Headless CMS Contracts with Work from Home Options

Headless Content Management System (Headless CMS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Headless CMS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Headless CMS over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 327 446 579
Rank change year-on-year +119 +133 -133
Contract jobs citing Headless CMS 14 22 36
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.093% 0.088% 0.082%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.89% 0.77% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 21 30
10th Percentile £400 £325 £417
25th Percentile £444 £373 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% +20.88%
75th Percentile £525 £650 £600
90th Percentile £600 £700 £690
UK median daily rate £500 £593 £550
% change year-on-year -15.61% +7.73% +15.79%

All Application Platform Skills
Work from Home

Headless 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 with a WFH option and a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,568 2,846 5,413
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.40% 11.34% 12.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,113 1,998 3,913
10th Percentile £300 £313 £315
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +8.42%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £618
90th Percentile £800 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -2.44% - +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 71 72
10th Percentile £16.50 £20.00 £14.60
25th Percentile £22.61 £22.16 £18.69
Median hourly rate £30.16 £55.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.16% +46.67% +41.51%
75th Percentile £50.47 £66.00 £56.25
90th Percentile £72.25 £81.50 £68.48
UK median hourly rate £27.52 £46.25 £22.50
% change year-on-year -40.51% +105.56% +5.14%

Headless CMS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Headless CMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Headless CMS trend for jobs with a WFH option

Headless CMS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Headless CMS.

Headless CMS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Headless CMS
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Headless CMS over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Headless CMS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Headless CMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 14 (100.00%) CMS
2 5 (35.71%) Kentico
3 1 (7.14%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Azure
1 5 (35.71%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (21.43%) Contentstack
3 1 (7.14%) Amplience
3 1 (7.14%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Git
1 5 (35.71%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 3 (21.43%) Banking
1 3 (21.43%) Corporate Banking
1 3 (21.43%) Investment Banking
1 3 (21.43%) Retail
1 3 (21.43%) Retail Banking
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 12 (85.71%) Developer
2 8 (57.14%) React Developer
3 6 (42.86%) CMS Developer
4 5 (35.71%) Azure Developer
4 5 (35.71%) DevOps Developer
4 5 (35.71%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 5 (35.71%) HTML CSS Developer
4 5 (35.71%) HTML Developer
4 5 (35.71%) JavaScript Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Consultant
5 2 (14.29%) E-Commerce Developer
6 1 (7.14%) CMS Consultant
6 1 (7.14%) Software Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (64.29%) GraphQL
2 8 (57.14%) CSS
2 8 (57.14%) HTML
2 8 (57.14%) React
3 5 (35.71%) DOM
3 5 (35.71%) GatsbyJS
4 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
4 1 (7.14%) HTML5
4 1 (7.14%) Jest
4 1 (7.14%) JSON
4 1 (7.14%) Next.js
4 1 (7.14%) Nuxt
4 1 (7.14%) REST
4 1 (7.14%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) DevOps
1 5 (35.71%) Front End Development
2 4 (28.57%) Agile
2 4 (28.57%) Code Quality
2 4 (28.57%) Content Management
2 4 (28.57%) E-Commerce
2 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (28.57%) Software Engineering
3 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
3 3 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (21.43%) Design Patterns
3 3 (21.43%) End-to-End Testing
3 3 (21.43%) Fintech
3 3 (21.43%) Software Testing
3 3 (21.43%) Test Strategy
3 3 (21.43%) User Experience
3 3 (21.43%) Wealth Management
4 2 (14.29%) Web Development
5 1 (7.14%) Multithreading
5 1 (7.14%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (21.43%) TypeScript
3 1 (7.14%) C#
3 1 (7.14%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Optimizely