CMS Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Content Management System (CMS)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring CMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 76 88
Rank change year-on-year -14 +12 +27
Contract jobs citing CMS 6 17 23
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.43% 1.22% 1.23%
As % of the Application Platforms category 4.65% 10.00% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 15
10th Percentile £182 £241 -
25th Percentile £245 £290 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £300 £613
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -51.02% +22.50%
75th Percentile £411 £438 £631
90th Percentile £448 £673 £690
England median daily rate £450 £450 £425
% change year-on-year - +5.88% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.50 - -
Median hourly rate £16.00 - -
75th Percentile £16.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 129 170 161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 9.19% 12.25% 8.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 107 102
10th Percentile £213 £220 £170
25th Percentile £400 £300 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £420 £450
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -6.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £570 £544 £631
90th Percentile £624 £575 £704
England median daily rate £500 £525 £510
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.94% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 17
10th Percentile £16.42 £20.40 £14.15
25th Percentile £17.33 £24.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £30.36 £30.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.20% +50.00% +42.05%
75th Percentile £64.74 £40.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £46.00 -
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 of England

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

CMS job vacancy trend in the East of England

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Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CMS in the East of England over the 6 months to 24 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CMS in the East of England

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Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

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Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 24 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
Hertfordshire -11 3 £140 -51.72% 3
Cambridgeshire -10 2 £350 +16.67% 2
Essex - 1 £465 - 2
CMS
England

CMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 4 (66.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 4 (66.67%) Umbraco
2 1 (16.67%) Headless CMS
2 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Contentsquare
1 3 (50.00%) Google Analytics
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) Anthropic Claude
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Functions
3 1 (16.67%) ChatGPT
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (66.67%) Marketing
2 3 (50.00%) Publishing
3 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Architect
1 1 (16.67%) Coordinator
1 1 (16.67%) Developer
1 1 (16.67%) Resource Coordinator
1 1 (16.67%) Umbraco Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
1 1 (16.67%) Entity Framework
1 1 (16.67%) JSR 170
1 1 (16.67%) Next.js
1 1 (16.67%) OSGi
1 1 (16.67%) React
1 1 (16.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Video Editing
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Content Management
2 4 (66.67%) Analytics
3 3 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
3 3 (50.00%) SEO
4 2 (33.33%) Front End Development
4 2 (33.33%) User Experience
5 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (16.67%) DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
5 1 (16.67%) Marketing Automation
5 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 1 (16.67%) Personalization
5 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
5 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
5 1 (16.67%) Thought Leadership
5 1 (16.67%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree
1 1 (16.67%) MBA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Adobe
2 3 (50.00%) Google
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) OpenAI