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 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 55 58
Rank change year-on-year -12 +3 +27
Contract jobs citing CMS 9 2 7
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.01% 0.34% 0.96%
As % of the Application Platforms category 9.47% 4.44% 11.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 5
10th Percentile £509 £440 £252
25th Percentile £550 £441 £293
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £459 £400
Median % change year-on-year +30.79% +14.69% +3.90%
75th Percentile £625 £478 -
90th Percentile - £480 -
England median daily rate £455 £450 £430
% change year-on-year +1.11% +4.65% -14.00%
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% -15.56%

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 95 45 59
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 10.65% 7.56% 8.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 30 33
10th Percentile £169 £244 £180
25th Percentile £311 £304 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £406 £395
Median % change year-on-year +1.66% +2.85% -0.32%
75th Percentile £475 £480 £494
90th Percentile £570 £539 £550
England median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 5
10th Percentile - - £11.46
25th Percentile £16.25 - £11.83
Median hourly rate £19.25 - £21.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.51%
75th Percentile £24.03 - £33.25
90th Percentile £24.99 - £52.30
England median hourly rate £27.21 £42.50 £24.50
% change year-on-year -35.98% +73.47% +36.11%

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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 26 December 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 26 December 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 - 8 £600 - 4
Derbyshire +1 1 - - 7
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 5 (55.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 5 (55.56%) Headless CMS
1 5 (55.56%) Sitecore CMS
1 5 (55.56%) Umbraco
2 1 (11.11%) Alfresco
2 1 (11.11%) Documentum
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) FrameMaker
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) Kontent
2 5 (55.56%) Contentful
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 7 (77.78%) Git
General
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Aerospace
2 1 (11.11%) Marketing
2 1 (11.11%) Military
2 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Publishing
2 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) CMS Developer
1 7 (77.78%) Developer
1 7 (77.78%) Full-Stack Developer
2 5 (55.56%) C# Developer
2 5 (55.56%) Full-Stack C# Developer
2 5 (55.56%) React Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) E-Commerce Product Owner
3 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (77.78%) .NET
1 7 (77.78%) .NET Framework
1 7 (77.78%) AngularJS
1 7 (77.78%) ASP.NET
1 7 (77.78%) ASP.NET MVC
1 7 (77.78%) CSS
1 7 (77.78%) HTML
1 7 (77.78%) React
1 7 (77.78%) RESTful
2 1 (11.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (88.89%) Mobile App
2 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Full-Stack Development
1 7 (77.78%) MVC
2 6 (66.67%) User Experience
3 5 (55.56%) AI
4 2 (22.22%) Analytics
4 2 (22.22%) API Development
4 2 (22.22%) API Integration
4 2 (22.22%) Mobile First
4 2 (22.22%) Process Improvement
5 1 (11.11%) ArchiMate
5 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Architecture
5 1 (11.11%) Mathematics
5 1 (11.11%) Microservices
5 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (11.11%) User Stories
5 1 (11.11%) UX Design
5 1 (11.11%) Workflow
5 1 (11.11%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) C#
1 7 (77.78%) JavaScript
1 7 (77.78%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Adobe
1 5 (55.56%) Sitecore
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) OpenText
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle