Headless CMS Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Headless Content Management System (Headless CMS)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Headless CMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
13 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 117 129
Rank change year-on-year -3 +12 +48
Contract jobs citing Headless CMS 3 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.15% 0.11% 0.043%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.65% 0.95% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile - £268 -
25th Percentile - £275 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £300 £525
Median % change year-on-year +83.33% -42.86% +23.53%
75th Percentile - £325 £563
90th Percentile - £333 -
Central London median daily rate £550 £367 £525
% change year-on-year +49.86% -30.10% +23.53%

All Application Platform Skills
City of London

Headless 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 182 211 315
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 8.90% 11.81% 13.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 115 224
10th Percentile £368 £258 £250
25th Percentile £424 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £516
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.15% -6.14%
75th Percentile £603 £600 £588
90th Percentile £702 £688 £709
Central London median daily rate £534 £475 £513
% change year-on-year +12.37% -7.32% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.00
Median hourly rate - - £19.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.56%
75th Percentile - - £40.00
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £21.00 - £19.00
% change year-on-year - - -2.56%

Headless CMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Headless CMS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Headless CMS job vacancy trend in the City of London

Headless CMS
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Headless CMS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Headless CMS

Headless CMS
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 (100.00%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Contentful
1 2 (66.67%) Contentstack
1 2 (66.67%) prismic.io
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) CMS Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Front-End Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Next.js
1 1 (33.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Acoustics
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) B2C
1 2 (66.67%) Content Management
1 2 (66.67%) User Experience
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
2 1 (33.33%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
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