%) HP
7 14 (1.82%) Cognizant
7 14 (1.82%) Instagram
7 14 (1.82%) ServiceNow
8 13 (1.69%) Dynatrace
8 13 (1.69%) Riverbed
8 13 (1.69%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.56%) Marketo
10 8 (1.04%) Facebook
10 8 (1.04%) Meraki
11 7 (0.91%) Apple
11 7 (0.91%) HubSpot
12 6 (0.78%) Alterian
12 6 (0.78%) SAP