Content Management Contract Job Trends in England

Content Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Content Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 435 364 424
Rank change year-on-year -71 +60 +100
Contract jobs citing Content Management 102 148 160
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.33% 0.48% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.55% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 99 95
10th Percentile £278 £254 £225
25th Percentile £326 £343 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £598
90th Percentile £600 £633 £700
UK median daily rate £423 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -11.05% -2.56% -9.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 11
10th Percentile £21.65 £19.60 £11.83
25th Percentile £28.25 £20.13 £17.31
Median hourly rate £40.00 £21.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +90.48% -19.23% -
75th Percentile £44.88 £22.88 £31.88
90th Percentile £62.05 £24.01 £32.50
UK median hourly rate £35.75 £21.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +70.24% -19.23% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Content Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 27,380 27,022 34,479
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.64% 87.64% 88.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,423 16,566 23,536
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -4.42% -0.14%
75th Percentile £625 £649 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,778 979 1,450
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.22 £14.64
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.24 £19.15
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.85%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £43.63
% change year-on-year -23.79% -24.36% +24.64%

Content Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Content Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Content Management job vacancy trend in England

Content Management
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Content Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Content Management

Content Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Content Management in England over the 6 months to 30 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Content Management in England

Content Management
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Content Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Content Management

Content Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Content Management in England over the 6 months to 30 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Content Management in England

Content Management
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 Content Management within the England region over the 6 months to 30 November 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 -50 42 £411 -15.64% 13
South East +11 24 £585 +95.00% 24
North of England -49 17 £355 -27.18% 4
North West -27 10 £337 -48.23% 2
East of England -15 5 £245 -18.33% 1
Yorkshire -29 5 - - 2
South West +6 3 £170 -7.10% 2
Midlands -29 3 £308 -39.26% 10
East Midlands -17 2 - - 3
North East - 2 £450 -
West Midlands -21 1 £308 -44.09% 6
Content Management
UK

Content Management
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 65 (63.73%) CMS
2 27 (26.47%) SharePoint
3 10 (9.80%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 10 (9.80%) Exchange Server 2003
3 10 (9.80%) Exchange Server 2007
3 10 (9.80%) Exchange Server 2010
3 10 (9.80%) Exchange Server 2013
3 10 (9.80%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (9.80%) Office Communications Server
3 10 (9.80%) SharePoint Server
3 10 (9.80%) Skype for Business
4 8 (7.84%) WordPress
5 5 (4.90%) Confluence
6 4 (3.92%) Umbraco
7 3 (2.94%) Alfresco
7 3 (2.94%) Documentum
8 2 (1.96%) Drupal
8 2 (1.96%) Headless CMS
8 2 (1.96%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.98%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 13 (12.75%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (6.86%) Sketch
3 4 (3.92%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (2.94%) InVision
4 3 (2.94%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.98%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.98%) FrameMaker
6 1 (0.98%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 1 (0.98%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 10 (9.80%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (7.84%) Power Platform
3 7 (6.86%) Figma
3 7 (6.86%) Power Automate
4 6 (5.88%) AWS
4 6 (5.88%) PowerApps
5 5 (4.90%) Azure
5 5 (4.90%) Google Analytics
6 3 (2.94%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 2 (1.96%) Akamai
7 2 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.96%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (1.96%) Contentful
7 2 (1.96%) Contentsquare
7 2 (1.96%) Contentstack
7 2 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.96%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.96%) prismic.io
7 2 (1.96%) SaaS
7 2 (1.96%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.80%) DDNS
1 10 (9.80%) DHCP
1 10 (9.80%) DNS
1 10 (9.80%) SAN
1 10 (9.80%) VPN
2 3 (2.94%) Intranet
2 3 (2.94%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.78%) Metadata
2 4 (3.92%) Power BI
3 2 (1.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.98%) GIS
4 1 (0.98%) MySQL
4 1 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.98%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.98%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (12.75%) JIRA
2 4 (3.92%) GitLab
3 1 (0.98%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.98%) Git
3 1 (0.98%) Postman
General
1 42 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 26 (25.49%) Marketing
3 19 (18.63%) Finance
4 14 (13.73%) Public Sector
5 12 (11.76%) Publishing
6 8 (7.84%) Retail
7 7 (6.86%) Banking
8 5 (4.90%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (3.92%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (3.92%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.94%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.96%) Agriculture
11 2 (1.96%) Brand Awareness
11 2 (1.96%) Law
11 2 (1.96%) Legal
11 2 (1.96%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.96%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (11.76%) Developer
2 11 (10.78%) Analyst
3 10 (9.80%) Designer
3 10 (9.80%) Exchange Engineer
3 10 (9.80%) Exchange Support
3 10 (9.80%) Support Engineer
4 8 (7.84%) Content Designer
5 7 (6.86%) Information Manager
6 5 (4.90%) Business Analyst
6 5 (4.90%) Knowledge Manager
7 4 (3.92%) CMS Specialist
7 4 (3.92%) Consultant
7 4 (3.92%) Senior
7 4 (3.92%) UX Designer
8 3 (2.94%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 3 (2.94%) 3rd Line Support
8 3 (2.94%) Administrator
8 3 (2.94%) Project Manager
8 3 (2.94%) Service Analyst
8 3 (2.94%) Technical Writer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.78%) HTML
2 5 (4.90%) CSS
3 3 (2.94%) .NET
4 2 (1.96%) Django
4 2 (1.96%) REST
4 2 (1.96%) RESTful
4 2 (1.96%) Vue
5 1 (0.98%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.98%) CSS3
5 1 (0.98%) Entity Framework
5 1 (0.98%) Gherkin
5 1 (0.98%) HTML5
5 1 (0.98%) HTML5 Canvas
5 1 (0.98%) Laravel
5 1 (0.98%) Node.js
5 1 (0.98%) OSGi
5 1 (0.98%) Playwright
5 1 (0.98%) pytest
5 1 (0.98%) React
5 1 (0.98%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.80%) Replication
1 10 (9.80%) Taxonomies
2 9 (8.82%) Management Information System
3 8 (7.84%) Product Ownership
4 7 (6.86%) Onboarding
5 6 (5.88%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.94%) Social Media
6 3 (2.94%) Video Editing
7 2 (1.96%) Acoustics
7 2 (1.96%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.96%) Blog
7 2 (1.96%) Educational Technology
7 2 (1.96%) EMV
7 2 (1.96%) Freedom of Information
7 2 (1.96%) Java Card
7 2 (1.96%) Life Science
7 2 (1.96%) NHS
8 1 (0.98%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.98%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 13 (12.75%) Windows
2 10 (9.80%) Windows Server 2003
3 4 (3.92%) Linux
4 2 (1.96%) Android
4 2 (1.96%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.98%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (23.53%) Agile
2 22 (21.57%) User Experience
3 16 (15.69%) Analytics
3 16 (15.69%) Migration
4 14 (13.73%) Business Intelligence
4 14 (13.73%) Stakeholder Management
5 12 (11.76%) Digital Marketing
5 12 (11.76%) Enterprise Content Management
5 12 (11.76%) Information Architecture
5 12 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 11 (10.78%) Project Management
6 11 (10.78%) SEO
7 10 (9.80%) Architectural Design
7 10 (9.80%) Enterprise Search
7 10 (9.80%) High Availability
7 10 (9.80%) ITIL
7 10 (9.80%) User Stories
8 9 (8.82%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (7.84%) CRM
9 8 (7.84%) Records Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (5.88%) Java
1 6 (5.88%) JavaScript
2 3 (2.94%) C#
2 3 (2.94%) Python
3 2 (1.96%) PHP
3 2 (1.96%) PowerShell
3 2 (1.96%) Ruby
3 2 (1.96%) Rust
4 1 (0.98%) Bash
4 1 (0.98%) SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (28.43%) Security Cleared
2 15 (14.71%) SC Cleared
3 14 (13.73%) DV Cleared
4 10 (9.80%) Degree
5 4 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.94%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.96%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.98%) ISEB
8 1 (0.98%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.98%) MBA
8 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.98%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (15.69%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.94%) GDPR
2 3 (2.94%) QA
2 3 (2.94%) WCAG
3 2 (1.96%) PMO
System Software
1 11 (10.78%) Active Directory
2 10 (9.80%) Brightmail
2 10 (9.80%) ISA Server
3 1 (0.98%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (9.80%) Microsoft Clustering
2 5 (4.90%) Terraform
3 2 (1.96%) Ansible
3 2 (1.96%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.98%) Bitnami
4 1 (0.98%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 30 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 14 (13.73%) Adobe
3 6 (5.88%) Google
4 4 (3.92%) Hopewiser
5 3 (2.94%) OpenText
6 2 (1.96%) HubSpot
6 2 (1.96%) Oracle
6 2 (1.96%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.98%) Brio
7 1 (0.98%) Facebook
7 1 (0.98%) Hotjar
7 1 (0.98%) Planview
7 1 (0.98%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.98%) SAP