Content Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Content Management
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Content Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Content Management 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 315 364 376
Rank change year-on-year +49 +12 -75
Contract jobs citing Content Management 70 92 129
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.34% 0.39% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.44% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 63 90
10th Percentile £178 £320 £261
25th Percentile £198 £400 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £586 £581 £525
90th Percentile £700 £690 £552
UK median daily rate £498 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.50% - +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £15.96 - -
25th Percentile £17.22 - -
Median hourly rate £19.38 £16.77 -
Median % change year-on-year +15.53% - -
75th Percentile £21.47 £43.52 -
90th Percentile £22.69 £59.56 -
UK median hourly rate £27.61 £26.50 £47.95
% change year-on-year +4.17% -44.73% +139.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Content Management is in the Processes and Methodologies 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 process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,341 21,054 27,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.49% 89.57% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,323 14,598 19,040
10th Percentile £250 £256 £232
25th Percentile £375 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,053 1,291 1,337
10th Percentile £12.31 £11.00 £12.23
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £72.82 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Content Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Content Management in the UK excluding London

Content Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Content Management in the UK excluding London

Content Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Content Management in the UK excluding London

Content Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Content Management in the UK excluding London

Content Management
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 Content Management 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 +32 21 £425 -5.56% 22
Scotland +49 16 £179 -52.31% 6
Yorkshire +31 14 £215 -49.41% 9
Midlands +40 13 £525 +18.31% 13
West Midlands +34 12 £525 +18.31% 6
South East +1 12 £450 -27.42% 28
South West +1 8 £375 -6.25% 8
North West +23 6 £500 - 11
North East +16 1 £650 +20.93% 2
East of England -7 1 - - 8
East Midlands - 1 - - 7
Content Management
UK

Content Management
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 46 (65.71%) CMS
2 6 (8.57%) Drupal
2 6 (8.57%) SharePoint
3 5 (7.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (4.29%) Headless CMS
5 2 (2.86%) Confluence
5 2 (2.86%) Umbraco
6 1 (1.43%) EPiServer
6 1 (1.43%) Jadu
6 1 (1.43%) Moodle
6 1 (1.43%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (1.43%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (1.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (15.71%) Photoshop
2 10 (14.29%) Adobe Illustrator
3 6 (8.57%) PTC Creo
4 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (4.29%) Windchill
5 2 (2.86%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (1.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.29%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (2.86%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 7 (10.00%) Azure
2 3 (4.29%) Contentstack
2 3 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (4.29%) Serverless
3 2 (2.86%) AWS
3 2 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (2.86%) Power Platform
3 2 (2.86%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 1 (1.43%) Adobe Analytics
4 1 (1.43%) Adobe Creative Cloud
4 1 (1.43%) Canva
4 1 (1.43%) GCP
4 1 (1.43%) GitHub
4 1 (1.43%) Google Analytics
4 1 (1.43%) Google Tag Manager
4 1 (1.43%) IaaS
4 1 (1.43%) Miro
4 1 (1.43%) PaaS
4 1 (1.43%) SaaS
4 1 (1.43%) Squarespace
Communications & Networking
1 13 (18.57%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.57%) Metadata
2 2 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.86%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.86%) OLAP
2 2 (2.86%) OLTP
2 2 (2.86%) RDBMS
2 2 (2.86%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.43%) Looker
Development Applications
1 3 (4.29%) JIRA
2 2 (2.86%) kappa
General
1 32 (45.71%) Social Skills
2 19 (27.14%) Public Sector
3 12 (17.14%) Retail
4 10 (14.29%) Publishing
5 9 (12.86%) Marketing
6 8 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (11.43%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (7.14%) Manufacturing
8 4 (5.71%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (4.29%) Finance
9 3 (4.29%) Telecoms
10 2 (2.86%) Automotive
11 1 (1.43%) Electronics
11 1 (1.43%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 15 (21.43%) Architect
2 8 (11.43%) Designer
2 8 (11.43%) Senior
3 7 (10.00%) Content Designer
4 5 (7.14%) Communications Manager
4 5 (7.14%) Content Manager
4 5 (7.14%) Developer
4 5 (7.14%) Digital Content Manager
5 4 (5.71%) Analyst
5 4 (5.71%) Business Analyst
5 4 (5.71%) Data Architect
5 4 (5.71%) Digital Analyst
5 4 (5.71%) Digital Business Analyst
5 4 (5.71%) Senior Content Designer
5 4 (5.71%) Senior Designer
5 4 (5.71%) Technical Writer
6 3 (4.29%) Copywriter
6 3 (4.29%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.86%) Senior Manager
7 2 (2.86%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.29%) HTML
2 5 (7.14%) XML
3 3 (4.29%) DHTML
3 3 (4.29%) JSON
3 3 (4.29%) Middleware
3 3 (4.29%) Web Services
4 2 (2.86%) CSS
4 2 (2.86%) Flash
5 1 (1.43%) GraphQL
5 1 (1.43%) REST
5 1 (1.43%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.86%) Social Media
2 6 (8.57%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.71%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (5.71%) Handset
3 4 (5.71%) Management Information System
3 4 (5.71%) Mobile App
3 4 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (4.29%) Graphic Design
4 3 (4.29%) Taxonomies
5 2 (2.86%) Life Science
5 2 (2.86%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.43%) Animation
6 1 (1.43%) Blog
6 1 (1.43%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.43%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.43%) Learning Management System
6 1 (1.43%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.43%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.86%) Android
1 2 (2.86%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (20.00%) Agile
1 14 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (18.57%) Analytics
3 11 (15.71%) SEO
3 11 (15.71%) User Experience
4 10 (14.29%) User Stories
5 8 (11.43%) E-Commerce
5 8 (11.43%) Project Management
5 8 (11.43%) Roadmaps
6 7 (10.00%) Copywriting
7 6 (8.57%) CAD
8 5 (7.14%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (7.14%) Content Strategy
8 5 (7.14%) CRM
8 5 (7.14%) Digital Content Management
8 5 (7.14%) Information Management
8 5 (7.14%) IT Strategy
9 4 (5.71%) Architecture Governance
9 4 (5.71%) Business Strategy
9 4 (5.71%) Social Media Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (11.43%) JavaScript
2 3 (4.29%) Java
3 1 (1.43%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (15.71%) Degree
2 5 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.43%) BC Cleared
3 1 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.43%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.43%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.86%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.29%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (4.29%) PMO
3 2 (2.86%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.43%) P3O
4 1 (1.43%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (1.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (1.43%) AppManager
Vendors
1 8 (11.43%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.00%) Adobe
3 3 (4.29%) PTC
4 2 (2.86%) Google
4 2 (2.86%) SAP
4 2 (2.86%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.43%) Apple
5 1 (1.43%) Blackboard
5 1 (1.43%) Facebook
5 1 (1.43%) Instagram
5 1 (1.43%) Optimizely
5 1 (1.43%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.43%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud