CMS Contracts in Central London

Content Management System (CMS)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 110 163
Rank change year-on-year +11 +53 -11
Contract jobs citing CMS 27 27 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.42% 1.13% 0.49%
As % of the Application Platforms category 12.00% 8.74% 4.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 14 15
10th Percentile £155 £208 £316
25th Percentile £206 £387 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.33% -10.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £409 £612 £631
90th Percentile £496 £725 £720
London median daily rate £450 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £33.00 -
London median hourly rate £45.00 £31.71 £20.75
% change year-on-year +41.91% +52.82% -56.72%

All Application Platform Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 225 309 440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 11.80% 12.92% 11.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 228 296
10th Percentile £216 £250 £259
25th Percentile £380 £388 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £523 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.41% -5.00% +4.76%
75th Percentile £598 £619 £700
90th Percentile £721 £725 £800
London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £34.40 -
25th Percentile - £36.50 £51.25
Median hourly rate £26.45 £40.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.88% -23.81% +98.11%
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £36.00 £30.16 £32.50
% change year-on-year +19.36% -7.20% -10.34%

CMS
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for CMS in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for CMS in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CMS in Central London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CMS in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for CMS in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CMS within the Central London region over the 6 months to 31 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
City of London +1 17 £380 -17.84% 5
City of Westminster +4 4 £409 +2.25%
Southwark - 3 £155 -
Camden - 1 - -
CMS
London

CMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 (25.93%) Headless CMS
2 6 (22.22%) Drupal
3 4 (14.81%) SharePoint
4 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (7.41%) Umbraco
5 1 (3.70%) Kentico
5 1 (3.70%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (3.70%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (14.81%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (14.81%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (7.41%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Sage X3
2 1 (3.70%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (11.11%) Attraqt
1 3 (11.11%) Contentful
1 3 (11.11%) Contentstack
1 3 (11.11%) prismic.io
1 3 (11.11%) Storyblok
2 2 (7.41%) Azure
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (7.41%) OCI
3 1 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (3.70%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) Power Query
2 1 (3.70%) Metadata
General
1 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 5 (18.52%) Marketing
3 4 (14.81%) Finance
4 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 2 (7.41%) Banking
5 2 (7.41%) General Ledger
5 2 (7.41%) International Banking
5 2 (7.41%) Law
5 2 (7.41%) Legal
5 2 (7.41%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (7.41%) Retail
6 1 (3.70%) Advertising
6 1 (3.70%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 7 (25.93%) Developer
2 3 (11.11%) Analyst
2 3 (11.11%) CMS Developer
2 3 (11.11%) Content Designer
2 3 (11.11%) Designer
2 3 (11.11%) Junior
2 3 (11.11%) Junior Content Designer
2 3 (11.11%) Junior Designer
2 3 (11.11%) Trainer
3 2 (7.41%) Angular Developer
3 2 (7.41%) Communications Manager
3 2 (7.41%) Engagement Manager
3 2 (7.41%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (7.41%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 2 (7.41%) IT Analyst
3 2 (7.41%) Lead
3 2 (7.41%) Product Manager
3 2 (7.41%) Service Analyst
3 2 (7.41%) Service Desk Analyst
3 2 (7.41%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.81%) AngularJS
1 4 (14.81%) Next.js
1 4 (14.81%) React
1 4 (14.81%) Vue
2 3 (11.11%) .NET
3 2 (7.41%) Bootstrap
3 2 (7.41%) CSS
3 2 (7.41%) HTML
3 2 (7.41%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Management Information System
2 3 (11.11%) Acoustics
2 3 (11.11%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.70%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.70%) Graphic Design
3 1 (3.70%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 6 (22.22%) Windows
2 2 (7.41%) AIX
2 2 (7.41%) Linux
2 2 (7.41%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (7.41%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (48.15%) Content Management
2 9 (33.33%) User Experience
3 5 (18.52%) Decision-Making
3 5 (18.52%) Migration
3 5 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (14.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (11.11%) B2C
5 3 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (11.11%) Information Management
5 3 (11.11%) Logistics
5 3 (11.11%) Product Information Management
5 3 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (11.11%) SEO
5 3 (11.11%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 3 (11.11%) UX Design
5 3 (11.11%) Web Development
6 2 (7.41%) Change Management
6 2 (7.41%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.41%) JavaScript
2 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) ITIL Certification
1 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
1 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) AirWatch
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (7.41%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.41%) Adobe
2 2 (7.41%) iManage
2 2 (7.41%) Intapp
2 2 (7.41%) Oracle
2 2 (7.41%) Sage
2 2 (7.41%) ServiceNow
2 2 (7.41%) Symantec
3 1 (3.70%) Sitecore