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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 577 445 514
Rank change year-on-year -132 +69 +106
Contract jobs citing Headless CMS 10 30 22
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.025% 0.12% 0.059%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.27% 1.06% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 23 15
10th Percentile - £406 £383
25th Percentile £424 - £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £439 £409 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.33% -18.20% -2.44%
75th Percentile £513 £550 £581
90th Percentile £580 £685 £618
UK median daily rate £439 £409 £500
% change year-on-year +7.33% -18.20% -4.76%
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 3,664 2,839 3,474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.05% 11.65% 9.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,544 1,906 2,490
10th Percentile £313 £289 £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 £608
90th Percentile £700 £750 £751
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 65 138
10th Percentile £15.45 £16.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £52.50 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% +105.88% -24.44%
75th Percentile £72.88 £64.50 £45.89
90th Percentile £79.20 £77.50 £65.90
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £41.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year -26.83% +54.72% -41.11%

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 3 May 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 3 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 -75 8 £428 +4.65% 3
North West -37 1 £450 -5.26% 2
North of England -61 1 £450 -5.26% 4
East Midlands - 1 £600 - 1
Midlands - 1 £600 - 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 10 (100.00%) CMS
2 1 (10.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (10.00%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Run
2 1 (10.00%) Contentful
2 1 (10.00%) Firebase
2 1 (10.00%) GCP
2 1 (10.00%) Kontent
2 1 (10.00%) MailChimp
2 1 (10.00%) Stripe
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Metadata
1 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (10.00%) Git
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Games
2 1 (10.00%) Health Technology
2 1 (10.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Developer
2 5 (50.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 5 (50.00%) Senior
3 4 (40.00%) Senior Developer
3 4 (40.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) C# Developer
4 1 (10.00%) CMS Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Content Designer
4 1 (10.00%) Creative Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Creative Technologist
4 1 (10.00%) Designer
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack C# Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) React Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Creative Technologist
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Technologist
4 1 (10.00%) Technologist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (90.00%) React
2 4 (40.00%) Next.js
3 3 (30.00%) Framer.js
3 3 (30.00%) GraphQL
3 3 (30.00%) GreenSock GSAP
3 3 (30.00%) WebGL
4 1 (10.00%) .NET
4 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET
4 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (10.00%) CSS
4 1 (10.00%) FastAPI
4 1 (10.00%) HTML
4 1 (10.00%) Jest
4 1 (10.00%) React Native
4 1 (10.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Animation
2 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (10.00%) Taxonomies
3 1 (10.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Front End Development
2 5 (50.00%) AI
3 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (40.00%) Machine Learning
3 4 (40.00%) User Experience
4 3 (30.00%) API Integration
4 3 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (30.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (30.00%) UX Design
5 2 (20.00%) Analytics
5 2 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
5 2 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
5 2 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (10.00%) Content Strategy
6 1 (10.00%) LLM
6 1 (10.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
6 1 (10.00%) Technical Discovery
6 1 (10.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) TypeScript
2 7 (70.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (20.00%) SQL
4 1 (10.00%) C#
4 1 (10.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Adobe
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (10.00%) Sitecore