CMS Job Trends in Bristol

Content Management System (CMS)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bristol citing CMS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 1 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	125	83	114
Rank change year-on-year	-42	+31	-16
Permanent jobs citing CMS	6	3	4
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol	0.17%	0.23%	0.19%
As % of the Application Platforms category	5.94%	3.19%	2.65%
Number of salaries quoted	3	3	4
10^th Percentile	£43,250	-	-
25^th Percentile	£46,250	£52,500	£38,250
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£52,500	£55,000	£50,750
Median % change year-on-year	-4.55%	+8.37%	-7.73%
75^th Percentile	£53,750	£57,500	£71,250
90^th Percentile	-	-	£82,500
South West median annual salary	£43,000	£36,250	£47,500
% change year-on-year	+18.62%	-23.68%	-9.52%

All Application Platform Skills
Bristol

CMS falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies citing application platform skills in Bristol.

	6 months to 1 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing application platform skills	101	94	151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol	2.83%	7.19%	7.32%
Number of salaries quoted	55	73	87
10^th Percentile	£33,150	£28,350	£30,000
25^th Percentile	£43,125	£36,250	£30,750
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£54,000	£48,500	£55,000
Median % change year-on-year	+11.34%	-11.82%	-
75^th Percentile	£65,000	£58,750	£81,250
90^th Percentile	£75,000	£76,250	£85,000
South West median annual salary	£50,000	£42,500	£50,000
% change year-on-year	+17.65%	-15.00%	-

CMS Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing CMS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

CMS Salary Trend in Bristol

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing CMS.

CMS Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol

For the 6 months to 1 November 2026, job vacancies citing CMS also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Bristol region citing CMS.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Headless CMS	50.0%	3
1	JavaScript	50.0%	3
1	Next.js	50.0%	3
1	Web Development	50.0%	3
1	WordPress	50.0%	3
6	.NET	33.3%	2
6	AWS	33.3%	2
6	CI/CD	33.3%	2
6	Collaborative Engineering	33.3%	2
6	Containerisation	33.3%	2
6	Content Management	33.3%	2
6	Decision-Making	33.3%	2
6	Docker	33.3%	2
6	EPiServer	33.3%	2
6	Full-Stack Development	33.3%	2
6	GCP	33.3%	2
6	GraphQL	33.3%	2
6	HTML	33.3%	2
6	Mentoring	33.3%	2
6	NestJS	33.3%	2
6	Node.js	33.3%	2
6	Optimizely	33.3%	2
6	PHP	33.3%	2
6	PostgreSQL	33.3%	2
6	Project Delivery	33.3%	2
6	React	33.3%	2
6	Relational Database	33.3%	2
6	REST	33.3%	2
6	Shopify	33.3%	2
6	Technical Architecture	33.3%	2

CMS Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Application Platforms

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Headless CMS	50.0%	3
1	WordPress	50.0%	3
3	EPiServer	33.3%	2