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 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 521 393 408
Rank change year-on-year -128 +15 +7
Contract jobs citing Content Management 110 126 125
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.24% 0.46% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.50% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 81 92
10th Percentile £283 £200 £260
25th Percentile £393 £358 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +1.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £591 £600 £576
90th Percentile £680 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £451
% change year-on-year - +10.99% -5.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 10 3
10th Percentile £19.43 £13.25 £21.50
25th Percentile £21.69 £18.06 £22.25
Median hourly rate £23.16 £31.78 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.11% +35.21% +18.18%
75th Percentile £32.88 £38.06 £28.25
90th Percentile £55.54 £46.83 £31.10
UK median hourly rate £23.16 £31.78 £23.50
% change year-on-year -27.11% +35.21% +18.18%

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 38,969 25,067 28,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.95% 90.85% 85.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,148 15,970 18,420
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £754
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,571 1,462 1,558
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.21 £14.05
25th Percentile £19.03 £17.87 £18.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% +2.41%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.92 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +66.68% -37.90% -2.41%

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 22 August 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 22 August 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 22 August 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 -61 77 £550 +10.00% 79
North of England -69 11 £473 -5.50% 15
South East -93 8 £465 -16.22% 16
North West -48 7 £470 +31.28% 6
South West -37 6 £325 +90.88% 6
Yorkshire -39 4 £475 +15.39% 9
East Midlands -18 2 £350 -30.00% 5
East of England -25 2 £538 +119.39% 10
Midlands -54 2 £350 -30.00% 8
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 59 (53.64%) CMS
2 29 (26.36%) SharePoint
3 15 (13.64%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 14 (12.73%) Sitecore CMS
5 7 (6.36%) Drupal
6 5 (4.55%) WordPress
7 4 (3.64%) Umbraco
8 2 (1.82%) Confluence
8 2 (1.82%) Headless CMS
8 2 (1.82%) Liferay
8 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.91%) Apache
9 1 (0.91%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (5.45%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.82%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.82%) Notion
3 2 (1.82%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.91%) FrameMaker
4 1 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (5.45%) Shopify
2 5 (4.55%) Magento
3 4 (3.64%) SAP CRM
4 3 (2.73%) Adobe Campaign
5 2 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (1.82%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 14 (12.73%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (10.91%) Google Analytics
2 12 (10.91%) Power Platform
3 9 (8.18%) Adobe Analytics
3 9 (8.18%) Microsoft Purview
3 9 (8.18%) OneDrive
4 8 (7.27%) Power Automate
4 8 (7.27%) PowerApps
5 5 (4.55%) Azure
5 5 (4.55%) Microsoft Copilot
5 5 (4.55%) ShareGate
6 4 (3.64%) SaaS
6 4 (3.64%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 4 (3.64%) Siteimprove
7 3 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.82%) AWS
8 2 (1.82%) Canva
8 2 (1.82%) Contentstack
8 2 (1.82%) Figma
8 2 (1.82%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.36%) Intranet
2 2 (1.82%) SMTP
3 1 (0.91%) Broadband
3 1 (0.91%) Firewall
3 1 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (12.73%) Metadata
2 5 (4.55%) EDRMS
3 4 (3.64%) Power BI
4 3 (2.73%) Tableau
5 1 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.91%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.91%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.91%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (10.00%) JIRA
2 4 (3.64%) Visual Website Optimizer
3 2 (1.82%) TestRail
4 1 (0.91%) Capybara
4 1 (0.91%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.91%) Git
4 1 (0.91%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.91%) minitest
4 1 (0.91%) RSpec
4 1 (0.91%) Selenium
4 1 (0.91%) Storybook
4 1 (0.91%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.91%) Vite
4 1 (0.91%) webpack
General
1 48 (43.64%) Social Skills
2 42 (38.18%) Marketing
3 16 (14.55%) Finance
3 16 (14.55%) Publishing
4 14 (12.73%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (8.18%) Organisational Skills
5 9 (8.18%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.55%) Retail
7 4 (3.64%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.73%) Banking
8 3 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.73%) Local Government
9 2 (1.82%) Legal
10 1 (0.91%) Advertising
10 1 (0.91%) Back Office
10 1 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.91%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.91%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.91%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (11.82%) Architect
2 12 (10.91%) Consultant
3 10 (9.09%) Enterprise Consultant
3 10 (9.09%) Enterprise Management Consultant
3 10 (9.09%) Management Consultant
4 9 (8.18%) Analyst
5 7 (6.36%) Designer
5 7 (6.36%) Developer
5 7 (6.36%) Project Manager
6 6 (5.45%) Programme Manager
6 6 (5.45%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (4.55%) Content Designer
7 5 (4.55%) Digital Programme Manager
7 5 (4.55%) Engineering Manager
8 4 (3.64%) Development Manager
8 4 (3.64%) Digital Development Manager
8 4 (3.64%) SharePoint Engineer
8 4 (3.64%) Software Development Manager
8 4 (3.64%) Software Development Programme Manager
8 4 (3.64%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (15.45%) CSS
2 13 (11.82%) HTML
3 6 (5.45%) React
4 4 (3.64%) .NET
4 4 (3.64%) ASP.NET
4 4 (3.64%) ASP.NET Core
4 4 (3.64%) JSON
4 4 (3.64%) SPFx
5 3 (2.73%) RESTful
6 2 (1.82%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.82%) REST
7 1 (0.91%) CSS3
7 1 (0.91%) Flutter
7 1 (0.91%) Jest
7 1 (0.91%) Keycloak
7 1 (0.91%) Playwright
7 1 (0.91%) React Native
7 1 (0.91%) Redux
7 1 (0.91%) Sass
7 1 (0.91%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.36%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.55%) Social Media
2 5 (4.55%) Taxonomies
3 4 (3.64%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (3.64%) Marketing Technology
4 3 (2.73%) Educational Technology
4 3 (2.73%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.73%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.82%) AI Agents
5 2 (1.82%) Low-Code
5 2 (1.82%) NHS
5 2 (1.82%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.91%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.91%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (0.91%) Digital Signage
6 1 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.91%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.73%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.82%) Android
3 1 (0.91%) Linux
3 1 (0.91%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.91%) Unix
3 1 (0.91%) Windows
3 1 (0.91%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (27.27%) Agile
2 25 (22.73%) Project Management
3 23 (20.91%) Roadmaps
3 23 (20.91%) User Experience
4 22 (20.00%) Analytics
5 21 (19.09%) Stakeholder Management
6 20 (18.18%) Digital Marketing
7 18 (16.36%) Enterprise Content Management
8 16 (14.55%) Migration
9 14 (12.73%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (11.82%) AI
10 13 (11.82%) CRM
11 12 (10.91%) Personalization
12 10 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 10 (9.09%) Validation
13 9 (8.18%) Customer Experience
13 9 (8.18%) Scrum
13 9 (8.18%) SEO
14 8 (7.27%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 13 (11.82%) JavaScript
2 6 (5.45%) TypeScript
3 5 (4.55%) C#
3 5 (4.55%) SQL
4 4 (3.64%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.73%) Java
6 1 (0.91%) Bash
6 1 (0.91%) Google Apps Script
6 1 (0.91%) Python
6 1 (0.91%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 13 (11.82%) SC Cleared
1 13 (11.82%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.64%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (3.64%) Degree
2 4 (3.64%) PMP
3 2 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.91%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.91%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.91%) MBA
4 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.91%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.82%) QA
2 12 (10.91%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 5 (4.55%) WCAG
4 4 (3.64%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (2.73%) GDPR
6 2 (1.82%) PMO
7 1 (0.91%) GRC
7 1 (0.91%) ITGC
7 1 (0.91%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (0.91%) Docker
1 1 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.91%) AirWatch
1 1 (0.91%) Grafana
1 1 (0.91%) Kibana
1 1 (0.91%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.91%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 30 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 22 (20.00%) Adobe
3 14 (12.73%) Sitecore
4 13 (11.82%) Google
5 12 (10.91%) Optimizely
6 11 (10.00%) Laserfiche
7 10 (9.09%) OpenText
8 8 (7.27%) Amplitude
8 8 (7.27%) Tealium
9 6 (5.45%) SAP
10 4 (3.64%) Braze
11 3 (2.73%) Atlassian
12 2 (1.82%) Clearswift
12 2 (1.82%) Databricks
12 2 (1.82%) Oracle
12 2 (1.82%) Proofpoint
12 2 (1.82%) Salesforce
13 1 (0.91%) Hootsuite
13 1 (0.91%) HubSpot
13 1 (0.91%) ServiceNow