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 21 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 100 101
Rank change year-on-year -19 +1 +46
Contract jobs citing CMS 15 16 27
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.62% 0.93% 1.24%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.50% 7.84% 9.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 15
10th Percentile £378 £210 £264
25th Percentile £400 £273 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £380 £525
Median % change year-on-year +57.89% -27.62% +7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £494 £608
90th Percentile £733 £510 £725
Central London median daily rate £425 £395 £475
% change year-on-year +7.73% -16.95% -2.56%
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 200 204 299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 8.25% 11.83% 13.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 109 220
10th Percentile £348 £277 £252
25th Percentile £425 £395 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £528
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -1.42% -8.26%
75th Percentile £638 £613 £621
90th Percentile £725 £740 £726
Central London median daily rate £525 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -8.70%
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% -23.81%
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% -23.81%

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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 21 June 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 (20.00%) WordPress
2 2 (13.33%) Sitefinity
3 1 (6.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Drupal
3 1 (6.67%) Headless CMS
3 1 (6.67%) Kentico
3 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
3 1 (6.67%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Intranet
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Marketing
3 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.67%) Finance
4 1 (6.67%) Local Government
4 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Developer
2 4 (26.67%) CMS Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Project Manager
3 3 (20.00%) Web Manager
3 3 (20.00%) Web Project Manager
4 2 (13.33%) Content Designer
4 2 (13.33%) Designer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior
4 2 (13.33%) Transformation Manager
4 2 (13.33%) Transformation Project Manager
5 1 (6.67%) CMS Project Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Digital Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Digital Project Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Digital Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (6.67%) Lead
5 1 (6.67%) Product Delivery Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Content Designer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Designer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) React
2 1 (6.67%) .NET
2 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
2 1 (6.67%) CSS
2 1 (6.67%) HTML
2 1 (6.67%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.67%) Educational Technology
2 1 (6.67%) Marketing Technology
2 1 (6.67%) NHS
2 1 (6.67%) Social Media
2 1 (6.67%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Content Management
2 6 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (33.33%) Agile
4 3 (20.00%) Analytics
4 3 (20.00%) B2C
4 3 (20.00%) User Experience
5 2 (13.33%) Content Strategy
5 2 (13.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 2 (13.33%) E-Commerce
5 2 (13.33%) Migration
5 2 (13.33%) PRINCE2
5 2 (13.33%) Project Management
5 2 (13.33%) Roadmaps
5 2 (13.33%) SEO
5 2 (13.33%) User Research
5 2 (13.33%) Waterfall
6 1 (6.67%) Data Integration
6 1 (6.67%) Data Validation
6 1 (6.67%) Digital Marketing
6 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Content Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
1 2 (13.33%) TypeScript
2 1 (6.67%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.67%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Adobe
1 1 (6.67%) Google
1 1 (6.67%) Sitecore