CMS Developer Contracts

CMS Developer
UK

The median CMS Developer daily rate in the UK is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 583 659 854
Rank change year-on-year +76 +195 -138
Contract jobs requiring a CMS Developer 11 38 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.025% 0.068% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.027% 0.072% 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 34 10
10th Percentile £235 £366 £318
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +26.67%
75th Percentile £500 £700 £534
90th Percentile £530 - £566
UK excluding London median daily rate £250 £400 £475
% change year-on-year -37.50% -15.79% +18.75%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,533 52,506 83,140
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 94.52% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,086 36,648 58,637
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £407 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,938 1,481 1,935
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.18 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.71 £65.75 £49.92
90th Percentile £74.00 £76.50 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.76% +110.00% +7.82%

CMS Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured CMS Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CMS Developer in the UK

CMS Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for CMS Developer in the UK

CMS Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CMS Developer over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CMS Developer in the UK

CMS Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for CMS Developer in the UK

CMS Developer
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CMS Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 11 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 +89 7 £325 -18.75% 6
London +79 6 £400 - 1
Work from Home +78 6 £450 -18.63% 1
UK excluding London +37 1 £250 -37.50% 5
Midlands - 1 £250 -
West Midlands - 1 £250 -

CMS Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 11 June 2024, CMS Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring CMS Developer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) CMS
2 9 (81.82%) Headless CMS
3 6 (54.55%) CSS
3 6 (54.55%) JavaScript
4 5 (45.45%) HTML
5 4 (36.36%) Git
5 4 (36.36%) Azure
5 4 (36.36%) Kentico
5 4 (36.36%) DevOps
5 4 (36.36%) React
5 4 (36.36%) Front End Development
5 4 (36.36%) Visual Studio Code
5 4 (36.36%) GraphQL
5 4 (36.36%) DOM
5 4 (36.36%) GatsbyJS
5 4 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (27.27%) C#
6 3 (27.27%) Acoustics
6 3 (27.27%) prismic.io
6 3 (27.27%) Contentful
6 3 (27.27%) Contentstack
6 3 (27.27%) Content Management
6 3 (27.27%) B2C
6 3 (27.27%) User Experience
7 2 (18.18%) Java
7 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
8 1 (9.09%) Systems Thinking
8 1 (9.09%) Netlify
8 1 (9.09%) Content Strategy
8 1 (9.09%) Accessibility

CMS Developer Skill Set
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 11 (100.00%) CMS
2 9 (81.82%) Headless CMS
3 4 (36.36%) Kentico
4 1 (9.09%) Umbraco
4 1 (9.09%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
1 4 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (27.27%) Contentful
2 3 (27.27%) Contentstack
2 3 (27.27%) prismic.io
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Git
1 4 (36.36%) Visual Studio Code
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) CSS
2 5 (45.45%) HTML
3 4 (36.36%) DOM
3 4 (36.36%) GatsbyJS
3 4 (36.36%) GraphQL
3 4 (36.36%) React
4 1 (9.09%) .NET
4 1 (9.09%) ASP.NET
4 1 (9.09%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (9.09%) Nunjucks
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Acoustics
2 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) DevOps
1 4 (36.36%) Front End Development
2 3 (27.27%) B2C
2 3 (27.27%) Content Management
2 3 (27.27%) User Experience
3 1 (9.09%) Agile
3 1 (9.09%) Clean Code
3 1 (9.09%) Content Strategy
3 1 (9.09%) Kanban
3 1 (9.09%) Scrum
3 1 (9.09%) Software Engineering
3 1 (9.09%) Systems Thinking
3 1 (9.09%) Use Case
3 1 (9.09%) Waterfall
3 1 (9.09%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) JavaScript
2 3 (27.27%) C#
3 2 (18.18%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Netlify
1 1 (9.09%) Optimizely
1 1 (9.09%) Virgin Media