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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 66 60
Rank change year-on-year -1 -6 -
Contract jobs citing CMS 3 2 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.38% 0.25% 1.06%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.00% 3.03% 9.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 7
10th Percentile - £395 £330
25th Percentile - £403 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £433 £400
Median % change year-on-year +27.17% +8.13% -
75th Percentile - £460 £500
90th Percentile - £466 £504
England median daily rate £440 £465 £422
% change year-on-year -5.43% +10.19% -15.60%
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 £31.78 £33.07 £19.00
% change year-on-year -3.92% +74.05% -72.86%

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 50 66 91
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 6.34% 8.31% 10.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 38 61
10th Percentile £176 £243 £122
25th Percentile £273 £353 £189
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £419 £350
Median % change year-on-year -18.81% +19.64% -12.50%
75th Percentile £425 £484 £500
90th Percentile £469 £526 £662
England median daily rate £498 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -5.24% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 6
10th Percentile - £29.37 £11.52
25th Percentile £18.50 £45.22 £13.87
Median hourly rate £19.00 £48.56 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -60.87% +136.88% -28.70%
75th Percentile £19.50 £51.91 £21.50
90th Percentile - - £43.25
England median hourly rate £41.45 £47.50 £45.50
% change year-on-year -12.74% +4.40% +116.67%

CMS
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

CMS
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

CMS
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 18 September 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
Derbyshire +1 1 - - 3
Leicestershire - 1 - -
Nottinghamshire - 1 £550 - 1
CMS
England

CMS
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Alfresco
1 1 (33.33%) Documentum
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Adobe Premiere
1 1 (33.33%) FrameMaker
1 1 (33.33%) InDesign
1 1 (33.33%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Metadata
General
1 1 (33.33%) Aerospace
1 1 (33.33%) Marketing
1 1 (33.33%) Military
1 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Publishing
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Implementation Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Analytics
1 2 (66.67%) Content Management
2 1 (33.33%) ArchiMate
2 1 (33.33%) Architecture Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Content Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Copywriting
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Twin
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) ERP
2 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) PLM
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Responsive Web Design
2 1 (33.33%) Software Deployment
2 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
2 1 (33.33%) Web Usability
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Adobe
1 1 (33.33%) Facebook
1 1 (33.33%) Instagram
1 1 (33.33%) OpenText
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Twitter
1 1 (33.33%) YouTube