Content Management System (CMS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for CMS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited CMS over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 359 390 307
Rank change year-on-year +31 -83 -64
Permanent jobs citing CMS 779 810 2,228
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.76% 0.83% 1.33%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.31% 7.29% 9.47%
Number of salaries quoted 672 626 971
10th Percentile £27,750 £35,000 £28,625
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £64,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,772 £85,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% -9.03%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

CMS is in the Application Platforms category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 10,651 11,104 23,524
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.38% 11.41% 14.09%
Number of salaries quoted 7,087 7,484 11,651
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £34,125 £40,000 £37,885
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,022 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.13% +0.04% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £47,672 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.85% +5.94% -

CMS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for CMS in the UK

CMS
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing CMS.

Salary trend for CMS in the UK

CMS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing CMS over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for CMS in the UK

CMS
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CMS within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +46 722 £47,500 -13.64% 264
UK excluding London +52 526 £45,000 -10.00% 181
Work from Home +85 339 £50,000 -10.71% 134
London +62 227 £51,000 -21.54% 94
South East -21 164 £52,500 +5.00% 50
North of England +99 131 £44,000 -12.00% 61
South West -8 75 £61,500 +36.67% 10
North West +45 72 £42,500 -15.00% 36
Midlands +31 69 £42,500 +9.68% 35
East of England +7 54 £42,500 -37.04% 12
Yorkshire +103 51 £45,000 +1.12% 17
West Midlands +27 35 £37,500 -16.67% 11
East Midlands +4 34 £42,500 +22.00% 24
Scotland -50 12 £60,000 -4.00% 12
Northern Ireland +28 11 £33,500 -4.29% 4
Wales -3 10 £31,250 -51.92% 3
North East -15 8 £65,000 +36.84% 8
Channel Islands - 1 £57,500 -

CMS
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
1 137 (17.59%) WordPress
2 117 (15.02%) Umbraco
3 77 (9.88%) Sitecore CMS
4 62 (7.96%) Drupal
5 57 (7.32%) Kentico
6 56 (7.19%) Headless CMS
7 45 (5.78%) IIS
8 22 (2.82%) SharePoint
9 19 (2.44%) EPiServer
10 18 (2.31%) Apache
11 15 (1.93%) nginx
12 13 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
13 10 (1.28%) Joomla!
14 9 (1.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 8 (1.03%) Apache Solr
16 6 (0.77%) DNN
16 6 (0.77%) Immediacy CMS
16 6 (0.77%) Sitefinity
17 5 (0.64%) Confluence
17 5 (0.64%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 57 (7.32%) Photoshop
2 44 (5.65%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (2.95%) Microsoft Excel
4 18 (2.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 15 (1.93%) Adobe Illustrator
6 10 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 9 (1.16%) InDesign
8 8 (1.03%) MS Visio
9 7 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
10 6 (0.77%) Trello
11 5 (0.64%) Acrobat
12 4 (0.51%) Adobe Premiere
12 4 (0.51%) Adobe XD
12 4 (0.51%) Maya
13 2 (0.26%) Windchill
14 1 (0.13%) Elementor
14 1 (0.13%) PTC Creo
14 1 (0.13%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 34 (4.36%) SDL Web 8
2 22 (2.82%) Magento
3 21 (2.70%) Shopify
4 7 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.64%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.26%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.13%) Cognos Business Intelligence
7 1 (0.13%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.13%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 141 (18.10%) Azure
2 91 (11.68%) AWS
3 69 (8.86%) Azure DevOps
4 56 (7.19%) Google Analytics
5 41 (5.26%) Kontent
6 29 (3.72%) GitHub
7 26 (3.34%) Microsoft 365
8 24 (3.08%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 17 (2.18%) NuGet
9 17 (2.18%) SaaS
10 15 (1.93%) Figma
11 14 (1.80%) Canva
12 13 (1.67%) Power Platform
13 11 (1.41%) Google Tag Manager
13 11 (1.41%) npm
14 10 (1.28%) PaaS
15 9 (1.16%) Cloud Computing
16 8 (1.03%) Basecamp
17 7 (0.90%) OneDrive
18 6 (0.77%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (4.49%) DNS
2 18 (2.31%) Firewall
3 15 (1.93%) Internet
3 15 (1.93%) Intranet
4 13 (1.67%) SSL
5 9 (1.16%) Extranet
6 8 (1.03%) MPLS
6 8 (1.03%) SD-WAN
6 8 (1.03%) WAN
7 5 (0.64%) NAS
7 5 (0.64%) SAN
7 5 (0.64%) Skype
7 5 (0.64%) VoIP
8 2 (0.26%) HTTP
8 2 (0.26%) Multicast
8 2 (0.26%) SNA
8 2 (0.26%) VPN
9 1 (0.13%) FTP
9 1 (0.13%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.13%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (15.66%) SQL Server
2 46 (5.91%) MySQL
3 12 (1.54%) NoSQL
4 10 (1.28%) MongoDB
4 10 (1.28%) Power BI
5 9 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (0.90%) Relational Database
7 6 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (0.64%) MariaDB
9 4 (0.51%) MS Access
9 4 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.39%) Redis
10 3 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.39%) Tableau
11 2 (0.26%) DB2
11 2 (0.26%) DTS
11 2 (0.26%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.26%) Looker
11 2 (0.26%) Metadata
11 2 (0.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 151 (19.38%) Git
2 57 (7.32%) JIRA
3 44 (5.65%) Visual Studio
4 37 (4.75%) Moq
5 34 (4.36%) NUnit
5 34 (4.36%) TeamCity
6 19 (2.44%) GitLab
7 18 (2.31%) Octopus Deploy
8 17 (2.18%) git-flow
8 17 (2.18%) Sourcetree
8 17 (2.18%) SpecFlow
9 15 (1.93%) Jenkins
10 9 (1.16%) Team Foundation Server
11 7 (0.90%) webpack
12 6 (0.77%) gulp
13 4 (0.51%) Selenium
14 3 (0.39%) Grunt
15 2 (0.26%) Bitbucket
15 2 (0.26%) Bower
15 2 (0.26%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 243 (31.19%) Marketing
2 208 (26.70%) Social Skills
3 61 (7.83%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (7.45%) Finance
5 45 (5.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 38 (4.88%) Organisational Skills
7 36 (4.62%) Retail
8 34 (4.36%) Legal
9 25 (3.21%) Publishing
10 21 (2.70%) Law
11 15 (1.93%) Advertising
12 14 (1.80%) Public Sector
13 12 (1.54%) Automotive
14 7 (0.90%) Manufacturing
14 7 (0.90%) Multimedia
15 6 (0.77%) Brand Awareness
15 6 (0.77%) Local Government
16 5 (0.64%) Banking
16 5 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 355 (45.57%) Developer
2 153 (19.64%) Senior
3 115 (14.76%) Senior Developer
4 103 (13.22%) .NET Developer
5 76 (9.76%) C# Developer
6 75 (9.63%) CMS Developer
7 73 (9.37%) Web Developer
8 66 (8.47%) Full Stack Developer
8 66 (8.47%) Senior C# Developer
9 65 (8.34%) Applications Developer
10 63 (8.09%) .NET Applications Developer
11 60 (7.70%) Project Manager
12 58 (7.45%) Senior .NET Developer
13 57 (7.32%) Lead
14 54 (6.93%) C# .NET Developer
15 49 (6.29%) Senior C# .NET Developer
16 48 (6.16%) ASP.NET Developer
16 48 (6.16%) C# Application Developer
16 48 (6.16%) C# ASP.NET Developer
17 47 (6.03%) Senior Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 239 (30.68%) HTML
2 238 (30.55%) .NET
3 233 (29.91%) CSS
4 156 (20.03%) ASP.NET
5 152 (19.51%) React
6 126 (16.17%) .NET Framework
7 88 (11.30%) ASP.NET MVC
8 85 (10.91%) RESTful
9 80 (10.27%) jQuery
10 79 (10.14%) .NET Core
11 62 (7.96%) Web Services
12 58 (7.45%) Entity Framework
13 53 (6.80%) SOAP
14 49 (6.29%) Next.js
15 46 (5.91%) Vue
15 46 (5.91%) XML
16 44 (5.65%) Node.js
17 39 (5.01%) REST
18 38 (4.88%) AngularJS
19 35 (4.49%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 67 (8.60%) Social Media
2 57 (7.32%) Self-Motivation
3 39 (5.01%) Greenfield Project
4 34 (4.36%) Legacy Code
5 30 (3.85%) Blog
6 26 (3.34%) Digital Signage
6 26 (3.34%) Management Information System
7 25 (3.21%) Graphic Design
8 22 (2.82%) Mobile App
9 16 (2.05%) Video Editing
10 12 (1.54%) Product Ownership
11 11 (1.41%) Client/Server
11 11 (1.41%) Marketing Technology
12 9 (1.16%) e-Learning
13 8 (1.03%) NHS
13 8 (1.03%) Operational Technology
14 7 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
15 6 (0.77%) CMDB
15 6 (0.77%) Photography
15 6 (0.77%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 50 (6.42%) Windows
2 22 (2.82%) Android
3 16 (2.05%) Windows Server
4 11 (1.41%) Apple iOS
4 11 (1.41%) Windows 10
5 9 (1.16%) Linux
6 4 (0.51%) VMS
7 3 (0.39%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (28.63%) Content Management
2 190 (24.39%) Web Development
3 174 (22.34%) E-Commerce
4 151 (19.38%) DevOps
4 151 (19.38%) Problem-Solving
5 142 (18.23%) MVC
6 136 (17.46%) Agile
7 123 (15.79%) CRM
8 110 (14.12%) Full Stack Development
9 106 (13.61%) Project Management
10 95 (12.20%) SEO
11 94 (12.07%) User Experience
12 87 (11.17%) Project Delivery
13 86 (11.04%) Analytics
14 69 (8.86%) Front End Development
15 61 (7.83%) Scrum
16 60 (7.70%) Digital Marketing
17 51 (6.55%) Customer Service
18 46 (5.91%) Mentoring
18 46 (5.91%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 278 (35.69%) JavaScript
2 195 (25.03%) C#
3 136 (17.46%) SQL
4 111 (14.25%) PHP
5 55 (7.06%) T-SQL
6 33 (4.24%) TypeScript
6 33 (4.24%) XPath
7 16 (2.05%) Python
8 13 (1.67%) PowerShell
9 8 (1.03%) C
9 8 (1.03%) Java
10 5 (0.64%) C++
11 4 (0.51%) Bash
12 3 (0.39%) JSX
13 2 (0.26%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.26%) Go
13 2 (0.26%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.26%) VB
13 2 (0.26%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 121 (15.53%) Degree
2 16 (2.05%) Security Cleared
3 14 (1.80%) SC Cleared
4 13 (1.67%) DV Cleared
5 10 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (0.90%) HND
8 5 (0.64%) CCNA
8 5 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (0.64%) DBS Check
8 5 (0.64%) MCSE
9 2 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.26%) ISEB
9 2 (0.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.26%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.26%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.13%) A+ Certification
10 1 (0.13%) CIPD
10 1 (0.13%) MCP
10 1 (0.13%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (5.13%) QA
2 37 (4.75%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.18%) GDPR
4 10 (1.28%) SLA
5 7 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.51%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.39%) WCAG
8 2 (0.26%) ISO 14001
8 2 (0.26%) ISO 9000
8 2 (0.26%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 40 (5.13%) Docker
2 16 (2.05%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.03%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.13%) Firmware
4 1 (0.13%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 13 (1.67%) SCOM
2 8 (1.03%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.26%) Plesk
3 2 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.26%) Terraform
4 1 (0.13%) cPanel
4 1 (0.13%) Kibana
4 1 (0.13%) TeamSite
Vendors
1 148 (19.00%) Microsoft
2 87 (11.17%) Adobe
3 77 (9.88%) Sitecore
4 76 (9.76%) Google
5 47 (6.03%) Optimizely
6 18 (2.31%) WooCommerce
7 17 (2.18%) Cognizant
8 16 (2.05%) HP
9 14 (1.80%) Salesforce
9 14 (1.80%) ServiceNow
10 13 (1.67%) Dynatrace
10 13 (1.67%) Instagram
10 13 (1.67%) Riverbed
11 12 (1.54%) Marketo
12 8 (1.03%) Apple
12 8 (1.03%) Meraki
13 7 (0.90%) Facebook
13 7 (0.90%) HubSpot
13 7 (0.90%) SAP
14 6 (0.77%) Twitter