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 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 556 461 534
Rank change year-on-year -95 +73 +114
Contract jobs citing Headless CMS 17 21 14
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.048% 0.082% 0.038%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.48% 0.71% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 18 9
10th Percentile £424 £339 £271
25th Percentile £425 £373 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £461 £450
Median % change year-on-year +19.37% +2.39% -8.86%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £538
90th Percentile - £632 £618
UK median daily rate £550 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +15.79% - -5.00%

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 3,558 2,969 3,472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.06% 11.52% 9.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,487 1,863 2,424
10th Percentile £306 £263 £225
25th Percentile £404 £400 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £493
Median % change year-on-year - +1.52% -6.19%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £700 £738 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% -4.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 55 151
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.85 £13.89
25th Percentile £17.50 £23.80 £15.50
Median hourly rate £27.21 £53.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.66% +107.84% +15.07%
75th Percentile £72.50 £64.50 £44.77
90th Percentile £82.50 £66.00 £67.56
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £41.91 £26.39
% change year-on-year -35.08% +58.81% +19.09%

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 26 February 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 26 February 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 -30 11 £428 +4.65% 5
East Midlands - 5 £600 - 1
Midlands - 5 £600 - 1
North West - 1 £450 - 1
North of England - 1 £450 - 1
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
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) Contentful
2 5 (29.41%) Kontent
3 3 (17.65%) AWS
3 3 (17.65%) Azure
3 3 (17.65%) Contentstack
4 2 (11.76%) prismic.io
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%) Storyblok
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) Cypress.io
General
1 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Games
2 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (82.35%) Developer
2 7 (41.18%) 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 4 (23.53%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 4 (23.53%) Senior
6 3 (17.65%) Senior Developer
6 3 (17.65%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 1 (5.88%) Analyst
7 1 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
7 1 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (5.88%) Configuration Analyst
7 1 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (5.88%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 1 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
7 1 (5.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 1 (5.88%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (88.24%) React
2 6 (35.29%) RESTful
3 5 (29.41%) .NET
3 5 (29.41%) .NET Framework
3 5 (29.41%) AngularJS
3 5 (29.41%) ASP.NET
3 5 (29.41%) ASP.NET MVC
3 5 (29.41%) CSS
3 5 (29.41%) HTML
4 4 (23.53%) GraphQL
4 4 (23.53%) Next.js
5 3 (17.65%) Fastify
5 3 (17.65%) Node.js
6 2 (11.76%) Framer.js
6 2 (11.76%) GreenSock GSAP
6 2 (11.76%) JWT
6 2 (11.76%) WebGL
7 1 (5.88%) Jest
7 1 (5.88%) MACH
7 1 (5.88%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Mobile App
2 4 (23.53%) Product Ownership
3 2 (11.76%) Acoustics
3 2 (11.76%) Animation
3 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.88%) Distributed Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) User Experience
2 8 (47.06%) Full-Stack Development
3 7 (41.18%) AI
4 6 (35.29%) CI/CD
4 6 (35.29%) Front End Development
5 5 (29.41%) MVC
6 4 (23.53%) E-Commerce
7 3 (17.65%) Agile
7 3 (17.65%) API Integration
7 3 (17.65%) DevOps
8 2 (11.76%) Analytics
8 2 (11.76%) B2C
8 2 (11.76%) Content Management
8 2 (11.76%) Machine Learning
8 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
8 2 (11.76%) Microservices
8 2 (11.76%) Mobile First
8 2 (11.76%) Performance Monitoring
8 2 (11.76%) Performance Optimisation
8 2 (11.76%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 13 (76.47%) JavaScript
2 10 (58.82%) TypeScript
3 5 (29.41%) C#
3 5 (29.41%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Adobe
1 5 (29.41%) Sitecore
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft