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 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 66 71
Rank change year-on-year -14 +5 +4
Contract jobs citing CMS 4 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.36% 0.15% 0.11%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.39% 1.85% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £550 £410
Median % change year-on-year - +34.15% -18.00%
75th Percentile - - £430
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 £463 £425
% change year-on-year +18.92% +8.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £30.00 - -
England median hourly rate £23.16 £32.05 £15.25
% change year-on-year -27.74% +110.16% -17.57%

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 118 54 79
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 10.57% 7.95% 9.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 42 50
10th Percentile £132 £214 £145
25th Percentile £305 £289 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £359 £369
Median % change year-on-year +11.98% -2.59% -1.72%
75th Percentile £475 £464 £450
90th Percentile £585 £549 £501
England median daily rate £500 £500 £501
% change year-on-year - -0.15% -4.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 11
10th Percentile £29.40 - £21.73
25th Percentile £39.04 £18.50 £22.50
Median hourly rate £74.00 £19.00 £48.56
Median % change year-on-year +289.47% -60.87% +104.55%
75th Percentile - £19.50 £51.91
90th Percentile £74.50 - -
England median hourly rate £32.50 £52.50 £30.83
% change year-on-year -38.10% +70.32% -37.41%

CMS
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

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 24 June 2026. 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 - 4 - -
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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) FrameMaker
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Content Coordinator
1 3 (75.00%) Coordinator
1 3 (75.00%) Web Content Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) XML
2 3 (75.00%) CSS
2 3 (75.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) AI
1 3 (75.00%) Customer Experience
1 3 (75.00%) Digital Customer Experience
1 3 (75.00%) E-Commerce
1 3 (75.00%) Optimization Problems
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (75.00%) SEO
2 1 (25.00%) Content Management
2 1 (25.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Adobe
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) SAP