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 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 426 365 408
Rank change year-on-year -61 +43 +101
Contract jobs citing Content Management 113 148 167
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.37% 0.48% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.55% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 100 102
10th Percentile £300 £255 £260
25th Percentile £329 £321 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £475 £481
Median % change year-on-year -4.32% -1.30% -12.50%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £594
90th Percentile £600 £631 £699
UK median daily rate £424 £466 £475
% change year-on-year -9.12% -1.84% -11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 11
10th Percentile £14.83 - £11.83
25th Percentile £23.19 - £17.31
Median hourly rate £35.75 £21.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +70.24% -19.23% -
75th Percentile £43.94 - £31.88
90th Percentile £58.23 - £32.50
UK median hourly rate £31.50 £21.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +50.00% -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 27,490 26,978 34,630
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.21% 86.87% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,441 16,489 23,672
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,813 961 1,464
10th Percentile £14.87 £15.10 £14.51
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.03% -17.78% +26.90%
75th Percentile £48.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.62 £74.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.95
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.36% +25.57%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -69 47 £419 -11.84% 42
South East +16 25 £585 +67.14% 28
North of England -48 17 £355 -27.18% 11
North West -29 9 £360 -44.62% 8
Midlands -21 7 £500 -1.23% 7
East of England -24 6 £245 -18.33% 4
Yorkshire -34 6 £286 -39.83% 3
East Midlands -15 4 £500 +8.99% 2
South West -3 3 £170 -7.10% 3
West Midlands -30 3 £450 -18.18% 5
North East - 2 £450 -
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 68 (60.18%) CMS
2 31 (27.43%) SharePoint
3 11 (9.73%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 10 (8.85%) Exchange Server 2003
4 10 (8.85%) Exchange Server 2007
4 10 (8.85%) Exchange Server 2010
4 10 (8.85%) Exchange Server 2013
4 10 (8.85%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (8.85%) Office Communications Server
4 10 (8.85%) SharePoint Server
4 10 (8.85%) Skype for Business
5 8 (7.08%) WordPress
6 5 (4.42%) Confluence
6 5 (4.42%) Umbraco
7 3 (2.65%) Alfresco
7 3 (2.65%) Documentum
8 2 (1.77%) Drupal
8 2 (1.77%) Headless CMS
8 2 (1.77%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.88%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 13 (11.50%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (6.19%) Sketch
3 5 (4.42%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (2.65%) InVision
4 3 (2.65%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (1.77%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.88%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.88%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.88%) FrameMaker
6 1 (0.88%) InDesign
6 1 (0.88%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.77%) Sprinklr
2 1 (0.88%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 12 (10.62%) Power Platform
2 10 (8.85%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (7.96%) Power Automate
4 7 (6.19%) AWS
4 7 (6.19%) Figma
5 6 (5.31%) Google Analytics
5 6 (5.31%) PowerApps
5 6 (5.31%) SaaS
6 5 (4.42%) Azure
7 3 (2.65%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 3 (2.65%) Contentsquare
7 3 (2.65%) GitHub
7 3 (2.65%) Serverless
8 2 (1.77%) Akamai
8 2 (1.77%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.77%) Contentful
8 2 (1.77%) Contentstack
8 2 (1.77%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.77%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.77%) prismic.io
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.85%) DDNS
1 10 (8.85%) DHCP
1 10 (8.85%) DNS
1 10 (8.85%) SAN
1 10 (8.85%) VPN
2 3 (2.65%) Intranet
2 3 (2.65%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (13.27%) Metadata
2 8 (7.08%) Power BI
3 2 (1.77%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.88%) GIS
4 1 (0.88%) MySQL
4 1 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.88%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (11.50%) JIRA
2 6 (5.31%) GitLab
3 2 (1.77%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.77%) Git
3 2 (1.77%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.88%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.88%) Dreamweaver
4 1 (0.88%) Postman
General
1 44 (38.94%) Social Skills
2 29 (25.66%) Marketing
3 18 (15.93%) Finance
4 15 (13.27%) Public Sector
5 13 (11.50%) Publishing
6 9 (7.96%) Retail
7 7 (6.19%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (6.19%) Banking
8 4 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.54%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (3.54%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (3.54%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.65%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.65%) Legal
10 2 (1.77%) Agriculture
10 2 (1.77%) Brand Awareness
10 2 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.77%) Law
10 2 (1.77%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.77%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (12.39%) Developer
2 13 (11.50%) Analyst
3 10 (8.85%) Designer
3 10 (8.85%) Exchange Engineer
3 10 (8.85%) Exchange Support
3 10 (8.85%) Support Engineer
4 8 (7.08%) Content Designer
5 7 (6.19%) Information Manager
6 6 (5.31%) Business Analyst
6 6 (5.31%) Consultant
7 5 (4.42%) Knowledge Manager
8 4 (3.54%) Architect
8 4 (3.54%) CMS Specialist
8 4 (3.54%) Lead
8 4 (3.54%) Project Manager
8 4 (3.54%) Senior
8 4 (3.54%) UX Designer
9 3 (2.65%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 3 (2.65%) 3rd Line Support
9 3 (2.65%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (12.39%) HTML
2 9 (7.96%) CSS
3 5 (4.42%) .NET
4 4 (3.54%) REST
5 2 (1.77%) Django
5 2 (1.77%) jQuery
5 2 (1.77%) RESTful
5 2 (1.77%) SPFx
5 2 (1.77%) Vue
6 1 (0.88%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.88%) CSS3
6 1 (0.88%) Flash
6 1 (0.88%) JSR 170
6 1 (0.88%) OSGi
6 1 (0.88%) Playwright
6 1 (0.88%) pytest
6 1 (0.88%) React
6 1 (0.88%) Spring
6 1 (0.88%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.85%) Management Information System
1 10 (8.85%) Replication
1 10 (8.85%) Taxonomies
2 8 (7.08%) Product Ownership
3 7 (6.19%) Onboarding
4 6 (5.31%) Mobile App
4 6 (5.31%) Social Media
5 3 (2.65%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.65%) Blog
5 3 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.77%) Acoustics
6 2 (1.77%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.77%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.77%) Educational Technology
6 2 (1.77%) EMV
6 2 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.77%) Freedom of Information
6 2 (1.77%) Java Card
6 2 (1.77%) Life Science
6 2 (1.77%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 13 (11.50%) Windows
2 10 (8.85%) Windows Server 2003
3 4 (3.54%) Linux
4 3 (2.65%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.77%) Android
5 2 (1.77%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (22.12%) Agile
1 25 (22.12%) User Experience
2 20 (17.70%) Migration
3 19 (16.81%) Analytics
4 18 (15.93%) Business Intelligence
4 18 (15.93%) Stakeholder Management
5 14 (12.39%) Digital Marketing
5 14 (12.39%) Enterprise Content Management
6 13 (11.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 12 (10.62%) SEO
8 11 (9.73%) Information Architecture
8 11 (9.73%) ITIL
8 11 (9.73%) Project Management
9 10 (8.85%) Architectural Design
9 10 (8.85%) CRM
9 10 (8.85%) Enterprise Search
9 10 (8.85%) High Availability
9 10 (8.85%) User Stories
10 8 (7.08%) Data Governance
10 8 (7.08%) Records Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (8.85%) JavaScript
2 6 (5.31%) Java
2 6 (5.31%) PowerShell
3 5 (4.42%) C#
3 5 (4.42%) Python
4 3 (2.65%) SQL
5 2 (1.77%) PHP
5 2 (1.77%) Ruby
5 2 (1.77%) Rust
6 1 (0.88%) Bash
Qualifications
1 30 (26.55%) Security Cleared
2 16 (14.16%) DV Cleared
3 14 (12.39%) SC Cleared
4 11 (9.73%) Degree
5 5 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.65%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.77%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.88%) ISEB
8 1 (0.88%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.88%) MBA
8 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.88%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (14.16%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.65%) GDPR
2 3 (2.65%) QA
2 3 (2.65%) WCAG
3 2 (1.77%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.88%) PMO
System Software
1 13 (11.50%) Active Directory
2 10 (8.85%) Brightmail
2 10 (8.85%) ISA Server
3 1 (0.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (8.85%) Microsoft Clustering
2 5 (4.42%) Terraform
3 2 (1.77%) Ansible
3 2 (1.77%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.88%) Bitnami
4 1 (0.88%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 31 (27.43%) Microsoft
2 16 (14.16%) Adobe
3 9 (7.96%) Google
4 5 (4.42%) OpenText
5 4 (3.54%) Hopewiser
6 3 (2.65%) Facebook
6 3 (2.65%) SAP
7 2 (1.77%) Hotjar
7 2 (1.77%) HubSpot
7 2 (1.77%) Instagram
7 2 (1.77%) Nintex
7 2 (1.77%) Oracle
7 2 (1.77%) Sitecore
7 2 (1.77%) YouTube
8 1 (0.88%) Avaya
8 1 (0.88%) Brio
8 1 (0.88%) Genesys
8 1 (0.88%) IBM
8 1 (0.88%) Planview
8 1 (0.88%) Salesforce