CMS Contract Job Trends, Contractor Rates & Related Skills in Chester

Content Management System (CMS)
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Chester requiring CMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 13 Mar 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	-	-	15
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	-
Contract jobs citing CMS	0	0	1
As % of all contract jobs in Chester	-	-	1.85%
As % of the Application Platforms category	-	-	50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted	0	0	1
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	-	-	£290
Cheshire median daily rate	£339	£488	£301
% change year-on-year	-30.51%	+61.83%	-29.12%

All Application Platform Skills
Chester

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 Chester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills	16	6	2
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester	12.21%	9.38%	3.70%
Number of daily rates quoted	6	2	2
10^th Percentile	£425	£416	£310
25^th Percentile	£506	£441	£339
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£753	£488	£408
Median % change year-on-year	+54.36%	+19.63%	-22.38%
75^th Percentile	£780	£541	£494
90^th Percentile	-	£569	£535
Cheshire median daily rate	£431	£402	£400
% change year-on-year	+7.21%	+0.50%	-5.88%