Content Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Content Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Content Management over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 591 660 534
Rank change year-on-year +69 -126 -58
Permanent jobs citing Content Management 334 359 952
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 0.35% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.36% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 273 243 497
10th Percentile £25,750 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £41,227 £35,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,343 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.10% +11.11% +2.86%
75th Percentile £58,259 £85,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £76,000 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £38,500 £50,000 £44,524
% change year-on-year -23.00% +12.30% -1.06%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Content Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,620 99,018 149,592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.90% 95.62% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,724 58,165 83,321
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Content Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Content Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Content Management in the UK

Content Management
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Content Management.

Salary trend for Content Management in the UK

Content Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Content Management over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Content Management in the UK

Content Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Content Management within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +52 300 £45,000 -25.00% 148
UK excluding London +32 216 £38,500 -23.00% 95
Work from Home +84 165 £47,500 -26.92% 65
London +89 110 £50,000 -37.50% 59
South East +4 76 £39,000 -32.17% 28
North of England +70 45 £40,000 -25.23% 29
North West +32 26 £32,000 -41.82% 14
Midlands +10 25 £40,000 +1.59% 12
Scotland -44 24 £25,000 -44.44% 6
East of England +26 23 £35,000 -48.15% 9
South West -19 21 £35,000 -25.53% 10
Yorkshire +103 18 £74,000 +38.32% 13
West Midlands +14 17 £75,000 +66.67% 4
East Midlands -17 8 £35,000 +0.47% 8
Wales - 2 £26,500 -
Northern Ireland - 1 £54,408 - 4
North East - 1 £55,750 - 2

Content Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 217 (64.97%) CMS
2 55 (16.47%) WordPress
3 38 (11.38%) SharePoint
4 24 (7.19%) Drupal
5 23 (6.89%) Umbraco
6 21 (6.29%) GemFire
7 18 (5.39%) EPiServer
8 14 (4.19%) Apache
9 13 (3.89%) nginx
10 9 (2.69%) Sitecore CMS
11 7 (2.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 7 (2.10%) Joomla!
11 7 (2.10%) Kentico
12 6 (1.80%) DNN
12 6 (1.80%) Immediacy CMS
12 6 (1.80%) Sitefinity
13 4 (1.20%) Confluence
14 3 (0.90%) Moodle
15 2 (0.60%) Alfresco
15 2 (0.60%) Documentum
Applications
1 28 (8.38%) Photoshop
2 23 (6.89%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (4.49%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 14 (4.19%) Microsoft Excel
5 12 (3.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 11 (3.29%) Adobe Illustrator
6 11 (3.29%) InDesign
7 6 (1.80%) Acrobat
7 6 (1.80%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (1.20%) Adobe XD
8 4 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.60%) Adobe Premiere
9 2 (0.60%) Windchill
10 1 (0.30%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.30%) PTC Creo
10 1 (0.30%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (2.10%) Shopify
2 5 (1.50%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.20%) Magento
4 3 (0.90%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.90%) Infor SunSystems
4 3 (0.90%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 1 (0.30%) Cognos Business Intelligence
5 1 (0.30%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 67 (20.06%) Azure
2 53 (15.87%) AWS
3 28 (8.38%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (6.59%) Google Analytics
5 21 (6.29%) Microsoft 365
6 20 (5.99%) GitHub
7 16 (4.79%) Cloudflare
7 16 (4.79%) Power Platform
7 16 (4.79%) SaaS
8 15 (4.49%) Akamai
8 15 (4.49%) Amazon ECS
8 15 (4.49%) Amazon EKS
8 15 (4.49%) Amazon S3
8 15 (4.49%) Amazon SQS
8 15 (4.49%) AWS Fargate
8 15 (4.49%) AWS Lambda
8 15 (4.49%) Azure AKS
8 15 (4.49%) Azure Functions
8 15 (4.49%) CloudFront
8 15 (4.49%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.49%) Firewall
2 14 (4.19%) Internet
3 13 (3.89%) DNS
4 12 (3.59%) SSL
5 11 (3.29%) Intranet
6 7 (2.10%) Extranet
7 2 (0.60%) Multicast
8 1 (0.30%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.30%) LAN
8 1 (0.30%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.30%) VPN
8 1 (0.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (13.47%) SQL Server
2 22 (6.59%) NoSQL
3 21 (6.29%) Apache Cassandra
3 21 (6.29%) CockroachDB
3 21 (6.29%) Hazelcast
4 18 (5.39%) MySQL
5 6 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (1.80%) MongoDB
5 6 (1.80%) Tableau
6 3 (0.90%) Jackrabbit
6 3 (0.90%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.60%) Power BI
7 2 (0.60%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.30%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 60 (17.96%) Git
2 22 (6.59%) Visual Studio
3 21 (6.29%) Jaeger
4 11 (3.29%) JIRA
5 10 (2.99%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.90%) webpack
7 2 (0.60%) WiX
8 1 (0.30%) Bugzilla
8 1 (0.30%) Mocha
General
1 123 (36.83%) Marketing
1 123 (36.83%) Social Skills
2 72 (21.56%) Finance
3 41 (12.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 37 (11.08%) Law
5 34 (10.18%) Banking
5 34 (10.18%) Organisational Skills
6 32 (9.58%) Publishing
7 28 (8.38%) Analytical Skills
8 27 (8.08%) Legal
9 24 (7.19%) Automotive
10 21 (6.29%) Investment Banking
11 16 (4.79%) Retail
12 10 (2.99%) French Language
13 8 (2.40%) Public Sector
14 7 (2.10%) Multimedia
15 5 (1.50%) Manufacturing
16 3 (0.90%) Advertising
16 3 (0.90%) Games
17 2 (0.60%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 60 (17.96%) Developer
2 41 (12.28%) Lead
3 34 (10.18%) Project Manager
4 31 (9.28%) Senior
5 27 (8.08%) Digital Project Manager
6 26 (7.78%) Software Engineer
7 22 (6.59%) Web Developer
8 21 (6.29%) .NET Developer
8 21 (6.29%) Java Engineer
8 21 (6.29%) Java Software Engineer
8 21 (6.29%) Lead Java Engineer
8 21 (6.29%) Lead Software Engineer
9 18 (5.39%) Web Manager
10 15 (4.49%) Designer
10 15 (4.49%) Junior
11 13 (3.89%) Architect
12 12 (3.59%) Content Manager
13 11 (3.29%) Coordinator
14 10 (2.99%) Administrator
14 10 (2.99%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (21.56%) .NET
2 67 (20.06%) HTML
3 64 (19.16%) CSS
4 38 (11.38%) REST
5 25 (7.49%) ASP.NET
5 25 (7.49%) XML
6 23 (6.89%) React
7 22 (6.59%) Spring
7 22 (6.59%) Spring Boot
7 22 (6.59%) XSLT
8 21 (6.29%) .NET Framework
8 21 (6.29%) JPA
8 21 (6.29%) Kafka
8 21 (6.29%) OpenTelemetry
9 20 (5.99%) JSON
10 19 (5.69%) AngularJS
11 18 (5.39%) SOAP
12 17 (5.09%) Web Services
13 13 (3.89%) Vue
14 10 (2.99%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 60 (17.96%) Social Media
2 29 (8.68%) Management Information System
3 24 (7.19%) Cloud Native
4 23 (6.89%) Mobile App
5 22 (6.59%) Blog
5 22 (6.59%) Graphic Design
6 21 (6.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 21 (6.29%) Replication
7 19 (5.69%) Digital Signage
8 17 (5.09%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (5.09%) Video Editing
9 16 (4.79%) Product Ownership
10 14 (4.19%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (3.59%) e-Learning
12 8 (2.40%) Client/Server
12 8 (2.40%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (2.40%) Low-Code
13 7 (2.10%) Photography
14 6 (1.80%) Tandem
15 4 (1.20%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 33 (9.88%) Windows
2 20 (5.99%) Android
3 9 (2.69%) Apple iOS
3 9 (2.69%) Windows 10
4 3 (0.90%) Linux
4 3 (0.90%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (26.95%) Agile
2 72 (21.56%) Web Development
3 70 (20.96%) Project Management
4 62 (18.56%) Problem-Solving
5 60 (17.96%) User Experience
6 57 (17.07%) DevOps
6 57 (17.07%) SEO
7 53 (15.87%) CI/CD
8 45 (13.47%) Project Delivery
9 42 (12.57%) Analytics
9 42 (12.57%) Microservices
10 36 (10.78%) Architectural Design
11 35 (10.48%) Scrum
12 34 (10.18%) Digital Marketing
13 30 (8.98%) Information Architecture
13 30 (8.98%) MVC
14 29 (8.68%) CRM
14 29 (8.68%) SDLC
14 29 (8.68%) Software Engineering
15 28 (8.38%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 56 (16.77%) JavaScript
2 54 (16.17%) SQL
3 47 (14.07%) C#
4 43 (12.87%) Java
5 31 (9.28%) PHP
6 21 (6.29%) Groovy
7 19 (5.69%) T-SQL
8 16 (4.79%) XPath
9 13 (3.89%) TypeScript
10 8 (2.40%) Scala
11 6 (1.80%) C
12 4 (1.20%) Python
Qualifications
1 63 (18.86%) Degree
2 11 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (1.80%) HND
4 3 (0.90%) Security Cleared
5 2 (0.60%) A+ Certification
5 2 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.60%) ISEB
5 2 (0.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (0.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (0.60%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.30%) CISA
6 1 (0.30%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.59%) QA
2 13 (3.89%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.10%) GDPR
4 6 (1.80%) SLA
5 4 (1.20%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.90%) WCAG
7 2 (0.60%) HL7
7 2 (0.60%) ISO 14001
8 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.30%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.30%) FISMA
8 1 (0.30%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.30%) HITRUST
8 1 (0.30%) NIST
8 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (6.29%) Docker
2 15 (4.49%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.90%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.30%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 21 (6.29%) Grafana
1 21 (6.29%) HAProxy
1 21 (6.29%) ITRS Geneos
1 21 (6.29%) Kibana
1 21 (6.29%) Prometheus
1 21 (6.29%) Zipkin
2 15 (4.49%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.30%) Plesk
3 1 (0.30%) TeamSite
Vendors
1 78 (23.35%) Microsoft
2 49 (14.67%) Adobe
3 33 (9.88%) Google
4 24 (7.19%) Sitecore
5 21 (6.29%) Dynatrace
5 21 (6.29%) Splunk
6 15 (4.49%) ForgeRock
7 12 (3.59%) iManage
8 10 (2.99%) OpenAI
8 10 (2.99%) WooCommerce
9 8 (2.40%) Salesforce
10 6 (1.80%) Alterian
10 6 (1.80%) Instagram
10 6 (1.80%) Oracle
10 6 (1.80%) Twitter
10 6 (1.80%) YouTube
11 4 (1.20%) dotdigital
11 4 (1.20%) Facebook
12 3 (0.90%) HubSpot
12 3 (0.90%) Infor