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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 106 138
Rank change year-on-year +1 +32 +25
Contract jobs citing CMS 16 23 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.91% 1.11% 0.70%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.73% 9.54% 5.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 13
10th Percentile £324 £377 £323
25th Percentile £374 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -25.45% - +7.32%
75th Percentile £432 £588 £638
90th Percentile £491 £648 £679
Central London median daily rate £400 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -23.90% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £112.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate - £125.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year - +557.89% -
75th Percentile - £137.50 £21.00
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - £125.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year - +557.89% -

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 207 241 362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 11.75% 11.59% 12.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 151 225
10th Percentile £275 £350 £261
25th Percentile £385 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £547 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.02% -0.55% +3.29%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £663
90th Percentile £688 £775 £738
Central London median daily rate £506 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -5.37% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £63.75 - -
25th Percentile £67.50 £112.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £75.00 £125.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +557.89% -17.10%
75th Percentile £82.50 £137.50 £22.38
90th Percentile £86.25 - £23.20
Central London median hourly rate £62.50 £80.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -21.88% +285.54% -21.22%

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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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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 17 September 2025.

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 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 (25.00%) Headless CMS
1 4 (25.00%) WordPress
2 3 (18.75%) Drupal
2 3 (18.75%) SharePoint
3 1 (6.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Kentico
3 1 (6.25%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (6.25%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (6.25%) Adobe XD
2 1 (6.25%) InVision
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (6.25%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) Figma
2 3 (18.75%) Contentful
2 3 (18.75%) Contentstack
2 3 (18.75%) Miro
2 3 (18.75%) prismic.io
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon Cognito
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
3 1 (6.25%) AWS
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (6.25%) Google Analytics
3 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) DynamoDB
1 1 (6.25%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) JIRA
General
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Banking
2 3 (18.75%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) International Banking
3 2 (12.50%) Marketing
3 2 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Advertising
4 1 (6.25%) Brand Awareness
4 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 3 (18.75%) CMS Developer
1 3 (18.75%) Developer
1 3 (18.75%) Product Owner
2 2 (12.50%) Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) Communications Manager
2 2 (12.50%) Customer Communications Manager
2 2 (12.50%) Engagement Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Administrator
3 1 (6.25%) Business Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) Information Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Knowledge Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Marketing Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Product Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Project Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Business Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Solutions Designer
3 1 (6.25%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (6.25%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) CSS
1 1 (6.25%) HTML
1 1 (6.25%) OAuth
1 1 (6.25%) OAuth2
1 1 (6.25%) OpenID
1 1 (6.25%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Product Ownership
2 3 (18.75%) Acoustics
3 1 (6.25%) Blog
3 1 (6.25%) Educational Technology
3 1 (6.25%) e-Learning
3 1 (6.25%) Learning Management System
3 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.25%) Mobile App
3 1 (6.25%) Pricing Data
3 1 (6.25%) Social Media
3 1 (6.25%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Content Management
2 6 (37.50%) User Experience
3 5 (31.25%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (25.00%) Migration
4 4 (25.00%) Prototyping
4 4 (25.00%) User Stories
5 3 (18.75%) Agile
5 3 (18.75%) B2C
5 3 (18.75%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 3 (18.75%) Product Backlog
6 2 (12.50%) Backlog Management
6 2 (12.50%) Change Management
6 2 (12.50%) Customer Engagement
6 2 (12.50%) Customer Experience
6 2 (12.50%) Product Roadmap
6 2 (12.50%) Risk Management
6 2 (12.50%) Roadmaps
6 2 (12.50%) Scrum
6 2 (12.50%) SEO
6 2 (12.50%) Sprint Planning
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
1 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) QA
2 2 (12.50%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Adobe
3 1 (6.25%) Google
3 1 (6.25%) Sitecore