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 24 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 512 483 524
Rank change year-on-year -29 +41 +138
Contract jobs citing Adobe Experience Manager 38 32 42
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.13% 0.10% 0.11%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.14% 0.94% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 17 18
10th Percentile £283 £209 £197
25th Percentile £300 £318 £259
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £552 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.86% +0.36% -6.38%
75th Percentile £563 £600 £592
90th Percentile £625 £800 £726
UK median daily rate £473 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -5.50% -9.09% -6.38%

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 3,340 3,414 3,875
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.04% 10.96% 9.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,285 2,144 2,643
10th Percentile £285 £263 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £631
90th Percentile £725 £810 £706
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 79 128
10th Percentile £17.42 £17.00 £14.50
25th Percentile £21.03 £22.90 £17.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £41.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.98% +64.00% +28.21%
75th Percentile £70.36 £64.73 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.80 £74.13
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £34.04 £26.78
% change year-on-year +2.84% +27.09% +34.91%

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 24 November 2025.

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 24 November 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
London -4 27 £450 -3.23% 6
Midlands - 7 £600 -
East Midlands - 5 £600 -
East of England -11 2 £140 -31.71%
West Midlands - 2 £463 -
South East -6 1 - - 2
North of England -41 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 17 (44.74%) CMS
2 7 (18.42%) Umbraco
3 5 (13.16%) Headless CMS
3 5 (13.16%) Sitecore CMS
4 4 (10.53%) SharePoint
4 4 (10.53%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Adobe After Effects
1 1 (2.63%) Adobe Premiere
1 1 (2.63%) Autodesk Smoke
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.63%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 5 (13.16%) Adobe Analytics
1 5 (13.16%) Contentful
1 5 (13.16%) Figma
1 5 (13.16%) Kontent
2 4 (10.53%) Azure
3 3 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (7.89%) Contentsquare
3 3 (7.89%) Google Analytics
4 2 (5.26%) Adobe Creative Cloud
4 2 (5.26%) SaaS
5 1 (2.63%) AWS
5 1 (2.63%) Firebase
5 1 (2.63%) GCP
5 1 (2.63%) GitHub
5 1 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.63%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.53%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.89%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 8 (21.05%) Git
2 6 (15.79%) JIRA
3 2 (5.26%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.63%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (2.63%) GitLab
4 1 (2.63%) gulp
4 1 (2.63%) Maven
4 1 (2.63%) webpack
General
1 16 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 14 (36.84%) Marketing
3 9 (23.68%) Publishing
4 6 (15.79%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (13.16%) Retail
6 4 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (7.89%) Banking
8 2 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (5.26%) Finance
9 1 (2.63%) Advertising
9 1 (2.63%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 10 (26.32%) Developer
2 8 (21.05%) Analyst
3 6 (15.79%) Full-Stack Developer
4 5 (13.16%) C# Developer
4 5 (13.16%) CMS Developer
4 5 (13.16%) Full-Stack C# Developer
4 5 (13.16%) React Developer
5 4 (10.53%) Business Analyst
5 4 (10.53%) CMS Specialist
5 4 (10.53%) CRM Specialist
5 4 (10.53%) Marketing Specialist
6 3 (7.89%) Consultant
6 3 (7.89%) Test Analyst
7 2 (5.26%) Architect
7 2 (5.26%) SEO Consultant
7 2 (5.26%) Technical Consultant
7 2 (5.26%) Test Manager
8 1 (2.63%) Applications Developer
8 1 (2.63%) Coordinator
8 1 (2.63%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (47.37%) HTML
2 13 (34.21%) CSS
3 12 (31.58%) React
4 11 (28.95%) AngularJS
5 6 (15.79%) HTML5
5 6 (15.79%) OSGi
5 6 (15.79%) RESTful
6 5 (13.16%) .NET
6 5 (13.16%) .NET Framework
6 5 (13.16%) ASP.NET
6 5 (13.16%) ASP.NET MVC
6 5 (13.16%) CSS3
6 5 (13.16%) GraphQL
7 3 (7.89%) JSP
8 2 (5.26%) Vue
9 1 (2.63%) Apollo GraphQL
9 1 (2.63%) React Native
9 1 (2.63%) Redux
9 1 (2.63%) Servlets
9 1 (2.63%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.79%) Mobile App
2 2 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.63%) FMCG
3 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.63%) PMI
3 1 (2.63%) Pricing Data
3 1 (2.63%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.63%) Replication
3 1 (2.63%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.63%) Android
1 1 (2.63%) Apple iOS
1 1 (2.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (36.84%) Analytics
2 13 (34.21%) User Experience
3 12 (31.58%) Agile
4 10 (26.32%) Content Management
4 10 (26.32%) Migration
5 9 (23.68%) Full-Stack Development
6 7 (18.42%) CRM
6 7 (18.42%) Workflow
7 5 (13.16%) AI
7 5 (13.16%) MVC
7 5 (13.16%) Personalization
7 5 (13.16%) SEO
8 4 (10.53%) CI/CD
8 4 (10.53%) DevOps
8 4 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (10.53%) Validation
9 3 (7.89%) Requirements Gathering
9 3 (7.89%) User Acceptance Testing
10 2 (5.26%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 15 (39.47%) JavaScript
2 9 (23.68%) SQL
3 5 (13.16%) C#
3 5 (13.16%) Java
4 1 (2.63%) Groovy
4 1 (2.63%) Kotlin
4 1 (2.63%) Python
4 1 (2.63%) Swift
4 1 (2.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (5.26%) Degree
2 1 (2.63%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.79%) QA
2 4 (10.53%) GDPR
3 1 (2.63%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (2.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.63%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 38 (100.00%) Adobe
2 5 (13.16%) Salesforce
2 5 (13.16%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
2 5 (13.16%) Sitecore
3 4 (10.53%) Google
4 2 (5.26%) Marketo
5 1 (2.63%) Ahrefs
5 1 (2.63%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.63%) Screaming Frog