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

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 385 402 432
Rank change year-on-year +17 +30 +53
Contract jobs citing Content Management 95 136 226
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.40% 0.37% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.43% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 91 155
10th Percentile £213 £200 £313
25th Percentile £400 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £575 £591 £610
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £503 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.83% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 7
10th Percentile £13.25 £17.64 £16.77
25th Percentile £17.39 £21.41 £19.89
Median hourly rate £30.93 £27.61 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.03% -7.98% -37.43%
75th Percentile £32.05 £32.03 £35.00
90th Percentile £39.78 £32.61 £52.11
UK median hourly rate £30.93 £27.61 £30.00
% change year-on-year +12.03% -7.98% -37.43%

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 21,762 31,336 43,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.29% 86.24% 90.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,222 20,550 30,257
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £412 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £768
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 920 2,253 1,528
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.88 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.95 £16.13
Median hourly rate £28.08 £36.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -2.67% +50.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.05 £37.00
% change year-on-year -23.71% -2.58% +44.08%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 +36 62 £518 +0.29% 186
South East +56 16 £508 +35.33% 270
North of England +6 11 £500 +17.65% 239
North West +8 6 £500 - 115
Midlands +11 3 £200 -60.14% 181
West Midlands +6 3 £200 -60.14% 96
North East +2 3 £575 -11.54% 29
Yorkshire +4 2 £412 +91.47% 96
South West +31 1 £170 -54.67% 112
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 53 (55.79%) CMS
2 21 (22.11%) SharePoint
3 7 (7.37%) Drupal
4 6 (6.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (5.26%) Headless CMS
5 5 (5.26%) SharePoint 2010
6 4 (4.21%) Documentum
6 4 (4.21%) IIS
7 3 (3.16%) Exchange Server 2003
7 3 (3.16%) Exchange Server 2007
7 3 (3.16%) Exchange Server 2010
7 3 (3.16%) Exchange Server 2013
7 3 (3.16%) FileNet
7 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (3.16%) Office Communications Server
7 3 (3.16%) SharePoint Server
7 3 (3.16%) Skype for Business
7 3 (3.16%) WordPress
8 2 (2.11%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (1.05%) Umbraco
Applications
1 13 (13.68%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (6.32%) Photoshop
3 5 (5.26%) InfoPath
4 4 (4.21%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (3.16%) Adobe Illustrator
5 3 (3.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (2.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (2.11%) Trello
7 1 (1.05%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (1.05%) Adobe XD
7 1 (1.05%) Chatbot
7 1 (1.05%) MadCap Flare
7 1 (1.05%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (1.05%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 13 (13.68%) Azure
1 13 (13.68%) Power Platform
2 10 (10.53%) AWS
3 8 (8.42%) Figma
4 7 (7.37%) Google Workspace
4 7 (7.37%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (7.37%) ShareGate
5 5 (5.26%) Entra ID
5 5 (5.26%) Power Automate
5 5 (5.26%) PowerApps
5 5 (5.26%) Serverless
6 4 (4.21%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (4.21%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (4.21%) SaaS
7 3 (3.16%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (3.16%) GCP
7 3 (3.16%) Google Analytics
7 3 (3.16%) OneDrive
7 3 (3.16%) prismic.io
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.32%) Firewall
1 6 (6.32%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (5.26%) VLAN
3 3 (3.16%) DDNS
3 3 (3.16%) DHCP
3 3 (3.16%) DNS
3 3 (3.16%) SAN
3 3 (3.16%) VPN
4 2 (2.11%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.42%) Power BI
2 7 (7.37%) Metadata
3 2 (2.11%) GIS
3 2 (2.11%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.11%) Power Query
3 2 (2.11%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.11%) Snowflake Schema
3 2 (2.11%) Tableau
3 2 (2.11%) Tableau Server
4 1 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.05%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.05%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (5.26%) JIRA
2 3 (3.16%) GitLab
3 2 (2.11%) Git
4 1 (1.05%) Hudson
4 1 (1.05%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.05%) Postman
4 1 (1.05%) Subversion
General
1 36 (37.89%) Social Skills
2 21 (22.11%) Marketing
3 12 (12.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (11.58%) Public Sector
5 9 (9.47%) Finance
6 6 (6.32%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (5.26%) Publishing
8 3 (3.16%) Legal
8 3 (3.16%) Manufacturing
8 3 (3.16%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (2.11%) Banking
9 2 (2.11%) Billing
9 2 (2.11%) Digital Health
9 2 (2.11%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.11%) International Banking
9 2 (2.11%) Retail
10 1 (1.05%) Brand Awareness
10 1 (1.05%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 16 (16.84%) Developer
2 11 (11.58%) Architect
3 9 (9.47%) Project Manager
4 8 (8.42%) Designer
4 8 (8.42%) Lead
5 5 (5.26%) Analyst
5 5 (5.26%) Content Designer
5 5 (5.26%) IT Support
5 5 (5.26%) Senior
6 4 (4.21%) Communications Manager
7 3 (3.16%) CMS Developer
7 3 (3.16%) Content Manager
7 3 (3.16%) Documentum Developer
7 3 (3.16%) Enterprise Architect
7 3 (3.16%) IT Manager
7 3 (3.16%) Junior
7 3 (3.16%) Junior Designer
7 3 (3.16%) Product Manager
7 3 (3.16%) Support Engineer
7 3 (3.16%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.53%) HTML
2 8 (8.42%) CSS
3 6 (6.32%) .NET
4 3 (3.16%) jQuery
4 3 (3.16%) REST
5 2 (2.11%) Bootstrap
5 2 (2.11%) CSS3
5 2 (2.11%) HTML5
5 2 (2.11%) RESTful
6 1 (1.05%) ADO
6 1 (1.05%) Ajax
6 1 (1.05%) ASP.NET
6 1 (1.05%) JAX-WS
6 1 (1.05%) JSON
6 1 (1.05%) JSP
6 1 (1.05%) Servlets
6 1 (1.05%) SOAP
6 1 (1.05%) Spring
6 1 (1.05%) Spring MVC
6 1 (1.05%) Struts
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.47%) Management Information System
2 8 (8.42%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (5.26%) Life Science
3 5 (5.26%) Mobile App
3 5 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.21%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.21%) Social Media
4 4 (4.21%) Taxonomies
5 3 (3.16%) Acoustics
5 3 (3.16%) Learning Management System
5 3 (3.16%) Replication
6 2 (2.11%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.11%) Digital Media
6 2 (2.11%) Graphic Design
6 2 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.11%) Photography
6 2 (2.11%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.05%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.05%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (1.05%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (16.84%) Windows
2 4 (4.21%) Windows Server
3 3 (3.16%) Linux
3 3 (3.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (3.16%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (31.58%) User Experience
2 24 (25.26%) Agile
3 20 (21.05%) Migration
4 18 (18.95%) Stakeholder Management
5 15 (15.79%) Analytics
6 14 (14.74%) SEO
7 12 (12.63%) Business Intelligence
7 12 (12.63%) Project Management
8 11 (11.58%) UX Design
9 10 (10.53%) Change Management
9 10 (10.53%) Enterprise Content Management
10 9 (9.47%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (9.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 8 (8.42%) Asset Management
11 8 (8.42%) Content Strategy
11 8 (8.42%) Project Delivery
11 8 (8.42%) Roadmaps
12 7 (7.37%) E-Commerce
12 7 (7.37%) Time Management
12 7 (7.37%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 9 (9.47%) JavaScript
2 7 (7.37%) PowerShell
3 5 (5.26%) C#
3 5 (5.26%) Java
4 3 (3.16%) Rust
5 2 (2.11%) SQL
6 1 (1.05%) PHP
6 1 (1.05%) Python
6 1 (1.05%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (10.53%) Degree
1 10 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 6 (6.32%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.16%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.11%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.05%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.05%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.58%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.16%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.11%) QA
4 1 (1.05%) GDPR
4 1 (1.05%) GxP
4 1 (1.05%) HIPAA
System Software
1 3 (3.16%) Active Directory
1 3 (3.16%) Brightmail
1 3 (3.16%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 3 (3.16%) Ansible
1 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Clustering
1 3 (3.16%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 16 (16.84%) Google
3 15 (15.79%) Adobe
4 5 (5.26%) Salesforce
5 4 (4.21%) Databricks
5 4 (4.21%) SAP
6 3 (3.16%) OpenText
6 3 (3.16%) Oracle
7 2 (2.11%) Hotjar
7 2 (2.11%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.11%) Sitecore
8 1 (1.05%) Cvent
8 1 (1.05%) Hyland
8 1 (1.05%) IBM
8 1 (1.05%) Marketo
8 1 (1.05%) Optimizely
8 1 (1.05%) YouTube