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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 493 484 533
Rank change year-on-year -9 +49 +130
Contract jobs citing Adobe Experience Manager 21 44 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.076% 0.14% 0.14%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.69% 1.26% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 30 25
10th Percentile £264 £316 £250
25th Percentile £375 £500 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £530
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +8.49% -11.67%
75th Percentile £552 £694 £738
90th Percentile £566 £716 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £564 £512
% change year-on-year -11.32% +10.23% -14.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £70.09
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £70.18
Median % change year-on-year - -21.62% +35.04%
75th Percentile - - £70.26
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £55.00 £70.18
% change year-on-year - -21.62% +35.04%

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 3,063 3,483 4,368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.12% 10.71% 10.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,031 2,342 2,991
10th Percentile £275 £280 £256
25th Percentile £390 £404 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £523
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.48% -0.48%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £850 £743
UK median daily rate £485 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.62% +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 79 147
10th Percentile £16.60 £17.08 £15.88
25th Percentile £25.75 £23.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £41.45 £47.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.74% +5.56% +109.30%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.55 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £38.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -3.95% -27.62% +138.64%

Adobe Experience Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Adobe Experience Manager as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Adobe Experience Manager 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +26 14 £540 +11.34% 14
East of England - 4 £303 -
Midlands -9 2 £463 -
West Midlands -9 2 £463 -
North West -18 1 £500 -13.34%
North of England -27 1 £500 -25.93%
Adobe Experience Manager
UK

Adobe Experience Manager
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (38.10%) CMS
2 4 (19.05%) SharePoint
3 3 (14.29%) Umbraco
4 1 (4.76%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Adobe After Effects
1 1 (4.76%) Adobe Premiere
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.76%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 4 (19.05%) Adobe Analytics
1 4 (19.05%) Azure
2 3 (14.29%) AWS
2 3 (14.29%) Contentsquare
2 3 (14.29%) Figma
2 3 (14.29%) Google Analytics
3 2 (9.52%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 2 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (9.52%) GCP
4 1 (4.76%) Anthropic Claude
4 1 (4.76%) ChatGPT
4 1 (4.76%) SaaS
4 1 (4.76%) Veeva
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) JIRA
2 3 (14.29%) Git
2 3 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.76%) Browser DevTools
General
1 9 (42.86%) Marketing
2 7 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Publishing
4 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Banking
4 2 (9.52%) Finance
5 1 (4.76%) Advertising
5 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (19.05%) Analyst
1 4 (19.05%) Architect
2 3 (14.29%) Consultant
2 3 (14.29%) Developer
2 3 (14.29%) Test Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) Product Manager
3 2 (9.52%) Test Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Business Consultant
4 1 (4.76%) Coordinator
4 1 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Lead
4 1 (4.76%) Lead Consultant
4 1 (4.76%) SEO Consultant
4 1 (4.76%) Technical Consultant
4 1 (4.76%) Veeva Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) HTML
1 3 (14.29%) OSGi
1 3 (14.29%) React
2 2 (9.52%) AngularJS
2 2 (9.52%) CSS
2 2 (9.52%) HTML5
3 1 (4.76%) CSS3
3 1 (4.76%) GraphQL
3 1 (4.76%) JSP
3 1 (4.76%) JSR 170
3 1 (4.76%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.52%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.76%) FMCG
3 1 (4.76%) Life Science
3 1 (4.76%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) Analytics
2 7 (33.33%) Migration
3 6 (28.57%) Content Management
3 6 (28.57%) Workflow
4 5 (23.81%) Digital Marketing
5 4 (19.05%) SEO
5 4 (19.05%) Validation
6 3 (14.29%) CI/CD
6 3 (14.29%) DevOps
6 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (9.52%) CRM
7 2 (9.52%) Customer Experience
7 2 (9.52%) Data Analytics
7 2 (9.52%) Document Management
7 2 (9.52%) Full-Stack Development
7 2 (9.52%) Mentoring
7 2 (9.52%) Personalization
7 2 (9.52%) Technical Leadership
7 2 (9.52%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (19.05%) Java
2 3 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 3 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (4.76%) Groovy
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) GxP
1 1 (4.76%) HIPAA
1 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (100.00%) Adobe
2 4 (19.05%) Google
3 2 (9.52%) Virgin Media
4 1 (4.76%) Ahrefs
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.76%) OpenAI
4 1 (4.76%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.76%) Screaming Frog