CMS Contracts in the North West

Content Management System (CMS)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 116 119 128
Rank change year-on-year +3 +9 -3
Contract jobs citing CMS 19 31 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.68% 1.03% 1.34%
As % of the Application Platforms category 8.19% 12.11% 11.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 26 31
10th Percentile £284 £214 £204
25th Percentile £306 £289 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £403 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.73% -10.56% +20.00%
75th Percentile £450 £494 £500
90th Percentile £518 £638 £524
England median daily rate £425 £425 £500
% change year-on-year - -15.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 12
10th Percentile - - £65.00
25th Percentile - - £70.63
Median hourly rate £13.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £78.38
90th Percentile £18.25 - £81.00
England median hourly rate £14.13 £18.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year -23.65% -75.33% +278.50%

All Application Platform Skills
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 232 256 481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 8.31% 8.50% 11.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 179 330
10th Percentile £213 £212 £163
25th Percentile £313 £337 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.16% +2.78% +9.09%
75th Percentile £534 £548 £550
90th Percentile £642 £650 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 12 36
10th Percentile £13.00 - £16.25
25th Percentile £14.00 £16.25 £17.75
Median hourly rate £37.63 £22.27 £55.10
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -59.59% +202.29%
75th Percentile £46.18 £26.69 £77.50
90th Percentile - £38.88 £79.25
England median hourly rate £30.16 £48.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -37.81% +120.45% +12.14%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for CMS in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for CMS in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for CMS in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for CMS in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CMS within the North West 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
Manchester +6 10 £438 +8.70% 19
Cumbria - 5 - - 1
Cheshire -12 3 £313 -21.88% 8
CMS
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (15.79%) Headless CMS
2 2 (10.53%) Drupal
2 2 (10.53%) Sitecore CMS
2 2 (10.53%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (15.79%) Contentstack
3 2 (10.53%) AWS
3 2 (10.53%) Azure
3 2 (10.53%) Squarespace
General
1 5 (26.32%) Retail
1 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Automotive
2 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Developer
2 5 (26.32%) IT Support
3 4 (21.05%) .NET Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Consultant
4 2 (10.53%) E-Commerce Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Sitecore Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Configuration Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Configuration Management Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Content Editor
5 1 (5.26%) CSS Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Digital Content Editor
5 1 (5.26%) Digital Editor
5 1 (5.26%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) .NET
1 4 (21.05%) .NET Framework
2 3 (15.79%) CSS
3 2 (10.53%) Entity Framework
3 2 (10.53%) HTML
3 2 (10.53%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) EPoS
1 5 (26.32%) Virtual Team
2 3 (15.79%) Life Science
3 2 (10.53%) Social Media
4 1 (5.26%) CMDB
4 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
4 1 (5.26%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) E-Commerce
2 6 (31.58%) Content Management
3 5 (26.32%) CRM
4 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (15.79%) User Experience
5 2 (10.53%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 2 (10.53%) Front End Development
5 2 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (10.53%) Statistics
6 1 (5.26%) Configuration Management
6 1 (5.26%) ERP
6 1 (5.26%) ITIL
6 1 (5.26%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) C#
2 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.26%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Sitecore
2 1 (5.26%) BMC
2 1 (5.26%) Dynatrace