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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 377 378 436
Rank change year-on-year +1 +58 +40
Contract jobs citing Content Management 108 165 225
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.44% 0.44% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.51% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 108 150
10th Percentile £200 £210 £313
25th Percentile £413 £359 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.58% -1.33% +5.00%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £624
90th Percentile £650 £738 £712
UK median daily rate £508 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +1.50% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 10
10th Percentile £21.45 £19.31 £16.77
25th Percentile £24.76 £24.50 £21.25
Median hourly rate £29.80 £29.50 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year +1.02% +29.67% -52.55%
75th Percentile £32.05 £32.30 £30.00
90th Percentile - £32.75 £43.03
UK median hourly rate £29.80 £29.50 £22.75
% change year-on-year +1.02% +29.67% -52.55%

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 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 1 May 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 77 £525 - 189
South East +49 14 £508 +12.78% 87
North of England +4 11 £358 -25.61% 65
North West +16 9 £358 -28.40% 34
South West +42 4 £177 -52.93% 40
Midlands +7 1 £200 -64.91% 55
West Midlands +2 1 £200 -61.90% 29
North East 0 1 £350 -46.15% 7
Yorkshire -6 1 £538 +90.27% 25
Content Management
UK

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 55 (50.93%) CMS
2 23 (21.30%) SharePoint
3 9 (8.33%) Drupal
4 5 (4.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 5 (4.63%) Headless CMS
4 5 (4.63%) SharePoint 2010
5 4 (3.70%) IIS
5 4 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (2.78%) Exchange Server 2003
6 3 (2.78%) Exchange Server 2007
6 3 (2.78%) Exchange Server 2010
6 3 (2.78%) Exchange Server 2013
6 3 (2.78%) Office Communications Server
6 3 (2.78%) SharePoint Server
6 3 (2.78%) Skype for Business
6 3 (2.78%) WordPress
7 2 (1.85%) Documentum
7 2 (1.85%) Sitecore CMS
7 2 (1.85%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.93%) JBoss
Applications
1 13 (12.04%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (4.63%) InfoPath
3 4 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (3.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (3.70%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (2.78%) Adobe Illustrator
4 3 (2.78%) Photoshop
5 2 (1.85%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (1.85%) Trello
6 1 (0.93%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.93%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.93%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.93%) MadCap Flare
6 1 (0.93%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.93%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 24 (22.22%) Azure
2 14 (12.96%) Power Platform
3 13 (12.04%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (7.41%) AWS
5 8 (7.41%) ShareGate
6 7 (6.48%) Figma
6 7 (6.48%) Google Workspace
7 6 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (5.56%) Entra ID
8 5 (4.63%) Power Automate
8 5 (4.63%) PowerApps
9 4 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (3.70%) OneDrive
10 3 (2.78%) Contentful
10 3 (2.78%) Contentstack
10 3 (2.78%) GCP
10 3 (2.78%) prismic.io
10 3 (2.78%) SaaS
10 3 (2.78%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.48%) Firewall
1 7 (6.48%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (4.63%) Intranet
2 5 (4.63%) VLAN
3 3 (2.78%) DDNS
3 3 (2.78%) DHCP
3 3 (2.78%) DNS
3 3 (2.78%) SAN
3 3 (2.78%) VPN
4 1 (0.93%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (0.93%) IP Telephony
4 1 (0.93%) Softphone
4 1 (0.93%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.93%) VoIP
4 1 (0.93%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.33%) Power BI
2 4 (3.70%) Metadata
2 4 (3.70%) Relational Database
2 4 (3.70%) Snowflake Schema
2 4 (3.70%) Tableau
2 4 (3.70%) Tableau Server
3 2 (1.85%) BusinessObjects
3 2 (1.85%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
3 2 (1.85%) GIS
3 2 (1.85%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.85%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.85%) Power Query
4 1 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.93%) Looker
4 1 (0.93%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.93%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (3.70%) Git
2 3 (2.78%) JIRA
3 1 (0.93%) GitLab
3 1 (0.93%) Hudson
3 1 (0.93%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.93%) Postman
3 1 (0.93%) Subversion
General
1 43 (39.81%) Social Skills
2 18 (16.67%) Marketing
3 13 (12.04%) Public Sector
4 12 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (9.26%) Back Office
5 10 (9.26%) Finance
6 9 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (4.63%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (3.70%) Manufacturing
9 4 (3.70%) Publishing
10 3 (2.78%) Banking
10 3 (2.78%) Legal
10 3 (2.78%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.85%) Billing
11 2 (1.85%) Electronics
11 2 (1.85%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.85%) International Banking
11 2 (1.85%) Local Government
11 2 (1.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (14.81%) Developer
1 16 (14.81%) Lead
2 11 (10.19%) Architect
2 11 (10.19%) Project Manager
3 10 (9.26%) Designer
3 10 (9.26%) Technical Leader
4 8 (7.41%) Senior
5 7 (6.48%) Analyst
5 7 (6.48%) Content Designer
6 5 (4.63%) IT Support
7 4 (3.70%) Communications Manager
7 4 (3.70%) Junior
8 3 (2.78%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 3 (2.78%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 3 (2.78%) CMS Developer
8 3 (2.78%) Coordinator
8 3 (2.78%) Enterprise Architect
8 3 (2.78%) Exchange Engineer
8 3 (2.78%) IT Manager
8 3 (2.78%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (14.81%) .NET
2 9 (8.33%) CSS
2 9 (8.33%) HTML
3 3 (2.78%) Bootstrap
3 3 (2.78%) jQuery
3 3 (2.78%) REST
4 2 (1.85%) CSS3
4 2 (1.85%) HTML5
4 2 (1.85%) RESTful
5 1 (0.93%) Ajax
5 1 (0.93%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.93%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (0.93%) JAX-WS
5 1 (0.93%) JSON
5 1 (0.93%) JWT
5 1 (0.93%) Next.js
5 1 (0.93%) Node.js
5 1 (0.93%) React
5 1 (0.93%) Spring MVC
5 1 (0.93%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.19%) Management Information System
1 11 (10.19%) Product Ownership
2 7 (6.48%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (4.63%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.70%) Life Science
4 4 (3.70%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.70%) Taxonomies
5 3 (2.78%) Acoustics
5 3 (2.78%) Digital Media
5 3 (2.78%) Learning Management System
5 3 (2.78%) Replication
5 3 (2.78%) Social Media
6 2 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.85%) Graphic Design
6 2 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.85%) Photography
6 2 (1.85%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.93%) Animation
7 1 (0.93%) Media Streaming
7 1 (0.93%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 18 (16.67%) Windows
2 4 (3.70%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.78%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (1.85%) Linux
5 1 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.93%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (33.33%) Agile
2 31 (28.70%) User Experience
3 23 (21.30%) Migration
4 17 (15.74%) Project Management
5 14 (12.96%) Business Intelligence
5 14 (12.96%) Stakeholder Management
6 13 (12.04%) DevOps
7 12 (11.11%) Analytics
7 12 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (11.11%) SEO
8 11 (10.19%) Change Management
8 11 (10.19%) Clean Code
8 11 (10.19%) TDD
8 11 (10.19%) UX Design
9 10 (9.26%) Database Optimisation
9 10 (9.26%) OO
9 10 (9.26%) OOD
9 10 (9.26%) Scrum
10 9 (8.33%) Enterprise Content Management
10 9 (8.33%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 19 (17.59%) JavaScript
2 17 (15.74%) PowerShell
3 15 (13.89%) C#
4 13 (12.04%) Java
4 13 (12.04%) SQL
5 2 (1.85%) PHP
6 1 (0.93%) Rust
6 1 (0.93%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (11.11%) Degree
2 11 (10.19%) Security Cleared
3 6 (5.56%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.78%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.85%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.93%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.93%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.33%) Accessibility
2 7 (6.48%) PCI DSS
3 3 (2.78%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.85%) QA
5 1 (0.93%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (3.70%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.78%) Brightmail
2 3 (2.78%) ISA Server
3 1 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (2.78%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (0.93%) Ansible
2 1 (0.93%) FortiGate
2 1 (0.93%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.93%) OfficeScan
2 1 (0.93%) Terraform
2 1 (0.93%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 32 (29.63%) Microsoft
2 14 (12.96%) Google
3 12 (11.11%) Adobe
4 4 (3.70%) Databricks
4 4 (3.70%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.70%) SAP
5 2 (1.85%) Oracle
5 2 (1.85%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.85%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.93%) Altiris
6 1 (0.93%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.93%) Barracuda Networks
6 1 (0.93%) Cisco
6 1 (0.93%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.93%) Hyland
6 1 (0.93%) IBM
6 1 (0.93%) Mitel
6 1 (0.93%) NetApp
6 1 (0.93%) OpenText
6 1 (0.93%) Symantec