Headless CMS Contracts in England

Headless Content Management System (Headless CMS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Headless CMS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Headless CMS over the 6 months leading up to 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 468 516 619
Rank change year-on-year +48 +103 +142
Contract jobs citing Headless CMS 36 41 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.11% 0.062%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.19% 1.07% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 26 24
10th Percentile £408 £413 £330
25th Percentile £409 £475 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £595 £613
Median % change year-on-year -26.13% -2.86% -9.26%
75th Percentile £575 £623 £700
90th Percentile £623 £628 £701
UK median daily rate £440 £583 £500
% change year-on-year -24.55% +16.50% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £55.00 -

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 3,033 3,819 5,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.41% 10.27% 10.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,983 2,736 3,531
10th Percentile £289 £263 £263
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +0.96%
75th Percentile £600 £643 £650
90th Percentile £738 £825 £765
UK median daily rate £490 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -2.00% -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 139 143
10th Percentile £17.33 £13.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £27.34 £16.88 £21.00
Median hourly rate £48.56 £32.12 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.21% -33.78% +122.99%
75th Percentile £69.00 £51.91 £66.00
90th Percentile £79.63 £70.80 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £32.12 £52.50
% change year-on-year +55.69% -38.83% +130.77%

Headless CMS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Headless CMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Headless CMS in England

Headless CMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Headless CMS in England.

Daily rate trend for Headless CMS in England

Headless CMS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Headless CMS in England over the 6 months to 7 July 2025.

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 7 July 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 +25 28 £409 -31.83% 30
South East +47 3 £550 - 4
North West +3 1 £475 -5.00% 6
North of England +2 1 £475 -5.00% 9
East of England - 1 £465 -
Headless CMS
UK

Headless CMS
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 36 (100.00%) CMS
2 3 (8.33%) Umbraco
3 2 (5.56%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (2.78%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (2.78%) Strapi
4 1 (2.78%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (22.22%) AWS
2 7 (19.44%) Serverless
3 6 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 6 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (13.89%) Amazon Cognito
4 5 (13.89%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (13.89%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (11.11%) Contentful
5 4 (11.11%) Contentstack
6 3 (8.33%) Azure
6 3 (8.33%) prismic.io
7 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.78%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.78%) Figma
7 1 (2.78%) GCP
7 1 (2.78%) GitHub
7 1 (2.78%) Google Analytics
7 1 (2.78%) Storyblok
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.89%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (11.11%) JIRA
2 1 (2.78%) Cypress.io
2 1 (2.78%) Git
2 1 (2.78%) GitLab
2 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (22.22%) Telecoms
2 4 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.33%) Marketing
3 3 (8.33%) Publishing
4 2 (5.56%) Games
5 1 (2.78%) Digital Health
5 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.78%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 23 (63.89%) Developer
2 8 (22.22%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 6 (16.67%) Angular Developer
4 5 (13.89%) CMS Developer
4 5 (13.89%) Designer
4 5 (13.89%) Senior
4 5 (13.89%) Solutions Designer
5 4 (11.11%) Lead
5 4 (11.11%) Senior Developer
6 3 (8.33%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 3 (8.33%) React Developer
6 3 (8.33%) Umbraco Developer
7 2 (5.56%) CMS Project Manager
7 2 (5.56%) Lead Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Programme Manager
7 2 (5.56%) Project Manager
7 2 (5.56%) Senior Front-End Developer
8 1 (2.78%) .NET Developer
8 1 (2.78%) Senior Software Developer
8 1 (2.78%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (66.67%) Next.js
2 20 (55.56%) React
3 15 (41.67%) AngularJS
4 13 (36.11%) Vue
5 5 (13.89%) OAuth
5 5 (13.89%) OAuth2
5 5 (13.89%) OpenID
5 5 (13.89%) SAML
6 3 (8.33%) CSS
6 3 (8.33%) GraphQL
6 3 (8.33%) HTML
6 3 (8.33%) Jest
6 3 (8.33%) Node.js
7 2 (5.56%) REST
8 1 (2.78%) .NET Core
8 1 (2.78%) Express.js
8 1 (2.78%) HTML5
8 1 (2.78%) OSGi
8 1 (2.78%) React Native
8 1 (2.78%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.33%) Acoustics
1 3 (8.33%) Cloud Native
1 3 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.56%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (5.56%) Marketing Technology
3 1 (2.78%) Life Science
3 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.78%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (38.89%) Decision-Making
2 13 (36.11%) Continuous Improvement
3 10 (27.78%) Front End Development
4 6 (16.67%) Agile
4 6 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 5 (13.89%) CI/CD
5 5 (13.89%) DevOps
5 5 (13.89%) E-Commerce
5 5 (13.89%) Identity Access Management
5 5 (13.89%) Migration
5 5 (13.89%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (11.11%) Analytics
6 4 (11.11%) B2C
6 4 (11.11%) Content Management
6 4 (11.11%) Customer Experience
6 4 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (11.11%) User Experience
7 3 (8.33%) Performance Optimisation
7 3 (8.33%) SEO
7 3 (8.33%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.89%) JavaScript
1 5 (13.89%) TypeScript
2 1 (2.78%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (13.89%) AWS Certification
2 2 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.78%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.56%) Docker
2 1 (2.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.78%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.56%) Sitecore
2 2 (5.56%) Virgin Media
3 1 (2.78%) Adobe
3 1 (2.78%) Google
3 1 (2.78%) OpenAI