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 16 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 109 103
Rank change year-on-year +25 -6 +14
Contract jobs citing CMS 16 2 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.33% 0.12% 0.69%
As % of the Application Platforms category 12.03% 1.89% 8.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 0 10
10th Percentile - - £395
25th Percentile £350 - £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - £675
Median % change year-on-year - - +28.57%
75th Percentile £592 - £700
90th Percentile £649 - £702
South East median daily rate £450 £540 £370
% change year-on-year -16.67% +45.95% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.84
Median hourly rate £32.05 - £17.34
75th Percentile - - £17.84
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £26.50 - £17.34
% change year-on-year - - +28.44%

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 133 106 150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 11.07% 6.22% 8.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 56 96
10th Percentile £350 £386 £306
25th Percentile £372 £450 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £534 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.82% +18.61% -2.17%
75th Percentile £575 £608 £623
90th Percentile £643 £631 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +11.11% - -4.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 7
10th Percentile - £34.62 £21.44
25th Percentile £32.05 £40.93 £39.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £52.91 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.12% -16.01% +80.00%
75th Percentile £71.50 £65.93 £77.65
90th Percentile £76.60 £72.87 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £32.77 £67.02 £57.50
% change year-on-year -51.10% +16.56% +187.50%

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 16 August 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 16 August 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 +32 10 £350 - 2
Bracknell - 6 £650 - 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 8 (50.00%) Umbraco
2 5 (31.25%) SharePoint
3 4 (25.00%) Sitecore CMS
4 3 (18.75%) Confluence
4 3 (18.75%) Headless CMS
5 1 (6.25%) Drupal
5 1 (6.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) Azure
1 2 (12.50%) Power Platform
2 1 (6.25%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Functions
2 1 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) JIRA
General
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Manufacturing
2 3 (18.75%) Publishing
3 2 (12.50%) Automotive
3 2 (12.50%) Retail
4 1 (6.25%) Agriculture
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Content Editor
1 4 (25.00%) Developer
1 4 (25.00%) Umbraco Developer
1 4 (25.00%) Web Content Editor
1 4 (25.00%) Web Editor
2 3 (18.75%) Project Manager
3 2 (12.50%) CMS Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Development Specialist
3 2 (12.50%) E-Commerce Manager
3 2 (12.50%) E-Commerce Project Manager
3 2 (12.50%) React Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Applications Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Applications Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Communications Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Digital Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Mobile Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Web Applications Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Web Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Web Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) HTML
2 3 (18.75%) RESTful
3 2 (12.50%) .NET
3 2 (12.50%) Next.js
3 2 (12.50%) Vue
4 1 (6.25%) .NET Core
4 1 (6.25%) .NET Framework
4 1 (6.25%) AngularJS
4 1 (6.25%) CSS
4 1 (6.25%) Entity Framework
4 1 (6.25%) React
4 1 (6.25%) Spring
4 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Life Science
1 3 (18.75%) Mobile App
2 2 (12.50%) Learning Management System
2 2 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 2 (12.50%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (25.00%) Agile
1 4 (25.00%) CRM
1 4 (25.00%) Migration
2 3 (18.75%) Analytics
2 3 (18.75%) Change Management
2 3 (18.75%) Content Management
2 3 (18.75%) E-Commerce
2 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (12.50%) Business Analytics
3 2 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 2 (12.50%) Creative Thinking
3 2 (12.50%) Customer Experience
3 2 (12.50%) DevOps
3 2 (12.50%) Jamstack
3 2 (12.50%) PRINCE2
3 2 (12.50%) Project Management
3 2 (12.50%) Time Management
3 2 (12.50%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) C#
2 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.25%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
1 2 (12.50%) PMI Certification
1 2 (12.50%) PMP
2 1 (6.25%) IIBA
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Virgin Media
2 4 (25.00%) Sitecore
3 3 (18.75%) Microsoft