CMS Contracts in the Midlands

Content Management System (CMS)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 139 186
Rank change year-on-year +22 +47 -48
Contract jobs citing CMS 24 19 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.81% 0.59% 0.38%
As % of the Application Platforms category 10.34% 5.25% 2.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 12 14
10th Percentile £321 £214 £406
25th Percentile £358 £328 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £481 £506
Median % change year-on-year +24.68% -4.94% +12.50%
75th Percentile £669 £515 £550
90th Percentile £688 £587 £584
England median daily rate £425 £425 £500
% change year-on-year - -15.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
England median hourly rate £14.13 £18.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year -23.65% -75.33% +278.50%

All Application Platform Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 232 362 670
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 7.87% 11.25% 13.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 263 461
10th Percentile £160 £176 £198
25th Percentile £313 £313 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% - +8.76%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £540
90th Percentile £638 £625 £603
England median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 5 14
10th Percentile £15.79 £14.50 £14.60
25th Percentile £22.12 £18.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £48.56 £20.00 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year +142.80% +6.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile £51.91 £26.48 £23.69
90th Percentile £53.76 - £33.75
England median hourly rate £30.16 £48.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -37.81% +120.45% +12.14%

CMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for CMS in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for CMS in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CMS in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CMS in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for CMS in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CMS within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 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
West Midlands +26 23 £600 +33.33% 9
East Midlands +4 1 £410 -18.00% 22
CMS
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 6 (25.00%) Drupal
2 3 (12.50%) Umbraco
3 2 (8.33%) Headless CMS
3 2 (8.33%) WordPress
4 1 (4.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Jadu
Cloud Services
1 3 (12.50%) Azure
1 3 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (12.50%) GCP
2 2 (8.33%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) DNS
1 3 (12.50%) SSL
2 1 (4.17%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) DB2
1 1 (4.17%) Jackrabbit
1 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Artifactory
1 3 (12.50%) Git
1 3 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 3 (12.50%) Selenium
1 3 (12.50%) Subversion
2 1 (4.17%) webpack
General
1 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Publishing
3 3 (12.50%) Games
4 2 (8.33%) Marketing
4 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.17%) Retail
5 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Developer
2 5 (20.83%) Analyst
2 5 (20.83%) SOC Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Copywriter
3 3 (12.50%) Full Stack Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Backend Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Consultant
4 2 (8.33%) Designer
4 2 (8.33%) E-Commerce Consultant
4 2 (8.33%) Lead
4 2 (8.33%) Team Leader
4 2 (8.33%) Web Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) Content Designer
5 1 (4.17%) Digital Copywriter
5 1 (4.17%) Full Stack .NET Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Full Stack PHP Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Senior
5 1 (4.17%) Transformation Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Umbraco Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Web Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) .NET
1 2 (8.33%) Apache Sling
1 2 (8.33%) GraphQL
1 2 (8.33%) OSGi
1 2 (8.33%) React
1 2 (8.33%) RESTful
2 1 (4.17%) ASP.NET
2 1 (4.17%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (4.17%) Laravel
2 1 (4.17%) Next.js
2 1 (4.17%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Cyberattack
1 5 (20.83%) Security Operations Centre
1 5 (20.83%) Social Media
2 4 (16.67%) Handset
2 4 (16.67%) Mobile App
3 3 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 3 (12.50%) Private Cloud
4 2 (8.33%) Graphic Design
5 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.83%) Linux
1 5 (20.83%) Windows
2 1 (4.17%) Android
2 1 (4.17%) Apple iOS
2 1 (4.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (33.33%) SEO
2 7 (29.17%) Content Management
3 6 (25.00%) Analytics
3 6 (25.00%) Copywriting
4 5 (20.83%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (20.83%) Incident Response
4 5 (20.83%) Security Operations
5 4 (16.67%) E-Commerce
5 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (16.67%) SDLC
6 3 (12.50%) Agile
6 3 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (12.50%) Continuous Delivery
6 3 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
6 3 (12.50%) DevOps
6 3 (12.50%) ITIL
6 3 (12.50%) Kanban
6 3 (12.50%) Scrum
6 3 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.33%) C#
1 2 (8.33%) Java
1 2 (8.33%) JavaScript
1 2 (8.33%) Python
2 1 (4.17%) COBOL
2 1 (4.17%) PHP
2 1 (4.17%) SQL
2 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) QA
2 2 (8.33%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) Darktrace
1 5 (20.83%) FireEye
1 5 (20.83%) LogRhythm
1 5 (20.83%) Splunk
2 3 (12.50%) Salesforce
2 3 (12.50%) ServiceNow
3 2 (8.33%) Sage
4 1 (4.17%) IBM
4 1 (4.17%) ICL
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft