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 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 527 459 498
Rank change year-on-year -68 +39 +95
Contract jobs citing Adobe Experience Manager 58 18 52
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.074% 0.14%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.58% 0.64% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 11 34
10th Percentile £283 £203 £300
25th Percentile £347 £298 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £515 £469
Median % change year-on-year -11.41% +9.87% -12.59%
75th Percentile £575 £705 £627
90th Percentile £613 £800 £700
UK median daily rate £456 £495 £525
% change year-on-year -7.83% -5.71% -2.10%
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 3,679 2,813 3,484
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.64% 11.60% 9.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,585 1,880 2,470
10th Percentile £309 £270 £231
25th Percentile £406 £400 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £693 £745 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 66 147
10th Percentile £15.45 £17.00 £13.40
25th Percentile £18.63 £25.08 £15.46
Median hourly rate £28.30 £52.75 £27.52
Median % change year-on-year -46.36% +91.71% +22.29%
75th Percentile £74.20 £64.88 £45.00
90th Percentile £82.10 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £47.50 £28.50
% change year-on-year -25.26% +66.66% +25.94%

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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -45 37 £473 -9.57% 5
South East -45 8 £263 -64.53% 1
East Midlands - 7 £600 -
Midlands - 7 £600 -
North of England -66 4 £450 +25.70% 2
North West -39 3 £450 +25.70% 2
South West - 2 - -
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 (29.31%) CMS
2 4 (6.90%) Headless CMS
2 4 (6.90%) Sitecore CMS
2 4 (6.90%) Umbraco
2 4 (6.90%) WordPress
3 1 (1.72%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Autodesk Smoke
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (1.72%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 6 (10.34%) AWS
2 4 (6.90%) Azure
2 4 (6.90%) Contentful
2 4 (6.90%) Kontent
2 4 (6.90%) SAP Commerce Cloud
3 3 (5.17%) Adobe Analytics
3 3 (5.17%) Amazon S3
3 3 (5.17%) AWS Step Functions
3 3 (5.17%) Figma
3 3 (5.17%) Serverless
4 2 (3.45%) Contentsquare
4 2 (3.45%) Google Analytics
5 1 (1.72%) Adobe Creative Cloud
5 1 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.72%) GitHub
5 1 (1.72%) SaaS
5 1 (1.72%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.17%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.90%) MySQL
2 3 (5.17%) DynamoDB
2 3 (5.17%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 8 (13.79%) JIRA
2 4 (6.90%) Git
2 4 (6.90%) Maven
3 3 (5.17%) Jasmine
3 3 (5.17%) Selenium
3 3 (5.17%) WebDriver
4 2 (3.45%) Cucumber
4 2 (3.45%) Postman
4 2 (3.45%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.72%) JUnit
5 1 (1.72%) TestNG
General
1 26 (44.83%) Social Skills
2 17 (29.31%) Marketing
3 13 (22.41%) Finance
4 12 (20.69%) Retail
5 7 (12.07%) Publishing
6 6 (10.34%) Banking
7 5 (8.62%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (5.17%) Investment Banking
9 3 (5.17%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.72%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 15 (25.86%) Developer
2 9 (15.52%) Architect
3 7 (12.07%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 7 (12.07%) Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (6.90%) Analyst
4 4 (6.90%) Business Analyst
4 4 (6.90%) C# Developer
4 4 (6.90%) CMS Developer
4 4 (6.90%) CMS Specialist
4 4 (6.90%) Delivery Manager
4 4 (6.90%) Full-Stack C# Developer
4 4 (6.90%) Project Manager
4 4 (6.90%) React Developer
4 4 (6.90%) Service Delivery Manager
4 4 (6.90%) Service Manager
5 3 (5.17%) CRM Specialist
5 3 (5.17%) Marketing Specialist
6 2 (3.45%) Backend Developer
6 2 (3.45%) Digital Executive
6 2 (3.45%) E-Commerce Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (39.66%) CSS
1 23 (39.66%) HTML
2 21 (36.21%) AngularJS
3 15 (25.86%) RESTful
4 14 (24.14%) React
5 8 (13.79%) OSGi
6 7 (12.07%) J2EE
6 7 (12.07%) Sass
6 7 (12.07%) Spring
6 7 (12.07%) Spring MVC
7 6 (10.34%) CSS3
7 6 (10.34%) HTML5
8 5 (8.62%) JSR 170
9 4 (6.90%) .NET Framework
9 4 (6.90%) ASP.NET
9 4 (6.90%) ASP.NET MVC
9 4 (6.90%) Bootstrap
9 4 (6.90%) jQuery
9 4 (6.90%) REST
9 4 (6.90%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.07%) Product Ownership
2 5 (8.62%) Mobile App
3 3 (5.17%) Onboarding
3 3 (5.17%) Taxonomies
4 2 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.45%) Life Science
4 2 (3.45%) Marketing Technology
4 2 (3.45%) PMI
5 1 (1.72%) FMCG
5 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.90%) Linux
1 4 (6.90%) Unix
1 4 (6.90%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (34.48%) Agile
1 20 (34.48%) User Experience
2 16 (27.59%) Analytics
3 11 (18.97%) DevOps
3 11 (18.97%) MVC
4 9 (15.52%) Content Management
4 9 (15.52%) E-Commerce
4 9 (15.52%) Migration
4 9 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (15.52%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (13.79%) CRM
5 8 (13.79%) Full-Stack Development
5 8 (13.79%) Roadmaps
6 7 (12.07%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 7 (12.07%) Front End Development
6 7 (12.07%) Personalization
6 7 (12.07%) Root Cause Analysis
7 6 (10.34%) TDD
7 6 (10.34%) Test Automation
7 6 (10.34%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (32.76%) Java
1 19 (32.76%) JavaScript
2 7 (12.07%) SQL
3 4 (6.90%) C#
4 3 (5.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (6.90%) Degree
2 3 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (5.17%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.45%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.72%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (22.41%) QA
2 6 (10.34%) GDPR
3 4 (6.90%) SLA
4 1 (1.72%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (5.17%) Docker
1 3 (5.17%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 3 (5.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 54 (93.10%) Adobe
2 4 (6.90%) Salesforce
2 4 (6.90%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
2 4 (6.90%) Sitecore
3 3 (5.17%) Google
3 3 (5.17%) Splunk
4 2 (3.45%) SAP
5 1 (1.72%) Ahrefs
5 1 (1.72%) Databricks
5 1 (1.72%) Marketo
5 1 (1.72%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.72%) Optimizely
5 1 (1.72%) Screaming Frog