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

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 515 487 561
Rank change year-on-year -28 +74 +143
Contract jobs citing Headless CMS 25 34 16
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.084% 0.11% 0.040%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.76% 0.99% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 25 12
10th Percentile £410 £355 £302
25th Percentile £425 £550 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £615 £438
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +40.57% -17.65%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £700
90th Percentile £625 - -
UK median daily rate £525 £608 £471
% change year-on-year -13.58% +28.91% -11.29%

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 3,302 3,431 4,028
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.09% 11.01% 10.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,250 2,183 2,750
10th Percentile £288 £265 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £641 £638
90th Percentile £716 £810 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 71 137
10th Percentile £16.81 £20.12 £15.27
25th Percentile £21.03 £29.75 £19.12
Median hourly rate £36.50 £42.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.12% +54.55% +35.87%
75th Percentile £69.25 £68.51 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £74.00 £75.44
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £39.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year -10.26% +34.48% +41.46%

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 8 November 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 8 November 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 -4 17 £440 -28.54% 31
East Midlands - 5 £600 - 2
Midlands - 5 £600 - 4
South East +2 1 £500 - 16
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 25 (100.00%) CMS
2 5 (20.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 5 (20.00%) Sitecore CMS
2 5 (20.00%) Umbraco
3 1 (4.00%) Strapi
3 1 (4.00%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (8.00%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 9 (36.00%) AWS
2 8 (32.00%) Contentful
3 7 (28.00%) Serverless
4 6 (24.00%) Kontent
5 5 (20.00%) Amazon Cognito
5 5 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (20.00%) Amazon S3
5 5 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (20.00%) Azure
6 4 (16.00%) prismic.io
7 3 (12.00%) Contentstack
8 2 (8.00%) Storyblok
9 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (4.00%) Cloudflare
9 1 (4.00%) Commercetools
9 1 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
9 1 (4.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (24.00%) Git
2 1 (4.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.00%) Games
2 2 (8.00%) Publishing
2 2 (8.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 14 (56.00%) Developer
2 9 (36.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 6 (24.00%) CMS Developer
4 5 (20.00%) C# Developer
4 5 (20.00%) Designer
4 5 (20.00%) Full-Stack C# Developer
4 5 (20.00%) React Developer
4 5 (20.00%) Solutions Designer
5 3 (12.00%) Senior
6 1 (4.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 1 (4.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) GCP DevOps
6 1 (4.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) GCP Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Senior DevOps
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (60.00%) React
2 7 (28.00%) AngularJS
2 7 (28.00%) RESTful
3 6 (24.00%) .NET
3 6 (24.00%) CSS
3 6 (24.00%) Next.js
4 5 (20.00%) .NET Framework
4 5 (20.00%) ASP.NET
4 5 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 5 (20.00%) HTML
4 5 (20.00%) Node.js
4 5 (20.00%) OAuth
4 5 (20.00%) OAuth2
4 5 (20.00%) OpenID
4 5 (20.00%) SAML
5 3 (12.00%) Fastify
5 3 (12.00%) GraphQL
5 3 (12.00%) Vue
6 2 (8.00%) JWT
6 2 (8.00%) MACH
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Mobile App
2 4 (16.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (12.00%) Product Ownership
4 2 (8.00%) Acoustics
4 2 (8.00%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (4.00%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (4.00%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Android
1 1 (4.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (44.00%) User Experience
2 10 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 8 (32.00%) E-Commerce
4 7 (28.00%) Mentoring
5 6 (24.00%) AI
6 5 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 5 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
6 5 (20.00%) MVC
6 5 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (16.00%) DevOps
7 4 (16.00%) Performance Optimisation
8 3 (12.00%) Agile
8 3 (12.00%) B2C
8 3 (12.00%) Inventory Management
8 3 (12.00%) Microservices
9 2 (8.00%) Business Intelligence
9 2 (8.00%) CRM
9 2 (8.00%) High Availability
9 2 (8.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 2 (8.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 9 (36.00%) TypeScript
3 6 (24.00%) C#
4 5 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (8.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) Adobe
1 5 (20.00%) Sitecore
2 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.00%) Google
3 1 (4.00%) Oracle