Headless CMS Contracts in England

Headless Content Management System (Headless CMS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Headless CMS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Headless CMS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 457 520 618
Rank change year-on-year +63 +98 +136
Contract jobs citing Headless CMS 28 22 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.059% 0.069%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.99% 0.64% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 15 30
10th Percentile £405 £383 £359
25th Percentile - £419 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -18.20% -2.44% +5.13%
75th Percentile £525 £581 £663
90th Percentile £700 £618 £700
UK median daily rate £409 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -18.20% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
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 2,817 3,461 5,453
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.57% 9.31% 10.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,884 2,471 3,915
10th Percentile £283 £250 £263
25th Percentile £400 £360 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
75th Percentile £625 £608 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £754
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 139 128
10th Percentile £16.25 £13.00 £15.38
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.00 £18.13
Median hourly rate £52.50 £27.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +90.91% -12.00% +49.59%
75th Percentile £64.50 £45.59 £66.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £65.00 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £27.52 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.01% -31.21% +81.82%

Headless CMS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Headless CMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Headless CMS in England

Headless CMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Headless CMS in England.

Daily rate trend for Headless CMS in England

Headless CMS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Headless CMS in England over the 6 months to 1 May 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 1 May 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 +44 21 £409 -16.10% 28
South East +47 3 £550 - 10
North of England +17 1 £475 -5.00% 6
North West +15 1 £475 -5.00% 4
Headless CMS
UK

Headless CMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 28 (100.00%) CMS
2 3 (10.71%) Umbraco
3 2 (7.14%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (3.57%) Strapi
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.86%) Contentful
2 4 (14.29%) Contentstack
3 3 (10.71%) AWS
3 3 (10.71%) prismic.io
4 2 (7.14%) Amazon S3
4 2 (7.14%) Azure
5 1 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.57%) Figma
5 1 (3.57%) GCP
5 1 (3.57%) GitHub
5 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.57%) Miro
5 1 (3.57%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 4 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (3.57%) Cypress.io
2 1 (3.57%) GitLab
General
1 4 (14.29%) Telecoms
2 3 (10.71%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Banking
3 2 (7.14%) Digital Health
3 2 (7.14%) Games
3 2 (7.14%) Investment Banking
3 2 (7.14%) Marketing
3 2 (7.14%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (7.14%) Publishing
4 1 (3.57%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.57%) Retail
4 1 (3.57%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (67.86%) Developer
2 7 (25.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 5 (17.86%) CMS Developer
3 5 (17.86%) Lead
3 5 (17.86%) React Developer
4 4 (14.29%) Angular Developer
4 4 (14.29%) Senior
4 4 (14.29%) Senior Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Umbraco Developer
6 2 (7.14%) CMS Project Manager
6 2 (7.14%) Content Manager
6 2 (7.14%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 2 (7.14%) Lead Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Product Manager
6 2 (7.14%) Programme Manager
6 2 (7.14%) Project Manager
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Backend Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (60.71%) React
2 16 (57.14%) Next.js
3 10 (35.71%) AngularJS
3 10 (35.71%) Vue
4 6 (21.43%) GraphQL
5 4 (14.29%) CSS
6 3 (10.71%) HTML
7 2 (7.14%) Jest
7 2 (7.14%) Node.js
8 1 (3.57%) .NET
8 1 (3.57%) .NET Core
8 1 (3.57%) Apollo GraphQL
8 1 (3.57%) Express.js
8 1 (3.57%) Middleware
8 1 (3.57%) React Native
8 1 (3.57%) Redux
8 1 (3.57%) REST
8 1 (3.57%) RESTful
8 1 (3.57%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Acoustics
1 3 (10.71%) Product Ownership
2 2 (7.14%) Life Science
2 2 (7.14%) Management Information System
2 2 (7.14%) Marketing Technology
2 2 (7.14%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (39.29%) Decision-Making
2 10 (35.71%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (32.14%) Agile
4 8 (28.57%) Front End Development
5 6 (21.43%) CI/CD
6 5 (17.86%) Content Management
6 5 (17.86%) User Experience
7 4 (14.29%) Code Quality
8 3 (10.71%) API Integration
8 3 (10.71%) B2C
8 3 (10.71%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (10.71%) Design Patterns
8 3 (10.71%) DevOps
8 3 (10.71%) End-to-End Testing
8 3 (10.71%) Fintech
8 3 (10.71%) Full-Stack Development
8 3 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (10.71%) SEO
8 3 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (10.71%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 8 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 7 (25.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (3.57%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (3.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.14%) Sitecore
2 2 (7.14%) Virgin Media