CMS Contracts in England

Content Management System (CMS)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for CMS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited CMS over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 270 312 338
Rank change year-on-year +42 +26 -52
Contract jobs citing CMS 303 412 561
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.82% 0.82% 0.79%
As % of the Application Platforms category 8.83% 7.52% 6.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 311 414
10th Percentile £208 £263 £332
25th Percentile £280 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £546 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 10 7
10th Percentile £12.90 £16.77 £21.86
25th Percentile - £17.75 £26.38
Median hourly rate £13.00 £22.50 £36.58
Median % change year-on-year -42.22% -38.48% +72.12%
75th Percentile £31.71 £23.75 £39.75
90th Percentile £32.70 £35.50 £53.85
UK median hourly rate £13.00 £22.50 £36.58
% change year-on-year -42.22% -38.48% +84.91%

All Application Platform Skills
England

CMS is in the Application Platforms category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,433 5,476 8,907
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.29% 10.83% 12.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,453 3,934 6,115
10th Percentile £250 £261 £263
25th Percentile £358 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £755 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £520
% change year-on-year -1.96% -1.92% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 131 189
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.10 £13.97
25th Percentile £15.00 £18.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +54.76% -1.89%
75th Percentile £45.59 £66.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £80.25 £65.90
UK median hourly rate £27.52 £42.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -35.26% +93.18% -2.22%

CMS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing CMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for CMS in England

CMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CMS in England.

Daily rate trend for CMS in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CMS in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CMS in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CMS in England.

Hourly rate trend for CMS in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CMS in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for CMS in England

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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 CMS within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 +79 181 £425 -12.82% 84
North of England +23 31 £404 -5.00% 42
South West +30 29 £308 -20.65% 17
Midlands +21 23 £600 +52.87% 32
West Midlands +34 22 £600 +41.18% 13
North West +8 20 £388 -8.82% 25
South East -10 15 £491 +22.81% 40
East of England -20 15 £625 +18.71% 13
Yorkshire +18 10 £408 -6.32% 16
North East +20 1 £650 +20.93% 1
East Midlands +13 1 £410 +4.46% 19
CMS
UK

CMS
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 27 (8.91%) Drupal
2 22 (7.26%) Headless CMS
3 21 (6.93%) Sitecore CMS
4 20 (6.60%) Umbraco
5 16 (5.28%) SharePoint
6 13 (4.29%) WordPress
7 12 (3.96%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (1.32%) Confluence
9 4 (1.32%) EPiServer
9 4 (1.32%) Kentico
9 4 (1.32%) Skype for Business
10 3 (0.99%) Jadu
11 2 (0.66%) Apache
11 2 (0.66%) IIS
11 2 (0.66%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.33%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.33%) CoreMedia CMS
12 1 (0.33%) Joomla!
12 1 (0.33%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 25 (8.25%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (4.62%) MS Visio
2 14 (4.62%) Photoshop
3 11 (3.63%) Adobe Illustrator
4 6 (1.98%) PTC Creo
5 3 (0.99%) Acrobat
5 3 (0.99%) Windchill
6 2 (0.66%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.33%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.33%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (2.64%) Magento
2 4 (1.32%) SAP Hybris
3 3 (0.99%) Adobe Campaign
3 3 (0.99%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.66%) Shopify
4 2 (0.66%) Workfront
5 1 (0.33%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 38 (12.54%) Azure
2 25 (8.25%) Azure DevOps
3 20 (6.60%) AWS
4 15 (4.95%) Azure Pipelines
5 14 (4.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 14 (4.62%) Azure Service Bus
6 13 (4.29%) Azure Monitor
7 11 (3.63%) SaaS
7 11 (3.63%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 8 (2.64%) Contentful
8 8 (2.64%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (2.31%) GCP
10 6 (1.98%) Figma
11 4 (1.32%) Asana
11 4 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (1.32%) Contentstack
11 4 (1.32%) Google Analytics
11 4 (1.32%) PaaS
12 3 (0.99%) Adobe Analytics
12 3 (0.99%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.95%) Intranet
2 6 (1.98%) DNS
2 6 (1.98%) HTTP
2 6 (1.98%) SSL
3 5 (1.65%) Internet
4 4 (1.32%) Skype
4 4 (1.32%) VPN
5 3 (0.99%) FTP
5 3 (0.99%) SMTP
6 2 (0.66%) Firewall
7 1 (0.33%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.60%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.32%) DB2
3 2 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (0.66%) Looker
3 2 (0.66%) MySQL
3 2 (0.66%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.66%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.33%) Data Hub
4 1 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.33%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.33%) InterSystems Cache
4 1 (0.33%) Jackrabbit
4 1 (0.33%) MariaDB
4 1 (0.33%) Metadata
4 1 (0.33%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.33%) Redis
4 1 (0.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (9.24%) Git
2 24 (7.92%) JIRA
3 9 (2.97%) Selenium
4 6 (1.98%) webpack
5 5 (1.65%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.32%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.99%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.99%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.99%) Jasmine
7 3 (0.99%) SpecFlow
7 3 (0.99%) Subversion
7 3 (0.99%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.66%) gulp
8 2 (0.66%) HP UFT
8 2 (0.66%) LoadRunner
8 2 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.66%) WiX
9 1 (0.33%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.33%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.33%) WebDriver
General
1 88 (29.04%) Social Skills
2 45 (14.85%) Marketing
3 26 (8.58%) Public Sector
4 25 (8.25%) Publishing
5 23 (7.59%) Finance
6 17 (5.61%) Retail
7 15 (4.95%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (2.64%) Back Office
8 8 (2.64%) Banking
9 7 (2.31%) French Language
9 7 (2.31%) Legal
10 6 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.65%) German Language
11 5 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.65%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.65%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.32%) Local Government
13 3 (0.99%) Tech for Good
14 2 (0.66%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 81 (26.73%) Developer
2 40 (13.20%) Analyst
3 39 (12.87%) Senior
4 20 (6.60%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 18 (5.94%) Project Manager
6 17 (5.61%) Architect
6 17 (5.61%) Senior Developer
7 16 (5.28%) .NET Developer
7 16 (5.28%) Consultant
7 16 (5.28%) SOC Analyst
8 14 (4.62%) Applications Support
8 14 (4.62%) Applications Support Analyst
8 14 (4.62%) Full Stack Developer
8 14 (4.62%) Project Analyst
8 14 (4.62%) Project Support Analyst
8 14 (4.62%) Support Analyst
9 13 (4.29%) Designer
9 13 (4.29%) Digital Project Manager
9 13 (4.29%) Senior Analyst
9 13 (4.29%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (18.81%) HTML
2 51 (16.83%) CSS
3 41 (13.53%) .NET
3 41 (13.53%) React
4 19 (6.27%) .NET Core
5 18 (5.94%) ASP.NET
5 18 (5.94%) jQuery
6 14 (4.62%) AngularJS
7 13 (4.29%) ASP.NET MVC
8 10 (3.30%) GraphQL
8 10 (3.30%) Node.js
8 10 (3.30%) REST
9 9 (2.97%) Laravel
9 9 (2.97%) Next.js
10 8 (2.64%) Vue
11 7 (2.31%) Entity Framework
11 7 (2.31%) Sass
12 6 (1.98%) .NET Framework
12 6 (1.98%) HTML5
13 5 (1.65%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 17 (5.61%) Product Ownership
2 16 (5.28%) Cyberattack
3 15 (4.95%) Social Media
4 13 (4.29%) Security Operations Centre
5 11 (3.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 10 (3.30%) Management Information System
7 7 (2.31%) EPoS
7 7 (2.31%) Virtual Team
8 6 (1.98%) Mobile App
8 6 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.32%) Blackberry
9 4 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.32%) Handset
9 4 (1.32%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 3 (0.99%) Cloud Native
10 3 (0.99%) Graphic Design
10 3 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.99%) Life Science
10 3 (0.99%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.66%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.61%) Linux
1 17 (5.61%) Windows
2 4 (1.32%) VMS
3 2 (0.66%) Android
3 2 (0.66%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (29.70%) Content Management
2 71 (23.43%) Agile
3 56 (18.48%) User Experience
4 40 (13.20%) SEO
5 37 (12.21%) DevOps
5 37 (12.21%) E-Commerce
6 35 (11.55%) Project Management
7 32 (10.56%) Scrum
8 31 (10.23%) Analytics
9 28 (9.24%) Migration
10 26 (8.58%) MVC
11 25 (8.25%) Full Stack Development
11 25 (8.25%) Problem-Solving
12 24 (7.92%) Front End Development
13 21 (6.93%) Web Development
14 20 (6.60%) Cybersecurity
14 20 (6.60%) Roadmaps
14 20 (6.60%) Stakeholder Management
15 19 (6.27%) CRM
15 19 (6.27%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 50 (16.50%) JavaScript
2 32 (10.56%) C#
3 24 (7.92%) TypeScript
4 14 (4.62%) Bicep
5 13 (4.29%) SQL
6 11 (3.63%) Java
7 8 (2.64%) PHP
7 8 (2.64%) Python
8 4 (1.32%) COBOL
9 3 (0.99%) Perl
9 3 (0.99%) Ruby
9 3 (0.99%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.66%) Bash
10 2 (0.66%) REXX
10 2 (0.66%) SELCOPY
11 1 (0.33%) C++
11 1 (0.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 25 (8.25%) Security Cleared
2 14 (4.62%) Degree
3 5 (1.65%) SC Cleared
4 4 (1.32%) DBS Check
4 4 (1.32%) DV Cleared
4 4 (1.32%) Master's Degree
5 3 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (13.86%) Accessibility
2 28 (9.24%) QA
3 19 (6.27%) WCAG
4 7 (2.31%) PMO
5 4 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.99%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.66%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.66%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.33%) DICOM
8 1 (0.33%) GDPR
8 1 (0.33%) GxP
8 1 (0.33%) HL7
8 1 (0.33%) P3O
System Software
1 18 (5.94%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.66%) Time Sharing Option
3 1 (0.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.33%) Docker
3 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (1.32%) Terraform
2 3 (0.99%) Ansible
2 3 (0.99%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.99%) Opsgenie
3 1 (0.33%) AppManager
3 1 (0.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 58 (19.14%) Microsoft
2 21 (6.93%) Sitecore
3 20 (6.60%) Adobe
4 19 (6.27%) Splunk
5 16 (5.28%) Darktrace
5 16 (5.28%) FireEye
5 16 (5.28%) LogRhythm
6 13 (4.29%) Optimizely
7 10 (3.30%) Salesforce
8 8 (2.64%) Atlassian
8 8 (2.64%) Google
8 8 (2.64%) ServiceNow
9 7 (2.31%) SAP
10 5 (1.65%) Marketo
11 4 (1.32%) Becrypt
11 4 (1.32%) Citrix
11 4 (1.32%) Dynatrace
11 4 (1.32%) Hotjar
11 4 (1.32%) IBM
11 4 (1.32%) ICL