CMS Contracts in Essex

Content Management System (CMS)
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex requiring CMS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CMS over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 - 31
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CMS 1 0 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 1.27% - 3.35%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.25% - 19.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - £500
25th Percentile £458 - £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 - £530
75th Percentile £473 - £533
90th Percentile - - £581
East of England median daily rate £465 £650 £530
% change year-on-year -28.46% +22.64% +72.36%

All Application Platform Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 16 23 41
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 20.25% 10.45% 17.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 17 26
10th Percentile £221 £194 £359
25th Percentile £243 £413 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £315 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £321 £500 £530
90th Percentile £355 £550 £542
East of England median daily rate £450 £410 £478
% change year-on-year +9.76% -14.14% +12.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile - - £65.73
25th Percentile - £12.13 £66.46
Median hourly rate £200.00 £12.25 £67.84
Median % change year-on-year +1532.65% -81.94% +6.64%
75th Percentile - £12.38 £69.13
90th Percentile - - £69.81
East of England median hourly rate £66.00 £14.00 £17.00
% change year-on-year +371.43% -17.65% +17.24%

CMS
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for CMS in Essex

CMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

Daily rate trend for CMS in Essex

CMS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CMS in Essex.

Hourly rate trend for CMS in Essex

CMS
Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CMS within the Essex region over the 6 months to 4 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
Basildon - 1 £465 -
CMS
East of England

CMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 1 (100.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Anthropic Claude
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) ChatGPT
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JSR 170
1 1 (100.00%) Next.js
1 1 (100.00%) OSGi
1 1 (100.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Personalization
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Thought Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAI