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 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 489 491 574
Rank change year-on-year +2 +83 +156
Contract jobs citing Headless CMS 30 39 17
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.11% 0.12% 0.042%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.96% 1.12% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 28 12
10th Percentile £425 £359 £302
25th Percentile £432 £550 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £615 £438
Median % change year-on-year -18.70% +40.57% -22.74%
75th Percentile £575 £626 £700
90th Percentile £623 £630 -
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £471
% change year-on-year -16.67% +27.32% -18.04%

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 3,128 3,467 4,104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.11% 10.80% 10.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,112 2,229 2,782
10th Percentile £275 £275 £250
25th Percentile £390 £404 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £644
90th Percentile £712 £825 £738
UK median daily rate £489 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.90% +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 69 140
10th Percentile £15.60 £18.00 £15.44
25th Percentile £22.75 £23.80 £18.97
Median hourly rate £35.00 £42.50 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +47.83% +40.24%
75th Percentile £63.75 £70.00 £65.31
90th Percentile £73.75 £74.44 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £33.88 £37.00 £30.75
% change year-on-year -8.43% +20.33% +43.02%

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 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 15 October 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 +1 22 £550 -10.57% 7
East Midlands - 2 £600 - 2
Midlands - 2 £600 - 3
South East +12 1 £500 - 5
East of England - 1 £465 -
North of England - 1 £475 - 2
North West - 1 £475 -
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 30 (100.00%) CMS
2 3 (10.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (6.67%) Sitecore CMS
3 2 (6.67%) Umbraco
4 1 (3.33%) Strapi
4 1 (3.33%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (6.67%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 9 (30.00%) AWS
2 8 (26.67%) Contentful
2 8 (26.67%) Serverless
3 7 (23.33%) prismic.io
4 6 (20.00%) Amazon S3
4 6 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (16.67%) Amazon Cognito
5 5 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (16.67%) Azure
5 5 (16.67%) Contentstack
6 3 (10.00%) Kontent
7 1 (3.33%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (3.33%) ChatGPT
7 1 (3.33%) Cloudflare
7 1 (3.33%) Commercetools
7 1 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.33%) Storyblok
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.67%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Git
2 2 (6.67%) GitLab
3 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.33%) JIRA
General
1 4 (13.33%) Telecoms
2 3 (10.00%) Games
2 3 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Publishing
4 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.33%) Marketing
4 1 (3.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 19 (63.33%) Developer
2 6 (20.00%) CMS Developer
2 6 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (16.67%) Designer
3 5 (16.67%) Solutions Designer
4 3 (10.00%) Senior
5 2 (6.67%) Angular Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Architect
5 2 (6.67%) C# Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (6.67%) Full-Stack C# Developer
5 2 (6.67%) React Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Systems Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Configuration Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Architect
6 1 (3.33%) Senior .NET Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Senior Software Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (50.00%) React
2 11 (36.67%) Next.js
3 7 (23.33%) AngularJS
4 6 (20.00%) Node.js
5 5 (16.67%) GraphQL
5 5 (16.67%) OAuth
5 5 (16.67%) OAuth2
5 5 (16.67%) OpenID
5 5 (16.67%) SAML
6 4 (13.33%) Vue
7 3 (10.00%) .NET
7 3 (10.00%) CSS
7 3 (10.00%) HTML
7 3 (10.00%) RESTful
8 2 (6.67%) .NET Framework
8 2 (6.67%) Apollo GraphQL
8 2 (6.67%) ASP.NET
8 2 (6.67%) ASP.NET MVC
8 2 (6.67%) Jest
8 2 (6.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Acoustics
1 5 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 4 (13.33%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.67%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (6.67%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.33%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Android
1 1 (3.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (33.33%) User Experience
2 8 (26.67%) E-Commerce
3 7 (23.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 6 (20.00%) B2C
4 6 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 5 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 5 (16.67%) Content Management
5 5 (16.67%) DevOps
5 5 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
6 4 (13.33%) Agile
6 4 (13.33%) AI
6 4 (13.33%) Analytics
6 4 (13.33%) Front End Development
6 4 (13.33%) Migration
6 4 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (10.00%) Decision-Making
7 3 (10.00%) Inventory Management
7 3 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
7 3 (10.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 9 (30.00%) TypeScript
2 8 (26.67%) JavaScript
3 3 (10.00%) C#
4 2 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 2 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.67%) Docker
2 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.00%) Adobe
3 2 (6.67%) Sitecore
4 1 (3.33%) Google
4 1 (3.33%) OpenAI
4 1 (3.33%) Oracle