CMS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Content Management System (CMS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring CMS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CMS over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 275 241 327
Rank change year-on-year -34 +86 -89
Contract jobs citing CMS 127 198 183
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.60% 0.87% 0.60%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.96% 8.07% 4.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 159 117
10th Percentile £208 £260 £263
25th Percentile £250 £313 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £400 £451
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -11.21% +6.63%
75th Percentile £540 £510 £538
90th Percentile £650 £631 £591
UK median daily rate £420 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% -10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 14
10th Percentile - - £45.58
25th Percentile - - £65.00
Median hourly rate £13.00 £16.77 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.48% -77.64% +280.95%
75th Percentile £17.41 - £77.50
90th Percentile £32.95 - £81.00
UK median hourly rate £14.13 £18.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year -23.65% -75.33% +283.44%

All Application Platform Skills
UK excluding London

CMS falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,824 2,453 3,785
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.55% 10.81% 12.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,245 1,714 2,654
10th Percentile £215 £200 £185
25th Percentile £325 £331 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +4.65%
75th Percentile £570 £576 £551
90th Percentile £650 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £511 £520
% change year-on-year -2.15% -1.73% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 99 136
10th Percentile £13.03 £16.10 £13.33
25th Percentile £15.19 £20.88 £14.25
Median hourly rate £30.41 £48.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.29% +162.16% -
75th Percentile £51.91 £65.13 £44.27
90th Percentile £74.40 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £31.71 £52.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year -39.60% +128.26% +15.00%

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

CMS
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 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CMS in the UK excluding London

CMS
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

CMS
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 12 June 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 12 June 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 +4 29 £400 -0.62% 59
South West +9 28 £315 -16.00% 14
Midlands +22 24 £600 +24.68% 33
West Midlands +26 23 £600 +33.33% 10
North West +3 19 £388 -3.73% 31
Scotland +41 16 £179 -59.81% 11
South East -17 15 £540 +37.14% 31
East of England -23 15 £650 +52.94% 11
Yorkshire +13 9 £379 -1.94% 21
North East +9 1 £650 +20.93% 7
East Midlands +4 1 £410 -18.00% 23
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 (11.81%) Drupal
2 14 (11.02%) Umbraco
3 12 (9.45%) Sitecore CMS
4 7 (5.51%) Headless CMS
5 4 (3.15%) SharePoint
5 4 (3.15%) WordPress
6 3 (2.36%) Kentico
7 1 (0.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.79%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.79%) Jadu
Applications
1 14 (11.02%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (9.45%) Photoshop
3 10 (7.87%) Adobe Illustrator
4 6 (4.72%) PTC Creo
5 3 (2.36%) Windchill
6 2 (1.57%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
7 1 (0.79%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 6 (4.72%) Magento
2 3 (2.36%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 15 (11.81%) Azure
2 10 (7.87%) AWS
3 8 (6.30%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (5.51%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (4.72%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 5 (3.94%) GCP
7 4 (3.15%) Contentstack
8 2 (1.57%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 2 (1.57%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (1.57%) Google Analytics
8 2 (1.57%) Serverless
8 2 (1.57%) Squarespace
9 1 (0.79%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.79%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.79%) Canva
9 1 (0.79%) Contentful
9 1 (0.79%) GitHub
9 1 (0.79%) Google Tag Manager
9 1 (0.79%) IaaS
9 1 (0.79%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.45%) Intranet
2 8 (6.30%) DNS
2 8 (6.30%) SSL
3 5 (3.94%) FTP
3 5 (3.94%) HTTP
3 5 (3.94%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.72%) Metadata
2 2 (1.57%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.79%) DB2
3 1 (0.79%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.79%) InterSystems Cache
3 1 (0.79%) Jackrabbit
3 1 (0.79%) Looker
3 1 (0.79%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (3.94%) Git
2 3 (2.36%) Artifactory
2 3 (2.36%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.36%) Selenium
2 3 (2.36%) Subversion
3 2 (1.57%) HP UFT
3 2 (1.57%) LoadRunner
3 2 (1.57%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.79%) Dreamweaver
4 1 (0.79%) JIRA
4 1 (0.79%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.79%) webpack
General
1 36 (28.35%) Social Skills
2 20 (15.75%) Public Sector
3 12 (9.45%) Publishing
4 11 (8.66%) Marketing
5 10 (7.87%) Retail
6 9 (7.09%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (6.30%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (3.15%) Manufacturing
8 4 (3.15%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.36%) Games
9 3 (2.36%) Tech for Good
9 3 (2.36%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.57%) Banking
10 2 (1.57%) Finance
11 1 (0.79%) Automotive
11 1 (0.79%) Electronics
11 1 (0.79%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 30 (23.62%) Developer
2 17 (13.39%) Analyst
2 17 (13.39%) SOC Analyst
3 16 (12.60%) Senior
4 11 (8.66%) Designer
5 10 (7.87%) Content Designer
5 10 (7.87%) Content Manager
6 7 (5.51%) .NET Developer
6 7 (5.51%) Architect
6 7 (5.51%) Full Stack Developer
6 7 (5.51%) Senior Analyst
6 7 (5.51%) Senior Content Designer
6 7 (5.51%) Senior Designer
7 6 (4.72%) Consultant
7 6 (4.72%) Umbraco Developer
7 6 (4.72%) Web Manager
7 6 (4.72%) Web Specialist
8 5 (3.94%) Digital Content Manager
8 5 (3.94%) IT Support
8 5 (3.94%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (13.39%) .NET
2 14 (11.02%) HTML
3 12 (9.45%) CSS
4 9 (7.09%) React
5 5 (3.94%) .NET Framework
5 5 (3.94%) GraphQL
5 5 (3.94%) LDAP
6 4 (3.15%) AngularJS
6 4 (3.15%) ASP.NET
6 4 (3.15%) Laravel
7 3 (2.36%) ASP.NET MVC
7 3 (2.36%) Entity Framework
7 3 (2.36%) RESTful
7 3 (2.36%) Vue
8 2 (1.57%) Apache Sling
8 2 (1.57%) DOM
8 2 (1.57%) Flash
8 2 (1.57%) GatsbyJS
8 2 (1.57%) OSGi
8 2 (1.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.81%) Cyberattack
2 14 (11.02%) Security Operations Centre
3 13 (10.24%) Social Media
4 9 (7.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 6 (4.72%) Mobile App
6 5 (3.94%) EPoS
6 5 (3.94%) Virtual Team
7 4 (3.15%) Handset
7 4 (3.15%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.36%) Cloud Native
8 3 (2.36%) Graphic Design
8 3 (2.36%) Life Science
8 3 (2.36%) Private Cloud
9 2 (1.57%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.57%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.79%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.79%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 17 (13.39%) Linux
1 17 (13.39%) Windows
2 3 (2.36%) Android
2 3 (2.36%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.79%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (37.01%) Content Management
2 22 (17.32%) User Experience
3 19 (14.96%) Agile
4 17 (13.39%) Cybersecurity
4 17 (13.39%) Incident Response
5 15 (11.81%) E-Commerce
6 14 (11.02%) Security Operations
6 14 (11.02%) SEO
7 13 (10.24%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (8.66%) Analytics
9 10 (7.87%) Content Strategy
9 10 (7.87%) Full Stack Development
10 9 (7.09%) DevOps
11 8 (6.30%) User Acceptance Testing
11 8 (6.30%) Validation
12 7 (5.51%) Copywriting
12 7 (5.51%) User Stories
13 6 (4.72%) Coaching
13 6 (4.72%) SDLC
13 6 (4.72%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (9.45%) JavaScript
2 10 (7.87%) C#
3 7 (5.51%) SQL
4 4 (3.15%) PHP
4 4 (3.15%) TypeScript
5 3 (2.36%) Python
6 2 (1.57%) Bicep
6 2 (1.57%) Java
6 2 (1.57%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (1.57%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.79%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 23 (18.11%) Security Cleared
2 7 (5.51%) Degree
3 4 (3.15%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.36%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.66%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.15%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (2.36%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.36%) QA
4 1 (0.79%) PMO
4 1 (0.79%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (0.79%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 3 (2.36%) Ansible
1 3 (2.36%) Terraform
2 1 (0.79%) AppManager
Vendors
1 19 (14.96%) Microsoft
2 17 (13.39%) Darktrace
2 17 (13.39%) FireEye
2 17 (13.39%) LogRhythm
2 17 (13.39%) Splunk
3 12 (9.45%) Sitecore
4 8 (6.30%) Atlassian
5 5 (3.94%) IronPort
5 5 (3.94%) Symantec
6 4 (3.15%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.15%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.36%) Adobe
7 3 (2.36%) Google
7 3 (2.36%) PTC
7 3 (2.36%) Sage
8 2 (1.57%) OpenText
8 2 (1.57%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.79%) ICL
9 1 (0.79%) Instagram
9 1 (0.79%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud