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 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 587 436 514
Rank change year-on-year -151 +78 +96
Contract jobs citing Headless CMS 8 33 25
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.020% 0.14% 0.068%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.22% 1.18% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 26 16
10th Percentile - £407 £388
25th Percentile £425 £409 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £452 £513
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -11.76% -6.18%
75th Percentile £475 £575 £613
90th Percentile - £661 £626
UK median daily rate £450 £452 £500
% change year-on-year -0.50% -9.55% -8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
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 3,632 2,800 3,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 8.95% 11.52% 9.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,493 1,873 2,506
10th Percentile £313 £288 £250
25th Percentile £406 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £613
90th Percentile £688 £750 £766
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 62 138
10th Percentile £15.52 £16.31 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £22.45 £15.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £52.50 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.62% +98.11% -33.75%
75th Percentile £72.50 £64.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £78.70 £77.50 £69.13
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £46.18 £28.01
% change year-on-year -39.37% +64.88% -37.76%

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
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 12 May 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 -72 7 - - 1
North West -37 1 £450 -5.26%
North of England -67 1 £450 -5.26% 2
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 8 (100.00%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Run
1 1 (12.50%) Firebase
1 1 (12.50%) GCP
1 1 (12.50%) MailChimp
1 1 (12.50%) Stripe
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Metadata
2 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Cypress.io
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Games
2 1 (12.50%) Health Technology
2 1 (12.50%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
1 5 (62.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
1 5 (62.50%) Senior
2 4 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 4 (50.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
3 2 (25.00%) Content Designer
3 2 (25.00%) Designer
4 1 (12.50%) Creative Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Creative Technologist
4 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Creative Technologist
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Technologist
4 1 (12.50%) Technologist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) React
2 3 (37.50%) Framer.js
2 3 (37.50%) GreenSock GSAP
2 3 (37.50%) WebGL
3 2 (25.00%) Next.js
4 1 (12.50%) FastAPI
4 1 (12.50%) GraphQL
4 1 (12.50%) Jest
4 1 (12.50%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Animation
2 2 (25.00%) Taxonomies
3 1 (12.50%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) AI
1 5 (62.50%) Front End Development
1 5 (62.50%) Machine Learning
2 3 (37.50%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Content Strategy
3 2 (25.00%) Data Science
3 2 (25.00%) LLM
3 2 (25.00%) Personalization
3 2 (25.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 2 (25.00%) User Experience
3 2 (25.00%) UX Design
3 2 (25.00%) Workflow
4 1 (12.50%) Agile
4 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
4 1 (12.50%) E-Commerce
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Problem Management
4 1 (12.50%) SEO
4 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) TypeScript
2 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft