CMS Contracts with Work from Home Options

Content Management System (CMS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 223 236 271
Rank change year-on-year +13 +35 -62
Contract jobs citing CMS 119 236 428
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.81% 0.99% 0.98%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.13% 8.92% 7.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 189 337
10th Percentile £228 £300 £324
25th Percentile £350 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £525 £569 £600
90th Percentile £623 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £420 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% -10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 11
10th Percentile - £24.20 £25.50
25th Percentile - £26.00 £65.00
Median hourly rate - £29.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - -61.33% +400.00%
75th Percentile - £32.00 £77.50
90th Percentile - £33.80 -
UK median hourly rate £14.13 £18.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year -23.65% -75.33% +283.44%

All Application Platform Skills
Work from Home

CMS falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,670 2,646 5,457
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.32% 11.08% 12.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,226 1,866 3,980
10th Percentile £300 £322 £321
25th Percentile £400 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £850 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £511 £520
% change year-on-year -2.15% -1.73% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 71 87
10th Percentile £16.50 £20.00 £15.77
25th Percentile £22.61 £22.16 £20.75
Median hourly rate £31.14 £55.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.39% +10.00% +92.31%
75th Percentile £45.41 £66.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £73.13 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £31.71 £52.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year -39.60% +128.26% +15.00%

CMS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing CMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

CMS trend for jobs with a WFH option

CMS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing CMS.

CMS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

CMS
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing CMS over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

CMS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

CMS
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing CMS.

CMS hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 18 (15.13%) Headless CMS
2 9 (7.56%) Sitecore CMS
2 9 (7.56%) Umbraco
3 7 (5.88%) Kentico
3 7 (5.88%) WordPress
4 5 (4.20%) Confluence
5 3 (2.52%) Drupal
5 3 (2.52%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.68%) EPiServer
6 2 (1.68%) IIS
6 2 (1.68%) Jadu
7 1 (0.84%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.84%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.84%) Magnolia
Applications
1 3 (2.52%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 3 (2.52%) Adobe Illustrator
1 3 (2.52%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (2.52%) Photoshop
2 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.84%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 3 (2.52%) Magento
1 3 (2.52%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (1.68%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.84%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 29 (24.37%) Azure
2 15 (12.61%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (9.24%) GCP
4 10 (8.40%) AWS
5 9 (7.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 9 (7.56%) Azure Service Bus
6 8 (6.72%) Azure Monitor
6 8 (6.72%) Azure Pipelines
7 5 (4.20%) Google Analytics
7 5 (4.20%) SaaS
7 5 (4.20%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 4 (3.36%) Contentstack
8 4 (3.36%) PaaS
8 4 (3.36%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 3 (2.52%) Amplience
9 3 (2.52%) Contentful
9 3 (2.52%) Serverless
10 2 (1.68%) Figma
10 2 (1.68%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.68%) Storyblok
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.20%) Intranet
2 4 (3.36%) HTTP
3 1 (0.84%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.40%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.52%) DB2
3 2 (1.68%) Metadata
4 1 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.84%) Looker
4 1 (0.84%) Redis
4 1 (0.84%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (13.45%) Git
2 12 (10.08%) JIRA
3 5 (4.20%) webpack
4 4 (3.36%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (1.68%) rollup.js
5 2 (1.68%) Storybook
5 2 (1.68%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.68%) Vite
6 1 (0.84%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.84%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.84%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.84%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.84%) Selenium
6 1 (0.84%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.84%) TeamCity
General
1 29 (24.37%) Social Skills
2 21 (17.65%) Public Sector
3 15 (12.61%) Publishing
4 14 (11.76%) Marketing
5 8 (6.72%) Retail
6 6 (5.04%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (5.04%) Finance
7 5 (4.20%) Banking
8 4 (3.36%) Back Office
9 3 (2.52%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.52%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.52%) Retail Banking
9 3 (2.52%) Tech for Good
10 2 (1.68%) French Language
10 2 (1.68%) German Language
10 2 (1.68%) Local Government
10 2 (1.68%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (38.66%) Developer
2 14 (11.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 12 (10.08%) Senior
4 10 (8.40%) Architect
4 10 (8.40%) Content Designer
4 10 (8.40%) Designer
5 9 (7.56%) Consultant
6 8 (6.72%) .NET Developer
7 7 (5.88%) React Developer
7 7 (5.88%) Senior Developer
8 6 (5.04%) Azure Developer
8 6 (5.04%) CMS Developer
8 6 (5.04%) Umbraco Developer
9 5 (4.20%) Content Editor
9 5 (4.20%) HTML Developer
9 5 (4.20%) JavaScript Developer
10 4 (3.36%) E-Commerce Developer
10 4 (3.36%) Product Manager
10 4 (3.36%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 4 (3.36%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (30.25%) CSS
1 36 (30.25%) HTML
2 26 (21.85%) .NET
3 25 (21.01%) React
4 16 (13.45%) .NET Core
5 12 (10.08%) ASP.NET
5 12 (10.08%) GraphQL
6 10 (8.40%) REST
7 9 (7.56%) jQuery
8 8 (6.72%) AngularJS
8 8 (6.72%) ASP.NET MVC
8 8 (6.72%) Node.js
9 6 (5.04%) DOM
10 5 (4.20%) Jest
10 5 (4.20%) Laravel
10 5 (4.20%) Next.js
10 5 (4.20%) Nuxt
11 4 (3.36%) Express.js
11 4 (3.36%) HTML5
11 4 (3.36%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.72%) Management Information System
2 5 (4.20%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (3.36%) Marketing Technology
3 4 (3.36%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.52%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.52%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.52%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.52%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.52%) Social Media
5 2 (1.68%) Digital Media
5 2 (1.68%) Handset
6 1 (0.84%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.84%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.84%) Life Science
6 1 (0.84%) NHS
6 1 (0.84%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.84%) Video Editing
6 1 (0.84%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.52%) VMS
2 2 (1.68%) Android
2 2 (1.68%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.68%) Linux
2 2 (1.68%) Unix
2 2 (1.68%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (36.97%) Agile
2 34 (28.57%) Content Management
3 19 (15.97%) Analytics
3 19 (15.97%) DevOps
4 18 (15.13%) Front End Development
4 18 (15.13%) SEO
4 18 (15.13%) User Experience
5 16 (13.45%) MVC
6 14 (11.76%) E-Commerce
6 14 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (10.92%) Content Strategy
8 12 (10.08%) Clean Code
8 12 (10.08%) Software Engineering
8 12 (10.08%) Web Development
9 11 (9.24%) Full Stack Development
10 10 (8.40%) Migration
10 10 (8.40%) Scrum
10 10 (8.40%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (7.56%) OOD
11 9 (7.56%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 31 (26.05%) JavaScript
2 19 (15.97%) C#
3 17 (14.29%) TypeScript
4 8 (6.72%) Bicep
5 7 (5.88%) SQL
6 5 (4.20%) Java
7 4 (3.36%) PHP
8 3 (2.52%) COBOL
9 2 (1.68%) Perl
9 2 (1.68%) Python
9 2 (1.68%) REXX
9 2 (1.68%) Ruby
9 2 (1.68%) SELCOPY
10 1 (0.84%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (7.56%) Degree
2 5 (4.20%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (2.52%) DBS Check
3 3 (2.52%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.68%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (16.81%) Accessibility
2 11 (9.24%) QA
2 11 (9.24%) WCAG
3 3 (2.52%) PMO
4 2 (1.68%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.68%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.84%) GxP
System Software
1 8 (6.72%) Active Directory
1 8 (6.72%) Docker
2 2 (1.68%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 8 (6.72%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.68%) Opsgenie
3 1 (0.84%) AppManager
3 1 (0.84%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (13.45%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.56%) Adobe
2 9 (7.56%) Sitecore
3 7 (5.88%) Optimizely
4 5 (4.20%) Google
5 4 (3.36%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.52%) IBM
6 3 (2.52%) ICL
6 3 (2.52%) SAP
6 3 (2.52%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.52%) WooCommerce
7 2 (1.68%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.68%) PagerDuty
7 2 (1.68%) Splunk
7 2 (1.68%) Syncsort
8 1 (0.84%) Marketo
8 1 (0.84%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.84%) Tealium