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 29 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 105 102
Rank change year-on-year -5 -3 +45
Contract jobs citing CMS 16 14 23
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.74% 0.80% 1.00%
As % of the Application Platforms category 8.47% 6.57% 7.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 15
10th Percentile £411 £209 £166
25th Percentile £512 £276 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -7.14% +13.51%
75th Percentile £628 £519 £616
90th Percentile £716 £541 £691
Central London median daily rate £545 £409 £470
% change year-on-year +33.25% -12.98% -1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.00
Median hourly rate - - £19.00
75th Percentile - - £21.00
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £23.00 - £26.00

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 189 213 312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 8.79% 12.23% 13.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 116 233
10th Percentile £375 £325 £251
25th Percentile £425 £410 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £588
90th Percentile £707 £725 £710
Central London median daily rate £540 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +8.00% -2.44% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £21.60
25th Percentile - - £28.50
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.22%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £21.00 £26.45 £36.50
% change year-on-year -20.60% -27.53% +5.13%

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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 29 March 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 (18.75%) Headless CMS
2 2 (12.50%) Sitefinity
3 1 (6.25%) Kentico
3 1 (6.25%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (6.25%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) Contentful
1 2 (12.50%) Contentstack
1 2 (12.50%) Firebase
1 2 (12.50%) prismic.io
2 1 (6.25%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) SMS
2 1 (6.25%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) CocoaPods
1 2 (12.50%) Crashlytics
1 2 (12.50%) fastlane
1 2 (12.50%) Git
1 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 2 (12.50%) JIRA
1 2 (12.50%) Xcode
General
1 4 (25.00%) Marketing
2 3 (18.75%) Banking
2 3 (18.75%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Investment Banking
2 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Publishing
3 2 (12.50%) Retail Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Developer
1 5 (31.25%) Senior
2 3 (18.75%) Senior Developer
3 2 (12.50%) CMS Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Content Designer
3 2 (12.50%) Designer
3 2 (12.50%) iOS Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Lead
3 2 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Content Designer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Designer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior iOS Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Transformation Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Transformation Project Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Web Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Web Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Product Delivery Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Product Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Site Manager
4 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%) HTML
1 2 (12.50%) React
1 2 (12.50%) RxSwift
1 2 (12.50%) UIKit
2 1 (6.25%) .NET
2 1 (6.25%) AngularJS
2 1 (6.25%) CSS
2 1 (6.25%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Acoustics
1 2 (12.50%) Animation
1 2 (12.50%) Data Structures
1 2 (12.50%) Management Information System
1 2 (12.50%) Mobile App
1 2 (12.50%) NHS
1 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.25%) Marketing Technology
2 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (6.25%) Social Media
2 1 (6.25%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Content Management
2 8 (50.00%) Agile
3 7 (43.75%) Analytics
4 6 (37.50%) B2C
4 6 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (31.25%) Push Notifications
6 3 (18.75%) Customer Experience
6 3 (18.75%) Event-Driven
6 3 (18.75%) Product Strategy
6 3 (18.75%) User Experience
6 3 (18.75%) Wealth Management
7 2 (12.50%) Clean Code
7 2 (12.50%) Code Quality
7 2 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (12.50%) Cryptography
7 2 (12.50%) Design Patterns
7 2 (12.50%) Identity Management
7 2 (12.50%) Multithreading
7 2 (12.50%) Product Management
7 2 (12.50%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
1 2 (12.50%) Objective-C
1 2 (12.50%) Swift
1 2 (12.50%) TypeScript
2 1 (6.25%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) Accessibility
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%) Apple
3 1 (6.25%) Adobe
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.25%) Sitecore