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

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 527 483 555
Rank change year-on-year -44 +72 +150
Contract jobs citing Headless CMS 17 24 16
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.055% 0.079% 0.042%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.51% 0.72% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 20 13
10th Percentile £424 £346 £304
25th Percentile £425 £511 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £603 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.86% +33.89% -14.29%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £538
90th Percentile - £631 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £450
% change year-on-year -8.70% +27.78% -14.29%

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 3,345 3,356 3,766
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.80% 11.07% 9.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,312 2,111 2,573
10th Percentile £288 £263 £246
25th Percentile £400 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% +3.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £630
90th Percentile £725 £800 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 75 126
10th Percentile £15.80 £17.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £19.75 £21.63 £17.56
Median hourly rate £33.89 £42.50 £26.39
Median % change year-on-year -20.27% +61.05% +35.33%
75th Percentile £68.90 £64.73 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £70.75 £73.13
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £37.25 £27.00
% change year-on-year -19.46% +37.96% +38.46%

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 13 December 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 13 December 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 -17 10 £428 -28.96% 5
East Midlands - 5 £600 -
Midlands - 5 £600 -
South East -14 1 £500 - 3
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 17 (100.00%) CMS
2 5 (29.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 5 (29.41%) Sitecore CMS
2 5 (29.41%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Magento
2 1 (5.88%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) Contentful
2 6 (35.29%) Kontent
3 4 (23.53%) AWS
3 4 (23.53%) Azure
3 4 (23.53%) prismic.io
4 3 (17.65%) Contentstack
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (5.88%) Cloudflare
5 1 (5.88%) Commercetools
5 1 (5.88%) GCP
5 1 (5.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (5.88%) Serverless
5 1 (5.88%) Storyblok
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) GitLab
General
1 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Games
2 1 (5.88%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (76.47%) Developer
2 8 (47.06%) Full-Stack Developer
3 6 (35.29%) CMS Developer
4 5 (29.41%) C# Developer
4 5 (29.41%) Full-Stack C# Developer
4 5 (29.41%) React Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Senior
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Configuration Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) GCP DevOps
6 1 (5.88%) GCP DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) GCP Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Senior .NET Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (70.59%) React
2 7 (41.18%) RESTful
3 6 (35.29%) .NET
3 6 (35.29%) CSS
4 5 (29.41%) .NET Framework
4 5 (29.41%) AngularJS
4 5 (29.41%) ASP.NET
4 5 (29.41%) ASP.NET MVC
4 5 (29.41%) HTML
5 4 (23.53%) GraphQL
5 4 (23.53%) Node.js
6 3 (17.65%) Fastify
6 3 (17.65%) Next.js
7 2 (11.76%) JWT
7 2 (11.76%) MACH
8 1 (5.88%) Apollo GraphQL
8 1 (5.88%) JSON
8 1 (5.88%) Tailwind CSS
8 1 (5.88%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Mobile App
2 4 (23.53%) Product Ownership
3 2 (11.76%) Acoustics
3 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.88%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (5.88%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Android
1 1 (5.88%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) User Experience
2 9 (52.94%) Full-Stack Development
3 6 (35.29%) AI
4 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
4 5 (29.41%) MVC
5 3 (17.65%) DevOps
5 3 (17.65%) E-Commerce
5 3 (17.65%) Front End Development
6 2 (11.76%) Agile
6 2 (11.76%) Analytics
6 2 (11.76%) API Integration
6 2 (11.76%) B2C
6 2 (11.76%) Content Management
6 2 (11.76%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
6 2 (11.76%) Microservices
6 2 (11.76%) Mobile First
6 2 (11.76%) Performance Monitoring
6 2 (11.76%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (11.76%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 11 (64.71%) JavaScript
2 8 (47.06%) TypeScript
3 6 (35.29%) C#
4 5 (29.41%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Adobe
1 5 (29.41%) Sitecore
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle