CMS Contract Job Trends in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring CMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 104 105
Rank change year-on-year -12 +1 +45
Contract jobs citing CMS 18 18 25
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.74% 0.99% 1.17%
As % of the Application Platforms category 8.91% 8.37% 8.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 15
10th Percentile £385 £213 £264
25th Percentile £406 £280 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £395 £525
Median % change year-on-year +51.90% -24.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £469 £608
90th Percentile £725 £503 £725
Central London median daily rate £475 £409 £475
% change year-on-year +16.14% -13.89% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £23.16 - -
Central London median hourly rate £23.08 - £33.00

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 202 215 304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 8.28% 11.83% 14.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 114 220
10th Percentile £301 £287 £309
25th Percentile £425 £392 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £523 £536
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -2.56% -6.74%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £734 £763
Central London median daily rate £525 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -5.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £19.64 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £20.23 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £21.33 £75.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -71.56% +87.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £22.31 £82.50 -
90th Percentile £22.82 £86.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £62.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -62.94% +56.25% +6.67%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CMS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

CMS job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing CMS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing CMS

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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 5 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CMS in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing CMS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing CMS

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (16.67%) WordPress
2 2 (11.11%) Sitefinity
3 1 (5.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Confluence
3 1 (5.56%) Drupal
3 1 (5.56%) Headless CMS
3 1 (5.56%) Kentico
3 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
3 1 (5.56%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.56%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.56%) Azure
1 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (5.56%) Google Analytics
1 1 (5.56%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Intranet
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Marketing
2 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 2 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Finance
4 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Law
4 1 (5.56%) Legal
4 1 (5.56%) Local Government
4 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Developer
2 4 (22.22%) CMS Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Project Manager
3 3 (16.67%) Web Manager
3 3 (16.67%) Web Project Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Content Designer
4 2 (11.11%) Designer
4 2 (11.11%) Digital Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Digital Solutions Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Senior
4 2 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Transformation Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Transformation Project Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Web Architect
5 1 (5.56%) CMS Project Manager
5 1 (5.56%) CMS Specialist
5 1 (5.56%) Lead
5 1 (5.56%) Product Delivery Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Content Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) React
2 1 (5.56%) .NET
2 1 (5.56%) AngularJS
2 1 (5.56%) CSS
2 1 (5.56%) HTML
2 1 (5.56%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.56%) Educational Technology
2 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.56%) Marketing Technology
2 1 (5.56%) NHS
2 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.56%) Social Media
2 1 (5.56%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Content Management
2 7 (38.89%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (33.33%) Agile
4 4 (22.22%) User Experience
5 3 (16.67%) Analytics
5 3 (16.67%) B2C
5 3 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 3 (16.67%) E-Commerce
5 3 (16.67%) Migration
5 3 (16.67%) Roadmaps
6 2 (11.11%) Change Management
6 2 (11.11%) Content Strategy
6 2 (11.11%) PRINCE2
6 2 (11.11%) Project Management
6 2 (11.11%) Scrum
6 2 (11.11%) SEO
6 2 (11.11%) Technical Discovery
6 2 (11.11%) User Research
6 2 (11.11%) User Stories
6 2 (11.11%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
1 2 (11.11%) TypeScript
2 1 (5.56%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) Degree
1 1 (5.56%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) Accessibility
1 2 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (5.56%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (5.56%) Aderant
1 1 (5.56%) Adobe
1 1 (5.56%) Google
1 1 (5.56%) Sitecore