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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 97 122
Rank change year-on-year -8 +25 +35
Contract jobs citing CMS 16 28 28
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.93% 1.33% 1.01%
As % of the Application Platforms category 8.08% 11.24% 8.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 13 19
10th Percentile £375 £239 £236
25th Percentile £405 £263 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £360 £520
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -30.77% -0.95%
75th Percentile £539 £550 £613
90th Percentile £550 £580 £641
Central London median daily rate £450 £360 £520
% change year-on-year +25.00% -30.77% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
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 198 249 342
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 11.50% 11.81% 12.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 137 214
10th Percentile £305 £308 £261
25th Percentile £405 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £613 £629 £646
90th Percentile £688 £766 £734
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 4
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% +12.19%
75th Percentile £82.50 £137.50 £21.69
90th Percentile £86.25 - £22.93
Central London median hourly rate £75.00 £80.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -6.25% +321.05% +12.19%

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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 6 November 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 & 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 4 (25.00%) WordPress
2 3 (18.75%) Drupal
2 3 (18.75%) Headless CMS
3 1 (6.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Adobe XD
1 1 (6.25%) InVision
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.25%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) Figma
2 3 (18.75%) Miro
3 2 (12.50%) Contentful
3 2 (12.50%) Contentstack
3 2 (12.50%) Firebase
3 2 (12.50%) prismic.io
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
4 1 (6.25%) AWS
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (6.25%) Google Analytics
4 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) SQLite
2 1 (6.25%) DynamoDB
2 1 (6.25%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 7 (43.75%) JIRA
2 2 (12.50%) CocoaPods
2 2 (12.50%) Crashlytics
2 2 (12.50%) fastlane
2 2 (12.50%) Git
2 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (12.50%) Xcode
General
1 4 (25.00%) Banking
1 4 (25.00%) Finance
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Investment Banking
3 2 (12.50%) Marketing
3 2 (12.50%) Retail Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Advertising
4 1 (6.25%) Brand Awareness
4 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Publishing
4 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (18.75%) Developer
1 3 (18.75%) Product Owner
2 2 (12.50%) Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) iOS Developer
2 2 (12.50%) Senior
2 2 (12.50%) Senior Developer
2 2 (12.50%) Senior iOS Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Administrator
3 1 (6.25%) Configuration Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) Content Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Designer
3 1 (6.25%) Information Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Knowledge Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Lead
3 1 (6.25%) Marketing Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Product Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Solutions Designer
3 1 (6.25%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (6.25%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) AVFoundation
1 2 (12.50%) Core Animation
1 2 (12.50%) Core Data
1 2 (12.50%) RxSwift
1 2 (12.50%) UIKit
2 1 (6.25%) CSS
2 1 (6.25%) HTML
2 1 (6.25%) OAuth
2 1 (6.25%) OAuth2
2 1 (6.25%) OpenID
2 1 (6.25%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Product Ownership
2 3 (18.75%) Mobile App
3 2 (12.50%) Acoustics
3 2 (12.50%) Animation
3 2 (12.50%) Data Structures
4 1 (6.25%) Blog
4 1 (6.25%) Educational Technology
4 1 (6.25%) e-Learning
4 1 (6.25%) Learning Management System
4 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
4 1 (6.25%) Pricing Data
4 1 (6.25%) Social Media
4 1 (6.25%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Content Management
2 6 (37.50%) Analytics
3 5 (31.25%) Push Notifications
4 4 (25.00%) Agile
4 4 (25.00%) Product Strategy
4 4 (25.00%) Prototyping
5 3 (18.75%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 3 (18.75%) Customer Experience
5 3 (18.75%) Event-Driven
5 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
5 3 (18.75%) Product Backlog
5 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (18.75%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (18.75%) Thought Leadership
5 3 (18.75%) User Experience
5 3 (18.75%) User Stories
5 3 (18.75%) Wealth Management
6 2 (12.50%) iOS Development
6 2 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (12.50%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) Objective-C
1 2 (12.50%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
1 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 3 (18.75%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (6.25%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Google
2 2 (12.50%) Adobe
2 2 (12.50%) Apple
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft