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 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 103 113
Rank change year-on-year -9 +10 +44
Contract jobs citing CMS 15 25 27
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.83% 1.17% 1.02%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.25% 10.08% 8.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 13 18
10th Percentile £389 £244 £225
25th Percentile £405 £313 £317
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £538
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -25.58% +7.50%
75th Percentile £540 £550 £600
90th Percentile £550 £555 £641
Central London median daily rate £475 £380 £538
% change year-on-year +25.00% -29.30% +7.50%
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 207 248 326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 11.52% 11.61% 12.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 136 203
10th Percentile £307 £319 £276
25th Percentile £413 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £604
90th Percentile £684 £768 £700
Central London median daily rate £525 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -1.87% +1.90% -4.55%
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 £62.50 £80.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -21.88% +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 7 December 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 (26.67%) WordPress
2 3 (20.00%) Drupal
3 2 (13.33%) Headless CMS
4 1 (6.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Adobe XD
1 1 (6.67%) InVision
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.67%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) Figma
1 3 (20.00%) Miro
2 2 (13.33%) Contentful
2 2 (13.33%) Contentstack
2 2 (13.33%) Firebase
2 2 (13.33%) Google Analytics
2 2 (13.33%) prismic.io
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) SQLite
2 1 (6.67%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 7 (46.67%) JIRA
2 2 (13.33%) CocoaPods
2 2 (13.33%) Crashlytics
2 2 (13.33%) fastlane
2 2 (13.33%) Git
2 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (13.33%) Xcode
General
1 5 (33.33%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Banking
3 3 (20.00%) Investment Banking
3 3 (20.00%) Marketing
3 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Retail Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Brand Awareness
5 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Developer
1 3 (20.00%) Product Owner
2 2 (13.33%) Administrator
2 2 (13.33%) Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) iOS Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Senior
2 2 (13.33%) Senior Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Senior iOS Developer
3 1 (6.67%) CMS Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Configuration Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) Content Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Information Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Knowledge Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Lead
3 1 (6.67%) Marketing Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Site Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (6.67%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) AVFoundation
1 2 (13.33%) Core Animation
1 2 (13.33%) Core Data
1 2 (13.33%) HTML
1 2 (13.33%) RxSwift
1 2 (13.33%) UIKit
2 1 (6.67%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 3 (20.00%) Mobile App
3 2 (13.33%) Acoustics
3 2 (13.33%) Animation
3 2 (13.33%) Data Structures
4 1 (6.67%) Blog
4 1 (6.67%) Educational Technology
4 1 (6.67%) e-Learning
4 1 (6.67%) Learning Management System
4 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
4 1 (6.67%) Pricing Data
4 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (6.67%) Social Media
4 1 (6.67%) Taxonomies
4 1 (6.67%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Content Management
2 7 (46.67%) Analytics
3 5 (33.33%) Agile
3 5 (33.33%) Push Notifications
4 3 (20.00%) B2C
4 3 (20.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 3 (20.00%) Customer Experience
4 3 (20.00%) Event-Driven
4 3 (20.00%) Product Backlog
4 3 (20.00%) Product Strategy
4 3 (20.00%) Prototyping
4 3 (20.00%) Thought Leadership
4 3 (20.00%) User Experience
4 3 (20.00%) User Stories
4 3 (20.00%) Wealth Management
5 2 (13.33%) Application Security
5 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
5 2 (13.33%) Clean Code
5 2 (13.33%) Code Quality
5 2 (13.33%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) Objective-C
1 2 (13.33%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) Accessibility
2 3 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (6.67%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Google
2 3 (20.00%) Adobe
3 2 (13.33%) Apple
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft