CMS Contracts in the East of England

Content Management System (CMS)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 97 71
Rank change year-on-year +20 -26 +69
Contract jobs citing CMS 5 15 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.53% 0.79% 2.52%
As % of the Application Platforms category 4.67% 9.49% 20.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 10 43
10th Percentile - £289 £260
25th Percentile - £290 £283
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £625 £523
Median % change year-on-year - +19.50% +70.08%
75th Percentile - £650 £631
90th Percentile - - £650
England median daily rate £475 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Median hourly rate - £15.25 £16.77
Median % change year-on-year - -9.06% -
England median hourly rate £28.41 £13.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +118.50% -42.22% -32.91%

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 107 158 252
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 11.41% 8.28% 12.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 104 164
10th Percentile £235 £202 £239
25th Percentile £372 £288 £324
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £393 £475
Median % change year-on-year +14.65% -17.37% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £519 £569
90th Percentile £675 £584 £638
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 18 26
10th Percentile £49.24 £12.13 -
25th Percentile £61.50 - £14.25
Median hourly rate £66.00 £14.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +371.43% -17.65% +17.24%
75th Percentile £77.50 £15.39 £23.00
90th Percentile £176.50 £18.73 £65.13
England median hourly rate £52.50 £27.50 £31.25
% change year-on-year +90.91% -12.00% +49.59%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for CMS in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for CMS in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for CMS in the East of England

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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 1 May 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 +18 4 - - 8
Bedfordshire - 1 - - 1
CMS
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 (20.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (20.00%) WebLogic
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) FTP
1 2 (40.00%) HTTP
1 2 (40.00%) SMTP
1 2 (40.00%) SSL
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Analyst
1 4 (80.00%) SOC Analyst
2 3 (60.00%) Senior
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Avaya Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Junior
3 1 (20.00%) Junior Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Telecoms Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) LDAP
2 1 (20.00%) JTAPI
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 4 (80.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (40.00%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (40.00%) Cyberattack
3 1 (20.00%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (80.00%) Incident Response
1 4 (80.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Darktrace
1 4 (80.00%) FireEye
1 4 (80.00%) LogRhythm
1 4 (80.00%) Splunk
2 2 (40.00%) IronPort
2 2 (40.00%) Symantec
3 1 (20.00%) Avaya
3 1 (20.00%) MKS
3 1 (20.00%) Verint