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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 498 482 521
Rank change year-on-year -16 +39 +129
Contract jobs citing Adobe Experience Manager 51 29 36
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.16% 0.099% 0.097%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.52% 0.90% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 13 19
10th Percentile £283 £217 £200
25th Percentile £347 £318 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £515 £425
Median % change year-on-year -8.25% +21.18% -29.17%
75th Percentile £565 £577 £588
90th Percentile £625 £762 £615
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -5.00% +17.65% -29.17%

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 3,346 3,236 3,636
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.65% 11.09% 9.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,304 2,028 2,491
10th Percentile £290 £263 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £725 £788 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 68 125
10th Percentile £15.60 £17.05 £14.12
25th Percentile £19.75 £21.81 £17.50
Median hourly rate £32.77 £41.91 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.81% +61.19% +40.54%
75th Percentile £69.36 £64.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.40 £70.38 £73.25
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £35.00 £26.78
% change year-on-year -22.26% +30.69% +44.76%

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 17 December 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 17 December 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 +8 37 £460 -1.60% 8
Midlands - 7 £600 -
East Midlands - 5 £600 -
North of England -49 4 £450 -20.33% 2
North West -31 3 £450 -20.33% 2
East of England -12 2 £140 -31.71%
West Midlands - 2 £463 -
South East - 1 - - 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 (33.33%) CMS
2 7 (13.73%) Umbraco
3 5 (9.80%) Headless CMS
3 5 (9.80%) Sitecore CMS
4 4 (7.84%) SharePoint
4 4 (7.84%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Autodesk Smoke
2 1 (1.96%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (1.96%) Adobe Premiere
2 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.96%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 7 (13.73%) Adobe Analytics
2 5 (9.80%) Contentful
2 5 (9.80%) Figma
2 5 (9.80%) Kontent
3 4 (7.84%) AWS
3 4 (7.84%) Azure
3 4 (7.84%) Contentsquare
3 4 (7.84%) Google Analytics
4 3 (5.88%) Amazon S3
4 3 (5.88%) AWS Step Functions
4 3 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (5.88%) Serverless
5 2 (3.92%) Adobe Creative Cloud
5 2 (3.92%) GitHub
5 2 (3.92%) SaaS
5 2 (3.92%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 1 (1.96%) Firebase
6 1 (1.96%) GCP
6 1 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.84%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.88%) DynamoDB
1 3 (5.88%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 8 (15.69%) Git
1 8 (15.69%) JIRA
2 3 (5.88%) Jasmine
2 3 (5.88%) Selenium
2 3 (5.88%) WebDriver
3 2 (3.92%) Cucumber
3 2 (3.92%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.92%) Postman
3 2 (3.92%) REST Assured
4 1 (1.96%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (1.96%) GitLab
4 1 (1.96%) gulp
4 1 (1.96%) JUnit
4 1 (1.96%) Maven
4 1 (1.96%) TestNG
4 1 (1.96%) webpack
General
1 20 (39.22%) Social Skills
2 14 (27.45%) Marketing
3 9 (17.65%) Publishing
4 6 (11.76%) Banking
4 6 (11.76%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (9.80%) Finance
5 5 (9.80%) Retail
6 4 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (7.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (5.88%) Investment Banking
8 2 (3.92%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.96%) Advertising
9 1 (1.96%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 18 (35.29%) Developer
2 9 (17.65%) Full-Stack Developer
3 8 (15.69%) Analyst
4 5 (9.80%) C# Developer
4 5 (9.80%) CMS Developer
4 5 (9.80%) Full-Stack C# Developer
4 5 (9.80%) React Developer
5 4 (7.84%) Business Analyst
5 4 (7.84%) CMS Specialist
5 4 (7.84%) CRM Specialist
5 4 (7.84%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 4 (7.84%) Marketing Specialist
6 3 (5.88%) Consultant
6 3 (5.88%) Test Analyst
7 2 (3.92%) Architect
7 2 (3.92%) E-Commerce Manager
7 2 (3.92%) QA Engineer
7 2 (3.92%) SEO Consultant
7 2 (3.92%) Technical Consultant
7 2 (3.92%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (49.02%) HTML
2 20 (39.22%) CSS
3 18 (35.29%) AngularJS
4 16 (31.37%) React
5 12 (23.53%) RESTful
6 9 (17.65%) HTML5
7 8 (15.69%) CSS3
8 7 (13.73%) OSGi
9 5 (9.80%) .NET
9 5 (9.80%) .NET Framework
9 5 (9.80%) ASP.NET
9 5 (9.80%) ASP.NET MVC
9 5 (9.80%) GraphQL
10 4 (7.84%) JSR 170
11 3 (5.88%) JSP
11 3 (5.88%) Node.js
11 3 (5.88%) Sass
11 3 (5.88%) Spring
11 3 (5.88%) Spring Boot
11 3 (5.88%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.76%) Mobile App
2 4 (7.84%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.88%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.92%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.92%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.92%) PMI
5 1 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.96%) FMCG
5 1 (1.96%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.96%) Pricing Data
5 1 (1.96%) Replication
5 1 (1.96%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.96%) Android
1 1 (1.96%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (37.25%) Analytics
2 18 (35.29%) Agile
3 17 (33.33%) User Experience
4 12 (23.53%) Full-Stack Development
5 11 (21.57%) Migration
6 10 (19.61%) Content Management
7 8 (15.69%) MVC
8 7 (13.73%) CRM
8 7 (13.73%) DevOps
8 7 (13.73%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (13.73%) Workflow
9 6 (11.76%) SEO
9 6 (11.76%) TDD
9 6 (11.76%) Test Automation
9 6 (11.76%) User Acceptance Testing
10 5 (9.80%) AI
10 5 (9.80%) CI/CD
10 5 (9.80%) Personalization
10 5 (9.80%) Stakeholder Management
11 4 (7.84%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 18 (35.29%) JavaScript
2 13 (25.49%) Java
3 9 (17.65%) SQL
4 5 (9.80%) C#
5 4 (7.84%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.96%) Groovy
6 1 (1.96%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.96%) Python
6 1 (1.96%) Swift
Qualifications
1 2 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (3.92%) Degree
1 2 (3.92%) PMI Certification
1 2 (3.92%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (19.61%) QA
2 4 (7.84%) GDPR
3 1 (1.96%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.96%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (5.88%) ISA Server
2 1 (1.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.96%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 51 (100.00%) Adobe
2 6 (11.76%) Google
3 5 (9.80%) Salesforce
3 5 (9.80%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 5 (9.80%) Sitecore
4 3 (5.88%) Splunk
5 2 (3.92%) Ahrefs
5 2 (3.92%) Marketo
5 2 (3.92%) Screaming Frog
6 1 (1.96%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.96%) Optimizely