CMS Contracts in the North of England

Content Management System (CMS)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 153 174 195
Rank change year-on-year +21 +21 -50
Contract jobs citing CMS 31 39 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.66% 0.68% 0.73%
As % of the Application Platforms category 8.66% 8.04% 6.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 26 35
10th Percentile £254 £230 £222
25th Percentile £308 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £404 £425 £405
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +4.94% +54.29%
75th Percentile £464 £500 £518
90th Percentile £525 £597 £533
England median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £22.50
Median hourly rate £13.00 - £25.00
75th Percentile - - £27.50
90th Percentile £16.15 - -
England median hourly rate £13.00 £20.50 £33.54
% change year-on-year -36.59% -38.87% +67.69%

All Application Platform Skills
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 358 485 864
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 7.63% 8.50% 12.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 343 623
10th Percentile £205 £200 £175
25th Percentile £313 £325 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £438
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% +8.57% +9.38%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £525
90th Percentile £650 £650 £625
England median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 11 41
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £16.00
25th Percentile £13.31 £16.44 £16.63
Median hourly rate £15.23 £22.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% +18.92% +0.43%
75th Percentile £44.47 £31.25 £35.56
90th Percentile £46.18 £40.00 £46.72
England median hourly rate £25.50 £35.00 £20.89
% change year-on-year -27.14% +67.54% +4.94%

CMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for CMS in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CMS in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for CMS in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CMS in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CMS in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CMS in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for CMS in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CMS within the North of England region over the 6 months to 8 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West +18 20 £388 -8.82% 24
Yorkshire +25 10 £408 -5.23% 19
North East +16 1 £650 +20.93% 3
CMS
England

CMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 7 (22.58%) Drupal
1 7 (22.58%) Umbraco
2 3 (9.68%) Headless CMS
3 2 (6.45%) SharePoint
3 2 (6.45%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (3.23%) Kentico
4 1 (3.23%) SharePoint 2013
4 1 (3.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Photoshop
2 1 (3.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (3.23%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (3.23%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 8 (25.81%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (12.90%) AWS
2 4 (12.90%) Azure
2 4 (12.90%) Contentstack
3 1 (3.23%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 1 (3.23%) Contentful
3 1 (3.23%) GCP
3 1 (3.23%) Google Analytics
3 1 (3.23%) IaaS
3 1 (3.23%) Miro
3 1 (3.23%) PaaS
3 1 (3.23%) SaaS
3 1 (3.23%) Serverless
3 1 (3.23%) Squarespace
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) Intranet
Development Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Dreamweaver
1 1 (3.23%) JIRA
1 1 (3.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (25.81%) Retail
2 7 (22.58%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.45%) Finance
3 2 (6.45%) Marketing
4 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Automotive
4 1 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.23%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 15 (48.39%) Developer
2 7 (22.58%) IT Support
3 5 (16.13%) .NET Developer
4 4 (12.90%) Drupal Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Consultant
5 2 (6.45%) Content Designer
5 2 (6.45%) Designer
5 2 (6.45%) E-Commerce Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Sitecore Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Umbraco Developer
6 1 (3.23%) Configuration Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Content Coordinator
6 1 (3.23%) CSS Developer
6 1 (3.23%) Digital Content Designer
6 1 (3.23%) Digital Content Editor
6 1 (3.23%) Digital Designer
6 1 (3.23%) Digital Editor
6 1 (3.23%) Salesforce Architect
6 1 (3.23%) Salesforce Solution Architect
6 1 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (32.26%) .NET
2 4 (12.90%) .NET Framework
2 4 (12.90%) CSS
2 4 (12.90%) HTML
3 2 (6.45%) Entity Framework
3 2 (6.45%) React
4 1 (3.23%) .NET Core
4 1 (3.23%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.23%) GraphQL
4 1 (3.23%) JSON
4 1 (3.23%) Middleware
4 1 (3.23%) REST
4 1 (3.23%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (22.58%) EPoS
1 7 (22.58%) Virtual Team
2 2 (6.45%) Life Science
2 2 (6.45%) Social Media
3 1 (3.23%) CMDB
3 1 (3.23%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.23%) Low-Code
3 1 (3.23%) NHS
3 1 (3.23%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.23%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (35.48%) E-Commerce
2 9 (29.03%) Content Management
3 8 (25.81%) CRM
4 4 (12.90%) User Experience
5 3 (9.68%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (6.45%) Analytics
6 2 (6.45%) DevOps
6 2 (6.45%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 2 (6.45%) ERP
6 2 (6.45%) Front End Development
6 2 (6.45%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (6.45%) Web Development
7 1 (3.23%) Agile
7 1 (3.23%) Configuration Management
7 1 (3.23%) Migration
7 1 (3.23%) MVC
7 1 (3.23%) OOD
7 1 (3.23%) Scrum
7 1 (3.23%) SEO
7 1 (3.23%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.90%) C#
2 3 (9.68%) JavaScript
3 2 (6.45%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) Accessibility
1 2 (6.45%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (6.45%) Adobe
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft
1 2 (6.45%) Sitecore
2 1 (3.23%) BMC
2 1 (3.23%) Dynatrace
2 1 (3.23%) Google
2 1 (3.23%) Salesforce
2 1 (3.23%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud