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 6 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 497 371 379
Rank change year-on-year -126 +8 +89
Contract jobs citing Content Management 77 117 171
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.21% 0.46% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.51% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 76 96
10th Percentile £289 £239 £198
25th Percentile £308 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £469 £515
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% -8.98% -6.36%
75th Percentile £550 £531 £594
90th Percentile £638 £604 £700
UK median daily rate £413 £461 £500
% change year-on-year -10.57% -7.75% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 10
10th Percentile £26.68 £20.35 £16.93
25th Percentile £32.19 £22.01 £18.63
Median hourly rate £39.25 £24.76 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +58.52% -12.35% +25.56%
75th Percentile £53.50 £27.28 £32.30
90th Percentile £72.40 £28.79 £32.50
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £24.76 £28.25
% change year-on-year +43.38% -12.35% +25.56%

All Process & 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 31,620 23,110 32,887
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.89% 90.44% 87.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,216 14,677 21,786
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £617 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,956 785 2,096
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £13.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.24 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.60 £35.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.43% +2.94% -4.23%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £59.11
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.15 £71.90
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year -13.85% -1.52% -5.71%

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 6 March 2026.

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 6 March 2026.

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 6 March 2026. 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 -73 50 £400 -16.61% 26
South East -42 10 £525 +61.54% 15
North of England -69 7 £502 +18.18% 14
North West -31 4 £455 +6.94% 6
South West -25 3 £415 +126.78% 6
Yorkshire -58 2 - - 6
North East -13 1 £550 +57.14% 2
East of England -29 1 £750 +150.00% 8
West Midlands -50 1 £308 +53.75% 3
Midlands -57 1 £308 -7.17% 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 45 (58.44%) CMS
2 16 (20.78%) SharePoint
3 9 (11.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 8 (10.39%) Confluence
5 6 (7.79%) WordPress
6 3 (3.90%) Drupal
7 2 (2.60%) Headless CMS
7 2 (2.60%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (1.30%) IIS
8 1 (1.30%) Kentico
8 1 (1.30%) SharePoint 2010
8 1 (1.30%) Sitefinity
8 1 (1.30%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (3.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.30%) InfoPath
3 1 (1.30%) Photoshop
3 1 (1.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.30%) SAP AFS
1 1 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (12.99%) Power Platform
2 7 (9.09%) Power Automate
2 7 (9.09%) PowerApps
3 6 (7.79%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (5.19%) Figma
5 3 (3.90%) Azure
6 2 (2.60%) Adobe Creative Cloud
6 2 (2.60%) Akamai
6 2 (2.60%) AWS
6 2 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.60%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (2.60%) Canva
6 2 (2.60%) Contentful
6 2 (2.60%) Contentstack
6 2 (2.60%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.60%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.60%) Google Analytics
6 2 (2.60%) Google Docs
6 2 (2.60%) SaaS
6 2 (2.60%) Viva Engage
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.90%) Intranet
1 3 (3.90%) SMS
2 1 (1.30%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.79%) Power BI
2 4 (5.19%) Metadata
3 2 (2.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.30%) Looker
4 1 (1.30%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (11.69%) JIRA
2 2 (2.60%) GitLab
3 1 (1.30%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.30%) Git
3 1 (1.30%) Postman
General
1 30 (38.96%) Social Skills
2 25 (32.47%) Marketing
3 13 (16.88%) Publishing
4 11 (14.29%) Finance
4 11 (14.29%) Retail
5 8 (10.39%) Public Sector
6 6 (7.79%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (7.79%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (6.49%) Banking
8 4 (5.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (3.90%) Investment Banking
9 3 (3.90%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (2.60%) German Language
10 2 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (2.60%) Law
10 2 (2.60%) Legal
10 2 (2.60%) Local Government
10 2 (2.60%) Retail Banking
11 1 (1.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (14.29%) Analyst
2 8 (10.39%) Content Designer
2 8 (10.39%) Designer
3 6 (7.79%) Developer
4 4 (5.19%) Administrator
4 4 (5.19%) Architect
4 4 (5.19%) Change Manager
4 4 (5.19%) CMS Specialist
4 4 (5.19%) Product Analyst
4 4 (5.19%) Technical Writer
5 3 (3.90%) Business Analyst
5 3 (3.90%) Lead
5 3 (3.90%) Senior
5 3 (3.90%) Service Analyst
5 3 (3.90%) Strategy Manager
6 2 (2.60%) 1st Line Support Analyst
6 2 (2.60%) Documentation Writer
6 2 (2.60%) Ruby Developer
6 2 (2.60%) Senior Designer
6 2 (2.60%) Web Content Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (16.88%) HTML
2 7 (9.09%) CSS
3 4 (5.19%) AngularJS
3 4 (5.19%) React
4 3 (3.90%) .NET
5 2 (2.60%) CSS3
5 2 (2.60%) HTML5
5 2 (2.60%) JSR 170
5 2 (2.60%) OSGi
5 2 (2.60%) RESTful
5 2 (2.60%) Vue
6 1 (1.30%) Django
6 1 (1.30%) Gherkin
6 1 (1.30%) Node.js
6 1 (1.30%) Playwright
6 1 (1.30%) pytest
6 1 (1.30%) Tailwind CSS
6 1 (1.30%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.79%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.19%) Management Information System
2 4 (5.19%) Mobile App
2 4 (5.19%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (3.90%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.90%) Marketing Technology
3 3 (3.90%) NHS
3 3 (3.90%) Taxonomies
4 2 (2.60%) Acoustics
4 2 (2.60%) AI Agents
4 2 (2.60%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.60%) Digital Media
4 2 (2.60%) EMV
4 2 (2.60%) FMCG
4 2 (2.60%) Graphic Design
4 2 (2.60%) Java Card
4 2 (2.60%) PMI
4 2 (2.60%) Video Editing
5 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.30%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.90%) Windows
2 2 (2.60%) Android
2 2 (2.60%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.60%) Linux
3 1 (1.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (28.57%) Agile
2 15 (19.48%) User Experience
3 14 (18.18%) Analytics
4 12 (15.58%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 11 (14.29%) Migration
5 11 (14.29%) Project Management
5 11 (14.29%) User Stories
6 10 (12.99%) Content Strategy
7 9 (11.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 8 (10.39%) Digital Marketing
8 8 (10.39%) Roadmaps
9 7 (9.09%) Change Management
9 7 (9.09%) Computer Science
9 7 (9.09%) CRM
10 6 (7.79%) AI
10 6 (7.79%) Business Intelligence
10 6 (7.79%) DevOps
10 6 (7.79%) User Research
11 5 (6.49%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 7 (9.09%) JavaScript
2 4 (5.19%) Java
3 3 (3.90%) C#
3 3 (3.90%) TypeScript
4 2 (2.60%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.60%) Python
4 2 (2.60%) Ruby
4 2 (2.60%) SQL
5 1 (1.30%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 11 (14.29%) Degree
2 10 (12.99%) Security Cleared
3 8 (10.39%) SC Cleared
4 5 (6.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.60%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.60%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.30%) ISEB
6 1 (1.30%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.30%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (16.88%) Accessibility
2 6 (7.79%) WCAG
3 2 (2.60%) QA
4 1 (1.30%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (1.30%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.60%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.60%) Terraform
2 1 (1.30%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 16 (20.78%) Microsoft
2 13 (16.88%) Adobe
3 5 (6.49%) Google
4 2 (2.60%) OpenText
4 2 (2.60%) SAP
4 2 (2.60%) Sitecore
5 1 (1.30%) Hotjar
5 1 (1.30%) HubSpot
5 1 (1.30%) IBM
5 1 (1.30%) Optimizely
5 1 (1.30%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.30%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.30%) Zoho