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 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 500 462 520
Rank change year-on-year -38 +58 +92
Contract jobs citing Adobe Experience Manager 60 26 38
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.18% 0.099% 0.099%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.77% 0.87% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 10 24
10th Percentile £283 £192 £265
25th Percentile £363 £286 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £468 £469
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -0.27% -6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £528 £594
90th Percentile £625 £803 £693
UK median daily rate £460 £465 £488
% change year-on-year -1.08% -4.62% -2.50%

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 3,381 3,001 3,578
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.15% 11.46% 9.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,370 1,855 2,492
10th Percentile £300 £255 £225
25th Percentile £400 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
75th Percentile £594 £626 £600
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 56 158
10th Percentile £15.40 £16.88 £13.97
25th Percentile £17.50 £21.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.42 £42.50 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.20% +66.67% +15.91%
75th Percentile £69.44 £64.50 £48.36
90th Percentile £83.40 £66.00 £68.63
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £41.00 £27.14
% change year-on-year -38.66% +51.07% +29.70%

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 7 February 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 7 February 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 -7 42 £473 +0.53% 8
Midlands - 10 £563 - 1
East Midlands - 8 £600 - 1
North of England -58 4 £450 - 1
South East - 4 £263 - 2
North West -27 3 £450 - 1
West Midlands - 2 £463 -
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 18 (30.00%) CMS
2 5 (8.33%) Headless CMS
2 5 (8.33%) Sitecore CMS
2 5 (8.33%) Umbraco
3 4 (6.67%) SharePoint
3 4 (6.67%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Autodesk Smoke
2 1 (1.67%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (1.67%) Adobe Premiere
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.67%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (1.67%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 7 (11.67%) AWS
1 7 (11.67%) Azure
1 7 (11.67%) Figma
2 6 (10.00%) Adobe Analytics
3 5 (8.33%) Contentful
3 5 (8.33%) Kontent
4 3 (5.00%) Adobe Creative Cloud
4 3 (5.00%) Amazon S3
4 3 (5.00%) AWS Step Functions
4 3 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (5.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 3 (5.00%) Serverless
5 2 (3.33%) Contentsquare
5 2 (3.33%) GitHub
5 2 (3.33%) Google Analytics
6 1 (1.67%) Firebase
6 1 (1.67%) GCP
6 1 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.67%) SaaS
6 1 (1.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.67%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.00%) DynamoDB
2 2 (3.33%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 11 (18.33%) JIRA
2 8 (13.33%) Git
3 3 (5.00%) Jasmine
3 3 (5.00%) Selenium
3 3 (5.00%) WebDriver
4 2 (3.33%) Cucumber
4 2 (3.33%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.33%) Postman
4 2 (3.33%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.67%) GitLab
5 1 (1.67%) gulp
5 1 (1.67%) JUnit
5 1 (1.67%) Maven
5 1 (1.67%) TestNG
5 1 (1.67%) webpack
General
1 25 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 17 (28.33%) Marketing
3 10 (16.67%) Finance
4 8 (13.33%) Retail
5 7 (11.67%) Publishing
6 6 (10.00%) Banking
6 6 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (5.00%) Investment Banking
8 3 (5.00%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.67%) Advertising
9 1 (1.67%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 20 (33.33%) Developer
2 9 (15.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 8 (13.33%) Analyst
4 7 (11.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 5 (8.33%) Architect
5 5 (8.33%) C# Developer
5 5 (8.33%) CMS Developer
5 5 (8.33%) Full-Stack C# Developer
5 5 (8.33%) React Developer
6 4 (6.67%) Business Analyst
6 4 (6.67%) CMS Specialist
6 4 (6.67%) CRM Specialist
6 4 (6.67%) Marketing Specialist
7 3 (5.00%) Consultant
7 3 (5.00%) Test Analyst
8 2 (3.33%) E-Commerce Manager
8 2 (3.33%) Project Manager
8 2 (3.33%) QA Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Technical Consultant
8 2 (3.33%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (45.00%) HTML
2 22 (36.67%) CSS
3 21 (35.00%) AngularJS
4 19 (31.67%) React
5 15 (25.00%) RESTful
6 10 (16.67%) OSGi
7 9 (15.00%) HTML5
8 8 (13.33%) CSS3
9 5 (8.33%) .NET
9 5 (8.33%) .NET Framework
9 5 (8.33%) ASP.NET
9 5 (8.33%) ASP.NET MVC
9 5 (8.33%) GraphQL
10 4 (6.67%) JSR 170
11 3 (5.00%) J2EE
11 3 (5.00%) Jest
11 3 (5.00%) JSP
11 3 (5.00%) Lambda Expressions
11 3 (5.00%) Spring
11 3 (5.00%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.67%) Product Ownership
2 6 (10.00%) Mobile App
3 3 (5.00%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.33%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.33%) FMCG
4 2 (3.33%) PMI
4 2 (3.33%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.67%) Pricing Data
5 1 (1.67%) Replication
5 1 (1.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.67%) Android
1 1 (1.67%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (38.33%) User Experience
2 22 (36.67%) Analytics
3 21 (35.00%) Agile
4 12 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 12 (20.00%) Migration
5 11 (18.33%) DevOps
6 10 (16.67%) CRM
7 9 (15.00%) CI/CD
7 9 (15.00%) Content Management
8 8 (13.33%) MVC
8 8 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (13.33%) Workflow
9 7 (11.67%) Front End Development
9 7 (11.67%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (10.00%) Microservices
10 6 (10.00%) Roadmaps
10 6 (10.00%) SEO
10 6 (10.00%) TDD
10 6 (10.00%) Test Automation
10 6 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 20 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 16 (26.67%) Java
3 9 (15.00%) SQL
4 5 (8.33%) C#
5 4 (6.67%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.67%) Groovy
6 1 (1.67%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.67%) Python
6 1 (1.67%) Swift
Qualifications
1 3 (5.00%) Degree
1 3 (5.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (3.33%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (20.00%) QA
2 7 (11.67%) GDPR
3 1 (1.67%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (6.67%) Docker
2 3 (5.00%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 4 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 60 (100.00%) Adobe
2 5 (8.33%) Salesforce
2 5 (8.33%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
2 5 (8.33%) Sitecore
3 4 (6.67%) Google
4 3 (5.00%) Splunk
5 2 (3.33%) Ahrefs
5 2 (3.33%) Marketo
5 2 (3.33%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.33%) Screaming Frog
6 1 (1.67%) Databricks
6 1 (1.67%) Optimizely
6 1 (1.67%) SAP