CMS Contracts in the North West

Content Management System (CMS)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 125 155
Rank change year-on-year +8 +30 -43
Contract jobs citing CMS 20 28 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.72% 0.87% 0.66%
As % of the Application Platforms category 10.31% 10.53% 6.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 20 24
10th Percentile £284 £234 £201
25th Percentile £306 £400 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £425 £420
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% +1.13% +110.13%
75th Percentile £450 £531 £515
90th Percentile £518 £638 £524
England median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £21.25 -
Median hourly rate £13.00 £22.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -42.22% - -
75th Percentile - £23.75 -
90th Percentile £16.15 - -
England median hourly rate £13.00 £22.50 £36.58
% change year-on-year -42.22% -38.48% +72.12%

All Application Platform Skills
North West

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 West with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 194 266 436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 7.02% 8.28% 10.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 192 317
10th Percentile £225 £237 £172
25th Percentile £313 £374 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £515 £558 £560
90th Percentile £613 £650 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 9 24
10th Percentile - £14.33 £16.25
25th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £32.12 £18.50 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year +73.59% -1.33% -4.14%
75th Percentile £45.00 £26.00 £44.03
90th Percentile £46.18 £36.20 £53.39
England median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +54.76% -1.89%

CMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for CMS in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for CMS in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CMS in the North West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CMS in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for CMS in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 27 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
Manchester +14 9 £438 +2.94% 21
Cumbria - 7 - -
Cheshire -2 3 £313 -21.88% 4
CMS
England

CMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (15.00%) Headless CMS
2 2 (10.00%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (5.00%) Drupal
3 1 (5.00%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (15.00%) Contentstack
3 2 (10.00%) AWS
3 2 (10.00%) Azure
4 1 (5.00%) Squarespace
General
1 7 (35.00%) Retail
1 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Automotive
2 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Developer
2 7 (35.00%) IT Support
3 4 (20.00%) .NET Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Consultant
4 2 (10.00%) E-Commerce Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Sitecore Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Configuration Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Configuration Management Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Content Editor
5 1 (5.00%) CSS Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Digital Content Editor
5 1 (5.00%) Digital Editor
5 1 (5.00%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) .NET
1 4 (20.00%) .NET Framework
2 3 (15.00%) CSS
3 2 (10.00%) Entity Framework
3 2 (10.00%) HTML
3 2 (10.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (35.00%) EPoS
1 7 (35.00%) Virtual Team
2 2 (10.00%) Life Science
3 1 (5.00%) CMDB
3 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.00%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (5.00%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 7 (35.00%) CRM
3 5 (25.00%) Content Management
4 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (15.00%) User Experience
5 2 (10.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 2 (10.00%) Front End Development
5 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (5.00%) Configuration Management
6 1 (5.00%) ERP
6 1 (5.00%) ITIL
6 1 (5.00%) Statistics
6 1 (5.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) C#
2 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Sitecore
2 1 (5.00%) BMC
2 1 (5.00%) Dynatrace