CMS Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Content Management System (CMS)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring CMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 62 57
Rank change year-on-year -5 -5 -
Contract jobs citing CMS 8 2 9
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.94% 0.27% 1.10%
As % of the Application Platforms category 13.11% 3.13% 11.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 7
10th Percentile £481 £440 £265
25th Percentile - £441 £346
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £459 £400
Median % change year-on-year +19.89% +14.69% -
75th Percentile £606 £478 £450
90th Percentile £625 £480 £504
England median daily rate £450 £450 £425
% change year-on-year - +5.88% -16.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £11.27
25th Percentile - - £11.36
Median hourly rate - - £11.62
75th Percentile - - £11.78
90th Percentile - - £11.81
England median hourly rate £27.21 £62.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -56.46% +228.95% -73.79%

All Application Platform Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 61 64 76
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 7.15% 8.60% 9.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 38 51
10th Percentile £132 £301 £158
25th Percentile £310 £352 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £420 £350
Median % change year-on-year -14.76% +20.00% -12.50%
75th Percentile £445 £475 £505
90th Percentile £550 £518 £588
England median daily rate £500 £525 £510
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.94% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - £11.46
25th Percentile - - £11.83
Median hourly rate - £13.52 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year - -35.62% +17.58%
75th Percentile - - £21.50
90th Percentile - - £47.60
England median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year -11.76% +57.41% +35.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CMS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

CMS job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing CMS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing CMS

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CMS in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 28 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CMS in the East Midlands

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Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing CMS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing CMS

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Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CMS within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leicestershire - 6 £550 - 2
Derbyshire +2 1 - - 4
Nottinghamshire - 1 £550 - 3
CMS
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (25.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 2 (25.00%) Headless CMS
1 2 (25.00%) Sitecore CMS
1 2 (25.00%) Umbraco
2 1 (12.50%) Alfresco
2 1 (12.50%) Documentum
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Adobe Premiere
1 1 (12.50%) FrameMaker
1 1 (12.50%) InDesign
1 1 (12.50%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Kontent
2 2 (25.00%) Contentful
3 1 (12.50%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) Vyond
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Git
General
1 2 (25.00%) Marketing
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Aerospace
2 1 (12.50%) Military
2 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Publishing
2 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) CMS Developer
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
1 4 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (25.00%) C# Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack C# Developer
2 2 (25.00%) React Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) E-Commerce Product Owner
3 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Implementation Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) CSS
1 5 (62.50%) HTML
2 4 (50.00%) .NET
2 4 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 4 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 4 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 4 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 4 (50.00%) React
2 4 (50.00%) RESTful
3 1 (12.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Mobile App
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 4 (50.00%) MVC
2 3 (37.50%) Analytics
2 3 (37.50%) User Experience
3 2 (25.00%) AI
3 2 (25.00%) API Development
3 2 (25.00%) API Integration
3 2 (25.00%) Content Management
3 2 (25.00%) Process Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) Agile
4 1 (12.50%) ArchiMate
4 1 (12.50%) Copywriting
4 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (12.50%) Mathematics
4 1 (12.50%) Responsive Web Design
4 1 (12.50%) Software Deployment
4 1 (12.50%) TOGAF
4 1 (12.50%) UX Design
4 1 (12.50%) Web Usability
4 1 (12.50%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) JavaScript
1 5 (62.50%) SQL
2 4 (50.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Adobe
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Sitecore
3 1 (12.50%) Facebook
3 1 (12.50%) Instagram
3 1 (12.50%) OpenText
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) Twitter
3 1 (12.50%) YouTube