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

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 96 124
Rank change year-on-year -3 +28 +34
Contract jobs citing CMS 17 30 25
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.00% 1.42% 0.87%
As % of the Application Platforms category 8.67% 12.35% 7.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 15 16
10th Percentile £347 £239 £272
25th Percentile £395 £288 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £498
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -19.60% -9.95%
75th Percentile £539 £544 £606
90th Percentile £550 £573 £638
Central London median daily rate £418 £380 £498
% change year-on-year +9.87% -23.62% -10.36%
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 196 243 354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 11.56% 11.53% 12.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 137 218
10th Percentile £276 £264 £262
25th Percentile £389 £350 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £539
Median % change year-on-year - -2.55% -2.05%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £650
90th Percentile £684 £766 £738
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
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% +4.30%
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% -2.56%

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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 October 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 (23.53%) Headless CMS
1 4 (23.53%) WordPress
2 3 (17.65%) Drupal
3 1 (5.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Kentico
3 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
3 1 (5.88%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (5.88%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Adobe XD
1 1 (5.88%) InVision
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.88%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) Figma
2 3 (17.65%) Contentful
2 3 (17.65%) Contentstack
2 3 (17.65%) Miro
2 3 (17.65%) prismic.io
3 2 (11.76%) Firebase
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.88%) AWS
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.88%) Google Analytics
4 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) SQLite
2 1 (5.88%) DynamoDB
2 1 (5.88%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 7 (41.18%) JIRA
2 2 (11.76%) CocoaPods
2 2 (11.76%) Crashlytics
2 2 (11.76%) fastlane
2 2 (11.76%) Git
2 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.76%) Xcode
General
1 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Banking
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Investment Banking
3 2 (11.76%) Marketing
3 2 (11.76%) Retail Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Advertising
4 1 (5.88%) Brand Awareness
4 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Product Owner
3 2 (11.76%) Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) CMS Developer
3 2 (11.76%) iOS Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior iOS Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Administrator
4 1 (5.88%) Configuration Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Digital Project Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Information Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Knowledge Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Marketing Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Product Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Project Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Solutions Designer
4 1 (5.88%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (5.88%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) AVFoundation
1 2 (11.76%) Core Animation
1 2 (11.76%) Core Data
1 2 (11.76%) RxSwift
1 2 (11.76%) UIKit
2 1 (5.88%) CSS
2 1 (5.88%) HTML
2 1 (5.88%) OAuth
2 1 (5.88%) OAuth2
2 1 (5.88%) OpenID
2 1 (5.88%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Product Ownership
2 3 (17.65%) Acoustics
2 3 (17.65%) Mobile App
3 2 (11.76%) Animation
3 2 (11.76%) Data Structures
4 1 (5.88%) Blog
4 1 (5.88%) Educational Technology
4 1 (5.88%) e-Learning
4 1 (5.88%) Learning Management System
4 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.88%) Pricing Data
4 1 (5.88%) Social Media
4 1 (5.88%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Content Management
2 5 (29.41%) Analytics
3 4 (23.53%) Agile
3 4 (23.53%) Prototyping
3 4 (23.53%) Push Notifications
3 4 (23.53%) User Experience
4 3 (17.65%) B2C
4 3 (17.65%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 3 (17.65%) Mentoring
4 3 (17.65%) Product Backlog
4 3 (17.65%) Product Strategy
4 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (17.65%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (17.65%) Thought Leadership
4 3 (17.65%) User Stories
5 2 (11.76%) Architectural Design
5 2 (11.76%) Backlog Management
5 2 (11.76%) Product Requirements
5 2 (11.76%) Product Roadmap
5 2 (11.76%) Product Vision
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) Objective-C
1 2 (11.76%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
1 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) Accessibility
2 3 (17.65%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (5.88%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Google
2 2 (11.76%) Adobe
2 2 (11.76%) Apple
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) Sitecore