CMS Contracts in the City of London

Content Management System (CMS)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 100 158
Rank change year-on-year -6 +58 +3
Contract jobs citing CMS 18 25 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.99% 1.17% 0.43%
As % of the Application Platforms category 8.37% 8.36% 3.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 15 11
10th Percentile £213 £264 £363
25th Percentile £280 £400 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -24.76% +5.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £469 £608 £631
90th Percentile £503 £725 £712
Central London median daily rate £409 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -13.89% -5.00% -5.88%

All Application Platform Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 215 299 412
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 11.87% 14.00% 11.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 216 262
10th Percentile £287 £305 £238
25th Percentile £392 £411 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £534 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% -7.17% +7.48%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £700
90th Percentile £734 £738 £799
Central London median daily rate £475 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -9.52% -8.70% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £63.75 - £24.25
25th Percentile £67.50 - £28.75
Median hourly rate £75.00 £40.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% +6.67% +41.51%
75th Percentile £82.50 - £46.25
90th Percentile £86.25 - £50.75
Central London median hourly rate £62.50 £40.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +56.25% +6.67% +10.29%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for CMS in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CMS in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for CMS in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CMS in the City of London over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CMS in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CMS in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for CMS in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 4 (22.22%) Headless CMS
1 4 (22.22%) SharePoint
2 3 (16.67%) Drupal
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (11.11%) Umbraco
3 2 (11.11%) WordPress
4 1 (5.56%) Kentico
4 1 (5.56%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (5.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) Contentful
1 3 (16.67%) Contentstack
1 3 (16.67%) Figma
1 3 (16.67%) prismic.io
2 2 (11.11%) Azure
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (11.11%) Miro
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon Cognito
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.56%) Attraqt
3 1 (5.56%) AWS
3 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (5.56%) Serverless
3 1 (5.56%) Storyblok
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) DynamoDB
1 1 (5.56%) Metadata
1 1 (5.56%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Finance
2 3 (16.67%) Marketing
3 2 (11.11%) Banking
3 2 (11.11%) International Banking
3 2 (11.11%) Law
3 2 (11.11%) Legal
3 2 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Advertising
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Publishing
4 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Developer
2 3 (16.67%) Analyst
2 3 (16.67%) CMS Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Communications Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Customer Communications Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Engagement Manager
3 2 (11.11%) IT Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Product Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Product Owner
3 2 (11.11%) Service Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Administrator
4 1 (5.56%) Backend Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Digital Product Manager
4 1 (5.56%) QA Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Business Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Solutions Designer
4 1 (5.56%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) CSS
1 2 (11.11%) HTML
2 1 (5.56%) .NET
2 1 (5.56%) Bootstrap
2 1 (5.56%) jQuery
2 1 (5.56%) OAuth
2 1 (5.56%) OAuth2
2 1 (5.56%) OpenID
2 1 (5.56%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Product Ownership
2 3 (16.67%) Acoustics
3 1 (5.56%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.56%) Learning Management System
3 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.56%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.56%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Windows
2 2 (11.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Content Management
2 6 (33.33%) User Experience
3 4 (22.22%) Agile
3 4 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (16.67%) B2C
4 3 (16.67%) Migration
4 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (16.67%) Product Backlog
4 3 (16.67%) Prototyping
4 3 (16.67%) Scrum
4 3 (16.67%) User Stories
5 2 (11.11%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 2 (11.11%) Customer Experience
5 2 (11.11%) Customer Service
5 2 (11.11%) Digital Engineering
5 2 (11.11%) Product Roadmap
5 2 (11.11%) Product Strategy
5 2 (11.11%) Product Vision
5 2 (11.11%) Roadmaps
5 2 (11.11%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
1 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) AirWatch
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (11.11%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) iManage
2 2 (11.11%) Intapp
2 2 (11.11%) ServiceNow
2 2 (11.11%) Symantec
3 1 (5.56%) Adobe
3 1 (5.56%) Sitecore