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 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 352 387 312
Rank change year-on-year +35 -75 -73
Permanent jobs citing CMS 798 814 2,295
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.75% 0.87% 1.34%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.41% 7.75% 9.57%
Number of salaries quoted 676 622 980
10th Percentile £27,750 £35,000 £28,625
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £35,909
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £64,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,772 £85,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £48,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -7.22% +14.12% -5.56%

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 10,762 10,500 23,989
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.06% 11.19% 14.02%
Number of salaries quoted 7,140 7,336 11,641
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £48,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -12.37% +7.78% -

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 6 June 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 6 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +35 736 £47,500 -13.64% 213
UK excluding London +21 540 £45,000 -7.22% 161
Work from Home +69 339 £50,000 -10.71% 131
London +40 232 £51,000 -20.00% 67
South East -45 167 £52,500 +10.53% 36
North of England +70 134 £44,000 -9.74% 50
South West -14 76 £61,500 +36.67% 12
North West +27 73 £42,500 -15.00% 27
Midlands +27 71 £42,500 +7.94% 33
East of England -4 54 £42,500 -37.04% 13
Yorkshire +94 52 £45,000 +1.12% 17
West Midlands -6 36 £37,500 -16.67% 13
East Midlands -2 35 £42,500 +10.39% 20
Northern Ireland +32 14 £33,500 -4.29% 4
Scotland -67 14 £60,000 - 14
Wales +3 10 £31,250 -51.92% 3
North East -25 9 £65,000 +36.84% 6
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
1 140 (17.54%) WordPress
2 120 (15.04%) Umbraco
3 79 (9.90%) Sitecore CMS
4 61 (7.64%) Drupal
5 57 (7.14%) Kentico
6 56 (7.02%) Headless CMS
7 46 (5.76%) IIS
8 22 (2.76%) SharePoint
9 18 (2.26%) Apache
9 18 (2.26%) EPiServer
10 15 (1.88%) nginx
11 13 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
12 10 (1.25%) Joomla!
13 8 (1.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 8 (1.00%) Apache Solr
14 6 (0.75%) Confluence
14 6 (0.75%) DNN
14 6 (0.75%) Immediacy CMS
14 6 (0.75%) Sitefinity
15 5 (0.63%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 58 (7.27%) Photoshop
2 44 (5.51%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (2.88%) Microsoft Excel
4 18 (2.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 16 (2.01%) Adobe Illustrator
6 10 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 9 (1.13%) InDesign
8 8 (1.00%) MS Visio
9 7 (0.88%) Spreadsheet
10 6 (0.75%) Trello
11 5 (0.63%) Acrobat
12 4 (0.50%) Adobe Premiere
12 4 (0.50%) Adobe XD
12 4 (0.50%) Maya
13 2 (0.25%) Windchill
14 1 (0.13%) Elementor
14 1 (0.13%) PTC Creo
14 1 (0.13%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 37 (4.64%) SDL Web 8
2 22 (2.76%) Magento
3 21 (2.63%) Shopify
4 8 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.75%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.25%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.13%) Cognos Business Intelligence
7 1 (0.13%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.13%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 147 (18.42%) Azure
2 94 (11.78%) AWS
3 71 (8.90%) Azure DevOps
4 56 (7.02%) Google Analytics
5 41 (5.14%) Kontent
6 28 (3.51%) GitHub
7 26 (3.26%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 26 (3.26%) Microsoft 365
8 20 (2.51%) SaaS
9 19 (2.38%) NuGet
10 15 (1.88%) Figma
11 14 (1.75%) Canva
12 13 (1.63%) Power Platform
13 11 (1.38%) Google Tag Manager
13 11 (1.38%) npm
13 11 (1.38%) PaaS
14 9 (1.13%) Cloud Computing
15 8 (1.00%) Basecamp
16 7 (0.88%) IaaS
16 7 (0.88%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 35 (4.39%) DNS
2 18 (2.26%) Firewall
3 16 (2.01%) Internet
4 15 (1.88%) Intranet
5 13 (1.63%) SSL
6 9 (1.13%) Extranet
7 8 (1.00%) MPLS
7 8 (1.00%) SD-WAN
7 8 (1.00%) WAN
8 5 (0.63%) NAS
8 5 (0.63%) SAN
8 5 (0.63%) Skype
8 5 (0.63%) VoIP
9 3 (0.38%) HTTP
10 2 (0.25%) Multicast
10 2 (0.25%) SNA
10 2 (0.25%) VPN
11 1 (0.13%) Remote Desktop
11 1 (0.13%) SMTP
11 1 (0.13%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (16.29%) SQL Server
2 49 (6.14%) MySQL
3 13 (1.63%) NoSQL
4 10 (1.25%) MongoDB
4 10 (1.25%) Power BI
5 9 (1.13%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (0.88%) Relational Database
7 6 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (0.50%) MariaDB
9 4 (0.50%) MS Access
9 4 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.38%) Redis
11 2 (0.25%) Crystal Reports
11 2 (0.25%) DB2
11 2 (0.25%) DTS
11 2 (0.25%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.25%) Looker
11 2 (0.25%) Metadata
11 2 (0.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 154 (19.30%) Git
2 64 (8.02%) JIRA
3 46 (5.76%) Visual Studio
4 40 (5.01%) Moq
5 37 (4.64%) NUnit
5 37 (4.64%) TeamCity
6 20 (2.51%) GitLab
6 20 (2.51%) Octopus Deploy
7 19 (2.38%) git-flow
7 19 (2.38%) Sourcetree
7 19 (2.38%) SpecFlow
8 14 (1.75%) Jenkins
9 9 (1.13%) Team Foundation Server
10 7 (0.88%) webpack
11 6 (0.75%) gulp
12 4 (0.50%) Selenium
13 3 (0.38%) Grunt
14 2 (0.25%) Cypress.io
14 2 (0.25%) Karma Test Runner
14 2 (0.25%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 251 (31.45%) Marketing
2 211 (26.44%) Social Skills
3 60 (7.52%) Analytical Skills
3 60 (7.52%) Finance
4 45 (5.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 38 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
5 38 (4.76%) Retail
6 35 (4.39%) Legal
7 27 (3.38%) Publishing
8 22 (2.76%) Law
9 16 (2.01%) Advertising
10 14 (1.75%) Public Sector
11 12 (1.50%) Automotive
12 8 (1.00%) Manufacturing
12 8 (1.00%) Multimedia
13 6 (0.75%) Banking
13 6 (0.75%) Brand Awareness
13 6 (0.75%) Local Government
13 6 (0.75%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 371 (46.49%) Developer
2 160 (20.05%) Senior
3 121 (15.16%) Senior Developer
4 106 (13.28%) .NET Developer
5 80 (10.03%) CMS Developer
6 79 (9.90%) C# Developer
6 79 (9.90%) Web Developer
7 72 (9.02%) Full Stack Developer
8 68 (8.52%) Senior C# Developer
9 65 (8.15%) Applications Developer
10 63 (7.89%) .NET Applications Developer
11 60 (7.52%) Project Manager
12 58 (7.27%) Senior .NET Developer
13 55 (6.89%) C# .NET Developer
13 55 (6.89%) Lead
14 49 (6.14%) ASP.NET Developer
14 49 (6.14%) C# ASP.NET Developer
14 49 (6.14%) Senior C# .NET Developer
15 48 (6.02%) C# Application Developer
16 47 (5.89%) Senior C# Application Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 248 (31.08%) HTML
2 247 (30.95%) .NET
3 242 (30.33%) CSS
4 161 (20.18%) ASP.NET
4 161 (20.18%) React
5 129 (16.17%) .NET Framework
6 92 (11.53%) ASP.NET MVC
7 90 (11.28%) RESTful
8 88 (11.03%) jQuery
9 80 (10.03%) .NET Core
10 69 (8.65%) Web Services
11 61 (7.64%) Entity Framework
12 57 (7.14%) SOAP
13 51 (6.39%) Next.js
14 49 (6.14%) XML
15 47 (5.89%) Vue
16 43 (5.39%) Node.js
17 42 (5.26%) REST
18 41 (5.14%) AngularJS
19 38 (4.76%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 67 (8.40%) Social Media
2 57 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
3 42 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
4 37 (4.64%) Legacy Code
5 30 (3.76%) Blog
6 28 (3.51%) Management Information System
7 26 (3.26%) Graphic Design
8 25 (3.13%) Mobile App
9 24 (3.01%) Digital Signage
10 17 (2.13%) Product Ownership
11 16 (2.01%) Video Editing
12 11 (1.38%) Client/Server
12 11 (1.38%) Marketing Technology
13 9 (1.13%) e-Learning
14 8 (1.00%) NHS
14 8 (1.00%) Operational Technology
15 7 (0.88%) CMDB
15 7 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
16 6 (0.75%) Learning Management System
16 6 (0.75%) Photography
Operating Systems
1 49 (6.14%) Windows
2 23 (2.88%) Android
3 16 (2.01%) Windows Server
4 12 (1.50%) Apple iOS
5 11 (1.38%) Linux
5 11 (1.38%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.50%) VMS
7 3 (0.38%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (28.57%) Content Management
2 197 (24.69%) Web Development
3 183 (22.93%) E-Commerce
4 155 (19.42%) DevOps
5 153 (19.17%) Problem-Solving
6 150 (18.80%) MVC
7 145 (18.17%) Agile
8 124 (15.54%) CRM
9 117 (14.66%) Full Stack Development
10 106 (13.28%) Project Management
11 99 (12.41%) User Experience
12 97 (12.16%) SEO
13 88 (11.03%) Analytics
14 87 (10.90%) Project Delivery
15 69 (8.65%) Front End Development
16 66 (8.27%) Scrum
17 63 (7.89%) Digital Marketing
18 51 (6.39%) Customer Service
18 51 (6.39%) Responsive Web Design
19 50 (6.27%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 288 (36.09%) JavaScript
2 204 (25.56%) C#
3 143 (17.92%) SQL
4 114 (14.29%) PHP
5 58 (7.27%) T-SQL
6 35 (4.39%) XPath
7 32 (4.01%) TypeScript
8 16 (2.01%) Python
9 13 (1.63%) PowerShell
10 10 (1.25%) Java
11 8 (1.00%) C
12 5 (0.63%) C++
13 4 (0.50%) Bash
14 3 (0.38%) JSX
15 2 (0.25%) Apex Code
15 2 (0.25%) Go
15 2 (0.25%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.25%) VB
15 2 (0.25%) XAML
Qualifications
1 123 (15.41%) Degree
2 14 (1.75%) Security Cleared
3 12 (1.50%) SC Cleared
4 11 (1.38%) DV Cleared
5 10 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (0.88%) HND
8 5 (0.63%) CCNA
8 5 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (0.63%) DBS Check
8 5 (0.63%) MCSE
9 3 (0.38%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.25%) ISEB
10 2 (0.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.25%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.13%) A+ Certification
11 1 (0.13%) CIPD
11 1 (0.13%) MCP
11 1 (0.13%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (5.01%) QA
2 39 (4.89%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.13%) GDPR
4 10 (1.25%) SLA
5 7 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.50%) ISO 9001
6 4 (0.50%) WCAG
7 2 (0.25%) ISO 14001
7 2 (0.25%) ISO 9000
7 2 (0.25%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 39 (4.89%) Docker
2 16 (2.01%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.13%) Firmware
4 1 (0.13%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 11 (1.38%) SCOM
2 8 (1.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.25%) Plesk
3 2 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.25%) Terraform
4 1 (0.13%) cPanel
4 1 (0.13%) Kibana
4 1 (0.13%) TeamSite
Vendors
1 149 (18.67%) Microsoft
2 90 (11.28%) Adobe
3 79 (9.90%) Sitecore
4 76 (9.52%) Google
5 46 (5.76%) Optimizely
6 19 (2.38%) Cognizant
7 18 (2.26%) WooCommerce
8 16 (2.01%) Salesforce
9 14 (1.75%) HP
10 13 (1.63%) Instagram
11 12 (1.50%) Marketo
11 12 (1.50%) ServiceNow
12 11 (1.38%) Dynatrace
12 11 (1.38%) Riverbed
13 8 (1.00%) Apple
13 8 (1.00%) Meraki
13 8 (1.00%) SAP
14 7 (0.88%) Facebook
14 7 (0.88%) HubSpot
15 6 (0.75%) Twitter