CMS Contracts in the East Midlands

Content Management System (CMS)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands requiring CMS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CMS over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 70 80
Rank change year-on-year +5 +10 +12
Contract jobs citing CMS 2 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.28% 0.12% 0.49%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.70% 1.30% 4.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £430
25th Percentile - £390 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £410 £500
Median % change year-on-year +34.15% -18.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile - £430 £503
90th Percentile - - £507
England median daily rate £461 £436 £425
% change year-on-year +5.91% +2.47% -15.00%

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 54 77 105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 7.50% 8.88% 10.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 49 79
10th Percentile £210 £145 £122
25th Percentile £313 £288 £189
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £375 £360
Median % change year-on-year -3.90% +4.06% +2.86%
75th Percentile £469 £450 £505
90th Percentile £550 £501 £688
England median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 11 5
10th Percentile - £21.73 £20.20
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £48.56 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -60.87% +131.24% -27.59%
75th Percentile £19.50 £51.91 £26.48
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £32.12 £48.50
% change year-on-year +55.69% -33.78% +122.99%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing CMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for CMS in the East Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CMS in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for CMS in the East Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CMS in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for CMS in the East Midlands

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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 5 July 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 - 1 - - 7
Nottinghamshire - 1 £550 - 6
CMS
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe Premiere
1 1 (50.00%) InDesign
1 1 (50.00%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Sprinklr
General
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Implementation Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (50.00%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Content Management
1 1 (50.00%) Content Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) Copywriting
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Responsive Web Design
1 1 (50.00%) Social Media Management
1 1 (50.00%) Software Deployment
1 1 (50.00%) Web Usability
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe
1 1 (50.00%) Facebook
1 1 (50.00%) Instagram
1 1 (50.00%) Twitter
1 1 (50.00%) YouTube