Content Management Contracts in England

Content Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Content Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Content Management over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 381 416 425
Rank change year-on-year +35 +9 +79
Contract jobs citing Content Management 114 143 219
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.43% 0.38% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.45% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 96 153
10th Percentile £201 £203 £300
25th Percentile £356 £325 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% +2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £719 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £453 £485
% change year-on-year +10.31% -6.55% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 6
10th Percentile £13.25 £17.48 £16.77
25th Percentile £18.06 £21.00 £18.33
Median hourly rate £30.65 £23.50 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.43% -11.32% -8.62%
75th Percentile £32.20 £31.71 £30.00
90th Percentile £40.75 £32.48 £50.13
UK median hourly rate £30.65 £23.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year +30.43% -11.32% -3.64%

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 23,975 31,937 42,799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.99% 85.52% 89.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,423 20,731 29,966
10th Percentile £300 £306 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,196 2,302 1,555
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.85 £16.06 £16.62
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +45.12%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.60 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £75.94
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £37.42
% change year-on-year -32.93% +0.21% +43.92%

Content Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Content Management in England

Content Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Content Management in England

Content Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Content Management in England over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Content Management in England

Content Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Content Management in England

Content Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Content Management in England over the 6 months to 4 July 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 4 July 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 +13 64 £523 +1.36% 428
South East +55 24 £508 +35.33% 98
North of England -7 11 £500 - 96
Midlands +7 7 £450 +3.81% 55
North West -3 6 £429 -32.71% 53
East of England +26 5 £245 - 36
West Midlands +8 5 £300 -30.80% 29
North East +4 3 £575 -11.54% 6
Yorkshire -5 2 £412 +45.72% 38
East Midlands - 2 £500 - 23
South West +30 1 £170 -54.67% 43
Content Management
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Content Management
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 54 (47.37%) CMS
2 33 (28.95%) SharePoint
3 7 (6.14%) Exchange Server 2003
3 7 (6.14%) Exchange Server 2007
3 7 (6.14%) Exchange Server 2010
3 7 (6.14%) Exchange Server 2013
3 7 (6.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (6.14%) Office Communications Server
3 7 (6.14%) SharePoint Server
3 7 (6.14%) Skype for Business
4 6 (5.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (4.39%) Documentum
5 5 (4.39%) SharePoint 2010
6 4 (3.51%) Drupal
6 4 (3.51%) FileNet
6 4 (3.51%) Headless CMS
6 4 (3.51%) IIS
7 3 (2.63%) Umbraco
8 2 (1.75%) WordPress
9 1 (0.88%) WebSphere
Applications
1 16 (14.04%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (5.26%) Photoshop
3 5 (4.39%) InfoPath
3 5 (4.39%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (2.63%) Adobe Illustrator
4 3 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (2.63%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (1.75%) Trello
6 1 (0.88%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.88%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.88%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.88%) InDesign
6 1 (0.88%) MadCap Flare
6 1 (0.88%) Sketch
6 1 (0.88%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.75%) Sprinklr
2 1 (0.88%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.88%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 16 (14.04%) Power Platform
2 13 (11.40%) Azure
3 12 (10.53%) AWS
4 10 (8.77%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (7.02%) Power Automate
5 8 (7.02%) SaaS
6 7 (6.14%) Google Workspace
6 7 (6.14%) Serverless
6 7 (6.14%) ShareGate
7 5 (4.39%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (4.39%) Entra ID
7 5 (4.39%) Figma
7 5 (4.39%) PowerApps
8 4 (3.51%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (3.51%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (3.51%) GCP
8 4 (3.51%) Google Analytics
9 3 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.63%) OneDrive
9 3 (2.63%) prismic.io
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.14%) DDNS
1 7 (6.14%) DHCP
1 7 (6.14%) DNS
1 7 (6.14%) SAN
1 7 (6.14%) VPN
2 6 (5.26%) Firewall
2 6 (5.26%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (4.39%) VLAN
4 2 (1.75%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.53%) Metadata
2 11 (9.65%) Power BI
3 3 (2.63%) GIS
3 3 (2.63%) Tableau
4 2 (1.75%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.75%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (1.75%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.75%) Tableau Server
5 1 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.88%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.88%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 7 (6.14%) JIRA
2 6 (5.26%) GitLab
3 4 (3.51%) Git
4 2 (1.75%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.75%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.88%) Dreamweaver
5 1 (0.88%) Hudson
5 1 (0.88%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.88%) Subversion
General
1 42 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 24 (21.05%) Marketing
3 15 (13.16%) Public Sector
4 12 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (7.89%) Finance
6 7 (6.14%) Publishing
7 6 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (4.39%) Legal
8 5 (4.39%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (3.51%) Retail
10 3 (2.63%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.75%) Banking
11 2 (1.75%) Billing
11 2 (1.75%) Brand Awareness
11 2 (1.75%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.75%) International Banking
11 2 (1.75%) Local Government
11 2 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 18 (15.79%) Developer
2 11 (9.65%) Architect
2 11 (9.65%) Project Manager
3 10 (8.77%) Lead
4 7 (6.14%) Analyst
4 7 (6.14%) Exchange Engineer
4 7 (6.14%) Exchange Support
4 7 (6.14%) Senior
4 7 (6.14%) Support Engineer
5 6 (5.26%) Designer
6 5 (4.39%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 5 (4.39%) 3rd Line Support
6 5 (4.39%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 5 (4.39%) Content Designer
6 5 (4.39%) IT Support
7 4 (3.51%) Communications Manager
7 4 (3.51%) Consultant
7 4 (3.51%) Documentum Developer
7 4 (3.51%) Information Manager
7 4 (3.51%) SharePoint Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.53%) HTML
2 10 (8.77%) CSS
3 7 (6.14%) .NET
4 4 (3.51%) jQuery
4 4 (3.51%) REST
5 3 (2.63%) RESTful
6 2 (1.75%) CSS3
6 2 (1.75%) HTML5
6 2 (1.75%) SPFx
7 1 (0.88%) ADO
7 1 (0.88%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.88%) Bootstrap
7 1 (0.88%) Entity Framework
7 1 (0.88%) HTML5 Canvas
7 1 (0.88%) JAX-WS
7 1 (0.88%) JWT
7 1 (0.88%) Next.js
7 1 (0.88%) Node.js
7 1 (0.88%) React
7 1 (0.88%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.53%) Management Information System
2 8 (7.02%) Product Ownership
2 8 (7.02%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (6.14%) Replication
4 6 (5.26%) Mobile App
4 6 (5.26%) Onboarding
4 6 (5.26%) Social Media
4 6 (5.26%) Taxonomies
5 4 (3.51%) Learning Management System
5 4 (3.51%) Life Science
6 3 (2.63%) Acoustics
7 2 (1.75%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.75%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.75%) Marketing Technology
7 2 (1.75%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.88%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.88%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 20 (17.54%) Windows
2 7 (6.14%) Windows Server 2003
3 6 (5.26%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.51%) Linux
4 4 (3.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (27.19%) User Experience
2 26 (22.81%) Agile
3 25 (21.93%) Migration
4 23 (20.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 19 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
6 16 (14.04%) Enterprise Content Management
7 14 (12.28%) Analytics
7 14 (12.28%) Project Management
7 14 (12.28%) SEO
8 13 (11.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 12 (10.53%) Change Management
10 11 (9.65%) ITIL
11 10 (8.77%) Digital Marketing
12 9 (7.89%) CRM
12 9 (7.89%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (7.89%) Roadmaps
13 8 (7.02%) Architectural Design
13 8 (7.02%) Project Delivery
13 8 (7.02%) Workflow
14 7 (6.14%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (8.77%) JavaScript
1 10 (8.77%) PowerShell
2 7 (6.14%) C#
3 6 (5.26%) Java
4 4 (3.51%) Rust
4 4 (3.51%) SQL
5 2 (1.75%) Python
6 1 (0.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (17.54%) Security Cleared
2 11 (9.65%) DV Cleared
3 10 (8.77%) Degree
4 8 (7.02%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.63%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.75%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.88%) MBA
7 1 (0.88%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.77%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.51%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.63%) QA
4 2 (1.75%) GDPR
5 1 (0.88%) GxP
5 1 (0.88%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.88%) PMO
System Software
1 9 (7.89%) Active Directory
2 7 (6.14%) Brightmail
2 7 (6.14%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 7 (6.14%) Microsoft Clustering
2 4 (3.51%) Ansible
2 4 (3.51%) Terraform
3 2 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (21.93%) Microsoft
2 18 (15.79%) Google
3 14 (12.28%) Adobe
4 6 (5.26%) Salesforce
5 5 (4.39%) SAP
6 4 (3.51%) Databricks
6 4 (3.51%) OpenText
6 4 (3.51%) Oracle
7 3 (2.63%) Facebook
8 2 (1.75%) Hotjar
8 2 (1.75%) IBM
8 2 (1.75%) Instagram
8 2 (1.75%) Nintex
8 2 (1.75%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.75%) Twitter
8 2 (1.75%) YouTube
9 1 (0.88%) Cvent
9 1 (0.88%) Hyland
9 1 (0.88%) Planview
9 1 (0.88%) Sitecore