CMS Contracts in Scotland

Content Management System (CMS)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 141 145
Rank change year-on-year +28 +4 -25
Contract jobs citing CMS 18 24 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.82% 0.84% 0.74%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.42% 7.59% 6.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 19 18
10th Percentile - £298 £261
25th Percentile £178 £363 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £179 £425 £413
Median % change year-on-year -57.92% +3.03% +65.00%
75th Percentile £450 £500 £450
90th Percentile £469 £502 £537
UK median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +11.11%

All Application Platform Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 332 316 427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 15.04% 11.05% 12.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 229 317
10th Percentile £219 £181 £213
25th Percentile £350 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £436 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% -3.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £525 £573
90th Percentile £700 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £520
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.44% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 7
10th Percentile £15.36 £17.83 £14.84
25th Percentile £15.42 £17.99 £16.27
Median hourly rate £17.00 £18.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% +5.71% -72.22%
75th Percentile £17.50 £36.25 £28.55
90th Percentile £24.93 £46.75 £37.90
UK median hourly rate £27.52 £39.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -29.45% +77.27% -2.22%

CMS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for CMS in Scotland

CMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for CMS in Scotland

CMS
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CMS in Scotland over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CMS in Scotland

CMS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for CMS in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CMS within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 28 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
Edinburgh +35 15 £179 -57.92% 5
Glasgow -2 2 - - 2
CMS
UK

CMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (5.56%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.56%) Adobe Creative Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) Google Analytics
2 1 (5.56%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 5 (27.78%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Metadata
2 1 (5.56%) Looker
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Cypress.io
1 3 (16.67%) GitLab
2 2 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 14 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 12 (66.67%) Public Sector
3 4 (22.22%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (16.67%) Publishing
4 3 (16.67%) Retail Banking
5 1 (5.56%) Marketing
5 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Content Manager
1 5 (27.78%) Digital Content Manager
2 4 (22.22%) Content Designer
2 4 (22.22%) Designer
2 4 (22.22%) Senior
2 4 (22.22%) Senior Content Designer
2 4 (22.22%) Senior Designer
3 3 (16.67%) Avaya Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Pega Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Communications Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Content Coordinator
4 1 (5.56%) Content Editor
4 1 (5.56%) Coordinator
4 1 (5.56%) Digital Communications Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Digital Content Editor
4 1 (5.56%) Digital Editor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) JSON
1 3 (16.67%) JSP
2 1 (5.56%) CSS
2 1 (5.56%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) Content Management
2 8 (44.44%) Agile
3 5 (27.78%) Digital Content Management
4 4 (22.22%) Analytics
4 4 (22.22%) Content Strategy
4 4 (22.22%) Technical Debt
4 4 (22.22%) User Stories
5 3 (16.67%) Case Management
5 3 (16.67%) Change Management
5 3 (16.67%) Customer Service
5 3 (16.67%) Data Migration
5 3 (16.67%) ETL
5 3 (16.67%) Human-Centred Design
5 3 (16.67%) Inclusive Design
5 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (16.67%) Migration
5 3 (16.67%) Pair Programming
5 3 (16.67%) Test Automation
5 3 (16.67%) Validation
6 2 (11.11%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) Java
1 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) Accessibility
2 3 (16.67%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Avaya
1 3 (16.67%) Pega
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.56%) Adobe
3 1 (5.56%) Google