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 5 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 556 475 483
Rank change year-on-year -81 +8 +76
Contract jobs citing Adobe Experience Manager 52 17 62
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.12% 0.064% 0.17%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.32% 0.56% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 11 44
10th Percentile £375 £263 £300
25th Percentile £384 £345 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.60% -13.04% +8.49%
75th Percentile £497 £564 £700
90th Percentile £550 £650 £715
UK median daily rate £449 £488 £550
% change year-on-year -8.00% -11.36% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81.74 - -
Median hourly rate £83.48 - £55.00
75th Percentile £85.22 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £83.48 - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - -18.92%

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 3,928 3,014 3,841
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 8.91% 11.37% 10.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,615 1,992 2,755
10th Percentile £313 £290 £263
25th Percentile £405 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £645
90th Percentile £675 £738 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 73 139
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.33 £13.50
25th Percentile £19.03 £26.45 £16.88
Median hourly rate £32.50 £50.00 £32.12
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% +55.69% -33.78%
75th Percentile £62.50 £70.00 £51.91
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.75 £70.80
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £51.25 £32.12
% change year-on-year -31.71% +59.58% -38.83%

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 5 July 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 5 July 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 -55 33 £416 -22.70% 13
South East -50 7 £463 -37.50% 2
North of England -68 7 £470 +9.56% 4
Yorkshire - 4 £466 - 2
North West -41 3 £475 +10.72% 2
East Midlands - 3 £424 - 2
Midlands - 3 £424 - 4
South West - 2 - -
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 15 (28.85%) CMS
2 1 (1.92%) Confluence
2 1 (1.92%) Headless CMS
2 1 (1.92%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.92%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.92%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 7 (13.46%) Adobe Campaign
2 3 (5.77%) Workfront
3 1 (1.92%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 5 (9.62%) Adobe Analytics
2 4 (7.69%) AWS
3 3 (5.77%) Azure
4 2 (3.85%) Contentsquare
4 2 (3.85%) Figma
4 2 (3.85%) SAP Commerce Cloud
5 1 (1.92%) Adobe Creative Cloud
5 1 (1.92%) GitHub
5 1 (1.92%) SaaS
5 1 (1.92%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.85%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.69%) MySQL
2 2 (3.85%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 6 (11.54%) Maven
2 3 (5.77%) Git
2 3 (5.77%) JIRA
3 2 (3.85%) Jenkins
General
1 33 (63.46%) Social Skills
2 30 (57.69%) Marketing
3 15 (28.85%) Retail
4 13 (25.00%) Finance
5 5 (9.62%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (5.77%) Banking
7 3 (5.77%) Dutch Language
7 3 (5.77%) French Language
7 3 (5.77%) German Language
7 3 (5.77%) Italian Language
7 3 (5.77%) Spanish Language
8 2 (3.85%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (3.85%) Investment Banking
8 2 (3.85%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.92%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.92%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.92%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.92%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 11 (21.15%) Project Manager
2 10 (19.23%) Architect
3 7 (13.46%) CRM Specialist
4 6 (11.54%) Developer
4 6 (11.54%) Digital Project Manager
5 5 (9.62%) Braze Specialist
5 5 (9.62%) Campaign Specialist
6 4 (7.69%) Delivery Manager
6 4 (7.69%) Digital Marketing Manager
6 4 (7.69%) Marketing Manager
6 4 (7.69%) Marketing Project Manager
6 4 (7.69%) Service Delivery Manager
6 4 (7.69%) Service Manager
7 3 (5.77%) Field Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Product Owner
8 2 (3.85%) Digital Product Owner
8 2 (3.85%) Lead
8 2 (3.85%) Marketing Specialist
8 2 (3.85%) Quality Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (23.08%) CSS
2 9 (17.31%) OSGi
3 8 (15.38%) AngularJS
3 8 (15.38%) HTML
4 7 (13.46%) J2EE
5 5 (9.62%) REST
5 5 (9.62%) RESTful
6 4 (7.69%) Bootstrap
6 4 (7.69%) jQuery
6 4 (7.69%) Sass
6 4 (7.69%) Spring
6 4 (7.69%) Spring MVC
6 4 (7.69%) Web Services
7 3 (5.77%) React
8 2 (3.85%) JSR 170
8 2 (3.85%) Vue
9 1 (1.92%) .NET
9 1 (1.92%) Apache Sling
9 1 (1.92%) CSS3
9 1 (1.92%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.54%) Onboarding
1 6 (11.54%) Product Ownership
2 5 (9.62%) Marketing Technology
3 3 (5.77%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.85%) Life Science
4 2 (3.85%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.92%) FMCG
5 1 (1.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.69%) Linux
1 4 (7.69%) Unix
1 4 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (38.46%) Agile
2 14 (26.92%) Analytics
3 11 (21.15%) Migration
3 11 (21.15%) Roadmaps
3 11 (21.15%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (19.23%) Personalization
4 10 (19.23%) Workflow
5 9 (17.31%) CI/CD
5 9 (17.31%) CRM
5 9 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (15.38%) Project Management
6 8 (15.38%) User Experience
7 7 (13.46%) AI
7 7 (13.46%) Customer Experience
7 7 (13.46%) Data Privacy
7 7 (13.46%) Digital Marketing
7 7 (13.46%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 7 (13.46%) Marketing Automation
8 6 (11.54%) Change Management
8 6 (11.54%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 14 (26.92%) Java
2 7 (13.46%) JavaScript
3 3 (5.77%) SQL
4 1 (1.92%) C#
4 1 (1.92%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (5.77%) Degree
2 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.92%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (1.92%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (21.15%) QA
2 8 (15.38%) GDPR
3 5 (9.62%) PMO
4 4 (7.69%) SLA
5 3 (5.77%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (5.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (9.62%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 3 (5.77%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 48 (92.31%) Adobe
2 7 (13.46%) Braze
3 4 (7.69%) Salesforce
3 4 (7.69%) SAP
4 2 (3.85%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (1.92%) Ahrefs
5 1 (1.92%) Databricks
5 1 (1.92%) Google
5 1 (1.92%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.92%) Optimizely
5 1 (1.92%) Screaming Frog