CMS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Content Management System (CMS)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 251 265 336
Rank change year-on-year +14 +71 -103
Contract jobs citing CMS 135 199 172
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.66% 0.85% 0.56%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.73% 7.64% 4.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 157 117
10th Percentile £208 £260 £258
25th Percentile £263 £313 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £405 £451
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -10.10% +20.13%
75th Percentile £525 £530 £538
90th Percentile £650 £631 £598
UK median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 2
10th Percentile - - £23.98
25th Percentile - - £26.19
Median hourly rate £13.00 £16.77 £31.75
Median % change year-on-year -22.48% -47.18% +59.49%
75th Percentile £14.78 - £36.69
90th Percentile £26.65 - £38.53
UK median hourly rate £13.00 £20.50 £33.54
% change year-on-year -36.59% -38.87% +69.25%

All Application Platform Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,747 2,606 3,849
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.51% 11.09% 12.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,176 1,876 2,658
10th Percentile £208 £203 £185
25th Percentile £320 £350 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £580 £545
90th Percentile £650 £675 £631
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -2.44% - +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 99 139
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.08 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.25 £17.61 £15.02
Median hourly rate £24.09 £27.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.40% +48.65% -2.63%
75th Percentile £50.47 £65.88 £36.63
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.24 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £27.51 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -38.87% +100.00% +5.14%

CMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing CMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for CMS in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CMS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for CMS in the UK excluding London

CMS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CMS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CMS in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CMS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for CMS in the UK excluding London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CMS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for CMS in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CMS within the UK excluding London 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 of England +21 31 £404 -5.00% 45
South West +27 29 £308 -21.90% 13
Midlands +35 25 £563 +32.35% 36
West Midlands +35 24 £600 +41.18% 19
Scotland +38 20 £229 -46.02% 7
North West +18 20 £388 -8.82% 23
South East -18 16 £446 +11.56% 45
East of England -29 14 £650 +27.08% 12
Yorkshire +25 10 £408 -5.23% 19
North East +16 1 £650 +20.93% 3
East Midlands +15 1 £410 -6.55% 17
CMS
UK

CMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 15 (11.11%) Drupal
2 14 (10.37%) Umbraco
3 12 (8.89%) Sitecore CMS
4 7 (5.19%) Headless CMS
5 6 (4.44%) SharePoint
6 3 (2.22%) Kentico
6 3 (2.22%) WordPress
7 1 (0.74%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.74%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.74%) Jadu
7 1 (0.74%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 14 (10.37%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (9.63%) Photoshop
3 10 (7.41%) Adobe Illustrator
4 6 (4.44%) PTC Creo
5 3 (2.22%) Windchill
6 2 (1.48%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
7 1 (0.74%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 6 (4.44%) Magento
2 3 (2.22%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 13 (9.63%) Azure
2 11 (8.15%) AWS
3 10 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (4.44%) SAP Commerce Cloud
5 5 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (2.96%) Contentstack
6 4 (2.96%) GCP
7 3 (2.22%) Google Analytics
8 2 (1.48%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 2 (1.48%) Serverless
9 1 (0.74%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.74%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.74%) Canva
9 1 (0.74%) Contentful
9 1 (0.74%) GitHub
9 1 (0.74%) Google Tag Manager
9 1 (0.74%) IaaS
9 1 (0.74%) Miro
9 1 (0.74%) SaaS
9 1 (0.74%) Squarespace
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.63%) Intranet
2 6 (4.44%) DNS
2 6 (4.44%) SSL
3 3 (2.22%) FTP
3 3 (2.22%) HTTP
3 3 (2.22%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.96%) Metadata
2 2 (1.48%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.74%) DB2
3 1 (0.74%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.74%) InterSystems Cache
3 1 (0.74%) Jackrabbit
3 1 (0.74%) Looker
3 1 (0.74%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (3.70%) Git
2 3 (2.22%) Artifactory
2 3 (2.22%) Cypress.io
2 3 (2.22%) GitLab
2 3 (2.22%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.22%) JIRA
2 3 (2.22%) Selenium
2 3 (2.22%) Subversion
3 2 (1.48%) HP UFT
3 2 (1.48%) LoadRunner
3 2 (1.48%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.74%) Dreamweaver
4 1 (0.74%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.74%) webpack
General
1 43 (31.85%) Social Skills
2 18 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 13 (9.63%) Marketing
4 12 (8.89%) Retail
5 10 (7.41%) Publishing
6 7 (5.19%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.96%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.96%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.22%) Games
9 3 (2.22%) Retail Banking
9 3 (2.22%) Tech for Good
9 3 (2.22%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.48%) Finance
11 1 (0.74%) Automotive
11 1 (0.74%) Electronics
11 1 (0.74%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 36 (26.67%) Developer
2 17 (12.59%) Analyst
2 17 (12.59%) SOC Analyst
3 15 (11.11%) Senior
4 10 (7.41%) Content Manager
5 9 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
6 8 (5.93%) Designer
7 7 (5.19%) Architect
7 7 (5.19%) Content Designer
7 7 (5.19%) Full Stack Developer
7 7 (5.19%) IT Support
8 6 (4.44%) .NET Developer
8 6 (4.44%) Consultant
8 6 (4.44%) Umbraco Developer
8 6 (4.44%) Web Manager
8 6 (4.44%) Web Specialist
9 5 (3.70%) Communications Manager
9 5 (3.70%) Digital Content Manager
9 5 (3.70%) Junior
9 5 (3.70%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (12.59%) .NET
2 15 (11.11%) HTML
3 13 (9.63%) CSS
4 10 (7.41%) React
5 5 (3.70%) AngularJS
5 5 (3.70%) GraphQL
5 5 (3.70%) Laravel
6 4 (2.96%) .NET Framework
6 4 (2.96%) ASP.NET
6 4 (2.96%) JSON
6 4 (2.96%) Vue
7 3 (2.22%) ASP.NET MVC
7 3 (2.22%) JSP
7 3 (2.22%) LDAP
8 2 (1.48%) Apache Sling
8 2 (1.48%) DOM
8 2 (1.48%) Entity Framework
8 2 (1.48%) GatsbyJS
8 2 (1.48%) OSGi
8 2 (1.48%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.59%) Cyberattack
2 14 (10.37%) Security Operations Centre
3 12 (8.89%) Social Media
4 11 (8.15%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 7 (5.19%) EPoS
5 7 (5.19%) Virtual Team
6 6 (4.44%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.96%) Handset
7 4 (2.96%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.22%) Cloud Native
8 3 (2.22%) Graphic Design
8 3 (2.22%) Private Cloud
9 2 (1.48%) Life Science
9 2 (1.48%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.48%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.74%) Animation
10 1 (0.74%) Blog
10 1 (0.74%) CMDB
10 1 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 17 (12.59%) Linux
1 17 (12.59%) Windows
2 3 (2.22%) Android
2 3 (2.22%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.74%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (34.07%) Content Management
2 24 (17.78%) User Experience
3 18 (13.33%) Agile
4 17 (12.59%) Cybersecurity
4 17 (12.59%) E-Commerce
4 17 (12.59%) Incident Response
5 15 (11.11%) Analytics
6 14 (10.37%) Security Operations
6 14 (10.37%) SEO
7 11 (8.15%) Validation
8 10 (7.41%) Full Stack Development
8 10 (7.41%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (6.67%) DevOps
10 8 (5.93%) CRM
10 8 (5.93%) Migration
10 8 (5.93%) User Acceptance Testing
11 7 (5.19%) Content Strategy
11 7 (5.19%) Copywriting
12 6 (4.44%) Customer Service
12 6 (4.44%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 17 (12.59%) JavaScript
2 9 (6.67%) C#
3 7 (5.19%) SQL
4 5 (3.70%) Java
4 5 (3.70%) PHP
5 4 (2.96%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.22%) Python
7 1 (0.74%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 21 (15.56%) Security Cleared
2 7 (5.19%) Degree
3 4 (2.96%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.22%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.74%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.63%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.96%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (2.22%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.22%) QA
4 2 (1.48%) PMO
5 1 (0.74%) P3O
5 1 (0.74%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (0.74%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 3 (2.22%) Ansible
2 1 (0.74%) AppManager
2 1 (0.74%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (14.07%) Microsoft
2 17 (12.59%) Darktrace
2 17 (12.59%) FireEye
2 17 (12.59%) LogRhythm
2 17 (12.59%) Splunk
3 12 (8.89%) Sitecore
4 8 (5.93%) Atlassian
5 4 (2.96%) Google
5 4 (2.96%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.96%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.22%) Adobe
6 3 (2.22%) Avaya
6 3 (2.22%) IronPort
6 3 (2.22%) Pega
6 3 (2.22%) PTC
6 3 (2.22%) Sage
6 3 (2.22%) Symantec
7 2 (1.48%) OpenText
8 1 (0.74%) Apple
8 1 (0.74%) BMC