Headless CMS Contract Job Trends in England

Headless Content Management System (Headless CMS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Headless CMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 620 489 491
Rank change year-on-year -131 +2 +83
Contract jobs citing Headless CMS 27 30 39
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.058% 0.11% 0.12%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.65% 0.95% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 21 28
10th Percentile £426 £425 £359
25th Percentile £525 £432 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £500 £615
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% -18.70% +40.57%
75th Percentile £638 £575 £626
90th Percentile £750 £623 £630
UK median daily rate £580 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +16.00% -16.67% +27.32%

All Application Platform Skills
England

Headless CMS falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 4,157 3,151 3,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 8.87% 11.19% 10.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,658 2,126 2,237
10th Percentile £293 £275 £275
25th Percentile £406 £390 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £688 £713 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 71 69
10th Percentile £14.96 £15.60 £18.00
25th Percentile £16.60 £22.75 £23.80
Median hourly rate £28.40 £35.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.87% -17.65% +47.83%
75th Percentile £55.63 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £84.03 £73.75 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £33.88 £37.00
% change year-on-year -18.83% -8.43% +20.33%

Headless CMS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Headless CMS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Headless CMS job vacancy trend in England

Headless CMS
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Headless CMS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Headless CMS

Headless CMS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Headless CMS in England over the 6 months to 15 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Headless CMS in England

Headless CMS
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 Headless CMS within the England region over the 6 months to 15 October 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 -82 22 £591 +7.41% 3
North of England -69 3 £440 -7.37% 4
Yorkshire - 2 £414 - 1
North West -49 1 £450 -5.26% 3
South East -67 1 £600 +20.00%
Headless CMS
UK

Headless CMS
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 27 (100.00%) CMS
2 7 (25.93%) Sitecore CMS
3 4 (14.81%) Confluence
4 3 (11.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (7.41%) Umbraco
6 1 (3.70%) Kentico
Cloud Services
1 6 (22.22%) Bloomreach
2 5 (18.52%) Contentstack
3 4 (14.81%) Figma
4 3 (11.11%) Azure
4 3 (11.11%) Contentful
5 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.70%) Cloud Run
5 1 (3.70%) Firebase
5 1 (3.70%) GCP
5 1 (3.70%) Kontent
5 1 (3.70%) MailChimp
5 1 (3.70%) Miro
5 1 (3.70%) SaaS
5 1 (3.70%) Serverless
5 1 (3.70%) Storyblok
5 1 (3.70%) Stripe
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (44.44%) Metadata
2 1 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (18.52%) JIRA
2 2 (7.41%) Git
3 1 (3.70%) Bundler
3 1 (3.70%) Claude Code
3 1 (3.70%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (3.70%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (33.33%) Marketing
2 7 (25.93%) Public Sector
2 7 (25.93%) Publishing
3 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 4 (14.81%) Finance
5 3 (11.11%) Legal Technology
6 1 (3.70%) Aviation
6 1 (3.70%) Health Technology
6 1 (3.70%) Law
6 1 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (22.22%) Architect
1 6 (22.22%) Developer
2 4 (14.81%) Digital Marketer
2 4 (14.81%) Senior
2 4 (14.81%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (11.11%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 3 (11.11%) Senior Developer
3 3 (11.11%) Senior Front-End Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
4 2 (7.41%) Business Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Content Designer
4 2 (7.41%) Designer
4 2 (7.41%) Digital Product Owner
4 2 (7.41%) Product Owner
4 2 (7.41%) React Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Technical Architect
5 1 (3.70%) Consultant
5 1 (3.70%) Sitecore Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (22.22%) Next.js
1 6 (22.22%) React
2 3 (11.11%) REST
3 2 (7.41%) .NET
3 2 (7.41%) CSS
3 2 (7.41%) HTML
3 2 (7.41%) RESTful
4 1 (3.70%) .NET Framework
4 1 (3.70%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.70%) ASP.NET
4 1 (3.70%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (3.70%) CSS3
4 1 (3.70%) FastAPI
4 1 (3.70%) HTML5
4 1 (3.70%) JSR 170
4 1 (3.70%) LESS
4 1 (3.70%) Node.js
4 1 (3.70%) OSGi
4 1 (3.70%) Sass
4 1 (3.70%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 12 (44.44%) Taxonomies
2 7 (25.93%) Product Ownership
3 2 (7.41%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.70%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (44.44%) Agile
2 11 (40.74%) Migration
3 10 (37.04%) AI
3 10 (37.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 10 (37.04%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 8 (29.63%) User Experience
6 6 (22.22%) Backlog Refinement
6 6 (22.22%) Content Management
6 6 (22.22%) Personalization
6 6 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
7 5 (18.52%) CI/CD
7 5 (18.52%) Workshop Facilitation
8 4 (14.81%) Architecture Governance
8 4 (14.81%) Data Extraction
8 4 (14.81%) Digital Marketing
8 4 (14.81%) Enterprise Search
8 4 (14.81%) Full-Stack Development
8 4 (14.81%) Sprint Planning
8 4 (14.81%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 5 (18.52%) TypeScript
2 4 (14.81%) JavaScript
3 2 (7.41%) Python
4 1 (3.70%) C#
4 1 (3.70%) Java
4 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (22.22%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (7.41%) Degree
2 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
2 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.70%) CSPO
3 1 (3.70%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (25.93%) Accessibility
2 5 (18.52%) QA
2 5 (18.52%) WCAG
3 1 (3.70%) GDPR
Vendors
1 7 (25.93%) Sitecore
2 3 (11.11%) Adobe
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.70%) Optimizely
3 1 (3.70%) SGI