CMS Contracts in the Midlands

Content Management System (CMS)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for CMS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited CMS over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 140 178
Rank change year-on-year +26 +38 -57
Contract jobs citing CMS 23 25 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.84% 0.72% 0.45%
As % of the Application Platforms category 11.27% 5.53% 3.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 14 18
10th Percentile £325 £208 £406
25th Percentile £403 £288 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £393 £513
Median % change year-on-year +52.87% -23.41% +18.16%
75th Percentile £669 £461 £569
90th Percentile £688 £498 £631
England median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
England median hourly rate £13.00 £22.50 £36.58
% change year-on-year -42.22% -38.48% +72.12%

All Application Platform Skills
Midlands

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 204 452 684
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 7.43% 13.10% 13.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 329 464
10th Percentile £153 £208 £200
25th Percentile £300 £363 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £455 £448
Median % change year-on-year -17.58% +1.56% +16.97%
75th Percentile £538 £540 £538
90th Percentile £638 £610 £600
England median daily rate £499 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -5.00% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 9 17
10th Percentile £17.47 £14.48 £15.90
25th Percentile £22.50 £16.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £39.53 £18.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +113.68% -7.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £51.91 £26.48 £23.50
90th Percentile - £34.93 £30.00
England median hourly rate £27.51 £32.50 £20.95
% change year-on-year -15.36% +55.17% -2.15%

CMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for CMS in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for CMS in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CMS in the Midlands over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CMS in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for CMS in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CMS within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
West Midlands +35 22 £600 +41.18% 14
East Midlands +17 1 £410 +4.46% 20
CMS
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 6 (26.09%) Drupal
2 2 (8.70%) Headless CMS
2 2 (8.70%) Umbraco
3 1 (4.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (4.35%) Jadu
3 1 (4.35%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.04%) Azure
1 3 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (13.04%) GCP
2 2 (8.70%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.04%) DNS
1 3 (13.04%) SSL
2 2 (8.70%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) DB2
1 1 (4.35%) Jackrabbit
1 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Artifactory
1 3 (13.04%) Git
1 3 (13.04%) Jenkins
1 3 (13.04%) Selenium
1 3 (13.04%) Subversion
2 1 (4.35%) webpack
General
1 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Publishing
3 2 (8.70%) Games
3 2 (8.70%) Marketing
3 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.35%) Retail
4 1 (4.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (21.74%) Developer
2 4 (17.39%) Analyst
2 4 (17.39%) SOC Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) Copywriter
3 3 (13.04%) Full Stack Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Backend Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) Designer
4 2 (8.70%) E-Commerce Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) Project Manager
4 2 (8.70%) Web Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) .NET Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Full Stack .NET Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Full Stack PHP Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Lead
5 1 (4.35%) PHP Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Senior
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Team Leader
5 1 (4.35%) Web Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) Apache Sling
1 2 (8.70%) GraphQL
1 2 (8.70%) OSGi
1 2 (8.70%) React
1 2 (8.70%) RESTful
2 1 (4.35%) .NET
2 1 (4.35%) Laravel
2 1 (4.35%) Next.js
2 1 (4.35%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Social Media
2 4 (17.39%) Cyberattack
2 4 (17.39%) Handset
2 4 (17.39%) Mobile App
2 4 (17.39%) Security Operations Centre
3 3 (13.04%) Cloud Native
3 3 (13.04%) Private Cloud
4 2 (8.70%) Graphic Design
5 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (17.39%) Linux
1 4 (17.39%) Windows
2 1 (4.35%) Android
2 1 (4.35%) Apple iOS
2 1 (4.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) Content Management
1 8 (34.78%) SEO
2 6 (26.09%) Analytics
2 6 (26.09%) Copywriting
3 4 (17.39%) Agile
3 4 (17.39%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (17.39%) E-Commerce
3 4 (17.39%) Incident Response
3 4 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (17.39%) SDLC
3 4 (17.39%) Security Operations
4 3 (13.04%) Architectural Patterns
4 3 (13.04%) CI/CD
4 3 (13.04%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (13.04%) Epics
4 3 (13.04%) Full Stack Development
4 3 (13.04%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (13.04%) Roadmaps
4 3 (13.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (13.04%) Software Assurance
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.70%) Java
1 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
1 2 (8.70%) Python
2 1 (4.35%) C#
2 1 (4.35%) COBOL
2 1 (4.35%) PHP
2 1 (4.35%) SQL
2 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (30.43%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) QA
2 2 (8.70%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.35%) P3O
3 1 (4.35%) PMO
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) Ansible
2 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) Darktrace
1 4 (17.39%) FireEye
1 4 (17.39%) LogRhythm
1 4 (17.39%) Splunk
2 3 (13.04%) Salesforce
2 3 (13.04%) ServiceNow
3 2 (8.70%) Sage
4 1 (4.35%) IBM
4 1 (4.35%) ICL
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft