CMS Contracts in the West Midlands

Content Management System (CMS)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 124 151
Rank change year-on-year +31 +27 -47
Contract jobs citing CMS 21 18 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.09% 0.75% 0.42%
As % of the Application Platforms category 14.79% 5.71% 2.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 10
10th Percentile £325 £195 £446
25th Percentile £441 £208 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £425 £506
Median % change year-on-year +41.18% -16.05% +12.50%
75th Percentile £678 £469 £566
90th Percentile £688 £501 £688
England median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
England median hourly rate £13.00 £22.50 £36.58
% change year-on-year -42.22% -38.48% +62.56%

All Application Platform Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 142 315 514
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 7.35% 13.12% 14.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 234 348
10th Percentile £228 £266 £275
25th Percentile £313 £411 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +11.11% +11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £540 £540
90th Percentile £645 £600 £606
England median daily rate £498 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -5.24% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 11
10th Percentile £14.24 £12.62 £15.75
25th Percentile £14.77 £13.55 £16.13
Median hourly rate £15.65 £15.97 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -6.06% -
75th Percentile £35.33 £17.80 £20.00
90th Percentile £47.13 £18.37 £25.00
England median hourly rate £27.51 £32.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year -15.36% +54.76% -6.67%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for CMS in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for CMS in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CMS in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CMS in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for CMS in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CMS within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 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
Birmingham +15 10 £378 -11.06% 6
Warwickshire +2 6 £675 +211.78% 1
Coventry - 1 £350 - 1
CMS
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 6 (28.57%) Drupal
2 2 (9.52%) Headless CMS
2 2 (9.52%) Umbraco
3 1 (4.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (4.76%) Jadu
3 1 (4.76%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 3 (14.29%) Azure
1 3 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (14.29%) GCP
2 2 (9.52%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) DNS
1 3 (14.29%) SSL
2 2 (9.52%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) DB2
1 1 (4.76%) Jackrabbit
1 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Artifactory
1 3 (14.29%) Git
1 3 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 3 (14.29%) Selenium
1 3 (14.29%) Subversion
2 1 (4.76%) webpack
General
1 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Publishing
3 2 (9.52%) Marketing
3 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.76%) Games
4 1 (4.76%) Retail
4 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (19.05%) Developer
2 3 (14.29%) Analyst
2 3 (14.29%) Copywriter
2 3 (14.29%) SOC Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) Backend Developer
3 2 (9.52%) Consultant
3 2 (9.52%) Designer
3 2 (9.52%) E-Commerce Consultant
3 2 (9.52%) Full Stack Developer
3 2 (9.52%) Project Manager
3 2 (9.52%) Web Consultant
4 1 (4.76%) COBOL Developer
4 1 (4.76%) PHP Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Transformation Programme Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Transformation Project Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Web Designer
4 1 (4.76%) Web Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Web Programme Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Web Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) Apache Sling
1 2 (9.52%) GraphQL
1 2 (9.52%) OSGi
1 2 (9.52%) React
1 2 (9.52%) RESTful
2 1 (4.76%) Laravel
2 1 (4.76%) Next.js
2 1 (4.76%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Social Media
2 4 (19.05%) Handset
2 4 (19.05%) Mobile App
3 3 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 3 (14.29%) Cyberattack
3 3 (14.29%) Private Cloud
3 3 (14.29%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (9.52%) Graphic Design
5 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Linux
1 3 (14.29%) Windows
2 1 (4.76%) Android
2 1 (4.76%) Apple iOS
2 1 (4.76%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (38.10%) Content Management
1 8 (38.10%) SEO
2 6 (28.57%) Analytics
2 6 (28.57%) Copywriting
3 4 (19.05%) Agile
3 4 (19.05%) E-Commerce
3 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (19.05%) SDLC
4 3 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
4 3 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (14.29%) Epics
4 3 (14.29%) ITIL
4 3 (14.29%) Kanban
4 3 (14.29%) Roadmaps
4 3 (14.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 3 (14.29%) Scrum
4 3 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.52%) Java
1 2 (9.52%) JavaScript
1 2 (9.52%) Python
2 1 (4.76%) COBOL
2 1 (4.76%) PHP
2 1 (4.76%) SQL
2 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) QA
2 2 (9.52%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.76%) P3O
3 1 (4.76%) PMO
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) Darktrace
1 3 (14.29%) FireEye
1 3 (14.29%) LogRhythm
1 3 (14.29%) Salesforce
1 3 (14.29%) ServiceNow
1 3 (14.29%) Splunk
2 2 (9.52%) Sage
3 1 (4.76%) IBM
3 1 (4.76%) ICL
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft