Headless CMS Contracts

Headless Content Management System (Headless CMS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 551 648 798
Rank change year-on-year +97 +150 -135
Contract jobs citing Headless CMS 39 40 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.090% 0.072% 0.054%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.90% 0.66% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 33 39
10th Percentile £400 £369 £375
25th Percentile £419 £425 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £593 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.61% +7.73% +15.79%
75th Percentile £616 £700 £600
90th Percentile £623 - £703
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £700 £438
% change year-on-year -28.57% +59.82% -2.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - -

All Application Platform Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 4,323 6,045 11,036
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.95% 10.84% 12.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,013 4,229 7,633
10th Percentile £262 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +8.42%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £625
90th Percentile £763 £750 £720
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +4.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 164 147 207
10th Percentile £13.33 £16.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.61 £21.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £30.16 £52.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.55% +133.33% +9.76%
75th Percentile £51.91 £66.00 £54.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.00 £75.34
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £46.75 £18.50
% change year-on-year -35.83% +152.70% -2.63%

Headless CMS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Headless CMS in the UK

Headless CMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Headless CMS in the UK

Headless CMS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Headless CMS over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Headless CMS in the UK

Headless CMS
Top 9 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 7 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 +91 33 £513 -14.58% 19
London +92 24 £558 +2.06% 10
Work from Home +117 18 £500 - 8
UK excluding London +52 7 £500 -28.57% 8
North of England - 3 £500 - 6
North West - 3 £500 - 3
Midlands +21 2 - - 1
West Midlands +15 2 - -
South East +9 2 - - 1

Headless 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 (100.00%) CMS
2 7 (17.95%) Kentico
3 4 (10.26%) Confluence
4 2 (5.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
Business Applications
1 3 (7.69%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 7 (17.95%) Azure
1 7 (17.95%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (15.38%) Contentstack
3 4 (10.26%) Contentful
4 3 (7.69%) prismic.io
5 2 (5.13%) AWS
5 2 (5.13%) SaaS
6 1 (2.56%) Amplience
6 1 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.56%) Bloomreach
6 1 (2.56%) GCP
6 1 (2.56%) GitHub
6 1 (2.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (2.56%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.69%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.56%) Jackrabbit
1 1 (2.56%) Looker
1 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (25.64%) Git
2 7 (17.95%) Visual Studio Code
3 4 (10.26%) JIRA
4 3 (7.69%) webpack
5 2 (5.13%) gulp
General
1 7 (17.95%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.82%) Finance
2 5 (12.82%) Marketing
2 5 (12.82%) Retail
3 4 (10.26%) Banking
4 3 (7.69%) Corporate Banking
4 3 (7.69%) Investment Banking
4 3 (7.69%) Publishing
4 3 (7.69%) Retail Banking
5 1 (2.56%) Multimedia
5 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.56%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 26 (66.67%) Developer
2 10 (25.64%) CMS Developer
2 10 (25.64%) React Developer
3 9 (23.08%) JavaScript Developer
4 8 (20.51%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 5 (12.82%) Azure Developer
5 5 (12.82%) DevOps Developer
5 5 (12.82%) HTML CSS Developer
5 5 (12.82%) HTML Developer
6 3 (7.69%) Consultant
6 3 (7.69%) Web Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Angular Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Backend Developer
7 2 (5.13%) E-Commerce Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Lead
8 1 (2.56%) AWS Solution Architect
8 1 (2.56%) CMS Consultant
8 1 (2.56%) Content Designer
8 1 (2.56%) Content Strategist
8 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (56.41%) HTML
2 19 (48.72%) CSS
3 17 (43.59%) React
4 15 (38.46%) GraphQL
5 8 (20.51%) Next.js
6 7 (17.95%) DOM
6 7 (17.95%) GatsbyJS
6 7 (17.95%) HTML5
7 5 (12.82%) AngularJS
7 5 (12.82%) Web Services
8 3 (7.69%) Jest
8 3 (7.69%) Nunjucks
8 3 (7.69%) Nuxt
8 3 (7.69%) REST
9 2 (5.13%) Apache Sling
9 2 (5.13%) CSS3
9 2 (5.13%) Express.js
9 2 (5.13%) Node.js
9 2 (5.13%) OSGi
9 2 (5.13%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.95%) Acoustics
2 4 (10.26%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.13%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.56%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.56%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (30.77%) Agile
2 10 (25.64%) SEO
3 9 (23.08%) User Experience
4 8 (20.51%) Front End Development
5 7 (17.95%) Code Quality
5 7 (17.95%) Content Management
5 7 (17.95%) DevOps
5 7 (17.95%) E-Commerce
5 7 (17.95%) Software Engineering
6 6 (15.38%) Performance Optimisation
7 5 (12.82%) Analytics
7 5 (12.82%) B2C
7 5 (12.82%) Multithreading
7 5 (12.82%) Non-Blocking Code
7 5 (12.82%) Web Development
8 4 (10.26%) Personalization
8 4 (10.26%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (10.26%) Refactoring
8 4 (10.26%) Scrum
8 4 (10.26%) Visual Effects
Programming Languages
1 15 (38.46%) JavaScript
2 7 (17.95%) TypeScript
3 3 (7.69%) Java
4 2 (5.13%) Python
5 1 (2.56%) C#
5 1 (2.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (2.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.69%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.56%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 2 (5.13%) Kubernetes
1 2 (5.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (7.69%) Google
1 3 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.13%) Adobe
3 1 (2.56%) Netlify
3 1 (2.56%) Optimizely