CMS Contracts in Berkshire

Content Management System (CMS)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 120 101
Rank change year-on-year +38 -19 +9
Contract jobs citing CMS 11 4 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.94% 0.20% 0.77%
As % of the Application Platforms category 11.00% 3.54% 8.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 10
10th Percentile £340 £274 £306
25th Percentile - £291 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £338 £638
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -47.06% +21.43%
75th Percentile £463 £391 £700
90th Percentile £575 £411 £702
South East median daily rate £350 £470 £400
% change year-on-year -25.53% +17.50% -23.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £32.05 - -
South East median hourly rate £32.05 - -

All Application Platform Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 100 113 172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 8.53% 5.70% 9.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 55 117
10th Percentile £323 £292 £275
25th Percentile £350 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £513
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -6.34% +10.16%
75th Percentile £573 £608 £625
90th Percentile £601 - £700
South East median daily rate £500 £436 £488
% change year-on-year +14.61% -10.51% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 6
10th Percentile - £22.75 £39.00
25th Percentile - £30.63 £55.50
Median hourly rate £32.05 £50.00 £71.10
Median % change year-on-year -35.90% -29.67% +118.75%
75th Percentile - £68.13 £79.19
90th Percentile - £73.75 -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £35.00 £55.50
% change year-on-year +57.14% -36.94% +177.50%

CMS
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing CMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for CMS in Berkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CMS in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for CMS in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CMS in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CMS in Berkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CMS in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for CMS in Berkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CMS within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Reading +35 8 £350 +3.70% 4
Bracknell - 2 - - 3
Slough - 1 - - 1
CMS
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 7 (63.64%) Umbraco
2 4 (36.36%) Sitecore CMS
3 3 (27.27%) Headless CMS
4 2 (18.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (9.09%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Power BI
General
1 3 (27.27%) Publishing
2 2 (18.18%) Manufacturing
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Marketing
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Content Editor
1 4 (36.36%) Web Content Editor
1 4 (36.36%) Web Editor
2 3 (27.27%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Umbraco Developer
3 2 (18.18%) CMS Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Development Specialist
3 2 (18.18%) React Developer
4 1 (9.09%) .NET Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Operations Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Web Manager
4 1 (9.09%) WebOps Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) HTML
2 2 (18.18%) Next.js
3 1 (9.09%) .NET
3 1 (9.09%) .NET Core
3 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
3 1 (9.09%) CSS
3 1 (9.09%) React
3 1 (9.09%) RESTful
3 1 (9.09%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Learning Management System
1 2 (18.18%) Life Science
1 2 (18.18%) Onboarding
1 2 (18.18%) Renewable Energy
1 2 (18.18%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Migration
2 3 (27.27%) Analytics
2 3 (27.27%) Content Management
2 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (18.18%) Business Analytics
3 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (18.18%) Change Management
3 2 (18.18%) Creative Thinking
3 2 (18.18%) CRM
3 2 (18.18%) Customer Experience
3 2 (18.18%) E-Commerce
3 2 (18.18%) Jamstack
3 2 (18.18%) Time Management
3 2 (18.18%) Webhook
4 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Security
4 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (9.09%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (9.09%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) C#
1 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Virgin Media
2 4 (36.36%) Sitecore
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
4 1 (9.09%) Adobe
4 1 (9.09%) Google