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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 94 77
Rank change year-on-year +18 -17 +63
Contract jobs citing CMS 9 17 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.79% 0.89% 2.25%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.81% 9.83% 18.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 12 36
10th Percentile £182 - £260
25th Percentile £245 £290 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £625 £500
Median % change year-on-year -44.00% +25.00% +53.85%
75th Percentile £411 £650 £631
90th Percentile £448 - £641
England median daily rate £461 £436 £425
% change year-on-year +5.91% +2.47% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.50 £15.13 -
Median hourly rate £16.00 £15.25 £16.77
Median % change year-on-year +4.92% -9.06% -
75th Percentile £16.50 £15.38 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £29.00 £18.13 £17.92
% change year-on-year +60.00% +1.14% -76.11%

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 155 173 238
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 13.56% 9.08% 11.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 128 156
10th Percentile £229 £220 £260
25th Percentile £379 £290 £336
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £420 £478
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -12.04% +12.35%
75th Percentile £567 £566 £575
90th Percentile £630 £583 £663
England median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 8 25
10th Percentile £16.42 £13.44 £14.25
25th Percentile £35.42 £14.84 £15.50
Median hourly rate £65.50 £15.45 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +323.95% -29.77% +51.72%
75th Percentile £75.63 £18.19 £70.26
90th Percentile £141.25 £33.38 £73.75
England median hourly rate £50.00 £32.12 £48.50
% change year-on-year +55.69% -33.78% +122.99%

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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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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 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 5 July 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 +19 5 £140 -78.46% 18
Cambridgeshire +19 2 £350 +40.00% 17
Essex - 1 £465 - 16
Bedfordshire - 1 - - 8
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 3 (33.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 3 (33.33%) Umbraco
2 1 (11.11%) Headless CMS
2 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
2 1 (11.11%) Tomcat
2 1 (11.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
1 2 (22.22%) Contentsquare
1 2 (22.22%) Google Analytics
2 1 (11.11%) Anthropic Claude
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Functions
2 1 (11.11%) ChatGPT
2 1 (11.11%) GCP
2 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
1 1 (11.11%) FTP
1 1 (11.11%) HTTP
1 1 (11.11%) SMTP
1 1 (11.11%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (33.33%) Marketing
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Publishing
3 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Analyst
1 3 (33.33%) SOC Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Avaya Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Coordinator
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Junior
3 1 (11.11%) Junior Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Resource Coordinator
3 1 (11.11%) Telecoms Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Umbraco Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) .NET
1 1 (11.11%) .NET Framework
1 1 (11.11%) Entity Framework
1 1 (11.11%) JSR 170
1 1 (11.11%) JTAPI
1 1 (11.11%) LDAP
1 1 (11.11%) Next.js
1 1 (11.11%) OSGi
1 1 (11.11%) React
1 1 (11.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 3 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (22.22%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 1 (11.11%) Cyberattack
3 1 (11.11%) IVR
3 1 (11.11%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Linux
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Content Management
2 3 (33.33%) Analytics
2 3 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 3 (33.33%) Security Operations
3 2 (22.22%) Digital Marketing
3 2 (22.22%) Front End Development
3 2 (22.22%) SEO
3 2 (22.22%) User Experience
4 1 (11.11%) Agile
4 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (11.11%) Machine Learning
4 1 (11.11%) Marketing Automation
4 1 (11.11%) Migration
4 1 (11.11%) MVC
4 1 (11.11%) Process Improvement
4 1 (11.11%) Use Case
4 1 (11.11%) UX Design
4 1 (11.11%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) C#
1 1 (11.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) Degree
3 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
3 1 (11.11%) MBA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Adobe
1 3 (33.33%) Darktrace
1 3 (33.33%) FireEye
1 3 (33.33%) LogRhythm
1 3 (33.33%) Splunk
2 2 (22.22%) Google
3 1 (11.11%) Avaya
3 1 (11.11%) IronPort
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) MKS
3 1 (11.11%) OpenAI
3 1 (11.11%) Symantec
3 1 (11.11%) Verint