Adobe Experience Manager Contract Job Trends in England

Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) formerly Adobe CQ, Communiqué CQ5, Day CQ
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Adobe Experience Manager skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 539 454 480
Rank change year-on-year -85 +26 +96
Contract jobs citing Adobe Experience Manager 50 18 60
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.12% 0.074% 0.16%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.37% 0.64% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 11 41
10th Percentile £264 £333 £300
25th Percentile £412 £408 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.41% -6.36% +5.16%
75th Percentile £565 £564 £700
90th Percentile £575 £650 £715
UK median daily rate £456 £508 £550
% change year-on-year -10.10% -7.73% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
UK median hourly rate - - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - -16.03%

All Application Platform Skills
England

Adobe Experience Manager 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,654 2,823 3,472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 8.95% 11.54% 9.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,512 1,891 2,496
10th Percentile £313 £281 £250
25th Percentile £406 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £613
90th Percentile £688 £750 £771
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 64 137
10th Percentile £15.51 £16.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.81 £15.00
Median hourly rate £27.86 £52.50 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.94% +105.88% -27.14%
75th Percentile £72.50 £64.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £78.85 £77.50 £69.25
UK median hourly rate £28.88 £45.59 £27.52
% change year-on-year -36.65% +65.69% -40.51%

Adobe Experience Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Adobe Experience Manager relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Adobe Experience Manager job vacancy trend in England

Adobe Experience Manager
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Adobe Experience Manager.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Adobe Experience Manager

Adobe Experience Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Adobe Experience Manager in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Adobe Experience Manager in England

Adobe Experience Manager
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Adobe Experience Manager.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Adobe Experience Manager

Adobe Experience Manager
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Adobe Experience Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 10 May 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
London -37 32 £550 +3.77% 13
South East -56 9 £328 -55.74%
North of England -58 4 £450 +4.90% 4
North West -37 3 £450 +4.90% 4
East Midlands - 3 £424 -
Midlands - 3 £424 -
South West - 2 - - 1
Yorkshire - 1 - -
Adobe Experience Manager
UK

Adobe Experience Manager
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 9 (18.00%) CMS
2 1 (2.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Chatbot
2 1 (2.00%) Autodesk Smoke
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.00%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (10.00%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (2.00%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 6 (12.00%) AWS
2 4 (8.00%) Adobe Analytics
3 3 (6.00%) Amazon S3
3 3 (6.00%) AWS Step Functions
3 3 (6.00%) Azure
3 3 (6.00%) Contentsquare
3 3 (6.00%) Figma
3 3 (6.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
3 3 (6.00%) Serverless
4 2 (4.00%) Adobe Creative Cloud
5 1 (2.00%) GitHub
5 1 (2.00%) Google Analytics
5 1 (2.00%) SaaS
5 1 (2.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.00%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.00%) MySQL
2 3 (6.00%) DynamoDB
2 3 (6.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 6 (12.00%) JIRA
2 4 (8.00%) Maven
3 3 (6.00%) Jasmine
3 3 (6.00%) Selenium
3 3 (6.00%) WebDriver
4 2 (4.00%) Cucumber
4 2 (4.00%) Postman
4 2 (4.00%) REST Assured
5 1 (2.00%) JUnit
5 1 (2.00%) TestNG
General
1 22 (44.00%) Social Skills
2 17 (34.00%) Marketing
3 14 (28.00%) Finance
4 11 (22.00%) Retail
5 8 (16.00%) Banking
6 5 (10.00%) Investment Banking
7 4 (8.00%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (6.00%) Public Sector
8 3 (6.00%) Publishing
9 2 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (4.00%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (4.00%) Retail Banking
10 1 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 11 (22.00%) Developer
2 9 (18.00%) Architect
3 7 (14.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 6 (12.00%) Project Manager
5 4 (8.00%) Delivery Manager
5 4 (8.00%) Service Delivery Manager
5 4 (8.00%) Service Manager
6 3 (6.00%) Digital Project Manager
6 3 (6.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (6.00%) Product Owner
7 2 (4.00%) Backend Developer
7 2 (4.00%) CRM Specialist
7 2 (4.00%) Digital Executive
7 2 (4.00%) Digital Marketing Manager
7 2 (4.00%) Digital Product Owner
7 2 (4.00%) Lead
7 2 (4.00%) Marketing Manager
7 2 (4.00%) Marketing Project Manager
7 2 (4.00%) Marketing Specialist
7 2 (4.00%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (36.00%) CSS
2 16 (32.00%) AngularJS
3 14 (28.00%) HTML
4 11 (22.00%) RESTful
5 9 (18.00%) React
6 7 (14.00%) J2EE
6 7 (14.00%) OSGi
6 7 (14.00%) Sass
6 7 (14.00%) Spring
6 7 (14.00%) Spring MVC
7 5 (10.00%) CSS3
7 5 (10.00%) HTML5
7 5 (10.00%) JSR 170
8 4 (8.00%) Bootstrap
8 4 (8.00%) jQuery
8 4 (8.00%) REST
8 4 (8.00%) Web Services
9 3 (6.00%) Lambda Expressions
9 3 (6.00%) Node.js
9 3 (6.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (6.00%) Marketing Technology
2 3 (6.00%) Onboarding
2 3 (6.00%) Taxonomies
3 2 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.00%) FMCG
3 2 (4.00%) Life Science
4 1 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.00%) PMI
4 1 (2.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.00%) Linux
1 4 (8.00%) Unix
1 4 (8.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (40.00%) Agile
2 15 (30.00%) Analytics
3 13 (26.00%) User Experience
4 10 (20.00%) DevOps
4 10 (20.00%) Roadmaps
5 9 (18.00%) Personalization
5 9 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (16.00%) CRM
6 8 (16.00%) E-Commerce
7 7 (14.00%) Front End Development
7 7 (14.00%) Migration
7 7 (14.00%) MVC
7 7 (14.00%) User Acceptance Testing
8 6 (12.00%) CI/CD
8 6 (12.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 6 (12.00%) Microservices
8 6 (12.00%) Root Cause Analysis
8 6 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (12.00%) Test Automation
8 6 (12.00%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (36.00%) Java
2 14 (28.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (6.00%) TypeScript
4 2 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (8.00%) Degree
2 3 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (6.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.00%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (22.00%) QA
2 5 (10.00%) GDPR
3 4 (8.00%) SLA
4 2 (4.00%) PMO
5 1 (2.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (6.00%) Docker
1 3 (6.00%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 3 (6.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 46 (92.00%) Adobe
2 3 (6.00%) Salesforce
2 3 (6.00%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
2 3 (6.00%) Splunk
3 2 (4.00%) Braze
3 2 (4.00%) Google
3 2 (4.00%) SAP
4 1 (2.00%) Ahrefs
4 1 (2.00%) Databricks
4 1 (2.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.00%) Optimizely
4 1 (2.00%) Screaming Frog